Schools

Developing volleyball in your school

The Suffolk Volleyball Association has worked with numerous schools throughout the county to help them enhance their volleyball offering. If you would like such assistance, please contact our Chairman.

For help understanding the rules of volleyball click here.

School Games

The Suffolk Volleyball Association works with the Suffolk PE & Sport Network to help schoools organise School Games competitions.

Teachers wanting to prepare teams for these and run Level 1 competitions in their schools can find information on the recommended formats including team sizes, net heights, court sizes and adapted training games for each age-group via the Your School Games website. Additional information, specific to Suffolk and also a link to the refereeing signals can be found here.

The roll-of-honour from previous years can be found here.

Regional talent development squads

    Regional squads are available for promising young players. Trials and training sessions are usually held in April, however from 2019-onwards there is now a season-long programme of camps which will help feed the squads. These are sometimes arranged at short notice to fit in with busy end-of-season schedules. For more information, pay keen attention to the SVA Facebook Page, or contact us earlier in the season so that you can be put in contact with the coaches in advance. The SVA can contribute towards travel costs incurred by members of Suffolk clubs travelling to these regional sessions either via reimbursement of public transport costs, or petrol money at the current Volleyball England rate (2015: 25p per mile).

    Suffolk schools and clubs

    The Suffolk Volleyball Association maintains the following list of colleges, schools and clubs with junior sessions. If you would like to be added to the list to help other organisations get in contact with you to arrange fixtures, etc, please contact us. The organisations known to offer junior volleyball include:

    Bury St Edmunds

    • Bury Bobcats Volleyball Club
    • Horringer Court (Year 7 and 8)
    • County Upper (ages 13 to 18)
    • King Edward VI (ages 11 to 18)
    • St Benedicts (ages 11 to 18)

    Claydon (west of Ipswich)

    • Claydon High School (ages 11 to 16)

    Haverhill

    • Castle Manor Academy (ages 11 to 16)
    • Samuel Ward Academy (ages 11 to 16)

    Ipswich

    Stowmarket

    Thurston (east of Bury St Edmunds)

    • Thurston Community College (ages 13 to 18)

    Woodbridge

    • Farlingaye High School (Year 10)
    • Woodbridge School

    Beach Volleyball

    The recommended court sizes and net heights for junior beach volleyball are as follows. The cut-off date for the age groups is the 1st of January, so children in the same school year group may be eligible for different age groups:

    Age Group Format Net Height Girls Net Height Boys Court Size
    U12 2v2 2.15m 2.15m 6m x 6m
    U13 2v2 2.15m 2.24m 7m x 7m
    U15 2v2 2.24m 2.35m 8m x 8m
    U17 2v2 2.24m 2.43m 8m x 8m
    U19 2v2 2.24m 2,43m 8m x 8m
    Age Group Format Net Height Girls Net Height Boys Court Size
    U12 Born on or after the 1st Jan 2000 all of years upto late year 7′s (born after 31st Dec) 2v2 2.15 2.15 6x12m
    U13 Born on or after the 1st Jan 1999 all of year 7/late year 8′s (born after 31st Dec) 2v2 2.15 2.24 7×7
    U15 Born on or after the 1st Jan 1997 all of year 9/late year 10′s (born after 31st Dec) 2v2 2.24 2.35 8×8
    U17 Born on or after the 1st Jan 1995 all of year 11′s/late year 12′s (born after 31st Dec) 2v2 2.24 2.43 8×8
    U19 Born on or after the 1st Jan 1993 all of year 13′s/late year 14 (born after 31st Dec) 2v2 2.24 2.43 8×8

     

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