SCOA News

Liz Turbin and I arranged for the TV programme Celebrity Keep Fit Club to do an orienteering exercise at Dinton Pastures on Sunday.

Filming went OK . The course was planned by me and Liz Turbin. BKO supplied maps and Emit equipment. Denise Harper came down on the day and gave us a very welcome hand and took lots of pictures.

The event as you will see is not orienteering as we know it. The TV producers wanted to maintain 2 teams with one map and one compass and one emit card per team. In addition the emit stake was not at the control site.

BOF rules---------- but not at this event.

As part of her duties as Regional Development Officer, Denise Harper, organised the Bracknell Festival of orienteering at Ambarrow Court, Sandhurst, on Wednesday 4th November.

This was in conjunction with Bracknell Forest Council and Berkshire Orienteers with help from the Big Lottery Fund. Around 40 children from Bracknell primary schools took part on two courses. Emit timing was provided by Allan Farrington.

The event was set up as part of an ongoing scheme to introduce orienteering to Bracknell Schools.

Denise Harper SCOA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

Report for March - October 2005

DEVELOPING SCHOOLS ORIENTEERING

1. Increase awareness and understanding of orienteering in education
• Ongoing liaison with Green Park Outdoor Centre, Bucks following remapping, to revamp their orienteering activities for visiting school groups.
• Advice given re delivering insets to new W Berks P.E. Primary Coordinator.
• Produced maps, organised the activity, recruited club members from SOC, SN and BKO to run a whole day orienteering taster session at the Hampshire Youth Games.