This information
page for School Teachers provides details of cricket activities supporting the National Curriculum, which we can offer
to Junior & Secondary Schools.
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is one of seven national governing bodies chosen by
Sport England to deliver Club
School links. The aim is to increase the percentage of school children in England who spend a minimum of 2 hours each week on high quality P.E. and School sport to
85% by 2008.
The ECB strategy aims for every school boy and girl to be introduced to cricket, and encourages schools to offer
Cricket as both a curricular and extra curricular activity. To achieve this, the ECB employs Cricket Development
Managers, and in Cumbria, our CDM is Bob Simpson:
Bob Simpson, County Cricket Development Manager
England & Wales Cricket Board
Unit 22, Summerlands Trading Estate,
Endmoor, Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 0ED
Telephone / Fax: 015395 60066
Email: bob.simpson@ecb.co.uk
Jon
is an accredited and very experienced Cricket Coach who has attended the ECB Coaching in Schools module. (In fact,
such is Jon's experience of this type of work, that he also now tutors the ECB's "Working in Schools" module
for other cricket coaches within Cumbria)
Jon
works very closely with Bob Simpson and personally delivers a high proportion of the Cumbria Cricket Board's planned
cricket activities within and for schools in North and West Cumbria.
Over the last few years, Jon has worked very closely with Teachers at Infant, Primary, Junior and Secondary
Schools to coach and encourage the playing of cricket. As word has spread, the number of Schools where we coach
has expanded, and we now have a contract with the Allerdale School Sports Partnership, which involves us coaching cricket at
every School in Allerdale (all 70 of them over the course of a year!) We also coach at some other
Schools outside of Allerdale, and we are equally pleased to form part of the sporting programmes that each of our Schools
offer.
Year 1 through to year 11 - we now have experience of dealing with EVERY age group of School Child, and we also
have experience of working with all kind of Teachers - from those who have never picked up a cricket bat right up to
those who are Specialist Secondary School PE Teachers with a good level of cricket knowledge.
We are delighted that our work within Schools has grown to this extent, and as an amusing aside, we now get accosted when we are out shopping for groceries by children of all
ages who point at Jon & shout "Look Mum, that's our Cricket Man"
Every session we run at a School will try to include 2 main things:
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Opportunities for the Participants to have fun playing cricket
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Opportunities for Teachers to develop additional skills, confidence & ideas - to
help them to continue to play cricket after we have gone.
Hard
as it might be to believe, we work (in general terms) best part of a year ahead for diary bookings. That said, we will
always try to fit in special requests from Schools where we can - so if you would like to discuss us undertaking some work
at your School, then please do make contact with us.
Jon's diary is always
booked on a first come first served basis, and below is an outline of the activities for 2007/08..............
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Infant School Kinder
Cricket - from Autumn 2007 right through to July 2008
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Secondary School Year
7 Inter Cricket between September 2007 - February 2008, with an Inter Cricket competition then being held
for all Allerdale Secondary Schools.
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Secondary School Year
8 Inter Cricket - between September 2007 - March 2008, culminating in 6 regional inter cricket competitions (all
over Cumbria), and then a County Final.
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Primary & Junior School Kwik Cricket (for year 5 & 6 children) -
from Easter to Whit 2008 - with a County wide competition open to boys & girls in all Primary & Junior Schools
- which can lead to taking part in an National Kwik Cricket Competition. We're also involved in the Girls Kwik Cricket Competition which will take place in Summer 2008. Any
Cumbria based Primary / Junior School can take part in either (or both) of these competitions!
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INSET training for Primary & Junior School Teachers. (Teachers /
School staff attending one of these INSET courses receive a free copy of the ECB HOWZAT pack.)
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After School Clubs
continue to be one of the most "in demand" aspects of our work - all year round. With only 5 days of the week, we're
really sorry but we are already fully booked for After School Clubs right through to July 2008 (and I already know that at
least 2 of those Schools want to book to continue sessions through to July 2009!)
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Young Leader Cricket
Coaching courses for Secondary School / Specialist Sports Colleges - for those age 14-18.
A great deal of the coaching
we offer costs Schools nothing at all! - If you are interested in finding out what we can do for YOUR School,
then please make contact with us!
Our
diary is always booked on a "first come first served" basis, so please do make contact with us if you would like to discuss
activities for your School.
We
really will try our best to help you.
