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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Kayaking, Climbing and Orienteering






A very productive day for the outdoor education department today.

My day started with an orienteering session for year nine girls PE. The girls were super competitive and spent the whole session running around the school site looking for the control points. Four out of the five groups managed to complete the whole course within a forty minute period.

During the students lunch hour we ran another kayak rolling clinic for a small number of students. As you can see by the video Alex has now successfully learnt to roll the kayak from a pre set up position and also managed to roll up after being tipped over backwards. This exercise is meant to disorientate the paddler, which makes the process more realistic.

The day finished with the regular tuesday after school climbing club. Jay usually runs this so it was great for me to cover him and see just how many good young climbers we have.

Mr Brice

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