Applying learning

Cricket (Part 3)

Physical development

﻿Hi everyone. My name is Alistair. And today, we're going to play cricket. For this lesson, you will need a softball, a bat, a baking tray, and a bin. If you haven't got these items, you can substitute them for other things you have around the house. And that's absolutely fine. Press pause while you get things ready. Let's get ready. Find a quiet, clear space to work away from distractions, ensure the area is safe and that your child is feeling fit and well to take part in the lesson, check, you're wearing the right clothes for sports, and physical activity. And encourage your child to be as independent as possible with this, make sure your resources are nearby. Use a familiar reference to prepare the learner that the activity is going to start. This could be a symbol, a sound, or even a song. Press pause whilst you get things ready. It's time to look, listen, and learn. Across physical development, we encourage your child to be as independent as they possibly can be when getting ready for our sessions. And that includes choosing the right clothes, and helping you to get the space and the equipment ready for our lessons. So if they're wearing jeans, have a chat with them and say, is that the right clothes to wear for our sport and physical activity today? So you might suggest that, is it better if we're wearing shorts or t-shirts or a track suit, and hopefully as we move across all of our lessons, your child will become more independent in getting themselves and the space ready. Now to get ourselves ready for our cricket today. So we need to get our muscles ready so that we can play cricket. So I'm going to start with some stretches, so just find a nice space, and I'm going to slowly stretch up all the way up as high as I can touch the ceiling, and slowly stretch down all the way down, and back up, and to the side, and down, and to the other side, and back up, have a good shake. Shake your arms, shake your legs. We're going to practise the movements in our walk today. See if we can get our heart rate going a bit faster. And we're going to think about those fundamental movements of running, of walking, of jumping, crouching, stretching, and we can be a bit creative with this as we move around. So I've got a small space here. You could do this in your living room. It could be outside in the garden, whatever space works best for you, but we'll encourage your child to be creative. So we could base our movements around their favourite animals. It could be a book that you've read in our communication language often. It could be their favourite characters. It could be off the computer game. So be really creative and let your child explore and initiate new movements here. So I'm going to start off with, I'm just going to walk around my space, walk around, again encourage changes of direction. We go in and out, we can move forward, we could move backwards, be very careful when you do that. So in and out to those spaces, and I'm going to turn that into a jog. So a bit of a jog around. So again, think about how we use the different spaces, lots of terms within here, and change of direction. We could make this a bit quicker. So I'm going to move a bit more quickly around, so I can feel my heart rate is rising a bit. And then again, to be creative, you could say stuff, I can imagine that I'm going to move like a big giraffe. So you stretch up like that as high as I possibly can on my tip toes. And I can move around like a giraffe. I could imagine then, that I'm a tortoise, I could get myself into a real ball there and I can move along the floor, I might be crawling along the floor. Lots of different ways in which we can get that movement in. You could think about, you've got a character in space you might have read a book about space and your child is really motivated and interesting. So we could have imagined that we're a space man. And we're in space, we're on the moon and think about how it would move on the moon. So I'd be jumping big jumps in space. And maybe, I do big long steps, different ways that I would move. You might then think about an alien. How does it alien move in space? So I might have my arms out like that, and I might move like this if I'm an alien. So allow your child to be really creative here, again, explore and initiate those new movements. I can feel my heart rates is getting faster. So I think I'm ready for some cricket. Please pause the video to complete your task. For the next skill, we're going to practise fielding the ball. So I'm going to use my wall here as a boundary. to try and stop the ball, from hitting the wall, there. So, some different things to think about with these movements. So as we try and stop the ball, a mistake we often make is we have our legs open like this. We go down with our hands. If we miss the ball with our hands, it goes through and it goes past this there so we are going to do what they call in cricket, the long barrier, and we're going to use our body to feel and stop the ball. So again, to go through this really slowly, it's I put my foot out to the I'll, bring my knee down and I've made quite a long barrier there to stop the ball. So I've still used my hands, but if it misses my hands, it could hit me on the foot, it could be on my leg, it could hit me on this foot, stopping the ball from going past me. So that's what we call in cricket a long barrier, and it's a really good skill for fielding. So I'm going to start off using a larger ball. So we'll start off using larger balls. And then as your child becomes more confident, we can progress on to using a tennis ball and a smaller ball. So we'll do that static to start with on the spot. So practise our long barrier. So I'm going to come down, I've made my barrier and I've caught it with my hands, if not, its gone back, so I'll try a couple more of that. The first ascetics, so ill come down, I've made my long barrier again, even if I miss the ball, it would still be okay. And then what I can do, I can start to use a smaller, so I use a tennis ball now. So we use a smaller ball, which makes the skill a bit more difficult, but the same type. So I've come down, I've missed the ball there, but it's stopped it from going past the knee, so its hit me on the knee, and it stopped from going past me. So I'll try that again standing still, coming down like my long barrier, I've got the ball. You can add to this activities, so you can start to throw your child, or throw the ball back to you, so their practises aiming at the target, and to make this skill more difficult. So I'll go back to a large ball, or go back to field being on the run, So it moves, the balls going to come in about right here, I'll have to move, to feel the ball, and make my long barrier. So I come down, long barrier, I've got the ball, back it goes. the more movement we can get into these activities, is getting your child active, its getting them running, its getting them moving the better. So I'll try to use the tennis ball now, on the run, feel the goal, throw