Scottish Schools' Orienteering Festival
2013 - Friday 7th June
Hopetoun House, South Queensferry
Updated: 6th May 2013
The Festival is aimed at pupils who have been introduced to orienteering through their school and the courses will be set at a level that will allow success for all pupils who have grasped the basic skills. Courses will be set for Primary 5 and upwards.
The Festival will be held on Friday 7 June with the closing date for entries being 28th May 2013.
Results
Results now available.
More Information
Blair Young
PE Department,
Biggar High School
John's Loan
Biggar
ML12 6AG
Tel:01899 220144
Fax: 01899-221265
byoung@biggar.s-lanark.sch.uk
Venue
Hopetoun House, South Queensferry
Extra information
Not in the final details:Registration
Registration will be open in the Education Centre from 9:30 for the collection of Pegs/Dibbers/SI-Cards, the return of trophies and any changes in names.SI-Cards
Team organisers can collect an envelope with their dibbers. Pupils who are regular orienteers and who have their own dibbers can use them but if they need hired ones, ask at registration. Please ensure that the correct dibber is given to each pupil and that any unused are returned. Warn the pupils that any losses will cost the school £30.Trophies
There are team trophies for each course worked out from the total time of best three from the school. Overall Schools Trophies, Primary and Secondary, go to the school with most runners within twice the winners time.Disqualifications
This year, pupils who cannot find controls or visit the wrong one will not be disqualified but will have a 10 minute penalty for each one missing. Pupils who deliberately miss controls may still be disqualified.
Final Details
Downloadable documents
Travel
Follow the signs for the Forth Road Bridge and then follow the brown signs for Hopetoun House through South Queensferry. Approximate travel times are: Edinburgh City Centre 30 minutes, Stirling 35 minutes, Perth 35 minutes and Glasgow 50 minutes. Parking is free. Please do not use Sat Nav as this will direct you to a locked gate at the west of the Estate.
Terrain and Safety
All courses use the parkland around Hopetoun House – beautiful woodland with lots of paths. There are other waymarker posts in the grounds for various trails – please advise competitors to ignore these. Longer courses visit the deer park – a more open area with scattered trees –please note large individual trees are marked on the map as white. The house grounds are fairly flat; there is more climb in the deer park.
There will be a lot of controls in the area – please advise competitors that, even on the shorter courses they may come across controls that are not on their course.
Competitors must use the gates to cross from the house grounds and the deer park – the courses have been planned to take them through the gates which will be manned. No walls must be crossed at any point.
The area to the east of the front of the house contains a ha-ha – a low wall with a ditch on one side. There is also a ha-ha between the house grounds and the deer park. Competitors must not climb or jump on or off these.
There is an ornamental pond near the finish. Please take care.
On arrival at parking please proceed to the Education room where you will have your SI pegs allocated by the results team. From there it is only a short walk back across the front of the House to the start.
Map
Please note that there was a mistake in the initial information. The map scale is 1:7500 with the contour interval at 5m.
Start
The start will be very close to the main house and to car parking. All areas to the west (back) of the house will be out of bounds to competitors before their run – please keep to the area in front of the house where the minibuses will be parked.
Finish
Please ask all runners to punch the finish control and then proceed to the download as quickly as possible. This will help to ensure that the results can be processed as soon as possible.
Toilets /Café - these are near the registration/download
Prize Giving
This will take place as soon as possible after 1.15 pm. Current trophy holders – please return these to registration on arrival.
Litter
Please help us to keep litter to a minimum by encouraging your pupils to either use the bins provided or take litter home. Runners are asked not to take food or drink out on their course as this inevitably leads to litter being dropped. Thank you for your co-operation with this matter.
Courses
1 |
P5/6 girls |
1.8k |
11 controls |
2 |
P 5/6 boys |
2.1k |
12 |
3 |
P 7 girls |
2.1k |
14 |
4 |
P 7 boys |
2.5k |
15 |
5 |
S 1 girls |
2.3k |
13 |
6 |
S 1 boys |
2.5k |
16 |
7 |
S 2 girls |
2.5k |
14 |
8 |
S 2 boys |
2.8k |
17 |
9 |
S 3 girls |
2.7k |
15 |
10 |
S 3 boys |
3.1k |
16 |
11 |
S 4 girls |
2.7k |
15 |
12 |
S 4 boys |
3.6k |
17 |
13 |
S 5/6 girls |
3.7k |
16 |
14 |
S 5/6 boys |
4.1k |
18 |
Courses 5, 6 and 8 will have a short taped route
The weather forecast is good with temperatures at or near 20 C.
