After a morning of maths and english at homeschool the girls were keen to get outside this afternoon. With orienteering on our minds these days I set up a small 10 control course around a compact area of the College grounds - pond, rose garden and the "spooky garden" (an area of bamboo, camphor and palm trees) outside the Twilight Zone. Lesley was on photography and road-crossing duties, taking a 20 minute break from the rigours of TDC work! Freda set off first, and after a hesitant start soon got into the swing of it and blasted round in 6 mins 58 seconds. Here she is control number 2 (a palm tree) looking slightly worried...
Here's Edie at control number 6 (another palm tree) working out her position (note hand movement!) and route round the English Department building to number 7 (a cypress tree) in the Rose Garden. (other controls were at path junctions, boulders or building features.) Edie's time was less than 2 minutes behind Freda, another impressive performance. Both girls are pretty confident and capable at orienteering now, especially now that they're familiar with the STC map. I wonder when we'll be back in Scotland and able to enjoy some orienteering in some beautiful Highland birch forest.......?
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