Pupils are spilt into fives. A bowler, batter, wicket keeper and two fielders. The bowler bowls the ball underarm to the batter, who performs a pull shot into the fence. The two fielders then field and get the ball back to bowler as quick as possible. If the ball hits the fence without bouncing the batter get 4 runs, if the ball bounces and hits the fence they get two runs anything else equals 1 run. Each pupils get six goes and then they rotate.
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