ITTS Teachers start new band on LtR at Eaton Bray

Following recent ITTS M1 and M2 Day Courses and a successful recruitment campaign, our Teaching group is using Learning the Ropes to train a new band of six ringers in the village of Eaton Bray (Beds) – a tower which has been quiet for decades.

As bells at Eaton Bray are a bit challenging so the new ringers have had basic handling lessons at another of our group’s towers and are now at the stage of ringing rounds together. Although that can still go a bit awry, the new ringers are improving all the time at getting back into place.

Last Friday (4 Oct), we all met up at their new home tower of Eaton Bray for their first practice there. We did rounds on 3, 4, 5 and then 6. The new team are so enthusiastic that they are going to ring rounds for service tomorrow! This just about fits in with our tower’s service ringing, so we will go over and ring with them.

We have three more new ringers from Eaton Bray starting bell handling lessons on the 19 October, and they’ll all be able to join our on-going learners’ practice for rounds, call changes and Learning the Ropes Level 2 – Foundation Skills, plus may set up their own practice at Eaton Bray where one of us will always try and be there to help.

A particular note should go to Gaye – one of our new ringers at Eaton Bray. She is a nurse and proudly wears her Learning the Ropes Level 1 badge to work – everyone asks her about it, so when she tells them what a nice time she is having, this stimulates even more people to sign up to learn to ring. She is like a one woman marketing department for ringing!

PS Ed – Learning the Ropes badges can be ordered by ITTS Teachers from the same Moodle page as you request your ringer’s certificates. They’re very reasonably priced and are great as both special reward and, as above, a promotional item.