Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to play a game in sending and receiving a ball across a net to develop skills and abilities in tennis when working with a range of different strokes and shots to to return and control a tennis ball.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to play a game of short tennis to practise skills in sending and receiving a ball across a net.

This lesson is part of a physical education scheme of work to get the children to develop and refine some of the skills that are needed when playing different strokes and shots during a game of tennis. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.