Totally agree with most of the above comments. the facilities and amount timetabled for sport and other non core activities is greater at an independent school. The days of all Wednesday afternoon for sport though have long gone at most. Two key reasons for sending kids to an independent school:
1 hopefully they get a more balanced education
2 Kids can be different (play sport (O etc), music, drama etc) and be accepted as being normal by their peers
Finally in looking at the costs, need to bear in mind the cost of buoilding the facilities etc. This can be enormous and few Ind schols have surplus funds available.
school orienteering??
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rubbish
more balanced education? not at my school!
and no shouts of orienteer swot girl/boy? youd be lucky. i still get the piss ripped to this day, especially by folk i went to school with
more balanced education? not at my school!
and no shouts of orienteer swot girl/boy? youd be lucky. i still get the piss ripped to this day, especially by folk i went to school with
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Have to say Neville and the girls have received huge support from their bog standard comp. It was once a good orienteering school but now all the team's surnames begin with H. They have given him money, time off and a lot of encouragement and one of his England shirts is proudly on display with a host of other international shirts from loads of other sports (and some rather whacky achievements including "young cobbler of the year") I know of a very accomplished young lady orienteer who goes to a very exclusive school who receives nothing like this level of support and often moans that she gets into trouble for missing hockey and netball matches to go orienteering.
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Becks wrote:Yeah...no screams of "swot orienteerer girl" for them...
I went to a comprehensive and was never called anything for orienteering. I was always open about orienteering and was proud that I did it and was good(ish) at it.
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I unfortuanatly get dumped in the school newsletter for good results nastily frequently so a few people in my school may have heard of orienteering but i can only think of 3 (at best) people who know what orienteering really is exept for "some cross country running thing"
I unfortuanatly get dumped in the school newsletter for good results nastily frequently so a few people in my school may have heard of orienteering but i can only think of 3 (at best) people who know what orienteering really is exept for "some cross country running thing"
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Support from the school and their pride in your achievement is very different to comments from ignorant pupils who don't know what the sport is and are envious of success. This is often the difference between the views of state and independent schools. Also of course the finance issue, they have lots of money, if a teacher wants to run an O club they get a budget, so can go to badge events, book and use mini bus etc. State schools will often pay entries to schools events etc but are unable to offer mini-buses regularly, or fund weekly trips to O events. Also the teachers from state schools are certainly not paid to take kids off on Sundays!
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Have to say, Jene, I went to your school (many, many years ago), and altho' none of the teachers knew what the sport involved, I was allowed time off to go to JHI's and JIRC's etc, but certainly no acknowledgement of achievements or funding that others are talking about now.
I don't know how many of the teachers are still there, but my only experience of O within the school came from "life skills" lessons, where we did a compass exercise on the athletics field. The teacher in charge of that was more than a little surprised when she found out I was a Welsh international, and this was not orienteering!
I don't know how many of the teachers are still there, but my only experience of O within the school came from "life skills" lessons, where we did a compass exercise on the athletics field. The teacher in charge of that was more than a little surprised when she found out I was a Welsh international, and this was not orienteering!
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My school will quite happily announce results/relay wins etc as theres both me and my sister at my school, but theres no real orienteering interest. (Though they have let me have time off for o events, if I use the word 'national' somewhere..).
Everyone has 4 compulsory hours in year 10/11 (aged 15/16) - a score walking around our teeny grounds. No compass involved and its pitched as a semi-treasure hunt. Even then it's walking in school uniform (skirts) and others were horrified to learn I ran the lot in under 15 mins. I ended up co-teaching the lesson, trying to bring some competitiveness and map work into it but still orienteering was seen as 'walking thourgh woods'. Also, no-one understand why we wear what we do! We now have 'Performing Arts' status which includes P.E. but orienteering hasn't been mentioned as a sport which will be improved. We don't have the staff or the money to encourage it which is a shame as we're next-door to a large city-park.
Everyone has 4 compulsory hours in year 10/11 (aged 15/16) - a score walking around our teeny grounds. No compass involved and its pitched as a semi-treasure hunt. Even then it's walking in school uniform (skirts) and others were horrified to learn I ran the lot in under 15 mins. I ended up co-teaching the lesson, trying to bring some competitiveness and map work into it but still orienteering was seen as 'walking thourgh woods'. Also, no-one understand why we wear what we do! We now have 'Performing Arts' status which includes P.E. but orienteering hasn't been mentioned as a sport which will be improved. We don't have the staff or the money to encourage it which is a shame as we're next-door to a large city-park.
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