Over 500 pupils took part in the recent Orienteering Festival at Vogrie Country House. An amazing turnout to a fantastic event using this superb venue.
A huge thank you to the staff at Vogrie, the Active Schools team, ESOC and all the staff in the Primary Schools who entered their enthusiastic pupils and made the event possible.
The event was organised by the Midlothian Outdoor Learning Service and has been a great success and we hope to run again in 2018.
Three linear courses were set out for P5, P6 and P7 that challenged their navigational abilities.
- We had over 500 entries- made up of pairs, teams and solos.
- A total of 12 primary schools.
- Several schools brought over 50 pupils, some bringing over 100 – amazing.
All young people appeared to enjoy the opportunity to partake in this event. Plenty of smiles from our confident, successful learners.
Congratulations to all the pupils who took part. The winning schools in each category are:
P5
Adam & Callum – Cornbank PS
Fastest School – Cornbank PS
P6
Kyle – Loanhead PS
Fastest School – Roslin PS
P7
Aiden – Gorebridge PS
Fastest School – Roslin PS
Results can be found here: Orienteering Results 2017. The key to the school codes can be found here: ML-ELC Primary School codes – these are all the results for all schools – you can see how well your individual teams and pupils performed. We will arrange for trophies for the fastest students to be sent to each school.
We will be running more Discover Orienteering in the 2017/18 year, but for those that wish to take their talent further and pit themselves against others from across Scotland then you need to enter some great events coming up;
Scottish Schools Orienteering Competition – Closing date for Entries – 23rd May 2017
More Orienteering opportunities locally can be found on these club websites: ELO and ESOC 