Schools rise to orienteering challenge

THE girls’ team from St Anne’s School. They are (back, from the left) Chloe Goulden, Rebecca Watson and Holly Sutcliffe. Front: Olivia Rees (left) and Sasha Howe.

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CHILDREN from schools in Shaw and Royton took part in an orienteering competition at Tandle Hill Country Park.

Pupils from St Joseph’s RC Primary, Blackshaw Lane, SS Aiden and Oswald, St Anne’s, Royton, Thornham St James’s and Firbank School took part in the fun challenge.
The boys’ and girls’ teams were timed as they located various points in the park.

But the winning group, which was able to find all the markers in the fastest time, were boys from St Joseph’s School, who were awarded a special trophy.

The competition was organised by Steve Hill, teacher at St Joseph’s, and Laura Vayro, countryside officer at Tandle Hill.

Laura said: “There were some children who had never done orienteering and others who had but they all did really well.”

Top left: pictured are members of the winning St Joseph’s School boys’ team. They are (from the left), Robert Harding, James Forde, William Whitehead, George Borthwick and Aidan Pilkington.

Top right: the girls’ team from St Anne’s School. They are (back, from the left) Chloe Goulden, Rebecca Watson and Holly Sutcliffe. Front: Olivia Rees (left) and Sasha Howe.