S2 ORIENTEERING WINNERS

Knox Academy triumphed in the recent East Lothian S2 Orienteering challenge held at John Muir Country Park.

Eighteen S2 pupils representing the three houses of Knox Academy (Garleton, Lammerlaw & Traprain), travelled to John Muir Country Park on Wednesday 10th February 2010, to take part in the Outdoor Education East Lothian S2 Orienteering Challenge. The event was an individual pursuit that witnessed over sixty pupils from the six East Lothian state schools navigate their way around the course picking up as many points from the different score stations in the quickest time possible.

In the end, Knox Academy had six top ten finishers and held the top four places, with Finlay Munro in 2G1 being the overall winner collecting the most points in the quickest time.

Knox Academy also use this event as an Interhouse competition and even though it was a Garleton winner in the individual pursuit, the winning team was Traprain with a massive overall total of 5060 points. The individual totals were added up and simply because Traprain managed to fill their team they managed to be the overall winners. Hopefully next year Garleton and Lammerlaw will manage to pull together a complete team of ten competitors.

For more information on the event visit edubuzz.org/blogs/eloes/2010/02/11/schools-orienteering-competition/

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