We Are Tennis Programme
We Are Tennis is a training initiative which provides professional tennis coaching for circa 800 children from 32 schools and takes place over an 8-week period.
Run by our coaches and funded by BNP Paribas it is a programme that provides 6 hours of tennis coaching for all Year 3 children in every Parish school. That’s circa 800 children per annum receiving coaching, and now into its 14th year (2025) over 7,400 children have benefited from tennis coaching. Teachers also benefit from being taught by the LTA coaches in how to teach tennis in school PE lessons. The children and teachers learn important disciplines around sporting conduct and playing by rules, as well as understanding the many tennis shots and serving positions, whilst having fun at school.
At the end of each Summer, every school selects a team of 4 children to represent their class, they then get to play in the ‘We Are Tennis Primary Schools’ tournament against the other Parish schools, in a bid to win the ‘We Are Tennis’ Schools trophy!
WAT Finals 2025
During the first six weeks of the school summer term, the club once again delivered its annual We Are Tennis schools programme, kindly sponsored by BNP Paribas.
This initiative offered every government primary school the opportunity to welcome one of our coaches to deliver fun and engaging tennis sessions to Year 3 students, with the added excitement of a chance to compete on Finals Day.
A total of 13 schools took part, reaching over 500 children across the island. Finals Day saw 125 enthusiastic young players from 12 schools come together for a fantastic day of friendly, competitive tennis.
Congratulations to St Lawrence for taking first place, with Grouville in second and Plat Douet in third.
A big thanks to our amazing coaching team – especially Coach Adam for organising the whole day. Huge shoutout to the BNP Paribas staff who kindly gave up their time to help out, and to Jamison who brilliantly captured the day with photos and video.
This event is a highlight of the club’s calendar and an important part of our mission to introduce tennis to the next generation.
WAT Finals 2024
On Friday 14th June, the club invited all the Year 3 students in the island to participate in a day of tennis, as part of the sponsorship given by BNP Paribas. It was a successful day and it was great to see all the kids having so much fun! Our thanks to our sponsors BNP Paribas who, not only financially assisted with this programme, but also provided a number of their staff to give us a helping hand on finals day, special thanks to Jamison who was our brilliant photographer for the day! Also a HUGE thanks to Adam and Scott for organising the programme and to all the coaches and parents who supported the day.