Curling and Education
Floor Curling Leaders Workshop
The Floor Curling Leaders Workshop gives volunteers, sports leaders, education staff, future leaders and community organisers the confidence and practical tools to deliver fun, inclusive floor curling sessions in schools, clubs and community settings.
The workshop is suitable for anyone aged 14+ who support activities for young people, adults or mixed-ability groups and no curling experience is required.
The 2 hour workshop includes:
- Learn about floor curling, game play and how to support participants
- Practical delivery exploring warm ups and skill building activities
- Try different leadership roles such as umpire and skip
- Leaders Delivery Toolkit and e-certificate
- How to plan and run a floor curling festival or tournament
Book a Leaders workshop:
The workshop costs £50 for up to 10 participants and £6 per additional participant and workshops must be delivered in an indoor hall or smooth surface space.
If your school or community group would like to host a Floor Curling Leaders Workshop, you can request a workshop below. To help us process your request, please review the workshop requirements before completing the form.
Book a Floor Curling Leaders workshop now!
Stewarty Cluster Sports Leaders at Stewarty Floor Curling Championships 2025.
Curling’s Cool
Curling is a highly inclusive sport that caters for all ability levels, incorporates educational elements and is great fun for pupils. Curling’s Cool is a Scottish Curling development programme delivered at ice rinks throughout Scotland to primary 6 & 7 school pupils.
Benefits of participation in Curling’s Cool include:
- Health & Fitness
- Leadership development
- Transferable skills; team work and communication
- Lessons of endeavour, of winning and losing
- Individual challenge
- Building confidence
- Improvement in social well-being
- Sense of achievement
Curling’s Cool provides pupils with an introduction to curling through on ice sessions at a local rink. All sessions are led by qualified Scottish Curling coaches who aim to provide all participants with a positive learning experience.
Coaches provide instruction and a variety of fun drills to teach pupils the basics of the game including:
- Safety awareness
- Delivery technique
- Sweeping technique
- Team communication skills
- Tactics and basic shot signals
- Game rules
On completion of the programme, each pupil receives a Curling’s Cool certificate.
Many ice rinks also host an inter-school curling competition for each class that has participated in the Curling’s Cool programme during the season.
Over 4000 pupils took part in the Curling’s Cool programme in 2019-20.
The photos were taken as schools across South Ayrshire enjoyed a Curling’s Cool session.
Coaching Resources and session plans can be found here.
If your school wants to get involved contact your local development manager.
Student Curling
Scottish Curling and Scottish Student Sport (SSS) jointly support the development of curling in universities and colleges across Scotland.
Find out more about Student curling here.
