Cricket in SEND settings
How we work in SEND settings
We provide an enhanced offer of both table cricket and/or softball cricket to ensure sessions are engaging and appropriate for each group we are delivering to. The main outcomes of our work in SEND settings are to:
- Extend the reach of cricket to new settings.
- Ensure more young people with SEND have the opportunity to engage in the most appropriate form of cricket.
- Continue working within SEND settings already engaged in table cricket.
- Transition more young people with a disability to community settings such as Super 1s, Disability Champion Clubs and other appropriate community offers.
The focus of our SEND settings disability cricket offer:
- Teacher training: as well as delivering directly to participants, we want to continue to up-skill teachers so that table cricket can be delivered independently by schools when coaches are not present.
- Young Leaders training programme: all county cricket boards will be required to train students to become Sports Leaders UK Table Cricket Young Leaders and must utilise Young Leaders to support the running of county competitions.
- Competitions: Our national table cricket competition structure will remain the same with county cricket boards running county table cricket qualifiers - engaging new and existing schools.
Softball Cricket
- School taster sessions for Super 1s community hubs will fall under the banner of our work in SEND settings.
- Emphasis on signposting participants from SEND and ALN settings to appropriate community provision e.g Super 1s and Disability Champion clubs.
Our Work in SEND Schools
Woodlands Academy Girls PE Sessions
Watch this video to see the importance of adapting cricket sessions for young people with a disability.
