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Primary teachers attend Positive Coaching Scotland workshop

Positive Coaching Scotland held a teachers workshop at Woodfarm High School in East Renfrewshire on Friday. Over 80 teachers from Braidbar, Giffnock, Robsleee and Thornliebank Primary schools in the Woodfarm cluster attended the workshop, which was lead by Linda Mclean, Principal Teacher of Physical Education at Woodfarm. 

The teachers learned about the common goals of the Curriculum for Excellence and the Positive Coaching Scotland programme. The workshop also evoked heated debate, with some teachers, who are also parents, giving examples of the current culture in youth sport.

“My children didn’t want to go back because they saw a parent going crazy at their own child. They were terrified,” commented one teacher. “I’ve experienced parents shouting and balling at their 7-year-old children from the sideline, it’s dreadful,” added another.

Speaking to positivecoachingscotland.com after the workshop, Pamela Bell, a teacher at Giffnock Primary School said: “I thought it was really inspiring, if we’re instilling in young people that no matter what you do, you should always do your best, the teenagers we have in society ten years from now are going to be better all-round people.”