Schools and Young People

Combat Academy offers an empowering range of courses specifically designed for schools and young people. The courses all focus on empowerment, leadership skills, teamwork, public speaking, and confidence building. These incredible packages are all considered to be critical life-skills, and cover topics such as anti-bullying, cyber-bullying, personal safety and self-defence, which is age-appropriate, responsible, sensitive, and yet does not skirt around the many issues faced by young people today. Our courses enable and empower young people to make well-thought-out decisions, think critically, dynamically risk-assess, and plan their lives safely.

All instructors are CBR checked.

Personal Safety And Critical Life Skills: Ages 7 – 9

Critical life skills course for young people aged 7 – 9 to build confidence, teamwork, and leadership

Course Outline

Confidence building, teamwork, and leadership are at the heart of this course, which focuses on critical life skills to build a solid foundation of understanding and applied common sense relating to personal safety.

The course is designed to be engaging and fun, whilst sensitively dealing with the following subject matter:

Personal space awareness
Safety rules
Personal safety
Bullying
Confidence and team building

Outcomes

After this course, students will have an increased awareness and confidence relating to the subject matter, together with a developing set of transferable critical life skills, including: increased personal confidence, awareness and the development of personal strengths and virtues.

Delivery

The course can be delivered as a one-off introduction to personal safety through a single session, either at school, or on behalf of a school. Alternatively, it can be delivered as a fully enrolled course, which can be requested by the school, or directly from a parent. The fully enrolled course is blended as a mix of taught theoretical content and a series of practical taught sessions. The sessions are engaging and the online content is simple, and yet gradually builds and delivers rich content that is appropriate to the age group.

Length Of Course

The fully enrolled course is anticipated to take around 8 weeks from start to completion, with progress reports given to the school and parents, and positive feedback given directly to the student.

Personal Safety And Critical Life Skills: Ages 10-12

Critical life skills course for young people aged 10 – 12, designed to provide a high level of understanding of essential personal safety skills

Course Outline

This course is engaging and empowering for young people. The content is designed to give practical and theoretical knowledge of generic personal safety and self defence:

Personal space awareness
Safety rules
Personal safety online and cyber security
Personal safety
Self defence
Introduction to psychology

Outcomes

The course is designed to build confidence and identity for young people through a challenging transitional period in their development. Students will develop a high level of understanding of essential personal safety skills, together with an engaging and exciting introduction to some mainstream academic subjects, which will enhance their educational development.

Delivery

The course can be delivered as a one-off introduction to personal safety as a single session, either at school or on behalf of a school. Alternatively, it can be delivered as a fully enrolled course, which can be requested by the school, or directly from a parent. The fully enrolled course is blended as a mix of taught theoretical content and a series of practical taught sessions. The sessions are engaging and the online content is simple, and yet gradually builds and delivers rich content that is appropriate to the age group.

Length Of Course

The fully enrolled course is anticipated to take around 8 weeks from start to completion, with progress reports given to the school and parents, and positive feedback given directly to the student.

Advanced Personal Safety, Security And Self Defence: Ages 13-16

This course is designed to deliver real world practical and theoretical skills and understanding of a variety of critical life skills

Course Outline

This challenging and engaging course is designed to give real world practical and theoretical skills and understanding of a variety of critical life skills in the subject area

Exploration of psychology
Introduction to physiology and bio-mechanics
Personal safety
Personal security
Self defence
Cyber security
The law and self defence
Team building and leadership skills

Outcomes

Students will be armed with an understanding, which gives them a foundation for safely leaving the school environment in readiness for adult education or work. The academic side is challenging and thought provoking. The style of writing is transitional and designed to introduce them to the academic environment at college, university or work. Public speaking and presentational skills are also enhanced during this course, and confidence is built, together with a sense of personal identity, integrity and leadership skills.

Delivery

Length Of Course

The fully enrolled course is anticipated to take around 8 weeks from start to completion, with progress reports given to the school and parents, and positive feedback given directly to the student.