Courses for schools

The Table Tennis Leadership Award could be the first step on the coaching, officiating or tournament organising administration ladder for young people assisting at table tennis clubs, after school clubs, youth centres or school holiday schemes.

Some participants will have taken a Sports Leaders Award (formerly CSLA) and should have developed good communication, leadership, organisational and motivational skills across a range of sporting activities. This course will help them to apply those skills in a Table Tennis context.

The Table Tennis Leadership Award course covers: Leadership Skills (recap), Health and Safety, Equipment, Learning to Play, Table Tennis Laws and Scoring, Organising Table Tennis Activities (fun games, competition formats, school festivals, skills awards), Volunteering (developing your skills), Selling points of Table Tennis, Where next – local playing and volunteering opportunities.

The Table Tennis England Young Officials Award has been produced in partnership with the Youth Sport Trust, it’s main aim is to encourage more young people into umpiring and officiating in Table Tennis.

The four hour course covers:

• how to organise and deliver a wide variety of competition formats, which can be used in schools and clubs such as; Butterfly Skills Circuit, top table, ladder and group/knockout competitions.
• an introduction to basic umpiring skills.

The Teachers Award is suitable for qualified or student teachers, it is mainly a practical course and provides an introduction to table tennis with ideas of how to engage students through coaching fun activities and games

The learning programme is intended to be flexible to suit the needs of the target audience. For example, teachers working at key stages 3 & 4 may be more interested in how to develop the basic strokes, whereas those working at key stage 2 may want to focus on learning through fun games.