BOOKINGS OPEN MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024!
Young cricketers are invited to register for the St Peter’s Cricket Academy for a week of fun, inclusive and top-level coaching.
The Cricket Academy, running from Monday 12 August to Friday 16 August 2024 is a five-day course, including five full days of cricket coaching and match play.
The course is open to girls and boys aged over 9 years of age or are in current school years 4 - 8, who are passionate about cricket
Girls and boys attending the academy will:
- Improve their technical skills through expert specialist tuition, practice, constraint-based games and individual feedback
- Develop their match mindset through practice, small sided games and coaching
- Develop their confidence and self-awareness in a supportive community of cricketing enthusiasts
- Build new friendships with other young cricketers
A typical day on the course:
09:00 Arrival & warm-up
09:30 Coaching – players will be split into smaller groups according to age and ability
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Coaching session
15:00 Daily Academy Challenge
15:30 Cricket Tea
16:00 Try something different! Here’s an opportunity for one hour to do something other than play cricket before heading home. Previous years activities have included Water Polo, Gladiators, Zorb football and team challenges.
17:00 Parent pick-up
Academy Highlights:
- Daily Academy Challenges – range hitting, zone hitting, catches in a minute off the crazy catch, 1 stump challenge, ‘Worldie’ catch.
- Cricket matches (weather permitting) on the final afternoon to showcase the players skills and growing confidence in front of players’ families whilst enjoying a traditional cricket tea and ending the week with an awards ceremony
- A trip to Headingly Cricket Ground in Leeds to watch Northern Superchargers Vs London Spirit on Tuesday 13 August (note this will be a late return to York)
- An individual Player Profile booklet to takes notes in with personalised notes from the coaching team
- St Peter’s cricket academy match top and hooded jumper
Meet the 2024 Academy Coaching Team
Food and drink
- All day water & squash
- Morning fruit and biscuits
- Lunch
- Afternoon cricket tea of sandwiches and cakes
A full week on the Cricket Summer Academy costs £320 - it is not possible to book individual days.
Please note Bookings HAVE NOT opened yet...
Bookings are made via EVOLVE. Personalised invitations will be emailed directly to each child of the right year group, these invitation links are not to be shared as they are individualised and linked to internal School systems. Children who do NOT attend St Peter's must apply via this public link.
Contact email: [email protected]
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