This information page for School
Teachers provides details of cricket activities supporting the National Curriculum, which we can offer to Infant, Primary,
Junior & Secondary Schools.
Jon is an accredited and very experienced
Cricket Coach who has attended the ECB Coaching in Schools module. 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 69 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 10 - 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:
Opportunities for the Participants to have fun playing cricket
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 a
typical year.....................
Infant
& Primary School Kinder Cricket - from Autumn right through to July, culminating in an annual Infant & Primary
Schools Kinder Cricket Competition for year 1 & year 2 children.
Primary & Junior School Kwik Cricket (for year 5 &
6 children) - from February through to Whit - with a series of Kwik Cricket competitions open to boys &
girls in all Primary & Junior Schools, as well as a further Kwik Cricket competition run exclusively for year 5/6
girls.
Any Primary / Junior School can take part in either (or both)
of these competitions!
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 for the whole of this year.
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.
