The Belvoir Education & Sports Trust has been a regular visitor to Birch Wood Special Needs School in Melton to deliver Table Cricket to the children.
We first met Simon in 2021 when he attended our sessions with the rest of his class.
Simon is 95% blind so needs extra support to participate in our sessions.
Table cricket relies on the players seeing or hearing the ball approach them to allow them to strike the ball to score runs.
Simon is an incredibly bubbly and likeable lad and we soon discovered that if everyone was quiet, he could hear the ball travel down the table and when it was closer he could strike the ball as he had been shown.
He was brilliant at timing the strike but what made it even more special was the response he had from the other children playing. Despite their own challenges both physical and mental they knew that they had to be quiet to give Simon a chance of success. They did just that which was remarkable.
Simon was able to play a full part in the session, much of that down to his own enthusiasm and perseverance but also down to the respect and love shown to him by his classmates.
We love going to Birchwood and we love Simon #superstar!
Darren Bicknell – CEO Belvoir Education & Sports Trust