Anyone for Cricket - great fun with bat and ball @ EFSC this week

It was great to see coach Ray back this week after recuperating from a successful surgery. Ray wasted no time getting back in to the swing of things as he led the warm up outside on the playground, on what was a very surprising and pleasant morning. We even had a bit of sun on a few occasions.
Once the warm up was complete the kids paired up for some throwing and catching with a tennis ball. That moved on to doing bounce passes trying to get the ball to bounce on a plastic spot laid out between each pair.

We then took the catching practice further by playing a game of Champion. The group split in to two with Ray throwing the ball in one group and Ollie for the other group.
When the coach calls you name he throws the ball for you to catch. Catch it and you move one place up the line. Fail to catch it and you move right to the bottom of the line. Those at the top of the line at the end of the game are the Champions. In this case it was Kerrie in Ray's group and Davina in Ollie's.

Before we had our main break we had time for some batting practice. The group split in to three with each child taking it in turns to hit a tennis ball off of a plastic tee. The idea being to try and hit the ball as straight as possible.

After the main break we played two games of Three Tee Cricket. The group split in to two teams and each child, when batting, had to hit three tennis balls off of three plastic tees. Whilst they were doing this the fielding team must stand still and not touch any of the balls. Once the last of the three balls is hit the batter must try and get as many runs as possible, between the wickets, in the time it takes the fielding team to get all three balls back on all three teams. Once every batter has taken a go, the score is added up and the teams switch so the other team then bat.
In the first game Anand's team won 57 to 49 but in the second game Reece's team got revenge winning 60 to 50.

We finished off the session back in the hall with three games of Boccia with the blue team winning all three games! Our star performers this week were Ellis and Todd so very well done boys - great effort!
One note for parents and carers, and anyone else who wishes to come along, is that we are holding our Annual General Meeting on Saturday 19th October at Oak View School . This will be while the kids are doing the activities and it gives everyone a chance to have their say on how the club is run and input in to the future direction of the club. It would be great to see as many people as there as possible.

Alan presents Ellis with his Star of the Week award

Todd (and Buzz) collect the Star of the Week award from Coach Alan