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Latest News ( 08 May 2015)

The Dorset Schools Championships and League prizegiving were held at Moors Valley On Friday May 8th. The results are here. Congratulations to  the individual Age Group medallists and to Clayesmore School and St Michaels'  Middle School, Colehill, who won the Senior and Middle/Junior school team competitions.

League Fixtures The final league event was held this weekend at Stonebarrow.

Congratulations to our individual class winners, particularly those with the maximum 500 points, and also to Sturminster High School (the Whittingham family!) for winning the League for the first time.

Congratulations to Clayesmore School, who won the Small Senior Schools Trophy at the British Schools Championships at Temple Newsam, nr Leeds on Sun 16th November. Barney Huthwaite, currently leading our B13 table, was the best performer on the day, in 5th place in B13.

 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 or Regionals offer the full range of colour coded courses, but schools competitors should normally only use White to Green. Most events will offer electronic punching & pre-marked waterproof maps .

A reminder that a runner's best five performances count towards the league, so  if you miss an event or have a bad run early on, you have chances to make up your points later in the season. The league tables will eventually show scores after all events, and show totals for the best five scores over the season: please check to make sure I've got your scores correct.

Season 2014-15

2014
Sun Oct 28 - WIM Dorset Schools 1, Gore Heath, Wareham
Sun Oct 05 -  Sarum Galoppen & Dorset Schools 2, Everleigh, Wilts
Sat Oct 18  - WIM  Dorset Schools 3 & Informal, Hyde & Gorley Commons, N Forest
Sat Nov 08  - Sarum Informal  & Dorset Schools 4, Bulford Ridge
Sun Nov 16 - British Schools Champs, Temple Newsam, Leeds
Sat Nov 22 -  WIM Dorset Schools 5 & Informal, Golden Cap, Bridport (New area)
Wed Dec 26 - WIM Boxing Day Canter, Ringwood Forest North

2015
Sun Jan 11 -  WIM Dorset Schools 6 (&  Galoppen), Moors Valley  
Sun Feb 15 - WIM Regional and Dorset Schools 8, Hale Purlieu
Sat Feb 21 -  SARUM Dorset Schools 7, Vernditch, nr Sixpenny Handley
Sun Mar 22 - WSX Galoppen & Dorset Schools 9, Rushmore, Sixpenny Handley
Sat Mar 28 -  WIM Dorset Schools 10 & Informal - Stonebarrow (new area)
Fri May 08 - Dorset Schools Championships & League prize-giving, Moors Valley   

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.

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.

As we did last 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.

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 

  Schools League  Tables 2014-15

Boys

Name		School	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H		Score
Harry Bracher-Howard	5B	Dunbury	96	60	100	100	100	74	100	100	100	500
Arthur Brooke	5B	WSM Primary	100	100	79	0	0	86	0	100	100	465
Thomas Coatham	5B	Moyles Court	0	0	100	0	0	100	100	0	82	300
Monty Bratcher-Howard	2B	Dunbury	46	36	43	44	39	36	59	64	100	256
Ned Wallace	5B	Hyde	0	0	87	0	0	0	0		0	87
Joe Sayer	3B	Stourfield	28	0	0	0	0	0	0		33	28
Ollie Miller	6B		0	0	0	0	100	100	0	0	0	200
Charlie Woodley	6B	Hyde	0	0	88	0	0	0	0	100	64	188
Jacob Smith	6B	Hyde	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
Darren Whittingham	7B	Sturminster HS	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	500
Mark Jones	7B	BWS	0		98	0	0	0	0		0	98
Bertie Miller	8B	Port Regis	0	0	0	0	100	0	0		0	100
Robert Munday	10B	PGS	100	0	0	0	0	100	100	100	0	400
Callum Blair	10B	Hardyes	50	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	50
Toby Huthwaite	11B	Clay	0	100	100	0	0	0	0		0	200
Ross Crabbe	11B	Clay	0	0	87	0	0	0	0		0	87
Fraser Smith	12B	BSB	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	100	0	200
			0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0
Barnaby Huthwaite	13B	Clay	0	100	100	100	0	0	0		0	300
Andy Smith	13B	Clay	0	0	0	74	0	0	0		0	74

