26 May 2017
South Coast Orienteering Gala Day – 17.5.17
Last Wednesday, a small group of Flinders Public School students participated in the South Coast Orienteering Gala Day at Croome Road Sporting Complex, Albion Park, for the very first time. Seventeen students from Year 6 joined seventy others from schools in Bowral, Nowra and St. Georges Basin, to enjoy a fun-filled day of ‘adventure racing.'
Orienteering includes skills that are part athletics, part geography, part maths and part problem solving. After learning the basics, like how to orientate maps with the sun and how to scan your tracking device at checkpoints, students had to navigate their way around a course through the bush – as quickly as possible!
Flinders students achieved amazing results in the individual races:
Year 6 Girls Division: 1st – Charli R (6P), 2nd – India B (6N), 3rd – Georgia C (6P).
Year 6 Boys Division: 2nd – Andrew K (6N).
These students received certificates and were invited to attend the 2017 NSW Schools Orienteering Championships in Wollongong on the weekend of August 19-20. Other students who participated in the Gala Day may also attend as their times are now registered.
After lunch, all the students formed teams of three and took part in an orienteering relay race, just for fun! There was a great atmosphere with team/school members shouting support for one another. Despite being one team member short, Joshua S (6N) and Mitchell T (6S), worked hard to be the first home! They decided to run the first leg of the race together, followed by one leg each. Great teamwork – well done boys!
Congratulations also to Tarliah R (6N), Phillip P (6P), Edvard G (6P), Ethan K (6P), Charlotte K (6N), Semih A (6S), Keagan N (6P), Jada S (6S), Olivia F (6N), Hayley A (6P) and Jorja P (6P), for their exceptional behaviour and enthusiastic participation. We will be back at this great event with a new group of Year 6 students next year!
Mrs O'Neill
Sports Organiser