This year’s summer camp was to Thorrington Scout Campsite near Colchester in Essex.
Overall, the weather was slightly damper than usual, but the occasional shower didn’t stop us doing anything – although you will see from the photos, Carl did end up building a roof over the fire!
We are sad to hear that Jane Whiting has gone home.
Jane supported the group for many years, being our Group Chair for many years in the early noughties.
Additionally, Jane supported Scouting in the District behind the scenes.
Eight groups of scouts went out exploring on Friday evening, with a night navigation hike from locations across the district to Sevenoaks Weald.
Walking parties from 10th Sevenoaks (Weald), 9th Sevenoaks (Seal) and both Chapman and Swift troops from the 4th set out from locations stretching from Westerham to Shipbourne and navigated their way to the scout hut in Sevenoaks Weald.
Today was Monopoly Run “Live”, an event where 8000 players from Scouting and Guiding play a real time game of Monopoly across London.
This year 62 of us from Swift, Chapman and Seal Scout Troops, formed eight teams and ventured into central London to take part.
Eight hours and 38 kms of walking / tube rides / bus journeys, most of our teams had managed to visit every place on the standard Monopoly board.
Seven of our teams ended up in the same game – with the ‘Brave’ team (Nick, Robin, Holly. Caitlin, Clemmie, Lexie and Christopher) taking the crown. The one team out there competing with the public ‘The Influencers’ managed to come second in their game.
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The Scout Troops haven’t done a particularly good job taking photos of activities this term, however we have been busy scouting!
The scouts brought in their favourite board games
Chapman and Swift cooked a chicken chow mien and Sweet and Sour Crispy Chicken care of a Kitchen Sanctuary recipe
A night hike, a visit to the chip shop and sleepover for some of the newer Chapman scouts.
The scouts spent an evening filming and editing short videos promotional videos. While the scouts had fun, unfortunately none of the videos were fit for public viewing 🤦🥹
The scout’s favourite game where patrols compete to earn the most scout-bucks by showing off their scouting skills.
We had our most successful evening cooking pancakes over scout-made open fires in recent memory. Every patrol lit a reasonable fire and pretty much everyone managed to make an edible pancake.
Coming us soon are the Monopoly Run in London, a night-time navigation and sleepover.
The scout troops held their Christmas ‘Chiller’ Camp at Cudham Shaws Scout Campsite at the weekend.
This year it really was a chiller camp, with cold weather all weekend – getting as low as -4 C on Saturday night.
As usual, we pitched camp on Friday evening, after getting all the tents up we erected the Christmas tree and tucked into a sausage-in-a-bun. In a foretaste of what was to come, there was definitely a nip in the air as we sat down to eat.
Entertainment for the remainder of the evening was decorating the mess tent and the traditional Christmas Quiz. In a shock, hopefully never-to-be-repeated turn of events, the scouts beat the leaders!
Continue reading Christmas Camp at Cudham ShawsOur scouts took part in JOTI this year, with an evening of connecting with other scouts from around the world.
We spoke to scouts in Namibia, the Philippines, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand, Belgium, Turkey, Costa Rica, USA and Israel, as well as lots of scouts from elsewhere in England.
It looks like there were some benefits to spending the best part of a year communicating with friends and family online, the scouts took to webchat like a dream 😎⌨️
Continue reading JOTI 2022Our scouts spent a night under the starts on Friday, getting something of a feel for the challenges of being homeless.
They spent the night in variously sturdy cardboard box creations which they cobbled together.
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Seventeen of our scouts were joined by one from Seal to enter this year’s Plender Hike – our biannual district incident hike.
This time it was hosted by Westerham Scouts in the hills above the town. The teams navigated from base to base undertaking challenges at each one.
By the end of the evening they had
All while hiking for eight miles!
We finished the hike at Waylands Scout Campsite, where everyone camped
Photos are somewhat limited as our leaders we out on a base, but here are a selection that we did manage to take..
We are delighted to say that our teams finished first, second and tenth. Well done!
Five teams of scouts navigated their way to a cookout on Friday.
Teams started from Weald, Bough Beech, Toys Hill, Sundridge and Dibden and made their way towards Ide Hill
Our intrepid scouts all managed to sniff out the campfire and arrived in time to cook their treat. Scouts brought a good range of things – we had kebabs, burgers, sausages and even a chocolate banana
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