In their final week of our scholarship programme, Y4 spent the afternoon developing their orienteering skills. The session started with some small-scale cone orienteering, following a basic map to follow a route through a grid of sixteen coloured cones. Next, children used their geographical knowledge and inference skills to discover common ordinance survey map symbols. Next children studied a map of the school, learning to orientate the map north, use the legend to identify familiar places and measuring to estimate distances.

The finals step was putting this together. To get to this stage would normally take a few weeks  of work but our sports stars met the challenge head on and, after a some early mishaps, learnt from their mistakes and managed to complete all of out short courses with some progressing further! This was another completely new experience for our children and was very well received with some now wanting the chance to complete the longer courses as a lunch time club.

Issy and Evie reading a cone map and gathering the corresponding numbers. 

Working together to match OS symbols with the correct description. A tricky task which requires a range of geography knowledge, inference and common sense! 

Ewan and Harrie did fantastic and were the only pair to progress to a long course. Well done boys!

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