Cranmore Sports News April 2021

SPORTS NEWS From Director of Sport Paul Hodgson April Sports News

The cricket season has started with huge excitement especially with fixtures against opposition schools resuming. At the end of our first week, we managed to complete 27 matches which is an outstanding effort by all, especially from our Head of Cricket, Mr Down. We had a Saturday morning training session with over 140 pupils in attendance, and optional after-school cricket nets which has involved over 150 players weekly.

The beginning of the summer term has also seen other sports taking place including tennis, athletics, and of course swimming has continued. Golf starts in the next couple of weeks for some year group PE rotations using our ‘Pitch & Putt’ 9-hole course on site. Extra-curricular clubs have also resumed, and these have included many different sports like rounders and Chelsea Football.

APRIL

16th NOVEMBER 2020

Our new outstanding Athletic Development Centre has been completed and it looks stunning. The area will be used by older pupils going forward, sports scholars and will be pivotal as GCSEs commence. Every pupil will benefit by focusing on their athletic development, especially with the sports department prioritising physical literacy, fundamental movement skills, and mental wellbeing.

The weekly Chelsea Pre-Development Centre started a few weeks ago at Cranmore with around 40 of the most talented local football players attending. Similarly, the Effingham Hockey Development Centre (EHDC) has been taking place on Wednesday evenings with ever more players attending weekly (docjuniorswhc@gmail.com).

Finally, ESTA 1-to-1 and small group tennis lessons have been popular, taking place two evenings a week on our fantastic tennis courts (esta@effinghamschools.org).

Mr Hodgson

Cranmore April Sports Highlights

Cranmore April Highlights Over 140 pupils attend Saturday morning cricket training Over 150 pupils attend weekly after- school cricket nets Over 27 cricket fixtures in our first week of cricket resuming!

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Cranmore April Lower Prep Sports news Lower Prep April Newsletter In our Lower Prep department we have had a fantastic month of sport. We finished off our hockey block just before the Easter holidays and all pupils picked up the sport very well.

We also carried on with coordination skills and movements and pupils learnt how to improve their hand eye coordination which has helped for the cricket season. This term we will be concentrating on cricket, tennis, athletics and carrying on with the weekly swimming lessons.

Now we are in the summer term, games lessons are dominated by cricket and, having missed the cricket season last year, it is great to see the pupils playing the game. In all years we are continuing to say “straight arm and brush your ear” when bowling and even in just two weeks the improvement has been amazing. We have also been looking at accuracy of hitting the wickets and batting technique. We are also very excited for our U8 cricket fixtures which are to take place this term.

In PE lessons we have been focusing on athletics. In their lessons they have been taking part in long jump, running on the track, throwing, relay races and all these events will prepare the pupils for their year group sports days after May half term.

After half term, in their PE lessons, they will be doing tennis, which is a great sport which will help with hand eye coordination, power and striking.

Finally, we are so excited that our extra-curricular clubs have started this term and that lots of our Lower Prep pupils are taking part in the clubs. As well as our extracurricular clubs, we also have sports training on a Monday for Year 2, Tuesday for Year 3 and Thursday for Year 1; all pupils are welcome.

Fingers crossed for great weather this summer term, with lots of outstanding sport, we cannot wait!

Ms Moore