Training events for school students: 7th Aug - 5th Sept 2024
Canterbury Schools Orienteering Festival 2024
- Map:
- Various schools and parks around Christchurch
- Event Type:
- Orienteering training and coaching
Coaching and practise is offered to all school-aged children at all levels. No booking required, just turn up with your running shoes, a compass if you have one and $2 for the map. Bring your own Sportident stick if you have one, otherwise we will lend you one (a Sportident stick is a microchip that you place on your finger to 'punch' each control on the orienteering course).
Each training session will vary, it is run by volunteers and each will have something different to offer. There will be many different things to go over, so it will not have the same format every session. It may involve a walk around looking at features, or a discussion to start, often it will have a set course to run.
Pre-festival school's orienteering coaching and training sessions:
List of planned dates and locations below. We recommend re-checking this list close to each session in case something has changed.
All training sessions will be after school hours on a Monday-Thursday with up to four each week leading up to the Canterbury Schools Orienteering Festival.
All sessions will be held from: 4-5pm
After-school training is $2 per child which you can pay in cash at each session. You will get your own map.
| Date | Map | Meeting location |
| Tue 6 Aug | CANCELLED | |
| Wed 7 Aug | Mt Pleasant School | Inside the school back entrance off Canon Hill Cres |
| Mon 12 Aug | Old School Reserve, Mt Pleasant | At Scout Hall, entrance off Major Hornbrook Rd |
| Weds 14 Aug | Halswell Quarry Park | Eastern end of main entrance (top carpark) |
| Thurs 15 Aug | Kirkwood school | Kirkwood Ave entrance to school |
| Mon 19 Aug | Hagley Park | Botanic gardens car park |
| Weds 21 Aug | Barnett Park | Beside football field at the end of the car park. |
| Mon 26 Aug | Victoria Park | Hexagonal shelters near main carpark and playground |
| Tue 27 Aug | Heathcote Domain | Cricket Pavilion car park off Bridle Path Road |
| Weds 28 Aug | Thorrington School | Near central entrance from Colombo Street |
| Thur 29 Aug | St Martins School | Entrance to St Martins School from Albert Tce |
| Mon 2 Sept | Ascot Park | QEII Park - off Ascott Ave, under the trees halfway down Ascott Ave. |
| Tue 3 Sept | Nga Puna Wai | Rear of new Netball centre building, right side. |
| Wed 4 Sept | McCormacks Bay | Carpark near rugby fields |
| Thur 5 Sept | Rudolf Steiner/Hansen Park | Hansen Park Playground, off the Hansen Park carpark. |
Download the Orienteering training flyer [976KB] here:
