ORIENTEERING GAME – RULES

Getting ready to move to Latina...have a look at the rules!!

*It will take place in the school garden the day 3 of June at 16:00

*Kids will be organized in 4 mixed groups. Each group will be of 5 pupils, 4 visitors of different nationalities + 1 Italian.

Group RED, Group GREEN, Group BLUE, Group WHITE.

There is a START POINT where each group will be given an ANSWER PAPER with 15 questions and a pen. On this paper there is a “start time box” and an “arrival time box”.

On the “start time box” the judges will write the exact TIME each group begins to play.

EACH GROUP WILL START AT A DIFFERENT TIME. Example:

            Group RED starts playing at 16:04

            Group GREEN starts playing at 16:06

            Group BLUE starts playing at 16:08

            Group WHITE starts playing at 16:10

Judges will use a CHRONOMETER and each group-time will be calculated individually.

There is a “check point” on the other side of the garden with 4 maps of the area. Maps include 15 numbered points kids have to localize in the garden. The 4 maps are identical but the 15 points on each map have been numbered differently, so there will be the map for GROUP RED, the map for GROUP GREEN and so on…

Each group have to check ONLY its own map!!!

Each point-number on the MAP identifies a point in the garden. Each number is also a question on the ANSWER PAPER.

Example: The point n° 1 on the map is the question n° 1 on the ANSWER PAPER. The point n° 2 on the map is the question n° 2 on the ANSWER PAPER. The point n° 3 on the map is the question n° 3 on the ANSWER PAPER …. Each group has its own question paper (and its own map).

On each point (it can be a tree, a bench, a wall, a window…) there will be a visible paper sign. Kids have to read the question on the “paper sign” and write the answer on the ANSWER PAPER.

At the end of the 15 answers the group will give the ANSWER PAPER to the ARRIVAL POINT.

Judges will check the answers and calculate the total time.

For each wrong answer the group is penalized.

The group that finishes in the shortest time (and gives correct answers) WINS.