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Educating through cricket

All competitive team sports can play a vital role in the education and personal development of young people, offering opportunities to lead healthy, purposeful lives. But we strongly believe that cricket has special attributes because it:

• Promotes leadership, teamwork and strategic awareness.

• Teaches respect, how to win, to lose and cope with setback

• Is the ultimate team game, demanding both individual and collective responsibility

• Insists on high standards of conduct and provides good role models

• Is wholly inclusive, drawing together people from all cultures and backgrounds. It gives opportunities to boys and girls, as well as to those with special needs

• Is able to reach all of our major ethnic communities in a way no other sport clearly can.

Benefits in the classroom, as well as the playground

Tracey Miller, a teacher at St John’s Primary School, Bethnal Green, London, describes how cricket helps her in class: “If you can convey different ideas using something that interests them then that’s half the battle. Because of the sessions they love cricket and I’ve found it a great vehicle to help with maths and literacy. They listen more because they find it interesting and it gives them concrete examples.”

We have also pioneered special, web-based educational resources, CricEd.  The innovative, cricket-themed (Key Stage 2 & 3) lessons have proved very popular with Chance to Shine teachers across the Curriculum who have used them to enhance pupils’ literacy, numeracy and IT skills.