Our teaching and coaching credentials
Our Managing Director, Darren Birchall BA(Hons) PGCE, is a qualified and highly experienced primary school teacher and an experienced sword fencer and coach, having been fencing for almost twenty years. As well as his teaching and sword fencing qualifications, he is also a qualified coach in several other sporting disciplines, such as orienteering and curriculum gymnastics, FA football, Multi-skills and SAQ among others.
His previous work is extremely diverse and includes mainstream primary teaching, PE coordination, ICT coordination and Drama coordination, schools sports partnership PE development (he currently occupies a freelance role as the Leadership Officer of the Salford North and South Sport Partnerships), curriculum PE teaching and development in both the state and private sectors, and many other PE, school sport and sword fencing related activities.
In teaching terms, he is recognised to have excellent, positive behaviour management skills and is fully CRB checked via the British Fencing Association and several other organisations.
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