School Resources

The following manuals and documents have been created specifically for use in schools. They are free to download.

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Manuals

This A5 booklet explains the main principles around orienteering; maps, symbols, scale, control descriptions, types of orienteering events and basic skills. As an educator you’ll find this booklet useful to improve your general knowledge of this sport.

We’ve compiled 17 indoor and outdoor orienteering-related lessons for the class environment. Each lesson plan explains how to plan and run the activity and also offers variations and ways to increase the difficulty of the exercises. Suitable for a range of ages.

This A5 booklet focuses on the making of black & white handdrawn maps in the school environment; both of small areas, like a classroom, and the entire school grounds. Maps can be made by the students. The booklet includes six lesson plans for class activities.

This booklet takes you through the basics of organising an orienteering event at your school. We go through how to set up registration and the start and finish areas and we offer some course planning tips.

Activity downloads

Print these sheets and use them for activities. Remember to laminate the cards so that you can reuse them. Please refer to the Lesson Plans 1 manual for the activities.

 

Newsletters

 

Promotional Posters

These full-colour posters can be printed A4 or A3. Use the blank space to fill in the date when orienteering activities will take place at your school i.e. Tuesday afternoons, 14h00-15h00, where they take place i.e. lower soccer field, and your contact details. Laminate the posters to reuse – just clean off the writing.