Helping Cricket Feel Easier to Teach
Cricket sits on many school timetables. How it’s experienced by pupils often depends on how confident teachers feel delivering it.
For some, cricket is familiar territory. For others, it’s something they’ve inherited — a unit to plan, manage, and deliver alongside many competing demands.
Our Online Teacher Workshops are designed to support teachers wherever they’re starting from, helping cricket feel clearer, simpler, and more manageable in everyday school environments.
Why we’ve created Online Teacher Workshops
In schools, cricket is often taught with limited time, limited space, and mixed levels of pupil experience. Lessons need to be safe, inclusive, and engaging — without becoming complicated or resource-heavy.
What teachers frequently value most is clarity:
Clarity around rules.
Clarity around formats.
Clarity around what works with mixed abilities and busy classes.
Our Teacher Workshops exist to provide that clarity, in a way that respects school realities rather than ideal conditions.
What the workshops focus on
These workshops are not about turning teachers into cricket specialists.
They’re designed to help teachers feel comfortable enough to deliver lessons that are:
- Safe and appropriate for school settings
- Simple to organise and manage
- Enjoyable for pupils
- Adaptable across ages and abilities
Common areas explored include:
- Core cricket rules, roles, and simplified formats
- Practical activities that are quick to set up and easy to adapt
- Safe delivery indoors and outdoors
- Managing equipment, space, and group size
- Wet-weather and classroom-friendly cricket ideas
- Straightforward ways to plan and progress lessons
Everything is grounded in what schools actually have access to — not what they wish they had.
How the sessions are delivered
Teacher Workshops are delivered online, making them easy to fit into busy school schedules.
Sessions are practical and interactive, typically lasting around 60 minutes. They include:
- Clear explanations using everyday language
- Activity ideas teachers can easily picture using
- Open discussion around common challenges
- Simple resources that can be used straight away
Workshops can be delivered as one-off sessions or as part of wider INSET or CPD, depending on what schools need.
Who these workshops are for
Online Teacher Workshops are most often delivered for:
- Primary and secondary schools
- PE teachers and non-specialist staff
- School sport leads
- Multi-academy trusts
They are particularly helpful for teachers who are expected to teach cricket without coming from a cricket background, or who value practical clarity over technical detail.
Working alongside existing school provision
These workshops are designed to support, not replace, what schools already do.
They sit comfortably alongside:
- Existing PE curricula
- School sport programmes
- External coaching provision
- Trust-wide CPD initiatives
There is no expectation to change how cricket is currently delivered. The emphasis is on helping teachers feel more at ease and better supported within their existing framework.
Led by specialists, grounded in experience
Teacher Workshops are led by the Cricket Mind team, drawing on experience across schools, coach education, and youth development.
The approach is practical, plain-spoken, and shaped by real school environments — not theory-heavy or idealised models.
Discussion is encouraged, questions are welcomed, and sessions are shaped around what teachers actually want help with.
Find out more
If you’d like to explore how they work, including delivery options and pricing, you can find full details on our Teacher Workshops page.
