We welcome the following primary schools this term:

Lumbertubs

Abington Vale

Lings

Rectory Farm

Week one has already seen them make name badges and Team totem poles.

This term we are trialing a new format where schools come in for three hour sessions each week for six weeks. This means we have only four schools per ‘term’. Generally this has worked well with a very positive response from the pupils, has facilitated greater completion rates on all tasks and has enabled us to include much more numeracy tasks as well as more thorough evaluation techniques. It has also led to significantly improved attendance.

The themes for the sessions are:

Getting to know you, Getting to know cricket, Getting to know the stadium, Communication, Club challenge and Cricket coaching and evaluation.

Some of the many things the children have been doing are making Totem pole bricks, learning more about each other, finding out about safety aspects of cricket, shapes around the stadium, working in their teams to create a new club and producing a short piece of animation.

Some examples of animation are shown below:

A ride in a helicopter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0shn4R_4Bz8

Secret Beach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKJYDHt9DwQ

The beach of Doom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAtXQEtXFk