Dorset Schools Orienteering League

Dorset Schools Orienteering League Season 2011-2012

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Latest News ( 22 May 2012 )

Congratulations to Hyde School for winning this year's Dorset Schools League and overhauling Swanage Middle School after their performance at the final event of the League season at Moreton. and to Broadstone Middle School & Clayesmore School for winning the team classes at the Schools Championships.

Congratulations also to the individual age group winners.

A word about the final league tables, which have been corrected (26/03/12) to remove a couple of errors. I've only included those individuals who scored in two or more events (although the points for those who only ran once still contributed to a school's team score)

My spreadsheet was written for a maximum of eight league events - this year we had nine, and rather than try to rewrite the whole thing, I've used empty slots in the grid, so if your final column already had a number in it, I've put the score in an empty slot, but coloured it blue.

The Schools League Trophy and medals for all age group winners were presented at the Prize-giving ceremony which took place after the Schools Championships at Moors Valley on Friday May 11th 2012.

The medals and prizes were co-presented by Lucy Butt & Jack Benham who have competed in the Schools League for the last 10 years or so and risen through the ranks to international level. Lucy made her debut for the full Great Britain team in the European Championships in Sweden three days after this picture was taken.

Hyde School League winning team with the shield, together with international orienteers Lucy Butt & Jack Benham

You will notice also that for this year, we are being kind to the White course runners, in that if they miss a control, we are giving them time penalties rather than disqualifying them.

WIM, WSX & SARUM all have have a Routegadget site, so you can draw the routes you ran on the map and compare them with other runners. If you haven't played with Routegadget before, try it - its great fun.

British Schools Score Championships Beaulieu Oct 08

A number of Dorset Schools competed at the British Schools Score Championships at Beaulieu, with some very good performances from a number of our competitors. There were Gold medals for class winners Lucy Butt (13G S Wilts) & Jack Benham (13B Burgate), and Silver medals for Lisa White (11G Trafalgar School,Downton), Beccy Whittingham (8G Sturminster) & Bonny Greenfield & Caitlin Madgwick (5G Hyde Primary).

Harry Butt (Burgate) and Barney Huthwaite (Clayesmore) also put in fine performances, without gaining medals, being amongst the 10% of the runners who managed to visit all the controls within the time limit. Clayesmore finished 5th in both the Senior Girls and Senior Boys team classes.

Particular congratulations must go to Bonny and Cate as this was their first ever major event, after completing only a few small events beforehand.

The event was covered by the BBC1 South Today programme, and Lucy and Jack were interviewed by weather presenter Alexis Green, who presented the medals and prizes.

Alexis ran for Clayesmore in the very early days of the Schools League and was good enough to represent the British Schools team in the ISF World Schools Championships in Latvia in 1998.

League Events

All events offer colour coded courses from White to at least Light Green + something for local adult club orienteers (either a Green, Blue or a Score course). Some events such as Galoppens offer the full range of colour coded courses, but schools competitors only use White to Green. Most events will offer SI punching, bagged & pre-marked maps (late-comers may find they have to use master maps if stocks of overprinted maps run short).

Season 2011-12

Dates for the new season, including some other important dates on the fixture list. The schools league events are mixed between Saturday and Sunday events this term. This is an updated list. However there may still be some additions or changes in venues.

2011
Sat Sept 24 - WIM Dorset Schools 1 , Avon Heath
Sat Oct 08 - British Schools Score Championships, Beaulieu, N Forest
Sun Oct 09 - WSX Galoppen & Dorset Schools 2, Wareham Forest
Sun Oct 23 - WIM Galoppen & Dorset Schools 3, Godshill, New Forest
Sat Nov 12 - WIM Dorset Schools 4, Hyde Common, Ringwood
Sun Nov 20 - British Schools Champs, Scotland
Sat Nov 26 - SARUM Dorset Schools 5, Collingbourne
Sat Dec 10 - WIM Dorset Schools 6, Hurn Forest

2012
Sun Jan 15 - WIM Dorset Schools 7, Inside Park, Blandford
Sat Feb 04 - SARUM Dorset Schools 8, Stonedown Woods
Sun Feb 05 - WIM Regional, Wool Heath
Sat Mar 17 - WIM Dorset Schools 9, Moreton Forest

Fri May 11 - Dorset Schools Championships & League prizegiving, Moors Valley

Dorset Schools League fixtures in bold

RULES

The Dorset Schools Orienteering League is run by Wimborne Orienteers in close co-operation with all the other local orienteering clubs (WSX, SARUM, SOC). It is open to anyone attending schools in Dorset, S Wilts, & W. Hants ( & indeed schools from the Isle of Wight & the Channel Islands may occasionally attend.)

There are usually about eight league events during the season (some years we manage nine) and we count the best 5 performances for each runner & each school. Points are awarded on a time basis: the winner in each school year group gets 100 points, subsequent runners get points according to the formula

points = 100 x winners time/your time

Pairs share the points. If you run down a course, you get half points. Younger runners on White shadowed by parents also get half points.

Competitors from the same school and on the same course should be separated by at least 3 minutes on the Start line. Competitors starting at similar times and having similar split times will be deemed to be running as a pair and share the points.

Courses

White - Year 6 and below Girls & Boys

Yellow - Year 7 & 8 Girls & Boys

Orange - Year 9 & 10 Boys & Girls

Light Green - Year 11 Boys, Year 11 Girls

Green - Year 12+ Boys & Girls. If there is no Green course (perhaps because the area is too small or simple to support it), these year groups also run Light Green

Blue - Where these are available, older runners may also run this course and qualify for schools points.

If you run up a course, your scores are calculated from the performance of the course winners. If you are the leading runner on the course, points are calculated from your time ( eg at Clayesmore 2011, Alex Buck ( 7B Romsey) was the first boy to count on Orange, rather than the Yellow course he could have run, so he got the 100 points and any Year 9 & 10 Boys scores were calculated from his time. Harry Complin (10B Clay) ran down on Orange so got half points because his age group should be scored on the Light Green course.

School teams acquire points by taking the best 4 performances per League event.

We try to notify all interested schools and mail them at regular intervals, but details don't always get through to the right people. If you want to enter yourself or your school in the league, please e-mail the league administrator, Dick Keighley

Final Schools League Tables 2011-12

Boys

Place	Name		School	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H		Score
6	Darren Whittingham	4B	Wm Barnes	82	65	55	95	100	74	100	75	68	452
6	Morgan Woodford	5B	Swan	32	41	57	40	85	81	40	52		316
7	Alistair Macgregor	5B	Swan	32	41	57	0	85	76	41	52		311
12	Ollie Miller	3B	Port Regis	0	0	29	34	42	50	49	67		242
13	Elliot Wilson	5B	Hyde	41	0	0	0	0	0	100	100		241
15	Pryce Adams	4B	Hyde	0	0	0	0	0	84	93	46		223
16	Louie James	4B	Hyde	0	0	0	100	0	0	67	54		221
17	Mark Jones	4B	Hyde	0	0	0	77	0	0	69	74		220
18	James Munday	4B	Swan	71	0	0	81	0	0	0	56		208
22	Rory Nordstrom	2B	Hyde	0	0	50	45	0	100	0	0		195
23	Devon Wilson	3B	Hyde	50	0	0	0	0	0	79	60		189
25	Bertie Miller	5B	Port Regis	0	0	0	32	0	96	50	0		178
26	Finlay Austin	3B	Hyde	0	0	0	0	0	42	56	71		169
28	Jack Prosser	5B	Swan	0	0	0	0	0	41	82	26		149
32	Jacob Smith	3B	Hyde	0	0	0	0	0	40	76	0		116

10	Callum Dawson	6B	Swan	54	0	100	41	100	0	0	0		295
14	Max Etheridge	6B	Hyde	0	0	0	0	0	91	75	62		228
27	Callum Earle	6B	Swan	0	0	0	0	0	49	40	62		151
31	Thomas Crowley	6B	Hale	0	0	55	68	0	0	0	0		123

1	Robert Munday	7B	Swan	0	100	66	93	100	100	100	100		500
11	Gregor Scott-Duncan	7B	BSB	93	0	0	75	0	0	0	100		268
21	Diggory Turner	7B	Gill	0	0	0	0	0	0	99	100		199

8	Alexander Buck	8B	Romsey	0	100	100	0	0	0	0	100		300
9	Alex Scott-Duncan	8B	BSB	100	0	0	100	0	0	0	96		296
19	Joe Madgwick	8B	BWS	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	100		200
24	Callum Blair	8B	St Osmunds	0	0	46	0	0	0	73	61		180
33	Lloyd Adams	8B	Burgate	0	0	0	0	0	60	0	42		102

2	Fraser Smith	9B	BSB	100	0	0	100	0	100	88	79		467

19	Barnaby Huthwaite	10B	Clay	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	100		200
35	Harry Groves	10B	Purbeck	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	90		90
36	Charlie Brown	10B	Clay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	89		89
37	Joe Flute	10B	Clay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	80		80

3	Jack Tavinor	12B	Purbeck	0	0	100	0	0	100	90	89		379
5	Tamer Bereiki	12B	KMC	20	32	57	82	0	86	86	0		343
29	Tom Dent	12B	KMC	25	40	0	0	0	81	0	0		146
30	Adam Rhodes	12B	KMC	0	41	0	0	0	91	0	0		132

4	Cameron Ashton	13B	KMC	48	50	0	0	0	100	99	65		362
34	Jack Benham	13B	Burgate	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0		100
38	Joshua Martin	13B	KMC	25	31	0	0	0	0	0	0		56
39	Tom Kelly	13B	KMC	0	31	0	0	0	0	0	0		31

Girls

Place	Name		School	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H		Score

3	Caitlin Madgwick	5G	Hyde	100	0	79	84	100	91	96	100		487
8	Bonny Greenfield	5G	Hyde	62	0	84	100	0	100	55	89		435
10	Martha Kelly	5G	Hyde	69	0	85	89	0	78	100	67		421
12	Holly Nordstrom	5G	Hyde	0	0	40	79	0	73	92	92		376
14	Elizabeth Horsler	3G	Manor Park	60	53	60	0	0	0	64	80		317
18	Clemmie Greenfield	3G	Hyde	0	0	23	37	0	50	76	66		252
22	Alex Hastie	5G	Hale	57	0	47	58	0	0	0	42		204
25	Hannah Bowers	5G	Hyde	0	0	0	0	0	0	73	78		151
26	Deborah Blair	5G	St Osmunds	0	0	38	0	0	0	78	32		148
29	Katie Lockwood	5G	Swan	0	0	0	65	0	0	0	60		125
31	Izzi Winder	1G	Hyde	0	0	0	0	0	0	38	65		103
31	Lucy Austin	1G	Hyde	0	0	0	0	0	0	38	65		103

6	Katy Cutler	6G	Chafyn	86	100	100	79	0	0	0	100		465
9	Sarah Horsler	6G	St Osmunds	90	77	100	0	0	0	96	60		423
13	Kerry Tooley	6G	Swan	82	37	0	47	100	58	0	59		346
20	Bethany Taylor	6G	Swan	89	44	0	64	0	0	37	0		234
21	Mia Johnson	6G	Hyde	0	0	40	78	0	93	0	0		211
24	Anna Stainer	6G	Hale	0	0	47	67	0	0	0	44		158
26	Katherine Buck	6G	N Forest Primary	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	73		148

