Thames Valley Orienteering Club has set up a Schools Orienteering League, to be run at the series of TVOC Saturday morning events, and also at some of our larger Sunday morning events.
Flyer: A leaflet giving details of the 2011/2012 league is available here, please feel free to print off a copy for your noticeboards!
Rules: Full details of the league rules can be found here.
Basically, any child from any school in the TVOC area (covering Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) can just turn up at any Saturday morning event and register as a team member for their school. Their run will then score points for their school, with the best six scores counting on the day. Season results are based on the school's best 5 events. So the more runners a school has, the better they are likely to do.
Years 6 and under do the White course, Years 7-8 the Yellow course, and so on (see the details in the link above). The Saturday events are designed to be suitable for beginners as training can be provided on the day, and children are able to go round the courses in pairs or with adult helpers and still score points (though children able to do the course on their own will score more).
If you are bringing beginners to an event it is best to contact the club in advance so that suitable numbers of qualified coaches can be provided.
The list of Saturday series events can be found here. The next Schools league event in the 2011/2012 season is on Saturday 11th February 2011 at Wendover Woods.
Season results so far: (provisional, updated 7/1/12 after Hill End)
Season School Results
Season Individual Results - by age class
Season Individual Results - by school
Event results:
1. Penn Wood, Penn Street
2. Langley Park, near Slough
3. Shotover Park, East side of Oxford
4. Brill Common, Brill
5. Hill End, near Oxford/Botley
6. Wendover Woods, Wendover
7. Park Wood, Walter's Ash
8. Youlbury Scout Camp, near Oxford/Boars Hill
9. University Parks, Oxford
10. Green Park, Aston Clinton
For more information please to Ian Buxton or to Alison Smith.
End-of-season results: (updated 13/6/11 after Shotover Saturday Series event)
Season School Results
Season Individual Results - by age class
Season Individual Results - by school
Congratulations to Little Milton School, which has retained the overall lead at the end of the season despite a last-minute push by Dunmore School which put them into the runner-up position.
Aldwickbury School came in third place.
Congratulations also to the individual age-class winners: