Yesterday, we were very lucky to visit Regent’s Park with Harry from Marylebone Cricket Club for a brilliant morning of cricket.
We began with a fun warm-up game of noodle tag to get everyone moving and ready. After that, Harry introduced us to a game that was similar to scatterball. We were split into two teams, with one team batting and the other fielding. The batters had to hit four balls from cones, while the fielding team had to wait outside the square until the final ball had been struck. This meant that teamwork, communication and quick reactions were key.
This format gave us a great opportunity to practise both our batting and fielding skills. We quickly realised how important accurate throwing is, especially when trying to stop the other team from scoring. The scores were incredibly close, which made the games even more exciting!
In the afternoon, we returned to school for our PE lesson, where we continued developing our cricket skills. We began by learning about the role of the umpire and the different hand signals used to communicate scores and decisions. We then focused on our bowling technique, thinking carefully about our body position and range of movement.
Working with partners, we aimed to bowl accurately into a target square, before challenging ourselves further with a smaller cone target. It was fantastic to see everyone improving their control and precision.
A big thank you to Mr Aitken for organising such a wonderful experience, and to Harry from MCC for his expert coaching throughout the day.
What was your favourite part of the day, and what new skill did you learn?
This was so fun! I loved doing the fielding although it’s exhausting work! My favourite part of the day was when we were fielders trying to catch the ball. Thank you for organising this!😃
I loved cricket!
It was really nice to play!
Thanks to all teachers and parents for coming and organizing!
THIS WAS SOOOOOOO FUN!
I love doing cricket in the park and Thursday made it even better! With a truly good test match, I am having good innings ahead!!!!!!!
This was really fun, thanks for taking us on these awsome trips!!!1!1
This session was great fun and the match was the best part ! Harry even taught us some key words in cricket which helped me a lot!We switched four times and there were two halfs .Our team won!
I really enjoyed this trip. My favourite part was the batting.
I really enjoyed this lesson,it was really fun!My favourite part was the batting.Thank you to all the teachers who organised this trip.🏏
This was amazing! Thank you so much Harry, Miss Forster Adams and the parents who helped. My favourite part of this was fielding because it was so fun as the ball kept on rolling out of my hands! even though our team lost , it was still extremely fun! Thank you so much for organising this great activity!😁
I really enjoyed doing cricket as it’s my favorite sport and it was such an amazing expierience for all of us .My favorite part was the game as we got to work as a team and I had lots of fun even though I lost.Thank you to all the teacher who helped to organise this.
It was super fun and it was SUPER sunny.
I can’t wait for next year!🏏
I loved it. It was REALLY fun, and I hope we can do it again sometime. Even though I was almost out of my breath for the whole trip! Thank you for everyone who helped make this possible.
This was so fun. I really enjoyed batting and playing with all my friends