Following the success of our last virtual PE challenge, The Queen’s Kilometre Quest, the PE department have launched another one for this period of remote learning. The aim of our new venture is again to encourage the girls to get physically active outside by getting involved in The Queen’s Sandstone Trail Challenge.
An element of competition always makes things a bit more fun and the challenge is also being run as a House competition so girls will get their own personal satisfaction while also earning those all-important House points! There will be House points available for any pupil who completes the challenge, as well as extra House points for those pupils who finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each year group.
The Sandstone Trail is one of the finest and most popular long distance walks in North West England, which has also been voted as one of “Britain’s favourite walks” by ITV viewers. It stretches for 34 miles/55 kilometres and offers superb, unbroken and often elevated walking across the still largely green and pleasant English county of Cheshire. The Sandstone Trail runs from the ancient market town of Frodsham on the broad Mersey estuary, to the Georgian Whitchurch in rural north Shropshire. It is split up into seven sections, which we are using as checkpoints for the challenge.
To complete the challenge the girls will record the distance they cover when they do any outdoor exercise. This can be done by walking, running, cycling, skipping or however else they wish and when they reach a checkpoint it will be logged on our school system.
The checkpoints are as follows:
- Section 1: Frodsham to Manley Common (9 kilometres/5½ miles)
- Section 2: Manley Common to Gresty’s Waste (5.5 kilometres/8½ miles)
- Section 3: Gresty’s Waste to Tarporley (8 kilometres/5 miles)
- Section 4: Tarporley to Burwardsley (8 kilometres/5 miles)
- Section 5: Burwardsley to Larkton Hill (8.5 kilometres/5¼ miles)
- Section 6: Larkton Hill to Willeymoor Lock (9 kilometres/6 miles)
- Section 7: Willeymoor Lock to Whitchurch (5.5 kilometres/3½ miles)