Working with local schools

Over the last 10 years Castle Black Belt Academy has worked closely with over 25 local Sheffield schools, acting a positive reinforcement for the teachers and working on raising children’s standards for everything in there life from tidying there desk to showing love and respect to there family.

We see ourselves as educators and not just martial arts teachers. We run "schools" and not "clubs." We try and build a relationship up with your Childs academic schoolteacher as we are all working towards the same goal of building your child a successful future.

All young students in our children's programme are required to take a specially designed form to there parents al least once a month. This has to be signed off by there parents to show they have been working hard at schools and showing respect at home before the student can be considered to be put forward for an exam to take them to their next grade.

The goal is to make sure those educational values that we teach in our martial arts classes are used in all areas of their life.

One thing they are taught though is that the physical side of what we teach them should only ever be used in a self-defence situation. This is something that we are very strict on and it is constantly stressed to all students that Martial arts skills require them never to be abusive or offensive and is only to be used defensively.