A session of Cricket @ sportability

This week's session focused on all things cricket. After the usual warm up routines and games led by Ray, with assistance from Ollie and Phoebe, it was in to some throwing and catching work. They started by working in pairs throwing and catching with each other. As they grew in confidence they moved further apart to make it slightly more challenging. The group then progressed to playing a game of Champion where the kids line up and Ray stood opposite them in the middle of the hall. He would then throw the tennis ball to players at random. If they caught the ball they would move up the line, if they failed to catch it then they moved down. The objective being to become the Champion by being the person at the head of the line when the game ended.

After the Champions game the kids took part in a game that Coach Alan came up with. The group divided in to three and each had a course along the hall to follow. The game involved the first player running up the hall to pick up a tennis ball that was on a cone. They then ran to the far end of the hall and around the cricket stumps before replacing the ball back on the cone and then running back and tagging the next person in the team.
Once we had a few goes of this game Alan updated it slightly so that once the ball was picked up off the cone the kids had to stop and throw it at the stumps to see how accurate their throwing was. They then collected the ball and returned it as before.
The last game before a break involved batting and inparticular batting the tennis ball off a cone/tee towards a target, which I believe was between two cones for each lane.

After a well deserved drinks and snacks break we played some three tee cricket. This is where each child takes it in turn to bat. They have to hit three balls off of three tees and then run between two wickets as many times as they can before the fielding team get the balls and tees back in to position. The player with the most runs being the winner (extra runs can be scored by hitting the far wall when batting).

We slowed things down a bit for our last game by playing some Boccia. We have been very generously donated some Boccia ramps by our good friends at Pear Tree Mead school in Harlow (and in particular Kim) as so we tried these out as you can see in the photos below.​

At the end of another great session the coaches had to decide who to award the Star of the Week to and this week they picked Callum for all his efforts throughout the session. Well done Callum!

Join us again this coming Saturday at 10am to see what Alan and the team have planned for us.
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