Designed just for schools.
The schools cricket bat making program is designed to sit inside your existing design and technology or manual arts workshop. The program includes instructional videos for teachers, instructional videos for students, a course manual, tools and materials so teachers can deliver the lessons with confidence.
The pressed English willow clefts arrive ready for students to craft into a cricket bat they can be proud of. Handles, grips and binding are all included, ready to make a cricket bat students can actually use.
Lessons are designed in modular format, so you can tailor the program to suit your school timetable.
Quality teaching materials
Printed manual and instructional videos.
10 x easy to follow student videos
Separate video series for teachers
Printed instructional manual for teachers
Hand tools and student materials
A project students can get excited about
From pressed cleft to a playable bat.
The starting point
Each student receives a pressed English willow cleft with the splice cut and a handle ready to go.
What each student crafts
A finished, playable cricket bat, hand-shaped by the student and finished under the teacher's eye.
Australian Curriculum and VET.
The cricket bat making program is mapped to Australian Curriculum, state senior syllabi and vocational units of competency from Certificate II in Furniture Making Pathways (MSF20522), giving schools the option to include this program for vocational pathway students or academic pathway students.
The program covers safety, hand tool use, measuring, shaping, finishing and more.
Register your interest
Bring the program to your school.
Leave your details and we will send you the program information pack, including pricing and what is included, as soon as it is ready. First schools start Term 1, 2027.