Academy Standards

1. Respect & behaviour

Students, parents and guardians are expected to treat coaches, volunteers, other students, families and visitors with respect.

Bullying, intimidation, discriminatory behaviour, deliberate humiliation, threats, harassment, aggressive conduct or behaviour that makes others feel unsafe is not acceptable.

Students are expected to make a genuine effort, listen when instruction is being given and avoid deliberately disrupting the progress or safety of the group. WightTricks does not expect perfection; it does expect an appropriate effort and attitude for the student's age and needs.

Coaches will manage behaviour in a way that is appropriate to the student's age, understanding and circumstances. Where behaviour is becoming a problem, the aim will normally be to correct it clearly and help the student return successfully to the session.

2. Safety during training

Students must follow reasonable coaching and safety instructions, particularly around take-offs, landing areas, trampolines, sprung surfaces, foam pits, spotting and shared equipment.

Students must not attempt skills, use equipment or enter an active training area when a coach has told them to wait, stop or use an alternative progression.

WightTricks coaches may restrict, regress or change a skill where they consider the current attempt unsafe or unsuitable. A student's ability to perform a skill previously does not create an entitlement to perform it in every session or circumstance.

Repeatedly ignoring safety instructions, intentionally misusing equipment or deliberately creating a risk to another person may result in removal from an activity or session.

3. Coaching decisions & progression

Skill selection, progressions, spotting, groupings and training priorities are coaching decisions. These may change according to safety, readiness, fatigue, confidence, available equipment and the needs of the class.

Students progress at different rates. WightTricks will encourage ambition and challenge while avoiding pressure to perform a skill simply because another student can do it.

Parents and guardians are welcome to raise questions about a student's progress. Where a longer or more sensitive discussion is needed, WightTricks may ask for it to take place outside active coaching time so staff can continue supervising the class safely.

4. Parent & guardian conduct

Parents and guardians should support coaches in maintaining clear standards and should avoid giving competing technical instructions to students during coached sessions.

Questions, concerns or complaints should be raised calmly and through the appropriate WightTricks contact route. Abusive, threatening or intimidating behaviour towards staff, volunteers, students or other families will not be accepted.

For safety and supervision reasons, parents and guardians should not enter active training areas or use equipment unless invited or authorised by WightTricks staff.

Unless WightTricks has expressly taken responsibility for supervision, parents and guardians remain responsible for their child before the coached session begins and after it finishes.

5. Attendance, arrival & collection

Students should arrive in suitable clothing, with any necessary medication or personal equipment, and be ready to join the class at the scheduled time.

A coach may need to modify a student's participation where a late arrival means they have missed an important warm-up, briefing or progression.

Parents and guardians are responsible for arranging safe and timely collection in accordance with the student's age and the arrangements held by WightTricks.

Missed sessions and replacement sessions are governed by the separate WightTricks Attendance & Replacement Session Policy.

6. Drinks, breaks & leaving the training area

WightTricks may structure drink and rest opportunities at suitable points in a class so that students remain hydrated without repeatedly interrupting instruction or using breaks simply to avoid training.

A student who genuinely needs water, medication, the toilet or a rest for health or wellbeing reasons should tell a coach. The purpose of structured breaks is to keep classes moving efficiently, not to prevent a child from meeting a genuine physical need.

Students should tell a coach before leaving their assigned training area so staff remain aware of where students are during the session.

7. Medical, injury & wellbeing communication

Parents and guardians must keep WightTricks informed of relevant medical conditions, injuries, allergies, medication or other information that may affect safe participation.

If relevant information changes, WightTricks should be updated rather than relying on information supplied at an earlier registration.

Students should tell a coach if they are in pain, feel unwell, become unusually fatigued or believe they have been injured. Coaches may stop or modify participation where they consider continued training inappropriate.

Further detail is contained in the WightTricks Participation & Risk Agreement.

8. Photography, filming & phones

WightTricks' use of identifiable student photographs and video is governed by the separate Photography & Media Consent.

Parents, students and visitors should take reasonable care not to publish or distribute identifiable images of other children in a way that is intrusive, inappropriate or contrary to a request from WightTricks or the child's parent/guardian.

WightTricks may restrict personal filming or phone use where it interferes with coaching, creates a safeguarding concern, distracts students or affects the privacy of others.

Phones and personal devices should not distract from coached activity. Coaches may ask students to put devices away during the session unless they are being used for an agreed training purpose.

9. Safeguarding & professional boundaries

Any safeguarding concern relating to a child, member of staff, volunteer or another person at WightTricks should be reported through the academy's safeguarding route as soon as reasonably possible.

WightTricks expects appropriate professional boundaries between staff, volunteers, students and families. Concerns about those boundaries should be raised with academy management rather than handled informally between children and adults.

WightTricks' detailed safeguarding arrangements are set out in its safeguarding policy and contact information.

10. Staff solicitation & external coaching

Parents, guardians and members must not privately solicit WightTricks employees or coaches to leave the academy, take external employment, or provide private coaching in a way that conflicts with their role or obligations to WightTricks.

This does not prevent a parent from asking WightTricks about officially available private lessons, additional coaching or other services. Those enquiries should be made through WightTricks rather than by attempting to bypass the academy.

The purpose of this rule is to protect staffing stability, programme continuity and the coaching relationships that WightTricks has invested in developing.

11. WightTricks materials & intellectual property

Original WightTricks coaching resources, internal training materials, programme documents, branded media and other materials created by the academy remain the property of WightTricks unless stated otherwise.

Students are free to use what they learn in their own training. This section is intended to prevent unauthorised copying, reproduction, commercial use or presentation of WightTricks' proprietary materials as someone else's work.

12. When standards are not met

Where possible, WightTricks will deal with concerns proportionately. Depending on the issue, this may include a reminder, discussion, behaviour plan, temporary restriction, removal from part of a session or formal warning.

Where behaviour creates a serious safety or safeguarding concern, involves abuse or threats, or materially affects the academy's ability to operate safely, WightTricks may take immediate action.

For serious or repeated breaches, WightTricks may end a membership or refuse continued attendance, acting reasonably and taking account of the circumstances and any applicable legal rights.

Where behaviour may be linked to a student's age, disability, additional needs or other relevant circumstances, WightTricks will aim to consider reasonable and appropriate support rather than treating every behaviour issue in the same way.