ACHIEVING YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL

Tutor Profiles

Darren Hatton - Athletics Coach:

 

Darren is the Company Director at Connect Sports Consultants UK and has been coaching at Connect Sports Consultants UK (and the previous company named Connect Sports Consultants Ltd.) for 5 years now in athletics and 2 years in basketball for both Progressive Sports Teaching courses. He has extensive athletics teaching and coaching experience for the past 8 years in the Secondary School age groups aswell as his range of coaching and teaching over the selection of Primary School sport section, where he was also Head of PE for a year.

Darren has always been a keen sportsperson and it was clear that from an early age his whole attention span was devoted to sport. He started off as a early teenage footballer before injury saw him move into the athletics sector where he was scouted by the local Athletics Club. From here he went from strength to strength and decided that maybe a career path would form as after numerous International appearances coupled together with high regards achieved him a Squad place in the Commonwealth Games Team for Manchester before injury again ruled him out. He then went on to compete finally at the 2004 Europa Cup Combined Events Championships in Estonia before unfortunate circumstances cut his career short.

Stacey Pepper - Dance Coach. Stacey began dancing at the age of 3. She trained at Tiffany Stage Academy till the age of 16 at which time she was accepted at the Prestigious Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Kent. It was here that she gained 3 associate exams for teaching in Tap, Ballet and Modern. Upon leaving college she danced professionally and gained lots of TV experience.

She was offered the chance to take over as Principal at a local dance School in Ipswich in January 2004 at which time the Stacey Pepper Dance Academy was established. She has since seen the school go from strength to strength and teaches children and adults of all ages.

Website: StaceyPepperDanceAcademy.com

Fiona Floyd - Dance Coach. Fiona studied at the Bird College, a Professional Dance College, for 3 years in all aspects of Dance. She Graduated from college in 2003 with a Diploma in Dance and performing Arts. She now works with Dance Academy's such as Stacey Pepper Dance Academy and also the world famous Italia Conti Associates in Tunbridge Wells. She Teaches a wide range of dance such as Tap, Modern and Street dance. She has appeared on Stage in Variety show in London and has received the Marjorie Davis Tap award as a Junior and has received the Outstanding Dance Award in the senior level.

Andy Wood - Gymnastics Coach. Andy is a high performance coach, coaching gymnastics to international level. He is a Tops tutor trained by British Gymnastics and has his own Gymnastics school. He has been teaching teachers for 12 years and he is now in his second year of running the Progressive Sports Teaching Qualification in Gymnastics. Anyone that has been on his courses will know that he is back by popular demand. This very popular and indispensable course does get booked up very quickly so book now to avoid disappointment.

Steve Bucknall - Basketball Tutor. Steve Bucknall is the former England Men’s Basketball Captain with 97 caps played and All time Leading Scorer. Represented Great Britain Men’s Basketball, and in 2006 Commonwealth Games won the silver medal. Grew up in South London and attended Tulsa Hill Secondary school. He progressed through the Crystal Palace Basketball youth system and left England as a teenager for high school in Boston. In 1985 he achieved recognition as a McDonalds All-American (rated as one of the top 20 high school players in the US) went on to play at the University of North Carolina under the legendary Dean E Smith (who coached Michael Jordan) where he was MVP in 1989. Graduated North Carolina with a BA in Mass Communications degree. Holds the honour of being the first Englishman to play in the NBA with the Los Angels Lakers, Coached by Hall of Fame Pat Riley. Over his 16-year professional basketball career he represented teams at the top level in the USA, England, France, Germany, Greece and Italy. Founder and Organizer of the BUCKNALL ESSENTIAL SKILLS BASKETBALL Program and Currently the Head Coach of the BBL London Capitals Basketball Club & Chairman of the London Coaching Association.

 

Tosh Askew - Rugby Tutor. Tosh Askew was a teacher for 25 years, before becoming full time RFU Under 19 coach. He took England Under 19 to four FIRA World Cups, before moving to England A. He was skills coach to England A, including the 2005 tour to the Churchill Cup in USA. He is also coach to the RFU National Academy in Bath, and has been involved in developing the skills syllabus for the country's leading young players.

