IOA (Into Officiating Course) C Award Course and B Award Courses are all available to book online through Engage.
All learners must be affiliated to England Netball to be able to access these courses.
This course is done online through 2 two hour sessions on Zoom, the county then offer a practical session for learners once there are enough learners for the course to run. Once both sessions have been completed the learner then needs to go out and practice at friendly games, training sessions etc. Once confident with Controlling the Centre Pass, Scoring a goal, how to keep a Scorecard, and the Out of Court learners need to contact the County Lead Mentor to be assigned a mentor.
This course is done online through 2 one and half hour sessions on Zoom. Once both sessions have been completed the learner then needs to contact the County Lead Mentor to be assigned a mentor.
This course is done through blended learning, 2 one and a half hour sessions on Zoom, then a 2 hour practical session at a Regional venue. Once all 3 sessions have been completed you will then need to contact the County Lead Mentor to be assigned a mentor.
Prior to completing the booking form you will require the following information:
Please ensure your communication settings on your ENgage account are set to receive emails from England Netball or will not receive the required confirmation emails. This can be done on ENgage by clicking the Communication tab on your ENgage account and by ticking all of the relevant boxes.
Saturday 14th October 2023- deadline for submissions to EN is 29th August 2023 at 17.00pm
Saturday 10th February 2024- deadline for submissions to EN is 18th December 2023 at 17.00pm
Saturday 8th June 2024- deadline for submissions to EN is 19th April 2024 at 17.00pm
Saturday 12th October 2024- deadline for submissions to EN is 30th August 2024 at 17.00pm
The Europe Netball ‘A’ and ‘B’ Written Assessment will be based on the 2020 World Netball Rules and will not cover any modified rules or versions that member countries may have introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Before you attempt to sit the NE B/A Written Assessment, we strongly suggest that you prepare using the practice papers and review the past papers to look at the types of questions and the appropriate way to answer them. Review the rule book, hand signals and the application of the rules of the game. Work with a mentor or another umpire to test your knowledge. Download the practice paper and sit the paper in a simulated exam setting.
To access England Netballs Resource Centre of Passed papers please click the link below.
NCNA are able to provide theory sessions for those umpires entered to sit their A/B award written assessment. For more information or to request a session please contact Sophie Pike - norfolkcountynetball@yahoo.co.uk or click the contact button below.
If you require any further information please contact the County by email norfolkcountynetball@yahoo.co.uk or click the contact button above.
IOA Assessments – all learners need to complete a scorecard that is signed.
Once you have been identified that you are ready, Lead Mentor will let County Officiating Lead know and they will be contacted and sent an application form and once payment and the form has been received the assessment will be sorted once assessors are available. The course date is needed for their application form.
C Award Assessments – all learners are told on C course that they need to keep a log of games, the log book needs to be submitted with their application form – please encourage them to get a variety of games i.e. league games and county events. Learners choose when to take their written assessment once this has been passed County Officiating Lead should be notified by England Netball once Europe Netball has notified them. Learners need the date of written assessment and C course date for their application form. ( All learners are issued with a certificate).
All those learners working towards B are offered theory sessions through the county (this is not mandatory but advisable). Lead Mentor will let Carolyn Davies know of those who are ready to start umpiring in the East Region League. (B Assessment will be on Regional games).
IOA and C Award assessments contact County Officiating Lead norfolkcountynetball@yahoo.co.uk
B Award assessments will be on Div 2 Regional games.
All applications need to be submitted to East Region B Award Assessment Co-Ordinator - Sophie Pike, which must be endorsed by the County Officiating Lead
For more information and to contact the County please email norfolkcountynetball@yahoo.co.uk or click the contact button.
There is a B award course at Cambridge regional College this summer. For more information and/or to book a place, visit: England Netball | Course Booking Information
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Another excellent IOA Practical session for our new umpires held at the UEA on Sunday 16th April at UEA Sportspark Norwich.
Congratulations to Sophie Hansell & Jasmine Collings who also passed their IOA on the course.
Congratulations to Rachel Savage, Jazz Taylor & Fliss Von Christian on passing your IOA this evening. Thank you to the lovely ladies at North Elmham.
A Big Well done to all our IOA learners who completed the practical session today at the UEA.
A massive thank you to Sue Brown for tutoring the session and Sheelagh Redpath for her assistance.
Log into your England Netball engage and search for available courses.
Courses are in high demand and are normally booked up as soon as they are released. Please keep an eye on the Norfolk County Facebook page as we will always try to post when courses are released.
If there are none available and you want to attend one of these, please complete an “Expression of Interest” form, EN will then contact you the day the courses are being released to let you know. This applies to C & B courses too.
C award courses for March-September 2023 - currently have lots of availability.
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