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Images from Woodstock Park |
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A Race
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Concentration!
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Gene Referees
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Students Serve Up Good Answers About Nutrition |
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Programs & Educational Components |
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Programs
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Head Start Tennis
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Elementary School After-School Tennis
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Portland After-School Tennis visits Head Start classes (pre-kindergarten) during the school day for group instruction in tennis, emphasizing teamwork and sportsmanship. Children learn hand-eye coordination, balance and agility, footwork skills, and tennis mechanics in an atmosphere of success and fun.
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Students enjoy group play in school gyms or nearby parks while learning tennis skills, tactics and strategy. The Life Skills curriculum (see below) accompanies all elementary school programs.
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Middle School After-School Tennis
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High School After-School Tennis
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Middle School students receive group instruction that emphasizes tennis skills, tactics and strategy in an atmosphere of team competition and fun. Life Skills and Nutrition Counseling (see below) are interwoven into all middle school programs.
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High school group instruction takes place on park courts, in gyms and at nearby indoor tennis centers. Students enjoy game-based learning accompanied by the Life Skills curriculum.
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Intermediate and Advanced Group Instruction
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Summer Park Classes
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Students who show interest in continuing in tennis meet for group instruction and competitive play at indoor tennis centers.
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Summer play is offered at park sites in the Portland Area with a summer reading program, “Serving Up Literacy” (see below), that is conducted at the courts during class time.
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Educational Components
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Life Skills
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Nutrition Counseling
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PER-FECT stands for Punctuality, Effort, Respect, Focus, Excellence, Commitment, and Teamwork. These are the guiding principles that are emphasized and evaluated during class, as well as encouraged for a lifetime.
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Our nutrition program is designed to integrate tennis skills, nutrition choices, and health benefits specific to tennis performance. For example, the first day’s class introduces Forehands, Fruits, and students enjoy apples as they learn that the vitamin C in apples helps strengthen tendons, cartilage, and ligaments for strong tennis performance.
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Serving Up Literacy
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Arthur Ashe Essay Contest
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With reading packets supplied by the Multnomah County Library, PAST instructors combine tennis instruction with reading projects during class time at local parks.
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In cooperation with USA Tennis National Junior Tennis League, PAST students may compete for section and national prizes by submitting an essay to their instructors describing why Arthur Ashe is a legend. Please see
our contest page for more information and an application.
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