By Ruth Suggett on 08-Oct-2017 - Some of us in East Anglia who are active in ART- running day courses, teaching , mentoring and assessing – noticed that while we had lots of people doing day courses, not many seemed to be making it through to accreditation. Lesley Boyle of the Ely DA, who is also an ART tutor, had the bright […] Read more
By Gemma Evans on 08-Oct-2017 - Saturday the 30th September saw the first Module 2C course within Lincolnshire. Initially this was planned to be held at Wragby near Lincoln but due to building work, this had to move, and we thanked Ian Ansell for allowing us to visit St Peter and Paul, Kirton in Holland. Kirton are a 18cwt set of […] Read more
By David Shoubridge on 08-Oct-2017 - On the fourth of October, Rob Perryman was presented with his ‘Learning the Ropes’ certificate by his trainers, Paul Burden and David Shoubridge. ‘Learning the Ropes’ is the national training scheme for Bell-ringers. Rob has now mastered the basics of bell-ringing, and successfully,completed Level 1. Also, as Altarnun,Tower is part of the Truro diocese, he […] Read more
By Karen Adamson on 07-Oct-2017 - hi I am from a small town here in Australia and it is quite hard to find somewhere to ring unless you go a couple of hours to do so on real bells. So different from being in the UK where there is bells being rung around every corner. We are lucky enough though that […] Read more
By Helen McGregor on 06-Oct-2017 - Are you an ART accredited teacher? Would you enjoy a week (preferably two!) staying in the beautiful Scottish Highlands supporting a small, local band? Free accommodation is available for the following weeks: Sat Oct 7th – Sat Oct 21st Sat Oct 21st – Oct 28th – no accommodation available Oct 28th – Sat Nov 11th […] Read more
By Helen McGregor on 04-Oct-2017 - Here at Tulloch we have just run our first training course. Presented with 8 people all keen to learn bob doubles, we needed an imaginative approach to give them all enough rope time…here it is…..Put a tutor on one bell, tell everyone else to catch hold of a bell. Their aim is to strike their […] Read more
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By Phil Tremain on 03-Oct-2017 - It was like any other end of the month Thursday, writes Ian Banbury (St.Cleer). The day spent at work, the journey home, “Hello Love!”, a quick kiss, turn the computer on to check the emails and there it was … An innocuous enough email from Phil Tremain explaining that due to illness, someone had to […] Read more
By ART Administrator on 28-Sep-2017 - Module 2 Courses are all about enhancing our skills for teaching early method ringing. The course itself is the first step in teacher development which can lead towards accreditation with ART for teaching change ringing if desired. Although many delegates who attend M2C have already attended M1 courses in teaching bell handling, this is not […] Read more
By ART Administrator on 27-Sep-2017 - This popular course from the ART Training Scheme will be tutored by Paul Lewis at St Peter’s Kineton on the 6th January, 2018. Starting at 10am, the course will include both theory and practical aspects of teaching foundation skills for ringers who are progressing from bell handling and rounds up to and including plain hunt. […] Read more