Colin Brown (RD): Colin spent the week completing staff appraisals and hosting a networking session with leisure operators. Colin also met with Kate Hoey MP in her new role as Sports Commissioner for the GLA around the challenge of developing facility and aquatic strategies at a Borough and Sub-Regional level. Colin will finish the week by attending the ASA development conference.
Next week: Colin will be meeting with consultants focused on developing the overall business plan for the Aquatics Centre in Legacy mode. Colin will also be in Loughborough looking at how London's educational needs can be met in the future. Colin will be attending the London Swimming Board and completing more staff appraisals.
This week Mark Griggs (EO), was catching up on admin and finalising the plan of courses and seminars for the rest of the year
CPD Seminars
Thu 26 Jun 08 - NPTS: Fundamentals, Harrow
Mon 21 Jul 08 - Safeguarding & Protecting Children, Havering
UKCC Courses
Level 1 Teaching Aquatics
Sat 21 Jun 08 - Dagenham Swimming Pool, Barking & Dagenham
Mon 07 Jul 08 - JAGS Sport Club, Southwark
Mon 21 Jul 08 - Whitgift School, Croydon
Sat 02 Aug 08 - Sylvestrian Leisure Centre, Waltham Forest
Level 1 Coaching Synchronised Swimming – Unit 2 Only
Sun 01 Jun 08 - Bridge Leisure Centre, Lewisham
Level 2 Teaching Aquatics
Mon 11 Aug 08 - Hornchurch Sports Centre, Havering
For more information, to download booking forms, or funding opportunities for any IOS course or seminar, please visit
www.londonswimming.org
This week Janna Callan (RDO) has spent her time getting to grips with the Barking and Dagenham project, she has met with a number of the key people and has started to put the project plan together. Unfortunately due to illness Janna was unable to attend the ASA Conference in Loughborough.
Next week Janna will be presenting the project plan to the Barking and Dagenham steering group, meeting with their marketing department and presenting information to the centre managers.
This week Jo Calvino (RDDO) has been on a number of training courses, broadening her general tutor knowledge, as well as adding to her aquatic knowledge.
This week Annabel Kehoe (EDS - Islington) has thankfully sent off her magazine to print. Annabel would like to thank the marketing team at Aquaterra Leisure for all their assistance and patience. We all look forward to seeing the response from Islington’s school children. Annabel also spent time working on her contributions to the redesign of the Swimfit website.
Next week, Annabel will be concentrating on collecting some initial feedback from the first customers to complete the Liquid Swim Programme.
Jemma Konuralp (Swim21 Quality coordinator) has spent this week analysing the Swim 21 modules and elements and deciding how she is going to assess them. Next week she is meeting with Haringey Borough Swimming Club in readiness for their Swim 21 assessment.
