Molesworth Primary School
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Molesworth TAS 7140
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GRADES 2-3 AND 5-6 ORIENTATION EXCURSION TO TOLOSA PARK

The next time you are at Tolosa Park and need some help navigating your way around, just call upon a student from 2/3 and 5/6 and they will be able to assist you!

On Friday 17th June, the Grade 2-3 and 5-6 class jumped onto the bus and travelled to Tolosa Park. Mr Mike Calder from Orienteering Tasmania met us at Hut 10 Leatherwood to test our orienteering skills! Everyone spent their time navigating around the different courses that took us all around Tolosa Park to find checkpoints. At each checkpoint we scanned our P cards and when we finished the course we were able to scan these into Mike to see if we missed any checkpoints and to see how fast we completed the courses!

Mike was very impressed with our students’ attitudes! He said many students completed 3 courses at Tolosa Park which was very impressive.

Here are some of our favourite moments on the excursion:

  • Angel - I enjoyed walking around looking for the all the checkpoints.
  • Emillia - I enjoyed being with my friends and making the checkpoint beep with p-cards.
  • Otis - I enjoyed scanning the cards because the beep noise was satisfying.
  • Henry - I liked running around with Toby and when it was over, I wanted to spend more time at Tolosa Park.
  • Esther - The thing I liked about Tolosa Park was running with Milly and Olive trying to find check points.
  • Nick - I enjoyed having an excursion with the 5-6s because they made it harder to finish faster. Most of the 5-6s are faster and have better map skills.
  • Hugh - I like running around with my friends.
  • Grace - I liked hearing what score we got when we went to Mike at the end.
  • Alex E - I enjoyed figuring out where the checkpoints were!
  • Ziva - every individual had to work together if you were in a group, you were doing it as a team! It was more cooperative!
  • Chayse - I liked working with different people.
  • James - I completed 3 maps with William and we came first in two of them!
  • Violet - I like finding all the checkpoints everywhere it was very fun to explore!
  • Ethan - I really liked working with Lucas to find the checkpoints at speed.

We would like to pass on a big thank you to Mike for organising and setting up the courses for us at Tolosa Park. We would also like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Ferris, Ms Goggins and Mrs Duncombe for accompanying our students on this excursion.  

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/