Table Tennis

National Priorities

The table tennis competition framework has been developed jointly between the English Table Tennis Association (ETTA) and the English Schools’ Table Tennis Association (ESTTA).

Key Focus

Year 1 - U13 boys and girls inter school competition linking to existing County ESTTA Competitions and Community Competitions e.g. clubs and leagues.
Year 2 - U11 boys and girls inter school competition utilizing the Butterfly Skills Circuit Cards where tables aren’t available.
Teams of 4 playing in a league format at a central venue or home/away basis.

Leaders Awards

Young Officials Award – helps to develop basic umpiring skills through the Junior Umpire Award and provide the skills to help organise and run a variety of table tennis competitions and festivals (available to download shortly).
Junior Umpire Award – designed to increase knowledge and practical umpiring skills.
TT Networker - Table Tennis Leadership Award – enables young leaders to organise safe, enjoyable and purposeful Table Tennis activities, and helps provide a lead into Table Tennis coaching, organising competitions, umpiring, Table Tennis development and an awareness of equality issues in the sport.

South Yorkshire's plan for Table Tennis

The national schools competition structure for table tennis is the English Schools Table Tennis Association (ESTTA) championships. There are 4 age groups for this competition; u11s, U13s, u16s and u19s. This competition is direct entry at South Yorkshire county level and as a result of this there is limited entry into this competition as the standard is deemed quite high. The competition managers will work with each of their SSPs to develop partnership competition at the U13s and U16s age group prior to the ESTTA competition to encourage more schools initially to play table tennis competitively, in the hope that this will give the schools the confidence to enter the ESTTA competition increasing the numbers in this competition, whilst allowing those schools who are not quite at this level to still compete in a lower level competition.
Priority geographical areas have been identified through the ETTA. In South Yorkshire, Wickersley School in Rotherham and Wisewood School (in the Arches partnership) in Sheffield have been identified as high priority areas. Rawmarsh School in Rotherham has also been identified as a medium priority area.
In the 2009-10 Academic year, some School Sport Partnerships are investing their School Sport Coaching money to develop Table Tennis at local level in South Yorkshire.

Contacts

Weblinks
English Table Tennis Association
http://www.englishtabletennis.org.uk/

Buttlerfly TT Skills Programme http://www.etta.co.uk/etta_website/butterfly_skills/index.htm

Downloads
Table Tennis Framework
Table Tennis Rules
TT Leadership Awards
 
ESTTA South Yorkshire Table Tennis Team Championships