b'THE ELLESMERIAN151Partnerships assisting in the coaching session was Eve Jones, who currently leads the Cricket for Girls programme at the College, and who Cricket for girlshas just signed for Birmingham Phoenix in the ECB 110 ball Throughout the winter the College continued with its Cricket fortournament as well as moving from Lancashire to Warwickshire Girls initiative. This included the delivery of a consistent coachingCCC Women in the County league format. programme for girls at the school, building interest, participation and skills in cricket and the recruitment of a high-quality cricket coach: Evelyn Jones ECB Level 2, England Senior Womens Academy, recent Lancashire C.C.C. Captain and now Warwickshire and Warwickshire Phoenix. -The College enters the Lady Taverners U13 and U15 Cricket Competitions and the Schools Magazine National U15 and Senior Competitions.-Achieved National Finals of Lady Taverners in 2013 as Regional Champions.-Hold County Fixtures and Festivals at Ellesmere College.-Players are encouraged to attend County trials and play for the local clubs.-There are over 30 matches for the girls, including both different formats, friendly fixtures, and national and local competitions.Rod Jones, the Cricket Academy Head Coach at Ellesmere College,-The girls Winter Programme starts in September with indoorcommented: "The session was intense, with a view of working under matches (small group, inter-House competitions) and smallpressure whilst doing the basics. The players got a lot out of the group coaching and open invitation sessions during lunchtime.session, which hopefully they\'ll take into their games." Jason then led a Coaches Coaching session at the College with the Shropshire Country Cricket coaches. Hosting of matches/festivals/camps/conferences Shropshire and Staffordshire use the facilities (for boys and girls) forThe College reached the final selection to host The Bunbury Festival, training throughout the winter and matches during the summer, anda prestigious cricket event for the best U/15 cricketers from all over the College has been a training camp for disabled cricket. The Schoolthe country. Teams are selected from areas, ie. North, Midlands, South very much sees itself as a community hub for local cricket and Coachetc., with some of the best coaches and dignitaries from the ECB Education, making itself available to the wider community and not justattending. David Graveney OBE and his team visited the school at the the private sector.beginning of the year. Although the school was not selected for the event, the ECB e-mailed to confirm that they would like to come and watch some cricket and confirmed that Ellesmere would be a Bunbury Festival candidate for 2021.The Pathway Programme The Cricket Development Programme with Academy Pathway includes a Winter Training Phase and a Summer Fixtures Programme which involves the following:Winter Phase Review of all the factors that affect performance including technique, fitness and psychological aspects from the previous season and target setting for the coming summer fixtures.Summer Fixtures Programme Focuses on game management (tactics and psychological aspects). The Cricket Development Programme offers coaching sessions (both selective and open) to all age groups (including boys and girls) throughout the year. During the Summer Term there are open Other counties play fixtures against the College, including Cheshire,coaching sessions every lunchtime and over 20 pupils (both boys and Eryri, and North East Wales in particular. Once again, the Collegegirls) attend the sessions each day. hosted the SCB Coaches Conference in January. Former Kent Cricket Club Coach Jason Weaver held a Skills Workshop initially for theThe Colleges Learning Platform for KS3 and KS4 PE and games has Colleges promising young Cricket Academy Pathway Players as partbeen developed to offer support, advice and challenges that can be of a major initiative with Cricket Shropshire. The workshop featuredundertaken in the home environment for cricket (and other sports), practical and theory training, with some intense fielding skills sessionsfacilitating the value of encouraging young players to be independent to emulate under pressure fielding situations, as well as a Q&A withthinkers and to have personal ownership of their own cricketing the Ellesmere Cricket Academy players, who were all very keen todevelopment. hear and learn from Jason\'s wealth of coaching experiences. Also'