Today we took part in an orienteering session with Westmeath Sports Partnership. We completed 3 activities. The first one was called the maze. In pairs, we read a map that had a number of controls marked on it. We wore a dipper on our finger and ran through the maze to register our dipper at each control as fast as we could. Kevin then checked our dipper. This gave us our time for the event and if we had checked all of the controls correctly and in the right order. The next 2 activities were orienteering tasks throughout the park, first with a map and punchers and lastly with a map and dippers. Orienteering helps with map reading, listening, quick thinking, team work and running. We had a fantastic day and really enjoyed it!
