About us
The sports division of SchoolTribe.
The same people and the same care as SchoolTribe’s after-school programs, on the court.
Our story
Built on SchoolTribe’s after-school work.
SchoolTribe runs after-school education programs for children in Tokyo. Over the years the same request kept coming from parents: something physical, taught with the same care as everything else we do.
SchoolTribe Sports is the answer to that request. It is a separate division with its own coaches and venues — but it keeps the part that matters: prepared sessions and adults who take children seriously.
Our volleyball camps run in the school holidays at venues including ASIJ, the Tokyo American Club and the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, and are coached by the Tokyo Great Bears. Basketball and multi-sport are coming soon.
What we are actually teaching
Five things, in this order.
A child can leave a season with a better jump serve and nothing else. We are after something broader than that.
Physical development
Strength, coordination, agility and stamina, built age-appropriately so that growing bodies are supported rather than pushed.
Confidence
Confidence that comes from visible competence — a child who knows they can do the thing, because they just did it.
Teamwork
Reading team-mates, communicating under pressure, and handling both a win and a loss without it becoming a drama.
Discipline
Turning up, warming up properly, listening the first time, and finishing what was started. Habits that outlast the sport.
Enjoyment
The one that decides whether a child is still playing at sixteen. If sessions are not enjoyable, nothing else on this list survives.
Progress you can see
Termly assessment against a written pathway, so that improvement is evidenced rather than assumed.
Part of SchoolTribe
One organisation, two sides.
Families already with SchoolTribe keep the same point of contact. Families new to us are under no obligation to take anything else — sports programs stand entirely on their own.
Where it helps, the two sides work together — for example, sports camps and education camps running in the same holiday weeks.
Registration open
Give your child a season worth remembering.
Thanksgiving Volleyball Camps are open now — early bird pricing for Yoyogi Camp until 30 October.