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00:00Cardiff Met are renowned at developing the Welsh rugby player, but they're also really
00:06good at developing the future of Welsh rugby coaching. Let's go and see how they do that.
00:17Through the structured pathway we create a live experience for them to go into primary
00:21schools, secondary schools, throughout community outreach, or through WIU pathways such as
00:27the EPP, Doer Shields, and through mentorships from myself to then develop as a coach within
00:34our environment or externally. So we coach and develop our students in a variety of different
00:39ways. It can either be practical contact time, feedback in the session or after it, a lot
00:43of meetings on campus, sort of informally over a coffee, and then formal CPDs then that
00:48we write into their calendar that they must attend. Something unique that we've started
00:52this year is our more able and talented third year students have become educators for us
00:57so that we can cover a more wide coaching base and sort of have more of an aligned thinking
01:04across as a coach education programme. The impact it's had on my children in the school
01:10is fantastic. They're keen to get out in the fresh air. We've got a new field next to our
01:15school so they're happy to use it. They want to be out there running around. They love
01:20all the games. They love the students. They want to be there. And they come to school
01:23eager and happy to want to go and play rugby.
01:32The standard of coaching from Cardiff Met Rugby has been fantastic. We've had great
01:38punctuality, engaging the students, behaviour management, and developing their physical
01:44skills as well.
01:49I've developed as a coach while at Cardiff Met through being able to have different exposures
01:53of different levels of ability, be able to work right from sort of East District second
01:59team rugby within WRU, but also able to work within the BUCS programme and further up into
02:04sort of the BUCS two and three group. But also having coaches in and around that have
02:08expertise I can keep reflect and work with across different groups and try and pick their
02:13brains and kind of put that into my own learnings, my own teachings of the groups I've been with.
02:22We work alongside the WRU to provide courses to support the student teachers during their
02:30training year and obviously going into the teaching profession. Primarily the refereeing
02:35course is particularly important because of the safety element of refereeing and ensuring
02:39that the pupils that they're working with are really in a safe pair of hands and I know
02:44schools require that course to be in place to support that. And then in addition we've
02:49had many different courses over the years such as the Tag Rugby course, more recently
02:53the How to Coach Women or Girls in Sport in Rugby with the growing sort of demand for
02:59girls rugby appearing in our schools.