Another intriguing podcast from ECB Coach Development, this time with Pete Sturgess, formerly National Lead for the Foundation Phase with the FA.
Category: session planning
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Belonging; learning together
Fascinating post from Harry Curtin, on Substack, on how he modified his school rugby coaching sessions to focus on promoting connectedness within a team environment and to move from having the coach explicitly coaching to allowing the players (collaboratively) to learn.
And it set me trying to think of a similar approach in cricket.
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End of term fun — scenarios
We finished our (half-) term programme with an under11 group at the weekend, with a session of game-like scenarios.
Perhaps a stretch for some of them, but after working with most of the group since last October I wanted to help them put into context some of the skills & techniques we have covered.
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