SCORE - Schools Orienteering 4 Week Challenge

SCORE is a 4 week orienteering challenge for primary school children from grades 3 to 6, that is held twice a year in various school grounds around the ACT.  A SCORE team consists of 4 people, usually 2 girls and 2 boys, and each person in the team runs a relay leg using a map, navigating their way around the school grounds back to the finish, and then they tag their next team member.

In Weeks 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this term, 6 teams of dedicated and enthusiastic orienteers from Campbell Primary joined this huge group of ACT school children (approximately 190 kids in all!), getting up early and braving all kinds of crazy weather conditions for the four mornings of the SCORE challenge.

Our six teams were:

All students performed so well, running and thinking at the same time, checking controls, orientating their map to north, asking for help if it was needed, and encouraging their team mates. We couldn’t be more proud of this fine group of young champions. A big WELL DONE goes to the students who took on this challenge for the first time – Harriet, Amelia, Jacqui, James and Ellie all conducted themselves so competently and proved that they have what it takes to be the people to beat in the future. Campbell Primary School orienteers are amazing! Congratulations!

Each team gets awarded points for the place that they came in each week – the team that comes in first gets 100 points, 80 points for second, 60 for third and so on. At the end of the final round, our Campbell A team was ahead of the rival teams from Majura, Aranda and Curtin Primary Schools by 30 points, so have again brought the SCORE trophy back to be displayed proudly in our corridor trophy cabinet! Well done Sophie, Lucy, Michael and Sam!

ACT Primary School Orienteering Championships

Last Wednesday the 27^th of November,  nine CPS students ran in the ACT orienteering primary school champs at Barrenjoey Peninsula. The championships are open to primary school student aged between 9 and 12 who has done orienteering before, and it is a great way to use the skills that have been gained throughout the year.

Courses increase in length and difficulty according to the age group.

The Campbell Primary team consisted of Sophie W, Lucy R, Michael H, Sofia K, Olivia R, Euan J, Sam C, Oliver M and Jacqui H. All of these students have participated in the SCORE competition in 2019, and were keen to try out their cunning running skills in a bush course setting. Even though our Campbell team was small with just nine students, they were placed 4^th overall, which is an incredible achievement! Well done everyone!

Many thanks to Sophie W, our gold medal winner at this event, for giving a report as follows:

Jacqui Hudson ran the short blue course and came 4^th. Euan Johnson ran the long blue course and came 4^th. Oliver Makin and Sam Churchyard as well as Sofia Knight and Olivia Rhodes ran as pairs on the short green course with Oliver and Sam coming 5^th and Sofia and Olivia coming 7^th.  Lastly Sophie Weaver, and as a pair Lucy Robins and Michael Hudson, ran the long green with Sophie coming 1^st and Lucy and Michael coming 3^rd. There was a point system for each school with Aranda winning and Campbell came 4^th with 26 points thanks to every person/pair that came in the top 5. 

It was a great effort from the small Campbell team.  For Sophie, Lucy and Michael who have been doing school orienteering since they were in year 3, it was a great way to finish primary school.

Thank you Sophie, and congratulations to you on your first place, and to all of the dedicated students who ran their best on the day.  You make Campbell Primary School so very proud!