Chance To Shine In Bromley

Introduction

Chance to Shine is a national charity that aims to give all children the opportunity to play, learn and develop through cricket and they believe that cricket can help to develop the personal, social and physical skills of the almost 600,000 children that they work with every year.

As a Chance To Shine partner, Kent Cricket’s specialist coaches deliver over 170 school programmes, free of charge, every year across the county to provide children with a brilliant first experience of cricket and, in Bromley, we are proud to work directly with over 50% of primaries.

As well as the physical benefits of regular activity, we use cricket to teach children important key life skills that will help them beyond the playground and through the values of cricket, we teach children about respect and fair play.

Cricket is also an effective way to develop skills like communication, leadership and perseverance that will benefit them throughout their life.

We believe that cricket is an inclusive sport, where girls and boys can play and learn together and with Chance To Shine, we think that normalising female participation in cricket is a hugely important and valuable part of the work that we do.

You can find out more about Chance To Shine here, while the rest of this page is specific to our work in Bromley.

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Programme Models

We know no two schools are the same and as a result, we work with school management, subject leads and teachers to adapt our programmes to best effect with each school. However, there are two basic models of delivery programme that cover the majority of our term-time work:

For Teachers

We understand that running PE lessons is sometimes a daunting prospect and the idea of teaching a cricket-based PE lesson can be doubly so.

All of our in-school delivery is focused, not only on child enjoyment and development, but also on fun and engaging continuous professional development for teachers.
Throughout our Whole School Programme, class teachers are given lesson plans ahead of each session and through the six weeks, our coaches work with them to help develop confidence and experience delivering cricket-based lessons. Usually, by the final week, the teachers surprise themselves by running the whole lesson!

Alongside this one-to-one practical help, all teachers and TAs can register, free of charge, on the Chance To Shine teachers’ portal.
This allows access to a host of free-to-use active lesson plans & games along with Key-Stage specific, National Curriculum-aligned lessons and resources in maths and English.

Here’s some examples:

For Trust Leads, PE Leads & Subject Coordinators

Over the past few years, we have been working at trust and academy level with a number of schools across Bromley.
This top-down approach has already realised significant benefits to the children, the teachers and the schools and this approach has recently been featured in this article reporting on our work with The Spring Trust.

What has already become apparent is that there are very clear advantages to coordinating programme delivery, CPD and inter-group competition at an organisational level and it has significantly improved cricket uptake and engagement in the individual schools.

If you would like to find out how we can help your school, trust or academy, please get in touch using the form below.