HOLY Family navigated their way around Barrow Park to great effect as they won the Furness Schools Orienteering championships.

The Barrow team emerged on top of 18 groups from 15 schools to qualify for the Cumbria School Games final in Carlisle next month.

Teams of boys and girls were tasked with plotting the quickest route between a number of checkpoints in the park, with different courses used for the boys and girls and for the morning qualifiers and the afternoon finals.

Despite occasionally threatening skies, there was much enjoyment to be had as the youngsters set off from the bandstand and negotiated routes that took them up to the cenotaph and around the northern expanses of the park.

There were 226 individuals competing, with Lakeland Orienteering running the event on the behalf of Furness Schools Games organiser Helen Wright, who said: “As always, they ran a high quality event and I would like to thank them for all their hard work.”