Multi-skills and Play Steve Peyman
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A £50 million campaign launched in 2005
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Single biggest grassroots sports development initiative in UK
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Aims to impact lives of over two million young people by 2015
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Supported by Government
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Embraced by communities across the UK
! Cricket teaches teamwork, leadership & respect ! Reaches into ethnic communities like no other sport ! It’s wholly inclusive ! Appeals to both genders ! Provides for those with disabilities ! Effective theme for learning across the curriculum
And yet in 2004 fewer than 10% of state schools provided any form of meaningful cricket…
! 3,344 schools registered ! 378,000 participants ! 177,000 from BME ! 65,000 with special needs ! Over 5000 teachers involved ! 1500 coaches involved ! 103,000 hours of activity (83,000 hours delivered in schools) ! 6400 children have joined a cricket club (23% girls)
“Process of social learning that occurs and shared practices that emerge and evolve when people who have common goals interact as they strive towards those goals.�
! To increase and enhance the delivery of cricket in schools ! To enhance teachers skills and knowledge ! To develop core physical skills of young people ! To develop young people’s social skills through cricket ! Long term sustainability
Chance to shine Regional Managers
Head Teachers
School Sport Coordinators
Cricket County Board Development Managers
Teachers
Primary Link Teachers
Club Volunteers
Classroom Assistants
Young People/Leaders
Coaches
Lunchtime Supervisors
Competition Managers
Partnership Development Managers
Parents
Officials
! Formal training ! Specialist coaches ! Ongoing support and mentoring ! Cascade training sharing of good practice ! Teacher – Coach ! School to club transitions
What skills children develop: Physical Skills
Social Skills
Hand-eye coordination
Team Work
Flexibility
Leadership
Speed
Respect for others
Agility
How to win
Quickness
Dealing with defeat & setbacks
! Progressive and sustainable programme (minimum 3 years) ! Structured coaching and competition programme ! All sessions delivered by local qualified coaches ! Sessions fun and enjoyable ! Young people allowed to progress and develop their skills ! Specific Spirit of Cricket sessions delivered ! Established school – club links
! 840 schools received Playground Markings through Chance to shine ! Bright, colourful targets and markings to motivate and encourage children to play games and participate multi-sport activities ! Designed to develop the FUN-damental skills of agility, balance, coordination and speed ! Helps address the challenge of children’s inactivity and levels of obesity ! Provides structured play and enhances free play for children ! Enables more contact time with children, less set up time for teachers, coaches, lunchtime supervisors, young leaders and parents ! Emphasis on ‘FUN’ and enjoyment whilst, at the same time developing essential basic sports skills ! Develops numeracy and literacy skills
! Helps children to develop a sense of wellbeing ! Helps children develop emotional responses ! Helps children develop learning skills ! Helps improve children’s interpersonal skills ! Helps to increase community cohesion ! Play is, above all, FUN!
Chance to shine in isolation would meet the needs of cricket, however, through its collective approach and multi-agency working hits a much wider agenda. This proves the concept of a Community of Practice is a more beneficial and effective method of working.
Multi-skills and Play Steve Peyman