KS3 Cricket Lesson Plan

The KS3 lesson plans covers lessons in year 7, 8 and 9. Each lesson plan has clear descriptions, teaching points, differentiation, assessment, cross curricular links and theory links.

The topics covered are:

Year 7

• Ball familiarisation
• Throwing & Catching
• Off Drive & On Drive
• Forward Defence
• Backward Defence
• Intercepting
• Long Barrier
• Bowling

Year 8

• Throwing & Catching in Cricket
• One-Handed Retrieval 
• Batting - The Pull Shot
• Batting - The cut
• Bowling - swing
• Running between the wickets
• Wicket -  Keeping & Games

Year 9

• Retrieving, fast-moving ball, 
• Bowling - Spin bowling in Cricket
• Batting - Backward Drive in Cricket
• Cricket Batting - Lofted drives
• Wicket keeping in Cricket
• Pairs Cricket