the ball back, overarm, underarm, I can roll the ball. So it's really good fielding skills there. for the next part of this lesson, we're going to practise batting skills, but it's really important we remember the safety element. So if we've got our bats or our tennis racket or the item that you're using to do the batting with, just be very careful of what's around you, so people who are around, we don't want to be swinging the bat around, or that would be unsafe. So remember those safety points that we looked at in an earlier lesson. So I've got my bin, close to my wickets stand, so close to my wicket, and we just lots of practise in just nice gentle shot back to the person who's bowling for us. We want these to be really quite controlled movements. A mistake that your child might make to start with, Is it trying to do things really quickly. And then moving the bat, and trying to hit the ball really hard. We want to really slow that skill down and to make it a really controlled movements so I'm going to start off with large balls, and then progress onto using some smaller balls. So I'm ready for my first shot. So I'm just genitally moving the bat back towards the bowler of that. So I'll try that one more time with a large force, and I'm ready. Nice control movement, and gently back to the bowler there. So we can progress that skill onto using a tennis ball. So have a tennis ball come in, same skill, nice and controlled, and back we go there. So have your child play around with that. Now, if you haven't got a cricket bat. You could use any baking tray, so again here with a larger ball, I've got the baking trey here, and all I do, is my shot goes back there. I could also use, a tennis racket. If you've got a tennis racket on hand, so you can use a tennis ball here, and just practising those controlled movements and bating those shots back to our bowler. So again, have a think about those areas you can start to introduce tactics to this, so your child might become more confident with those skills and they can start to think how they can hit the ball in different directions. That's going to really help them. When we come to play a proper cricket match. Pause the video to complete your task. For the last part of our cricket unit, we're. going to play a match and we're going to use all the skills that we've learned so far, mimicking a game situation. I've made myself a little pitch here, So again, think about whether you want that to be inside or outside, possibly in the garden, or in a park when you're on your daily exercise. I have got some cushions that are going to act as my stations that I run to when I kick the ball. Now all of our activities can be adapted for wheelchair users. So just be aware that you might need a larger space, so your child can wheel around the station before getting back to by the wicket. So I've used a fee again for the wickets. And again, you could use your bat, you could use a tennis racket, you can use a baking trey, whatever you happen to have at home so this is a great activity for us to be really as active as we possibly can be. There'll be lots of growth, lots of full of body movements as we play our shots, and again, you can take turns with your child So they're goaling, and they're fielding. So, It's really good, we can start to use tactics here so Your child might think about where they hit the ball, they wants to hit it away from the field and get back in time around the wicket stair. So lots of fun playing crickets. It's a really great workout so ill start with larger balls to start off with, and then move on to our smaller balls, like a tennis ball, which makes the skill a bit more difficult. So we'll start off with cricket match. So the ball, away from the fielder, Wait, I might go for another run there, now I come back to the middle. So ready again for my next shot. So this time I moved the ball to go there, so good, come back. With our next shot, well try a tennis ball, so there another shot out to the side, from there, try and see if we can keep score in our head that was done there. So another run, so if I stop there I'm getting a bit out of breath, and you could see how that's a really, really good workout, and gets our heart rate going. So I have to think about tactics of where I'm going to hit the ball, to run around at my station. There, you can keep score with a scorecard here and then take two, so everyone has a chance to bat. It's a really fun game to have lots of fun playing crickets. I've just about got my breath back after a brilliant game of cricket there. And it's really good if your child can recognise the differences in their body when they're physically active and they're playing sports. So they might recognise that they're getting hot and getting a bit of a sweat on. They might think their muscles feel a bit different. They might start to feel a bit tired and hopefully they get a really positive feeling after they've done some physical activity and exercise, and that will hopefully motivate them to do some more of that and develop their interests in sports and in movement. A really good thing I have here is a score card. So after our cricket match there, we could keep score. So I've made my Oak national cricket world cup scorecard, where I've got me. It could be mum or dad. It could be brother or sister, and how many runs did they score. And it's great to add a different element into our lessons. We can learn about numeracy, and number through sports and make that really exciting there. also don't forget to check out our masterclass session with a cricket world cup winner, Danny Wyatt. She's got some great tips for you. So I hope you've had lots of fun. Playing cricket. Pause the video to complete your task, to make our session easier, You could increase the size of targets and shorten the distance when you're bowling, you can practise striking from a static position with a larger surface area as a bat. To make it harder, look at our master class session with cricket world cup winner, Danni Wyatt. Practise bowling over arm at a range of targets, increase the distance between the bowler and the target. More ideas, ask your parents or carer to help you search for cricket shirts and design your own. Play a game of quick cricket against your parents, carer, or siblings. All of our activities can be adapted using the step principle. That's looking at space, the task, equipment we use, and how people can help us. For example, a balloon with beads in to support visually impaired learners, we can use bigger, brighter, tactile, weighted resources. We can adapt the space and activity to suit wheelchair users. For example, practise our skills playing table crickets. Brilliant cricket everyone. Bye, see you next time. Share your work with Oak national. If you'd like to please ask your parents or carer to share your work on Twitter, tagging at Oak national and using the hashtag. Learn with Oak. We'd love to see your brilliant work.

Cricket (Part 3)

Cricket (Part 3)

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