7	Hermione Quaddy	7G	Swan	83	59	40	100	100	58	100	71		454
11	Rebecca Womersley	7G	Burgate	56	0	0	73	0	66	100	90		385
28	Freya Kelly	7G	Ringwood	29	0	30	33	0	38	0	0		130
30	Abbie Wilson	7G	Ringwood	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	72		114

1	Rebecca Whittingham	8G	Sturminster	99	100	100	100	100	100	87	74	100	500
1	Hazel Cutler	8G	S Wilts	100	100	100	100	0	100	84	100		500

4	Georgia Puckett	10G	Parkstone	100	100	100	0	0	0	93	91		484
4	Holly Puckett	10G	Parkstone	90	97	97	0	0	0	100	100		484

16	Katherine Hodge	11G	Parkstone	100	100	0	0	0	0	89	0		289

15	Emma Crickmore	12G	Talbot Heath	0	0	0	0	0	100	100	100		300
17	Katie Reynolds	12G	Colfox	99	50	0	0	0	81	0	43		273
23	Martha Tavinor	12G	Purbeck	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	100		200
33	Louie Welford	12G	KMC	22	33	0	0	0	45	0	0		100
34	Jade Cooper	12G	KMC	22	32	0	0	0	0	0	0		54

19	Lauren Webber	13G	KMC	0	50	0	0	0	100	87	0		237

Schools League

School	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H		Score

Hyde	281	0	298	373	392	362	381	360	0	1868
Swanage Middle School	354	244	254	339	400	315	366	293	0	1774
Parkstone Girls	290	297	197	0	0	0	282	191	0	1257
Bournemouth School for Boys	293	0	0	275	0	100	88	325	0	1081
Kingston Maurward College	145	199	57	82	0	377	272	65	0	1075
St Osmund's Middle	90	77	184	0	0	0	247	153	0	751
Purbeck	0	0	200	0	0	100	90	270	0	660
Sturminster High School	142	100	100	100	100	100	87	74	100	542
Port Regis	0	0	61	66	42	146	198	67	0	538
Burgate	56	0	100	73	84	66	100	150	0	507
Wm Barnes,Sturminster N	82	65	55	145	100	74	100	75	68	502
S Wilts	100	100	100	100	0	100	100	100	0	500
Clayesmore	120	0	0	0	0	0	100	269	0	489
Hale	57	0	149	192	0	0	0	86	0	484
Chafyn Grove	86	100	100	79	0	0	0	100	0	465
Romsey	0	100	182	0	0	0	0	100	0	382
Colfox	99	50	0	0	0	81	0	129	0	359
Manor Park	60	53	60	0	0	0	64	80	0	317
Talbot Heath	0	0	0	0	0	100	100	100	0	300
Loders	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	285	0	285
BWS	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	100	0	200
Gill Sec	0	0	0	0	0	0	99	100		199
Ringwood Waldorf School	0	0	186	0	0	0	0	0	0	186
New Forest Primary	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	73	0	173
Emmanuel Middle School	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100

Electronic punching

With the help of a grant from Sport England, WIM purchased a set of SI equipment for electronic punching together with notebook computers etc. WSX have bought a similar set with their grant which means that working together we can cater for big events as well. SARUM events use their new EMIT kit. SOC have their own EMIT equipment.

(WIM also have three SI Schools kits which are available for schools to use. Orienteering is not only on the National Curriculum for PE but the SI equipment allows cross-curricular links to IT etc.)

Where possible, we use electronic punching at most schools league events. We can't use it for all events - some areas like Bryanston are very public and with the control stations costing £8100 each we can't afford to lose any, so areas where we have had control vandalism in the past may still use control cards and pin punching.

E-cards for punching cost £28 or so to buy. WIM have got 150 cards for hire and we allow schools to use them for free at league events . However schools should be aware that any lost cards must be paid for. At events using EMIT there is usually a small hire charge for the e-card