CELEBRATING CPL
Leader of Outdoor Education and the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, Kieran Clarke attended a Climbing Safety Course this week here at Bangkok Patana School, here he tells us more:
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his week we welcomed Pete Stacey, a mountain climbing expert from the UK to train our team of teachers who coach climbing through the PE curriculum, during ECAs and at weekly staff climbing sessions. When Pete is not scaling mountains or training the next generation of climbing athletes, he is often called as a British Mountaineering Council expert witness in legal cases involving rock climbing, making him a hybrid of CSI and Bear Grylls. The two-day course that Pete ran at Bangkok Patana taught the teachers how to: • tie knots that will keep people safe, • belay correctly so climbers will hopefully go up the wall quickly but then return to the floor slowly and sedately, • how to get stuck climbers off the wall. Pete also examined our new and updated section of the wall to ensure it is ready for Bangkok Patana students to test their climbing skills.
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For more information about Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) at Bangkok Patana, please contact Katherine Hume, Cross Campus Assistant Principal kahu@patana.ac.th
Bangkok Patana School News
31/08/2018