Boxed up

Giving senior students the opportunity to help coach younger members of the school can be beneficial to all concerned.

On one occasion I took a gamble of giving two rather mischievous Year 11 students the opportunity to help a Year 7 boy pad up for a first batting session in the cricket nets.

As I made my way to the nets area, I came across the two highly amused older students watching the ‘padded up’ younger boy ready to face the bowler wearing a cricket groin protective box on each knee and a third strapped on his head.