Andrew Harrison - Football Tutor. A former professional footballer, Andrew has played and lived both in the UK and abroad and therefore been exposed to a wide variety of styles of play, Tutoring and teaching. He is currently an active PE teacher, whilst also maintaining his first love as a Tutor/trainer in England and Europe. A purist when it comes to technique and a perfectionist by nature, he feels the successful teaching of football comes from the enjoyment and variation in learning and teaching within a structured methodology. He also feels it is imperative to be open to new ideas and learning, and to be both adaptive and flexible.

The manual Andrew has developed is aimed at helping teachers introduce a slightly different approach to teaching football skills/ techniques it is not intended to be viewed as "the only way" indeed the sharing of information and skills is vital to us all. Therefore it should be considered "a method" "take what is good for you and adapt it to meet your needs"

Have fun, develop and enjoy.

Claudi Cockburn - PE Inclusion and PESS and Ethnic Minorities Tutor Claudi taught PE for five years in London and Peterborough secondary schools. She obtained an MA (Ed) by Dissertation from the University of Southampton (winning the Leisure Studies Association Sue Glyptis Memorial Award for dissertation of the year). She currently does contract research on young people and inclusion in PE and sport. She writes, prepares and runs CPD in the same field. She also continues to teach PE part-time. Claudi is a member of the Physical Education Association of the UK; the British Association of Advisers and Lecturers of Physical Education; the Women's' Sports Foundation; and the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for girls and Women.

Her conference contributions include: Physical Education Association UK; Leisure Studies Association; British Educational Research Association; Int. Congress of PE; European Educational Research Association; British Association of Lecturers and Advisers in PE.

Claudi also has a number of publications namely: -

• Cockburn, C. (1999) 'The Trouble with Girls … : A study of teenage girls' magazines in relation to sport and PE', British Journal of Physical Education, 30, 3: 11-15.
• Cockburn, C. (2001a) 'Identities and Subculture in Relation to Sport: An Analysis of Teenage Girls' Magazines', in C. Brackenridge, D. Howe and F. Jordan (eds), JUST Leisure: Equity, Social Exclusion and Identity, Leisure Studies Association publication No.72.
• Cockburn, C. (2001b) 'Year 9 Girls' Opinions of Physical Education: A Survey Of Pupil Perception', Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol.37, no.1: 5-24.
• Cockburn, C. (2003) 'Exploring new forms of CPD in physical education: Issues of inclusion in your department', British Journal of Teaching Physical Education, 34, 2:16-18.
• Cockburn, C. and Clarke, G. (2003). 'Everybody's Looking At You!': Girls negotiating the 'Femininity Deficit' they incur in Physical Education, Women's Studies International Forum, 25, 6:651-665.
• Cockburn, C. (2004) Coming Clean: Allowing the contradictions to surface in qualitative research with teenage girls in physical education, Bulletin of Physical Education, 40 (2), 179-199.
• Pitchford, A., Nutt, G., Brackenridge, C.H., Bringer, J.D., Cockburn, C., Pawlaczek, Z., and Russell, K. (2004) 'Children in Football: seen but not heard', Soccer and Society, 5(1): 43-60.

Matt Taylor - Hockey Tutor. Plays for Cannock HC - Men's Premier League Championships winners 2005 and 2006 Twenty Full International Caps Head Coach, Cannock Ladies HC

Karen Atkinson - Netball Tutor.

Tracey Neville - Netball Tutor.

Brett Garrard - Hockey Tutor.

Steve Lander - Refereeing Tutor. Steve was an international referee for 10 years, officiating in 65 full IRB internationals. He was a Premiership referee from 1989 to 2005, and was England's first full time referee. He was the laws adviser to the England team for four years, including the 2003 World Cup.

Simon Mason - Hockey Tutor.

Phil Larder - Rugby Tutor

Phil Larder is one of the world's acknowledged leaders of defence in rugby today having masterminded England's World Cup winning performance. He has superior credentials such as being the former GB Rugby League Coach, England World Cup Winning Coach and 3 times Defence Coach on the British Lions team.

Some of our other coaches that we use at Connect Sports Consultants UK:

Steve Morton (Trampolining)

Tony Roberts (Trampolining)

Erin Moorhead (First Aid)

Richard Deardon (Cricket)