ORIENTEERING TASMANIA COACH VISIT
Rest assured if you ever get lost at Molesworth Primary all of our students will be able point you in the right direction!
We have started PE in Term 2 with a focus on Orienteering! Orienteering requires navigational skills using a map, sometimes with the assistance of a compass, navigating on a vast range of terrain whilst moving at speed and reaching checkpoints! We have been lucky to have Mike Calder from Orienteering Tasmania come to Molesworth and share his knowledge and skills of Orienteering with us.
We were able to tap into some skills we learnt last year as well as learning and developing more! We played some orienteering races, discussed directions and navigation, practised our compass reading skills, matched orienteering symbols and pictures, used maps to navigate ourselves to get to checkpoints around our school and we also used electronic orienteering equipment!
Here are some thoughts from our students:
- Nate - We have been scanning the cards and running around the school. I enjoyed it.
- Marley - I liked matching the symbol cards.
- Joseph - Orienteering is the best! The best part about it is using the map and unlike some other sports if you get it wrong you get to try again. It’s good!
- Alexia - I like scanning the P cards. The beep sound is so school.
- Finn - I enjoyed running around finding the points on the map.
- Lola - I loved stepping on the stepping stones to match the cards.
- Ryder - I think Orienteering is really fun. It is a good chance to run around and mark things, you aren’t restricted to one area.
- Laurie - I liked how you get to run around the whole school and find checkpoints
- Ellis - I enjoyed all the running around, it is like a mini exercise.
Later in the term, our 5/6 and 2/3 classes will be travelling to Tolosa Park with Mike and completing an Orienteering course. Our students will put their Orienteering skills to the test as they navigate around the park to find checkpoints in teams.
We would like to pass on a big thank you to Mike and Jane from Orienteering Tasmania for coming out to Molesworth and organising some awesome activities at Molesworth!
If you are interested in Orienteering and exploring this sport, there are a lot of permanent courses around Tasmania and lots of events throughout the year. If you would like more information about Orienteering, check out the following Orienteering website as it has a lot of great information: https://tasorienteering.asn.au/
