Cricket - Chance to Shine: Skills challenges

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  • Key Stage 1
  • Key Stage 2
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Cricket - Chance to Shine: Skills challenges
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Activity details

Cricket skills challenges are the Chance to Shine 'Personal Best' activities designed to develop basic fundamental movement skills through the game of cricket.

  • Number of participants: Group 
  • Purpose of activity: Increase pupil physical activity through 'Personal Best' individual challenges 
  • Including all pupils: Ideas for differentiation included 
  • Pupil roles: Participant, leader or official 
  • Space: Outdoors. Ensure the space is suitably sized for the five different skills stations required 
  • Equipment: Tennis balls, larger balls, cricket bats or tennis rackets, cones, tape measure, stumps or targets and pen and paper

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