As a reward for their fantastic reading at school with the “Reading Stars” reading scheme, Cedar Road children from years 5 and 6 enjoyed some cricket coaching at the Steelbacks Indoor Arena; with community cricket coach, James mellor.

Alfie says .. “It was brilliant, the practising was fun and we had a game at the end.”

Aidan .. “It was fantastic, we all wondered why Lee had butter in his hands??!!”

Emelia .. “I enjoyed the batting, and I thought it was really good and fun!!”

Marc .. “We played lots of games, I fell over but I still thought it was cool.”

Jordan .. “I liked everything!”

Anna, Centre Manager .. ” The children were very excited, and certainly showed their enthusiasm through the various skills that they took part in.”

Jo, SSCA .. ” I wasn’t there but the children seemed very excited when they got back!!”

As a reward for taking part in the Steelbacks reading stars scheme, (and year 6 also taking part in centre manager interviews in July) Cedar Road year 5 and 6 took part in a cricket coaching session on Monday 5th November. James from Northants Cricket Club, a community coach took the session and covered skills, small sided games and ended with Diamond Cricket game.

Shannon says “It was fun and cool, because we learnt how to play cricket.”

Conor “I found it easy to catch the ball. I was a bit nervous when James threw the ball to me.”

Sophie thought the session was wicked because it was fun and we did lots of running.

Anna said “It was good, I liked the bowling, it was easy.”

Jordan: “The best bit was when I was batting”

Oliver said “I liked it, when I was fielding, the ball didn’t come to my area much. When I was batting it was better as I got near the action.”

Mentor Daniel (assistant coach) said “The children were running around a lot and being good. I gained some experience in coaching”

Jo Morris, mentor said “The children were using their listening skills well and could grow up to be brilliant cricketers.”