Future Ferns is available for years 4 and 5 school children (boys and girls) interested in building their netball skills.

Future Ferns commences May each year and starts at 4:00pm on Fridays and 8:40am on Saturdays.

Christchurch Netball is committed to ensuring that all Future Ferns teams have quality coaching available to them which is why each coach is required to attend the pre-session skills coaching session available each Friday and Saturday. We want to ensure these people feel comfortable delivering the skills programme for the day to the players.

Coaches should report to the Trust Bank Lounge (ground floor) 20 min before Future Ferns starts.
Friday at 3:40pm and Saturday at 8:20am.

The Netball Development Co-ordinator goes over the skills session.  The court allocated for the game is the same court that your skills sessions is conducted on.

Year 4 & Year 5 teams will participate in games and skills development session.

Year 4 & 5 Procedures

Players will play half of their game, stop playing and perform the skills session, then continue with the last half of the game.

The format for Year 4 & 5 is as follows:

1st half of game -15 minutes
2 minute drink break
10 minute skills session
3 minute break (get ready to play again and to move round positions)
2nd half of game -15 minutes

Year 6 Procedures

There will no longer be a Future Ferns Year 6 Friday or Saturday competition.  Year 6 teams will now be classed as Under 11 and can only be Year 6 players.  Games are on a Saturday at 9.35am.  If you wish to enter a team in the Under 11 grade please contact the Administrator.

Note: Players must play in the correct grade.  Year 4 are not permitted to play in the Year 5 grade.  A mixed grade is available for smaller schools/clubs who cannot field a full team in the one grade.  A maximum of 3 Year 6 players are also permitted in the mixed grade with prior approval from the Christchurch Netball Centre.

If you have any questions regarding this, please contact the Netball Development Coordinator.

Future Ferns Game Officials Information Evening

In Future Ferns each team will be required to supply an umpire for each one of their games. As a result of this we will be conducting an umpires information evening for parents and coaches of these grades, as well as any other people wanting game official training at the Christchurch Netball Centre.

A Basic Umpiring Course will be run here at the Christchurch Netball Centre prior to the beginning of the season.

Cancellation of Future Ferns will be notified by 1pm on Fridays and 7:15am on Saturdays

Radio Stations: Newstalk ZB, The Breeze cancellation line 3790 700
Christchurch Netball Centre cancellation line 3794 489 - option 4