Every year, pupils all over the country, from Newquay to Newcastle, enjoy a week of cricket-themed activity in the classroom, on the playground and in local communities as part of Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week.

This year, Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week will run Monday 24 - Friday 28 June 2019. 

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(please note by submitting this form you are agreeing to the terms & conditions which can be viewed here)

What is Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week?

It's an opportunity to celebrate the sport, to inspire children to take part in cricketing activities and to showcase the work that Chance to Shine does in bringing the game to hundreds of thousands of children every year.

We support schools to take part in some cricket activity one day during the week, whenever is convenient.

“The children were buzzing and still are talking fondly of all parts of the day. So many were truly inspired.”
– Headteacher, Yorkshire

Sign up to take part!

Sign up to Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week by 24 May and get a set of Chance to Shine coaching cards posted directly to you!

Our coaching cards give lots of ideas on coaching sessions that you can run in your school. We will also send you an exclusive 20% Gray-Nicolls discount so you can get all the equipment you need to run some cricket sessions at your school. We will provide stickers to reward your pupils for taking part in the best celebration of cricket this year! (Please note this is restricted to the first 2000 schools who sign up)



Everyone who signs up for Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week will also be entered into a draw to win the following:

  • A visit from Chance to Shine Ambassador and former-cricketer James Taylor (x1)
  • A year's supply of Yorkshire Tea (x10)
  • A Chance to Shine school kit bag (x5)
  • A large Chance to Shine school kit bag (x3)
  • A bat signed by cricketer Chris Woakes (x1)
  • A shirt signed by cricketer Keaton Jennings (x1)
  • An item of Chance to Shine clothing (x5)
  • A staffroom survival kit incl. a selection of Yorkshire Tea varieties and some Yorkshire Tea goodies (x5)
  • A set of 20 keep-cups for the staff at your school as well as a selection of Yorkshire Tea (x1)

We will send you digital resources to give you ideas for running a cricket coaching session, a learn cricket-themed classroom session as well as a special Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week geography lesson!

We would also love it if you would take part in ‘The Big Catch’, our national fundraising activity. All the info on how to take part will be sent to you in the next few weeks.

Sign up to Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week and be entered into the brilliant prize draw.

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(please note by submitting this form you are agreeing to the terms & conditions which can be viewed here)

How you can get involved

We would love for all schools to use the opportunity of National Cricket Week to get their pupils playing cricket. It doesn’t need to be every day of the week, just whenever you can fit it in.

Play

Why not give your pupils a great first experience of cricket with a Chance to Shine session. Access the FREE digital resources on our Schools’ Portal: teachers.chancetoshine.org.

Or you could hold an inter-school competition with your local rivals or have the pupils take on the teachers!

Learn

Try one of our cricket-themed literacy or numeracy lessons. They’re available on our Schools’ Portal.

Support from the world of cricket


Every year we are honoured to be supported by some of the biggest names in cricket. Through the years we’ve had England captains past and present like Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan and Charlotte Edwards visiting schools and communities across the country.




Check out what we did in our flagship events last year:

  • Monday – England’s Chris Woakes took a cricket-themed geography lesson in Nottingham
  • Tuesday – A girls’ festival in Bristol was joined by two members of the England Women’s World Cup 2017 team: Fran Wilson and Beth Langston
  • Wednesday – Spin-bowling legend Graeme Swann took on our Street cricketers in Coventry
  • Thursday – 2005 Ashes-winning captain Michael Vaughan led a special assembly in Durham
  • Friday – Former England wicket-keeper Matt Prior visited a proper festival of cricket in the heart of Yorkshire