Girls

Place	Name		School	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H		Score
6	Grace French	2G	Dumpton	26	0	0	0	100	100	100	100	0	426
14	Lorna Sayer	5G	Stourfield	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100		100
1	Elizabeth Horsler	6G	St Osmunds	51	100	84	100	0	100	100	100	0	500
7	Agnes Brooke	6G	Wareham SM	89	100	100	0	42	0	0	69	0	400
8	Zoe Paget	6G	Haymoor	56	0	0	87	100	0	62		0	305
9	Destiny Wilcox	6G	Stoborough	100	0	70	0	0	69	0	50	0	289
19	Clemmie Greenfield	6G	Poulner	0	0	87	0	0	0	0		0	87
5	Charlotte Oakes	7G	BSG	63	0	81	78	0	100	78	100	0	437
10	Jenny Chapelhow	7G	Wyvern	81	77	0	100	0	0	0		0	258
12	Yvette Paget	7G	Parkstone	0	0	0	86	49	0	0	72	0	207
13	Cloe Paget	7G	Avonbourne	0	0	0	85	56	0	64		0	205
14	Deborah Blair	8G	St Osmunds	100	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	100
14	Caitlin Madgwick	8G	Godolphin	0	0	100	0	0	0	0		0	100
1	Sarah Horsler	9G	St Osmunds	100	100	0	0	97	100	100	100	0	500
14	Tamsin Miller	10G	Sherborne Girls	0	0	0	0	100	0	0		0	100
22	Hannah Parkinson	10G	Clay	0	0	0	43	0	0	0		0	43
1	Rebecca Whittingham	11G	Sturminster	0	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	0	500
4	Hazel Cutler	11G	S Wilts	94	0	0	100	100	95	100	100	0	495
11	Lauren Newitt	11G	Romsey	0	59	0	0	0	70	0	84	0	213
18	Paulina Vdovina	11G	Clay	0	0	92	0	0	0	0		0	92
21	Lola Ogunnaike	11G	Clay	0	0	49	0	0	0	0		0	49
20	Barbara Guerrini	12G	Clay	0	0	50	0	0	0	0		0	50
23	Elissa Gibbs	12G	Clay	0	0	38	0	0	0	0		0	38

Schools League

	School	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H		Score
1	Sturminster High School	100	200	200	200	200	200	200	100	100	1000
2	Wareham St Mary	189	200	179	0	42	86	0	169	0	823
3	Clayesmore	0	200	379	217	0	0	0	0	0	796
4	Dunbury	142	173	143	144	139	110	159	164		783
5	St Osmund's Middle	151	100	84	0	100	100	100	100	100	551
6	Hardyes	150	100	100	0	97	100	100	100		550
7	S Wilts GS	100	0	0	100	100	95	100	100		500
8	Bournemouth School for Girls	63	0	81	78	0	100	78	100		437
9	Hyde	0	0	267	0	0	64	0	100		431
10	Poole Grammar School	100	0	0	0	0	100	100	100		400
11	Dumpton	26	0	0	0	100	100	0	100		326
12	Haymoor	56	0	0	87	100	0	64	0	0	307
13	Moyles Court	0	0	100	0	0	100	100	0	0	300
14	Stoborough	100	0	70	0	0	69	0	50		289
15	Wyvern	81	77	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	258
16	Romsey	0	59	0	0	0	70	0	84	0	213
17	Parkstone Girls	0	0	0	86	49	0	0	72		207
18	Avonbourne	0	0	0	85	56	0	64	0	0	205
19	Bournemouth School for Boys	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	100	0	200
20	Godolphin	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
21	Port Regis	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	100
22	Sherborne Girls	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	100
23	Bishop Wordsworth School	0	0	98	0	0	0	0	0	0	98
24	Stourfield	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	28

Electronic  punching

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

(WIM  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 all schools league events.

E-cards for punching cost £35 or so to buy. WIM have got 100 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

My spreadsheet was written for a maximum of eight league events - in some years we have nine, and rather than try to rewrite the whole thing, I 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.