Welcome to Autumn SC-ORE 2026
School Orienteering
Registration
SC-ORE is a team-based orienteering challenge
for
primary school aged children
Do you want your child to learn navigational skills while also getting some physical exercise and socialising with their friends? SC-ORE ticks all these boxes!
Over 4 Thursday mornings, SC-ORE (SChool ORienteering) offers some running and navigation skills practice with a real map while having fun with friends in a team-based activity.
What is orienteering?
Orienteering is a navigation sport where you visit checkpoints in a specific order using a map. The map gives you information about the area, and you decide on your own route to get around the course from point to point.
Good to know: you don’t need to be a fast runner to do well at orienteering! Navigation through map reading is a big part of the sport – a skill all orienteers continue to hone. The fastest orienteers can both run fast and navigate well – and do it concurrently.
Orienteering is a sport for life – suitable for all ages and all abilities. Let your child try it in this safe and fun environment!
No previous experience is needed for kids to try SC-ORE! Before each event we hold an instructive briefing for everyone. Our coaches are there along the courses to coach the children to solve their navigation problems themselves during the event - when needed. The kids learn as they go!
For registration and more specific info about SC-ORE, continue reading…
Autumn SC-ORE 2026 starts on the 7th of May
It is a 4-week orienteering relay
Four children make up a team*
This orienteering challenge is for students in Years 3 to 6.
However, if younger students have experience in orienteering they may enter.
It is held over four Thursday mornings before school 8.00am to approx. 8.45am - to get those bodies and brains going!
(Briefing starts at 7:40am the first week, and 7:45 the other weeks.)
Dates and Locations for Autumn SC-ORE 2026 are
7th May - Weston Park (Yarralumla)
14th May - Lennox Gardens (Yarralumla)
21st May - Telopea Park (Kingston/Barton)
28th May - Eddison Park (Phillip, Woden)
* We welcome all gender combinations in a team. However, to podium in the overall series there must be no more than 2 people of the same gender in the team.
- Can't get a full team?
Register your child anyway, teams can register incrementally and we will help put together teams as well as we can.
- Already have a team, or know someone to be on your team?
Please let us know when you or they register.
Registration fees
Prices are inclusive of mandatory charges, items, and fees
Registration Autumn SC-ORE 2026
Naming of Teams
If you have a school team, please follow the following convention for school team names.:
School name A, School name B, School name C, etc
Eg. Campbell A, Campbell B and so on.
Simply use school name and a letter of the alphabet. This makes it easier for our computer entry set up.
(If you can not provide a team letter, write "School name X" followed by the names of your teammates (if known).)
Incomplete Teams
So you haven't yet got a full team. Don't panic!
Just register your child.
Registration can be incremental. And we will endeavour to make up complete teams as well as we can, even if these are mixed school teams.
Everyone gets to run!
Risks
By entering this event you are accepting that you have read and understood the General Warning Waiver that will appear on the next page. Photos for publicity will be taken. This may include aerial photography. Some photos taken during the SC-ORE events will be used for promotional purposes.
For more detail / info or formal rules please visit the SC-ORE page on the OACT website
http://act.orienteering.asn.au/juniors/blue-sparks/sc-ore/
Contact information
- Event contact
- Orienteering ACT Inc
- Phone
- 0261821815
