Twenty teachers from across Canberra have attended a Tennis for Secondary Schools workshop held at Melba Tennis Club on Tuesday 7 May.
Teachers were able to engage in a range of practical activities that focuses on the delivery of tennis through a modified environment and scaled equipment to support the developmental readiness of all students.
The workshop also allowed teachers to unpack the Tennis for Secondary Schools resource which is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (AC:HPE) and be introduced to key features of the resource including: learning intentions of each lessons, achievement standard(s) , scaled challenge points and assessment tool activities.
Attending his third tennis workshop, Andrew Hiscocks, Executive teacher: Physical Education at Melba Copland Secondary School, enjoyed the chance to learn new skills and network with teachers from the surrounding area.
“Every time you pick up something else, whether it’s a slightly different activity, a slightly different accent on something that’s been taught, so they’re all really beneficial. Then the networking between all of the teachers involved is really important as well.
“With this workshop, having Owen the tennis coach there, as well as people from Tennis Australia and all of the teachers from both primary and secondary, that was really important, so that networking is vital.
Melba Tennis Club coach, Owen Peemoeller attended the workshop, enjoying the opportunity to connect with local schools in the area and is excited to see how the delivery in schools will encourage more kids to hit the courts.
“The feedback from the teachers, hearing them talk about ‘this would be perfect in this scenario’. You could see by the end of it they had a better understanding of what they would potentially be in for and I don’t felt like anyone of them thought they couldn’t do it. It’s so simply laid out, all of the activities are really fun and engaging and a lot of it is up to the kids to discover as well.
“I want the PE teachers to be teaching at the school and to be inspiring all the kids to go, tennis is awesome, I want to play on a full size court. I think that’s where my role is, I think it’s really important I can work with Andrew and the guys to make that happen. Tennis is my business and they are promoting it, so anything I can do to help them is really helping me,” Peemoeller added.
Hiscocks echoed Peemoeller’s sentiments saying it was a mutually beneficial partnerships with the main focus around getting kids active.
“Owen is a really great resource, so we feel if we get the kids interested in tennis in all of those lead up activities and then there special treat is to go to the tennis courts.
“Now we are seeing some of the kids actually going down and using the courts, or their families are using the courts because of what we are doing. Our end goal is being met, we want the kids being physically active and through Owen and Tennis Australia that is happening,” Hiscocks said.
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