Nineteen Year 8 and 9 students took part in the ECB Cricket Activators course today. The course is the first step on the ladder towards becoming qualified ECB coaches, and develops leadership and organisational skills with a view to students leading and supporting upcoming festivals and house competitions. Dan Humble from the Northumbria Cricket Board visited school to run the course, where the students were given the task of leading and organising a series of different small sided games and officiating those games. The group worked hard throughout the day and were enthusiastic leaders of their own games. Each of the Activators must now arrange to do 10 hours of volunteer work to complete their qualification, and they will be supporting members of the PE department in cricket clubs and house competitions to accomplish this over the upcoming months.

Mr Hook