The BADC Winter Warfare Workshop is fast approaching and is set to take place on Sunday 12th February at The MTA, 89 Holloway Rd, London. N7 8LT
Doors open 9:00 AM for 9:30 Warm-up. Training all day.
Classes include Single Sword, Sneaky Broadsword, and ‘How To Be A Samurai’
Tutors include Gordon Kemp (BADC Tutor), Andrew Balmforth (BADC Apprentice) and Mike Graham (Guest Tutor – Muso Shugyo Ryuu)
FREE to all BADC members!!!
For more info and to book your place email haruka.kuroda@badc.co.uk
The BADC wishes all of its members a very merry Christmas, and a happy New Year.
The dates for next year’s London workshops have been announced by Workshop Officer Haruka Kuroda.
WINTER WARFARE 12th Feb 2012
SPRING SALUTE 15th April 2012
AUTUMN AMBUSH 11th November 2012
Swashbuckling Membership is £15 per year to attend 3 FREE workshops a year!
PRO & APPREN 10th June 2012 (Probationary & Apprentice Teachers only)
GREENWOOD 30th Sep 2012 (BADC certified teachers only)
For more details on the BADC workshops contact: haruka.kuroda@badc.co.uk
Teachers, if you are considering running a mock fight test for your students, please be aware that you can now make a request for a trainee examiner. This will help with our examiners training program and can provide a useful outside eye for teachers in the run up to fight tests. Please contact the Examiners Training Officer, Dr Ian Stapleton for more details.
Our current Examinations Officer, Lewis Penfold has made the following request to all teachers regarding the booking of fight tests.
“Please submit an EBF (Exam Booking Form) to me at least one month prior to the examination date (I realise that this may not always be possible, e.g intensives, but please try to give as much notice as you can in those cases). Also, please submit the form as a PDF – this is incredibly helpful as there will be no formatting issues from those of you that use Mac, Windows or Linux spreadsheets. Its is also helpful as my phone can read PDF and it means I can send out examination requests to the examiners quickly.
Please double check information given on the form.
One last request, if you have more than one exam pending, please submit them on separate forms.”
Email any EBFs to lewis.penfold@badc.co.uk
At the recent BADC AGM, all those present discussed the following proposal and voted in favour of it becoming compulsory. The committee would be happy to hear the thoughts of all members on this proposal so that they can be discussed at the next meeting.
“As our teaching membership is spread far and wide throughout the UK and abroad, it has always been a challenge to keep teachers informed of any syllabus changes or developments in pedagogy. The Committee believe it is essential for all teachers to engage in continuous professional development to ensure best practice and maintain high standards. This proposal reflects the requirement in further and higher education for all vocational teachers to undertake recognised skills and knowledge updating activities.
The Academy already provides the annual ‘Greenwood Teachers’ Workshop’ for all BADC Teachers and probationers to learn new skills, syllabus updates and teaching methods but over the past two years only a handful of dedicated teachers have attended.
In the interest of maintaining high standards and ensuring best practice, the Committee required that all BADC Teachers attend one workshop per year and deliver a workshop session (up to one-and-a-half hours in length) once every two years of a current BADC weapon syllabus. This will provide the opportunity for teachers to share good practice, innovation and teaching styles as well as update skills and knowledge.
To make these workshops as accessible as possible we are spreading them more evenly thoughout the year and offering them on Sundays as well as Saturdays. We regret that all workshops are currently held in London (the majority of BADC membership are within commutable distance). Teachers further afield are eligible to claim reasonable travel expenses in order to attend one workshop per annum.
If you genuinely cannot attend, for example, because you reside abroad, then alternative arrangements will be provided.
The Committee is currently in process of exploring appropriate sanctions in the instance of continued non attendance.
We thank you in advance for your help in this matter.”
Teachers beware. If you allow your membership to lapse you will be required to pay £50 to rejoin the academy. Only teachers whose membership is fully paid up are eligible to have their students examined.
The B.A.D.C.’s Annual General Meeting was held on Sunday 20th November, during which the new committee took office and Ruth Cooper-Brown was duly elected as chair. The members of the BADC committee elected to serve until November 2014 are as follows:
Ruth Cooper Brown: Chairperson & Publications Officer
Lewis Penfold: Treasurer & Examinations Officer
Jessica Hrabowsky: Secretary
Rachel Bown-Williams: Training Officer
Haruka Kuroda: Workshop Officer
Gordon Kemp: Communications Officer
Jonathan Howell: Research & Development Officer
Dr. Ian Stapleton: Examiners Training Officer
Tim Klotz: Equality & Safety Officer
Lyndall Grant: Merchandise Officer
You can find contact details for all committee members on the members page.
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