News from Wiltshire Cricket


Redlynch and Hale CC's partnership with Trafalgar School a huge success


always on the lookout for children who want to come and have a go! Engaging with the school again has helped our reputation as a well run, approachable and friendly club.”


Redlynch and Hale Cricket Club have been partnering with their local secondary school; The Trafalgar School at Downton to provide cricket coaches for the school’s extra- curricular activity program, which is part of the Satellite programme managed by WASP. Over the past 3 years coaches Andy Church, Ian Coffin and Ian Dixon have spent a tremendous amount of time and effort to help upskill the students of Trafalgar.


Explaining the partnership, Andy said; “for most of the children, this is their first experience of organised cricket. It has been great to see how their confidence and skills have improved over the summer. Most respond very well to our coaching and behaviour is generally pretty good. We also get good support from the Schools P.E. Department.” The relationship between Redlynch and Hale and Trafalgar had been existence in the past and with the support of Wiltshire Cricket the relationship was renewed in the summer of 2014. Wiltshire Cricket were able to help facilitate the renewal of this relationship and the team have been coaching cricket in the school ever since.


Andy; “Although we are fortunate to have a thriving junior section, we are


Facilities can be difficult to access in the south of the county and The Trafalgar School have a fantastic new sports hall that hadn’t been available for use outside of the school. Due to the hard work put in by Andy and the team the school were able to open up their hall to the cricket club. In exchange the club made a donation to assist the school to buy new indoor cricket mats for use in their sessions.


Andy; “The new sports hall at Trafalgar is impressive. The lighting and space is good with double lane netting in place when it was built. By working with the school, we were able to negotiate use of this excellent facility for our own club in exchange for the coaching we provided for their students. As it is local to us, it saved trips into Salisbury or elsewhere to find practice facilities, particularly for our juniors pre-season.”


A huge thanks to Andy and everyone at Redlynch and Hale Cricket Club for setting such a high standard in their delivery and relationship building.


Thanks to funding from Wiltshire Cricket, Chance to Shine and WASP the satellite club will continue to be delivered in 2017 and beyond. If your club is interested in delivering a satellite club, please contact below.


Wiltshire Cricket brings Disability Cricket to the School Games!


For the first time in 2016 Disability Cricket was part of the Wiltshire and Swindon School Games. A festival for schools with children with disabilities were invited to take part in an exciting and engaging cricket competition, held on the outfield of the prestigious Marlborough College cricket pitches.


Students from Larkrise Trowbridge, Eldene Primary Swindon, St Peter’s Marlborough and Brimble Hill Swindon played each other in a simple version of the game of cricket that created equal opportunities for success. The game used a version of the 3 cone 3 drill game that is featured strongly in Primary School cricket.


All the schools had taken part in Wiltshire Cricket’s Disability offer in the past year, learning the skills to make them successful on the day. With help from young leaders from Lavington, Corsham and Sheldon school supporting and running the competition on the day the students were able to showcase their abilities in team working, ball striking and fielding. We’ve also just released our school offers to schools, article as follows:


Primary School Offer:


Wiltshire Cricket’s primary school offer is now live. Any school that signs up to be involved with Chance to Shine receives the following:


 Six x 1 hour curriculum sessions  Six x 1 hour extra curriculum sessions


 One x 1 hour informal teacher CPD session


 One x 30 minute assembly


 One x 3 hour intra school festival  One x 3 hour Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Day event


 One free place on a 3 hour Cricket for Teachers course


Wiltshire and Swindon Sport- Simon Woodhouse simon@wiltssport.org.uk


Wiltshire Cricket Ltd – Josh Boulton joshua.boulton@wiltshirecricket.co.uk


8 Wiltshire and Swindon Relay


 One x 3 hour inter school Chance to Shine festival


Total - 25.5 hours support per school, at a cost of £200


Secondary School Offer:


Secondary schools can access a number of competitions and


different coaching support options. You can explore our secondary school programme through the headings below. Schools cricket is incredibly important to us at Wiltshire Cricket and we are


determined to continue to grow the sport in state schools so that cricket becomes the summer sport of choice for all schools.


 Student development


 Curriculum coaching support  Satellite clubs


 Formal and Informal teacher training


 Inter and intra school competition


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