Rostered blocks, booked observation, written feedback

This page is for an adult working towards a governing-body award who needs hours on a floor, somebody watching them, and something in writing afterwards. KRSS ACADEMY LTD can give all three. It cannot give the award: that belongs to the governing body, which sets the syllabus, runs the assessment and decides the outcome. Nothing arranged here shortens that process.

Hours are rostered by block, not by session

An assistant coach is put on the roster against a block of a named session rather than against the session as a whole. A logbook filled that way reads as specific work — nine cool-downs, six skill blocks, two full sessions led — instead of the word “assisted” nine times, which is the version that gets queried.

A roster line is written the way a log line needs to be read, and a copy goes to the coach the same week:

Session — day, band and total minutes, for example Thursday, development band, sixty minutes.
Block — which of the four, and its minutes on that night.
Role — led, led under observation, ran a station, or took the head count and the register.
Floor — how many coaches were on the floor and how many children were counted in.
Point — the teaching point that was on the whiteboard, copied word for word.

A coach who has led the same block four times is moved on to the next one, because four cool-downs in a row stops being practice and starts being cover.

How an observation is arranged

Observation is booked, never sprung. A slot is agreed at least a week ahead, in writing, naming the session, the block and the coach. Sunday on this floor carries no groups and is used for the longer conversations and for run-throughs with cones and no children.

During the block the observer sits on the bench against the back wall and does not speak. The sheet has two columns, filled as it happens: what the coach said, and what the group then did. Nothing is scored and no judgement is written during the block, because a coach who can see a mark being made changes what they are doing and the observation stops being of the session.

The write-up is done the same evening while the detail is still there, and handed over inside the week. Late feedback is of no use to a coach who has already taught the block twice more.

What the written feedback contains

One thing to keep: Something the coach did that worked, named precisely enough to repeat: not “good energy” but “you put the two quietest children in the first pair, so the demonstration was not done by the loudest”.
One thing to change: A single change for the next time the block is led, phrased as an action rather than a quality. One change, not five, because a coach cannot hold five.
One question: Asked, not answered: why that progression, why that pair, why the condition was changed at that moment. The answer goes in the coach's own log, not in ours.
The two columns: The raw sheet is attached as written. It is the part a governing body assessor finds useful and the part a coach argues with, which is the point of keeping it unedited.

What the academy is not

KRSS ACADEMY LTD is not an awarding body, not an assessment centre and not a verifier of anybody's qualification. It keeps a record of hours worked on its own floor and of observations carried out by its own coaches, and it will confirm that record in writing to whoever the coach asks it to be sent to. It will not state that a coach has met a standard set by somebody else.

How long an observation sheet and a roster record are kept, and where, is on notices and data.

Starting

Write to coaching@krssacademy.site with the award being worked towards, the hours already logged elsewhere, and the evenings that are possible. The reply names the band, the block and the first date. Read how a session is built before the first evening: the four blocks and the handover between them are the structure every observation is written against, and a coach who arrives knowing the handover is useful on the floor from the first whistle.