JOG Badge Scheme

There are four badges, a JOG badge and then a badge for each course - hare, squirrel, badger and fox. Each badge has certain skills a junior needs to learn, practice and demonstrate to be awarded.

At each JOG there should be someone available to help explain the skills and assess for a badge if required.

If you have any questions regarding the badge scheme, please contact juniors@quantockorienteers.co.uk

JOG Badge

• Complete 3 JOG courses with an adult
• Hold the map (on the board and clip on compass) the whole way around a short course
• Set the map by holding the board flat and turning it the right way so it points where to go at the start
• Find each control, check it is the right one and punch the control card
• Set the map again and decide which way to go next

Hare Badge

• Identify the main features on the map: the colours, symbols and scale
• Set the map so that it is the right way by:
  • using a clip-on compass
  • using the surrounding features
• Understand what a line feature is and walk along one checking off features on the map
• Follow a course keeping the map set
  • using a map with a clip-on compass
  • using the features on the map
• Complete four Hare or White courses (including at least one course at a QOFL) unsupported

Squirrel Badge

• Understand relative distances on the map and on the ground and be able to estimate and compare distances
• Have a simple understanding of contours
• Fold and thumb the map around a short easy course without using a compass
• Leave a line feature for visible controls nearby
• Use the map to talk about your route taken, what went well and what went badly
• Complete four Squirrel or Yellow courses (including at least one course at a QOFL)

Badger Badge

• Understand and use attack points and handrails
• Understand and use catching features
• Understand how to relocate
• Understand your pacing and use this to estimate how far to go to an attack point or other feature on the map
• Develop a better understanding of contours and how they represent the shape of the land, and demonstrate how to use them during an event
• Demonstrate the ability to use the compass of your choice
• Complete four Badger or Orange courses (including at least one course at a QOFL) and provide a de-brief on each course to include route choice, attack points and catching features
• Work with an experienced orienteer to plan a JOG event

Fox Badge

• Analyse longer legs, using contour and vegetation information to compare different routes
• Understanding and demonstrating how your pace changes at different speeds and on different terrain
• Understand leg simplification
• Demonstrate orienteering ‘traffic lights’
  • run on rough bearing ticking off features to locate attack point
  • fine orienteering from the attack point, using bearings, pacing, contours and map detail
• Plan at least one JOG
• Help at 3 JOGS:
  • explain to newcomers what to do
  • explain how to set a map using a compass
  • help children working for Hare, Squirrel and Badger badges acquire the skills
• Assist at 1 QOFL
• Complete three Fox or Light Green courses (including at least one course at a QOFL)
• Complete two Fox courses at a suitable venue with a partner taking it in turns on controls whist being shadowed by an experienced orienteer