national navigation award scheme - tutor award

NNAS tutor award by bryn walking - saturday 21st october 2023

nnas tutor award:
course provider - bryn walking
course director - alan ward (IML)

Registered Navigator Award Providers and their Course Directors are required to attend this CPD-accredited course in order to offer the Navigator Awards.

The NNAS Tutor Award is suitable for people 16yrs+ only.

Successful completion of the NNAS Tutor Award will also enable (after approval by NNAS) those without a higher hill or mountain walking qualification, but with experience and interest in the outdoors, to help teach on a Bronze award under the guidance of a registered NNAS Course Director.  They will be called “Bronze Tutors”.  In this case, once the NNAS Tutor Award is completed, an application by email to the NNAS must be made and approved before that person assists on Bronze courses.

The course is a mixture of indoor and outdoor practical sessions and offers the opportunity for candidates to discuss their own methodology as well as learning new techniques from others.

The course is also available to anyone wishing to develop skills to teach others how to navigate safely in the hills and mountains of the UK.

The course can serve as a useful refresher for Mountain Training candidates who might be nearing assessment for Lowland Leader, Hill and Moorland or Mountain Leader awards. The course is delivered by Alan Ward (IML) who has delivered 50 Mountain Training courses.

Bryn Walking offers the Tutor Award course on a regular basis with further details being available from Helen Menhinick - [email protected] or http://www.brynwalking.co.uk 

the morning session provides an introduction to the tutor award and offers a variety of teaching methods, resources and how to deliver nnas courses.

the afternoon session expanded on the morning session's theoretical methods and gives individual partcipants the opportunity to "teach" others in the group as to how topics might be delivered. 

This session had been scheduled to take place on the Long Mynd and Helen and I had completed a Risk Assessment of the area there which we'd hoped to use. With Storm Babet and extreme flooding on the Friday, our professional judgement was that our chosen area with steep paths and some rock steps (in the area around Calf Ridge) could be potentially hazardous. We therefore decided to use the area just west of the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre where our morning session was held.