Launch Pad
Pre-School Tennis Program
The Art of Teaching Tennis with Storytelling!
Designed for the imaginative minds of pre-school aged children, the Launch Pad program combines colourful storytelling and characters to immerse children into a wonderfully interactive adventure fostering the first foundation skills of tennis, physical dexterity, emotional growth and early literacy and math skills!
What makes UHTS Launch Pad program so unique and engaging is that every lesson uses storytelling and play based learning. This creates an amazing new world for young children where all the exercises are an adventure. Each lesson includes early learning fundamentals such as:
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Early literacy - letter sounds, vocabulary and rhymes
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Scoring – early numeracy, patterns, sorting and counting
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Skills for Success - memory, creativity, focus and problem solving
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Fundamental first skills of tennis
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Motor skills
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Working together by cooperating and sharing
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Social awareness including caring, listening and helping
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Application skills including trying, improving and achieving
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And so much more!
Tennis Australia Club Professional coach Chris Herden is delighted to offer this unique and fun learning experience to the youngest members of our local tennis community!
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LESSONS WILL BE HELD ON WEEKDAYS AT SCONE HARDCOURT TENNIS ASSOC.
PRICE $15 / CLASS.
ACTIVE KIDS VOUCHERS ACCEPTED.
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REGISTER ONLINE TODAY OR CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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Upper Hunter Tennis & Sports ‘Launch Pad’ encompasses the fundamentals of the ANZ Hot Shots Blue Stage - The foundation 'Launch' stage, with storytelling and play based learning inspired by pre-school programs being taught by sports & tennis academies around the world. The ANZ Hot Shots program is a National Tennis Australia accredited program.
