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We are pleased to be hosting the British Schools Orienteering Championships 2024 in November at Shorne Woods Country Park near Gravesend, Kent. See here for full details. This section of Dartford Orie…
Introductory Orienteering Videos
This page contains links to 2 short introductory videos on orienteering.…
Resources
There is a wide variety of resouces available to support your school orienteering. This is just a selection of key resources to get you started. A search of the internet will provide many more.…
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Mapped Areas
The MAP is central to the sport of orienteering. It contains a wealth of information and the more your pupils understand the better will be their orienteering skills.…
Setting orienteering courses
There are 3 common types of courses that you will find useful when setting your first full course. The ‘cross country’ course is where the pupils follow a set course in numerical order. The second is …
School Run
Two hundred years ago influential landscape artist Samuel Palmer described the Darent Valley as an 'earthly paradise'. Today he would still recognise the special qualities conveyed through his visiona…