By John Cater on 26-Jul-2016 - Eight ringers and three non-ringers travelled from (mainly) Church Gresley, Derbyshire to Liverpool Cathedral to join their Saturday evening practice on 23rd July. Four of the ringers were experienced, but of the others three have been ringing for only a little over a year. All the ringers bar one are either ART teachers or mentors, […] Read more
By Alice Lindsay on 26-Jul-2016 - Every month a group of bell ringers rang at my local church and I found they were inspiring. When I would go and lock up the church with my dad on the days they were there, the person who leads it all would said I could do it when I was older. I got to […] Read more
By Alice Lindsay on 26-Jul-2016 - Hello, This is my first post so I hope it goes okay. Today I had a bell ringing lesson with my fantastic teacher. I rang 2 bells up ‘very well’. As I have previously learned how to dodge and make places we practised that but I also learnt 2 other type of making places and […] Read more
By Pam Ebsworth on 21-Jul-2016 - The Module 1 course at Bury St Edmunds on 8th July was attended by 8 students (and 2 observing Mentors) who all found it extremely useful, helpful and encouraging.’ Pam (Woolpit) ‘ I learnt some really useful tips and pointers to help get over to new learners how to handle a bell and ways to safely […] Read more
By Neil Waterman on 19-Jul-2016 - On Friday 8th July I did my first conducting in a quarter peal! It was great fun and not too hard thanks to an excellent bob doubles conducting course ran by Graham Nabb. Graham came to our tower (All Saints’, Marsworth) in June to provide a workshop on calling bob doubles and enlightened a number […] Read more
By Rob Parker on 10-Jul-2016 - From 1 May 2016, new ART Training Scheme regulations introduced a revised structure to ART Training Scheme Module 2. Introduction of new Module 2F (Foundations) – Teaching from Rounds to Plain Hunt Renaming of legacy Module 2 to Module 2C (Changes) – Teaching Elementary Change Ringing The new Modules provide greater choice, flexibility and opportunity […] Read more
By Barbara Le Gallez on 06-Jul-2016 - … were my thoughts as a keen novice ringer. I had been observing older ringers, once very competent, who had been stuck teaching beginners for so long that they had forgotten how to ring anything remotely complicated. “I won’t let that happen to me”, I determined. Ten years on, trailing a long string of support […] Read more
By Deborah Margason-Baker on 01-Jul-2016 - ART Training Day Module 1. As part of their amazing commitment to training in the Guild and ringing in general Andy and Sallie Ingram held Winchester and Portsmouth Guild’s first Association of Ringing Teacher’s (ART) Module1 – Teaching bell Handling day course on Saturday 25th June. The day started at 09:00 in The Kings Head […] Read more
By Rose Nightingale on 16-Jun-2016 - On the 1st October 2016, All Saints’ Marsworth will host our first M2F course (the F stands for ‘Foundations’). The course will be tutored by Paul Lewis. M2F is the newest course developed as part of the ART Training scheme, aimed at supporting teachers who are working with bands ringing from rounds to plain hunt. […] Read more
By Alan Burlison on 23-May-2016 - Along with the other learners in my tower, I’m in the process of learning Plain Hunt, mostly Doubles with covering tenor. We started out ringing the 3rd bell, as that way the order that you follow the other bells is easy as it’s just round in a circle – 4,5,1,2,4,5,Lead,Lead,1,2. Unsurprisingly the next thing we […] Read more