Climbing Wall Award Assessment

Who Is This Course For?
This course is a follow on from the Northern Ireland Climbing Wall Supervisors Award Training course (which is a pre-requirement for attending).  It will assess the skills and knowledge covered in training and is suitable for those who wish to supervise groups on climbing walls and abseil towers in Northern Ireland. 

Course Aims
The aims of this course are as follows:

• To assess the skills covered in the training course
• To provide advice for future development

Skills Covered
The areas to be assessed include the following: group leadership and management, supervising skills, personal climbing ability, structuring sessions, risk assessments, procedures and regulations.

Outline Programme

It is important to note that the above outline programme is a guide.  Times may vary due to various reasons.

Our Staff
The instructor(s) who will work with you are all highly experienced and qualified.  Tollymore prides itself in the knowledge and experience that its full time and part time staff bring to its courses.  Our staff are all keen hillwalkers and mountaineers and know the Mournes very well.  You may well have met them in the hills in the past or will bump into them in the future on days when they are not working!  All are obliged to attend annual staff updates and training courses

What do I need to bring?
You should bring personal climbing kit.  Ropes will be provided by Tollymore Mountain Centre.  If you require any other equipment, you can sign it out from the Tollymore stores.

Tollymore Information
Tollymore Mountain Centre, on the edge of the Mournes, is Northern Ireland’s National Centre for Mountaineering and Canoeing Activities.  It is funded and managed by the Sports Council for Northern Ireland as a National Centre. The Centre is an attractive, purpose-built facility of log construction with accommodation for 30 people in 2, 4 and 6 berth bedrooms.  Quilts, pillows and bed linen are all provided.  The Centre is well appointed with toilets, showers, modern kitchen, lecture room, workshop and drying room.  Outside there is ample parking space, a ropes course and a floodlit granite-climbing wall.  A modern indoor climbing wall is open year round.  The centre is ideally situated on the edge of the Mournes, with quick and easy access to the hills.  The Central Council for Physical Recreation opened Tollymore Mountain Centre in 1969.  In 1974, it passed to the newly established Sports Council for Northern Ireland Trust.  In 1995, Tollymore achieved the management standard BS EN ISO 9001:2000 for the quality systems it operates.   However, as part of Sports Council for Northern Ireland’s ongoing commitment to the development of the National Centre, Tollymore will be undergoing a major redevelopment, commencing in 2007.  The facilities will be improved and expanded, to ensure that Tollymore remains as an example of best practice in the provision of mountaineering, hillwalking, climbing and canoeing courses in Northern Ireland.

Accommodation
Your course is a non residential course, however you may use Tollymore Mountain Centre showers and changing facilities,

Catering
Your course is self catered, you will need to bring a packed lunch.

What next?
Having completed this course, you may decide to develop your climbing career, and look at the range of outdoor climbing courses, or the Single Pitch Award.  You may also consider looking at hillwalking and mountaineering courses.

Useful Books
Recommended by and available from Tollymore
Rockclimbing by Libby Peter, published by MLTUK

Useful contacts:

Mountaineering Council of Ireland,

Sport HQ,

13 Joyce Way,

Parkwest Business Park,

Dublin 12.

Tel +353-1-6251115

Fax +353-1-6251116 

Email mci@eircom.net