Hello Shippers!
Over the past five months, we have been unable to conduct face to face training due to the COVID-19 restrictions places upon us by government, local councils and the Sea Cadet Corps, to keep us safe. But we haven't been sat in waiting for everything to go back to normal! As usual, our staff at Sutton Coldfield Sea Cadets have gone the extra step to keep our unit engaged!
We started running Virtual Learning for our cadets, delivering one module, per class, per week and allowing everyone, from our Junior Sea Cadets to our Leading Cadet to work towards their promotion!
We've had cadets attend a District Virtual Course where we saw brilliant results, and we've had one of our Leading Hands attend his Petty Officer Cadet board!
10 of our cadets attended a unit run Virtual Basic Seamanship Course, where we've seen a brilliant interest in Seamanship! They all performed well, awaiting final sign off back at the unit!
Towards the end of August we have achieved Lime status, which means we can return to face to face training! Virtual Learning has been suspended and the Command Team, with assistance from unit staff, are working tirelessly to ensure the unit is COVID safe ready for cadet return on Sunday 13th September 2020!
That's all for this update, see you next month!
