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Edwin Doran Sports Tours Announce Official Partnership with ICE

Posted Friday, 23 September 2016

Leading school sports tour operator Edwin Doran , has joined forces with Independent Coach Education, as they bid to enhance sector knowledge and understanding of best practice in school sports touring. With almost 45 years’ experience planning and operating sports tours for thousands of schools, to destinations across the globe,...

Have a Good Term. How will you know?

Posted Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Have a Good Term? How Will You Know? It’s that time of the school year. Pupils in smart new kit, balls straight out of the packaging and over inflated by Gap year students. Shiny new gym mats and goal posts. Even the First Aid bags are fully equipped, and the...

AGE GRADE RUGBY KICK OFF – September 2016

Posted Friday, 16 September 2016

The Age Grade Rugby season kicks off this week. As we start this exciting year, I wanted to thank everyone who has been involved in the work over the last five years. Your input has been really constructive and without it we would not be at this important point for...

National IAPS Rugby Coaching Conference

Posted Wednesday, 14 September 2016

We hope to see you at this year's National IAPS Rugby Coaching Conference on Thursday, 13 October 2016 in Abingdon. Now in its seventeenth year, this popular event has become the country's leading event for teachers involved in Rugby coaching in prep schools. This year we are pleased to welcome...

What's the Future for Summer Term Sports?

Posted Thursday, 23 June 2016

It& #39 ;s just after midway through the summer term. The weather has been no better or worse than normal. And the traditional programme of activities has meant that cricket, tennis, athletics and rounders have squeezed themselves into a few short weeks, carefully evading and reluctantly accommodating various forms of...

Bio Banding Bandwagon? Why I am not advocating the use of weight categories or Bio-Banding

Posted Thursday, 23 June 2016

I read with interest the recent piece on Bio-Banding in which I felt that there were a number of valid points made about the current nature of school rugby, however I was concerned with some of the arguments in favour of bio-banding and/or use of weight categories. I think the...