Clubs and Activities News
Orienteering – Sunday, 17 March 2019
NEXT BUSH ORIENTEERING EVENT ON THE SOUTHERN DOWNS
Sunday, 17 March – Leyburn State Forest, west of Warwick
Come and join us for our first bush orienteering event for the season and enjoy orienteering in this open spur/gully eucalypt forest.
Courses: Hard 1 (8.6km); Hard 2 (6.2km); Hard 3 (4.9km); Hard 4 (3.4km); Hard 5 (2.7km); Moderate 1 (3.5km); Moderate 2 (2.3km); Easy (2.1km); Very Easy (1.4km)
Online Entries: Please enter online by midnight on Wednesday 13 March at https://oq.asn.au/events/7574 to ensure enough maps are available. If you can’t manage this, please email me and let me know what course you would like to do.
Sportident will be used for this event. SI sticks can be hired for $2.
Starts: 9am – 11am Close: 1pm
Cost:
Members: adults – $12; junior – $8; family maximum – $32
Non-member: adults – $18; juniors – $12; family maximum – $48; Beginners – $8
Facilities: bush toilet; drinks for sale; coffee cart and muffins; sausage sizzle
Directions:
From Warwick, take the Cunningham Highway westwards towards Inglewood for 34km, before turning right into Thanes Creek Road. The first 4km of this road is bitumen and it then becomes a good gravel road. 3.8km after the start of the gravel, take the right hand fork at a junction and travel a further 7km to the assembly area on Forestry Road. Allow 45 mins traveling time from Warwick.
From Stanthorpe, take the New England Highway north to Warwick and at the first set of traffic lights (the intersection with the Cunningham Highway), turn left and follow the directions as above.
Adventure Club: Cedar Creek Falls/TreeTop Challenge, Mt Tambourine
Activity: | Day Trip – Cedar Creek Falls/TreeTop Challenge, Mt Tamborine |
Date: | 17 February 2019 |
Participants: | See below |
Staff: | EBB, DKD, Gabin Tardy |
Orienteering Information for 2019
If you think you may be interested in this sport, read through the following information carefully and discuss it with your parents. If you would like to participate, please email Mrs Nottle or call and see her in the Careers Office (Student Services Centre) during lunchtime on Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays.
Clubs and Activities Information 2019
Please click the link below to access information and how to sign up for Clubs and Activities in 2019
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Adventure Club – 2019 Activities
A special welcome back to 2019 from the Adventure Club.
The Adventure Club provides a variety of outdoor activities, both day and overnight trips, throughout the year.
Here is a list for 2019:
Orienteering Opportunity
Over the next 4 weeks, we are running Night Navigation exercises around Toowoomba on a Tuesday evening. I am helping to run the first event at Kearney Springs this coming Tuesday so will be available at registration.
Adventure Club
Activity: Overnight Trip – Noosa River
The Adventure Club spent the weekend exploring the Noosa River environs in the vicinity of Harry’s Hut campsite.
Orienteering
Well done to the boys who ran at the QLD School’s Orienteering Carnival in Brisbane on 28 & 29 July and congratulations to Oliver Schubert who has been selected to represent Queensland at the Australian Schools Championships in South Australia in October.
Sam Gladwin, Isaac Burke and Gabriel Schubert also competed well during to carnival to achieve some impressive results.