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Latest News ( 08 July ) Provisional dates for the Autumn Term, 2008, including some other important dates on the fixture list. The schools league events are mixed between Saturday and Sunday events this term Wed Aug 13 - Moors Valley Informal training courses from 12.30 or longer courses using SI punching plus permanent course markers 17.30- 19.00
Sun Sept 14 - WIM Galoppen -
Turfhill,New Forest (This event is also the Yvette Bake Trophy Qualifying round)
Dorset Schools League 1 After the final league event of the season, the League tables have been updated. Congratulations to the individual age group winners and to Swanage Middle School, this year's league winner, ahead of South Wilts GS and last year's champions, Burgate. The trophy and medals were presented at the Score Championships at Moors Valley. The annual Schools Score Championships were held on Friday May 16th at Moors Valley. Many thanks to Chris Turner (Planner) and John Warren (Organiser) and all the volunteer officials from Wimborne Orienteers who made the event such a success. With just over 100 children competing either singly or in pairs the attendance was slightly up on recent years and we welcome one or two new schools to the competitions. Only four competitors found all 24 controls and got back within the hour. Congratulations to our individual prizewinners and to Burgate School and Swanage Middle School, who won the team competitions. Download the Results. Photographs
British Schools Championships, Bovington Dorset November 17 2007 Congratulations to all those athletes who took part in the British Schools Championships despite the horrendous weather conditions on the Sunday. In particular, congratulations should go to Tom Butt (BWS), Lucy Butt (SWilts), & Jack Benham (Burgate), whose performances over the weekend, not just at the Championships but on the Saturday at the Gore Heath Selection Race, have gained them selection for the English team taking part in the World Schools Championships, to be held in Scotland in April. Also selected was Julia Blomquist, who used to run in the Dorset Schools League. Sam Giles (BWS) has also been nominated as a reserve. Jack & Julia are both British Schools Champions. Another notable performances at Bovington came from Alice Butt (S Wilts), who won Girls 13 by a huge margin. Alice's performance at this summer's European Youth Championships earned her special congratulations at the recent British Squad's awards ceremony. The League also had a winning school team. Clayesmore School retained their title in the small schools class at the Schools Champs, the 7th time in the last 10 years that they have won this award. 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). 2007 - 08 There are normally eight events over the school year, with only one event, plus the score championships, in the summer term. As there may be a number of schools trying to train up novice orienteers before the British Schools at Bovington, I listed all suitable events here, with Dorset Schools League fixtures in bold
Spring Term Feb 02 (Sat) Sarum event, Vernditch. More details on Sarum website Mar 03 - Godshill, New Forest. Details here Mar 16 - SOC event, New Forest (see SOC website for details) Mar 30 - WSX Gallopen Summer Term May16 (Friday) - Dorset Schools Score Championships - Moors Valley. Details, entry forms etc will be available for download at the beginning of the Summer Term. 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 8 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. Courses (amended this year to fall in with British School standards) 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 Shillingstone 2007,Peter Taylor (Swan 8B) was the first boy 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. Emma Spring (S Wilts 11G) ran down on Orange so got half points because her 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 Boys
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