Primary School Offer

Giving children a fun first taste of cricket while developing their cricket and fundamental movement skills and characteristics including team work, fair play and leadership.

Choose Cricket - coaching for primary schools

The ‘Choose Cricket’ Primary cricket offer provided schools the opportunity to access high quality cricket coaching from Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation (GCF) coaches. This offer is available to Primary Schools during the school terms 1, 2, 3 and 6.  All information including costings can be found in the attached document.

All GCF coaches hold these minimum quality standards:

  • Minimum Level 2/Core Coach qualification .
  • Online Safeguarding workshop attendance.
  • First Aid trained.
  • ECB enhanced DBS.

Choose Cricket

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Dynamos Cricket Celebration (Background)

Guide to Dynamos Schools

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Dynamos Schools Competitions (formerly Kwik Cricket)

The ‘Dynamos Schools’ competition format replaced ‘Kwik Cricket’ in 2022. Having run two years of the new format, schools are now very much used to the new fast paced and dynamic game. 

Heavily linked to ‘The Hundred’ and the countdown cricket format, this new competitions aims to engage a new audience of schools that will raise the profile of the game in schools.

How to enter 2025 competitions

One of the highlights of our summer is June where we run and manage all summer Primary competitions. All winners are invited to the County Finals Days, a huge day in the cricket calendar that sees hundreds of boys and girls competing.

Year 3 & 4 Open

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Year 5 & 6 Girls

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Year 5 & 6 Open

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Chris Munden / Cricket Operations Manager

Chris Munden / Cricket Operations Manager

Chris is the longest standing member of the team, having joined the GCB in 2008 as a Community Coach. Since then, Chris has developed greatly moving on to become a Development Officer, a National Programmes and Project lead and now the manager of the entire delivery team across educational and national programmes.

His role covers a wide range of areas including overseeing all schools cricket, the incredible National Programmes of All Stars and Dynamos, Chance To Shine Schools and Street programmes along with being the key lead for Adult league Cricket. Chris also manages the Workforce Development Officer, as a highly competent coaching workforce is so integral to the work areas that he leads on. In his time the GCB have won awards that he had led on, including Chance to Shine County of the Year and Street Chance Project of the Year.

As a local Bristolian, Chris is a Bristol City fan, who enjoys all sports. Chris is married, has two beautiful daughters, plays local cricket and enjoys a good hack at golf.

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