Orienteering

The aim of orienteering is to collect as many points using your S. I. stick^[1] from the control points. You have a map that has no street names, a time limit of 45 minutes, (each minute late you lose ten points) and your sense of direction, which could be fooled. 

We worked on various maps slowly taking on the art of route developing for orienteering. The idea of this lesson came to Mr Latham when he found out that his next orienteering route was somewhere very close to Camperdown. He gave the class the details and based a maths project on the previous maps. Realising that some of his class was ecstatic by the idea of orienteering, he granted us with time to plan our route for Camperdown orienteering. Students formed groups and organised go orienteering with each other on Wednesday. 

Upon arrival, students Roisin, Emily, Lucy, Morris, Maeve, Elizabeth, Sophie, Fred, Pelayo, Carter, Spencer, Valens and Jake registered and collected S. I. sticks/tap on sticks for the journey. We made our way to the start of the course, slipped on the S. I. sticks and poked it through the control point hole. We heard the *beep*, and took off, following the routes we created in class. 

At the end of the day, it wasn’t a competition about who got the most points, it was about having fun. So 5/6L were the real winners, we had a great time, and we are grateful for our adventurous teacher.

By Sophie, Roisin and Maeve