Orienteering

On the 4th of May the Northwest Sports interzone orienteering event was held at Moire Park. 36 year 5-8 students from Royal Road School competed in teams of 6. The school had some great results with both the year 7 and year 8 girls teams placing third in their categories. A number of students also had top ten individual placings - Jade Rangihuna (5th in Year 8 Boys), Jordan Charlton (8th in Year 8 Boys), Shaniquah Aramoana (8th in Year 8 girls), Fay-Channel Tuarae (9th in Year 8 girls), Javad Tajek (8th in Year 7 Boys), Gabrielle Harris (3rd in Year 7 girls) and Clara Norman (4th in Year 7 girls). 

What is orienteering?

Orienteering is a sport where competitors use a map to navigate to a series of marked checkpoints. Each orienteerer must decide what route to take from one checkpoint to the next. Everyone starts at different times and the start times and end times are recorded to find out each individual's total time. The person who was the fastest to visit all the controls in the correct order is the winner.

You can see some more photos of the day in the Photo and Video Gallery.