Crime O
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Re: Crime O
Although definitely not crime, experience on Saturday showed an unusual attraction of orienteering for 11 year olds. I was leading a birthday party for an 11 year old boy, with 11 boys, 3 girls & 2 parents in attendance, at a country park. By asking the children, I learned they'd done 1 session orienteering at the park in year 3, but in groups of 5 with adults on every point, plus a couple of sessions in their school grounds. So, I was keen to give them a bit more unsupervised fun - they ran star courses individually, and of course, none got lost. Then, we set off on Yellow course, everyone with a map, but with one leader for each leg - there wasn't enough time to set them off at 2 mins intervals for a course that takes minimum of about 45mins for novices, if they were to eat & drink before parents came to collect. They were so keen at observing features that they read all inscriptions on memorial benches & one beside a tree, calculating how old they were when they died and speculating how they died, as well as noticing different types of woodland and open ground on sides on paths. Towards the end, the leg leader discovered a dead rabbit on the path - pelvis bitten out & eyes pecked out, hence speculation about what killed it (concluded probably fox), then speculation about what to do with it. Eventually, they accepted my explanation that digging a grave with sticksand holding a funeral ceremony would take too long, and that we had enough benches without a memorial to "Peter Rabbit" - they were joking by this stage Back at base, we ate and several children and parents asked to see my examples of O maps - one boy was very pleased to hear that orienteering happens in Poland and that there are international symbols, as his mother is Polish, and despite attending a Polish club, he's not confident about his Polish for reading control descriptions & map keys! Also explained that temporary items (like electric fences and rabbit corpses) are not mapped on maps used for months / years, although more permanent changes are shown.
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