Tennis Ball Back to the Players

#stayhomestayactive PRACTICE DEVELOP #PEatHome Ball boy and ball girl rolling Ball boys and ball girls You will need your 5 soft objects sometimes need to throw the again for this practice, and something EXPLORE to use as a big target – you can use tennis ball back to the players. anything that will lie flat on the floor! You are going to practice your In this challenge, can you throw your Roll or slide your objects across the objects onto your target? skills to be brilliant ball boys and floor and try and land them onto your ball girls! target. Can you make your target smaller? You will need 5 small soft Can you land all 5 on your target? objects – you can use small Find someone in your family to help you toys, rolled up socks or screwed Stand further away if and make up a fun game for throwing at up paper. You will also need 5 that is too easy! your small pieces of paper. target? Could you find a way to score points?

Bright ideas: Spread your objects out on one side of your Challenge your family playing space, and spread your paper out on Mathematics - Number Physical Development – to a game! the opposite side. Health and Self Care - Can you quickly pick up an object and move Can you practice your to put it onto a piece of paper? Do this for all counting out loud as you Ball boys and ball girls need to 5 objects. keep themselves super healthy. TENNIS - Try moving the objects and paper further improve your ball boy and apart. ball girl rolling and Parent’s Tip! – - Try putting the objects in a line first. How throwing skills this week. What healthy foods would you Encourage your child to else could you arrange your objects? need to eat to be a brilliant ball explore different ways to roll boy or ball girl? and throw first. Step Challenge – A tennis court How quickly can you do this? is almost 70 metres all the way With your family could you make As they improve, help them to Be careful – do this safely! around. Can you complete this look at the target, bend their many steps today? a delicious healthy meal to eat as you practice your ball boy and knees slightly, stand slightly side on and swing their arm ball girl skills this week? slowly and steadily. @KESSPB Where can I find out more about Tennis? https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/HolfordDriveTennisClub @awhitehousePE https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/CannonHillPark/ Make sure you have enough safe https://www.lta.org.uk/play-compete/lta-youth/tennis-for-kids/ space to complete the tasks! PE at Home PE @SarahLayPE EYFS #stayhomestayactive PRACTICE DEVELOP Can you make the challenge #PEatHome Ask someone in your family to more difficult? help you. Set up three targets, one close, one in the EXPLORE Start with your ‘ball’ on your middle and one far away, (you could use ‘racket.’ Can you use the racket to paper, cones, umbrellas or washing baskets!) You will need:- feed the ball to your partner? (To do this you will need to angle your - A small ball – ideally a Can you use your racket to ‘serve’ the ball tennis ball. Or you can use a racket.) Can your partner catch the ball? in to the targets. You will need to think different ball, rolled up socks, a about where you aim your racket. soft toy or screwed up paper. A ‘serve’ is used when two players - A racket – ideally a tennis want to begin hitting the ball to each racket. Or any sort of bat or other. It starts the point. something with a flat surface such as a book or tray. Can you make up a points scoring Art & Design Challenge! system for getting your ‘ball’ in to Wimbledon Music Challenge! Bright ideas: If you can print the targets? Should the furthest target be worth the - Can you balance your ‘ball’ on your this card, can you most points? ‘racket?’ join the dots in the - Can you balance your ball on your Can you make up a song which picture to make a racket whilst moving? includes the tennis racket? If you cannot print, can - Put 4 objects in a square shape using as following words connected to you Parent’s Tip! much space as you have available. Can tennis: copy the picture on When trying to balance you go around the 4 corners of the square TENNIS to a sheet of paper? or pass a ball with a as quickly and safely as possible whilst Bounce, Hit, Jump,

Run, Slide racket, the angle is very – balancing your ball on your racket? Make sure you include the handle, important. Work with Your chorus must include frame and strings. your child to show them - Think about the angle of ‘bounce, bounce, bounce the ball!’ Can you colour the racket red, white and that if the racket is your racket when you are blue, the same as the Union Flag? sloping down the ball trying to balance, how can Can you bounce your ball as you What is the Union Flag? will fall off. Practice are singing your tennis song?? holding the racket at you get the ball to stay on? https://www.woojr.com/sports Step Challenge – It is 132 miles -connect-the-dots- from Birmingham to different angles and see Where can I find out more about Tennis? printables/sports-connect- Wimbledon – can you complete where the ball ends up @KESSPB this many steps today? https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/HolfordDriveTennisClub dots/ @awhitehousePE https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/CannonHillPark/ Make sure you have enough room and https://www.lta.org.uk/play-compete/lta-youth/tennis-for-kids/ PE at Home at Home PE @SarahLayPE safe objects to complete the tasks! KS1 #stayhomestayactive PRACTICE DEVELOP #PEatHome Use a small ball if you have one – if Volleying Challenge you don’t you can use rolled up socks Ask someone in your family to help you EXPLORE or a small soft toy. with this practice. Ask them to gently throw the ‘ball’ to you. Can you use your hand, a racket or Use your ‘racket’ to volley the ‘ball’ back You will need something small anything with a flat surface (a book to them. and soft that you can throw – a maybe) to see how many times you can bounce the ‘ball’ on your ‘racket’. tennis ball, rolled up socks, a Can you make up a game or activity to soft toy or screwed up paper. practice your volleying skills? Can you add a way of scoring to challenge you? Ask your family to play. Bright ideas: Rene Lacoste won the first French Open Ask someone in your family to help you or held at the Roland Garros stadium. What find a wall outside that is safe to use. interesting facts can you find out about him? Produce a fact file for his career. French Open Foreign Languages Art and Design Challenge! - Throw your ‘ball’ high, medium and low to Challenge! your partner or the wall. Each year, an artist is chosen to design - Can you receive a high, medium or low the poster for the French Open throw and catch it accurately? tournament. This year Pierre Seinturier - Make a high, medium or low target on the designed this poster. wall or ask your partner to make a target Find out what the following words and with their hands. phrases mean in French: Roland Garros is - Try moving further away from Balle de tennis famous for its red clay Parent’s Tip!

TENNIS Raquette de tennis surface of the tennis your partner or wall. A volley is when you hit Coup de revers courts.

– Arbitre Design your own the ball back before it poster for the French touches the ground in Think about your body and J’adore le tennis c’est super! Open. What would front of you. hand positioning when J’aime jouer au tennis. you focus on for your If your child finds this throwing and receiving the design? difficult, allow the ball to ball. Can you write some more tennis bounce first. sentences in French? Step Challenge – It is 411 miles from Birmingham to the French Open – can you complete this many @KESSPB Where can I find out more about Tennis? steps today? @awhitehousePE https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/HolfordDriveTennisClub https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/CannonHillPark/ Make sure the space is safe and away from hazards KS2 https://www.lta.org.uk/play-compete/lta-youth/tennis-for-kids/ PE at Home at Home PE @SarahLayPE when completing tasks .