Kent Junior Orienteering Festival

Location

Nearest town: Faversham

• Grid Ref:
• Postcode: ME13 0EN
• Latitude: 51.29760
• Longitude: 0.85811
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Directions / Parking

Lorenden School, Painters Forstal, Faversham, ME13 0EN

Registration & Start Times

Start times from 11.00 until 12.00 noon

Course Information

This is a “junior only” event which takes place within, or just beside, the grounds of the school where the competitors can feel confident to run by themselves and are never very far from the start or finish.

The courses to be run according to school year group

Year 4, 5 and 6 - White course

Year 7 and 8      - Yellow course

Year 9 and 10    - Orange course  

Years 11, 12 and 13 – Light Green

Competitors running white and yellow courses may see their maps before starting.

Explanation of colour courses

• White are very easy with all controls on paths. They are mainly used by 6-10 year olds and family groups.
• Yellow use simple linear features like paths, walls and streams. They are mainly used by under 12’s and family groups.
• Orange progress to basic use of the compass and route choice. They are ideal for novice adults or experienced youngsters.
• Light Green are ideal for improvers as the navigational difficulty begins to increase and uses simple contours and point features.
• Green are used mostly by experienced under 18’s and adults wanting a short but challenging course with a very hard navigational difficulty.
• Blue are a longer, more physically demanding course in comparison to the green. The distances are more varied between controls and the course attracts experienced orienteers.
• Brown & Black are very physically demanding and have a very hard navigational difficulty. They are for experienced orienteers only.
• Score means visiting as many controls as possible in any order in a specific time, like 45mins.

Entry Details

Adults with distinctive bibs will patrol the courses and will be available to give essential help to any competitor if they should need it.

Medals will be awarded to the first three boys and girls in each age category at the end of the event and hopefully the weather will be conducive to family picnicking.

Entry payment will be taken on the day, but to ensure that there are the correct number of maps available please email the organiser and order one with;-

Entrants name, school year group, club [if any], and a request to hire a dibber if needed.

BOF members £1          non BOF members £2         Dibber hire£1

Planners Alison and Brendan Howe

Organiser Tony Connellan      []