Scout Troop News and Information
We are off to Bears Wood Campsite near Croydon for our Christmas Camp this weekend.
In addition to a packed programme of
We will be cooking Christmas dinner and singing carols around the camp fire.
In anticipation we have produced the 4th Sevenoaks Christmas Carol-Book. Print out a copy and limber up those vocal chords!
Download your copy below.
A team of scouts competed in the “Ministry of Food” cooking competition run by Kent Scouts today.
Their menu was
In the face of some stiff competition from well practiced teams, we came a creditable 3rd place. Well done to Maggie, Francesca, Anthony and JJ. With what we have learned this year, next time we will do even better!
The official photos from the event will appear on www.kentscoutsupportteam.org.uk in due course.
Scouts Victorious! Our team of scouts won the District Plender Hike last night – successfully navigating their way around the Kemsing course of a clear but chilly October evening.
Update: Thanks for the extra photos Carl. More photos and details of what happened in the event to come!
A big thank you to Peter and the team for organising it. The one downside of winning is that it will be us that organise it next year 🙂
The scouts arrived back from the Forest of Dean on Saturday morning after a packed week near Symonds Yat in the Forest of Dean. Hiking, canoeing, kayaking, geocaching, archery, zip wire, leap of faith… read on for the full story! Continue reading Scouts back from the Forest of Dean
Halfway through our camp and we have been geocaching, ridden one of the county’s top-three mountain biking routes, done some archery, eaten spit-roast beef and at the moment the scouts are paddling down the river Wye in canoes and kyacks!
The camp site at Biblins is great – right next to the river. The weather has been variable, but it hasn’t stopped us doing anything.
Next report later in the week.
The scout summer camp group left the scout hut first thing on Saturday morning.
Check back for more photos during the week!
We will be holding our second Family Camp at the scout hut 27th-29th of September. The programme will be similar to the July Group Camp; pitching camp Friday evening from 18:30 and flag down midday on Sunday morning.
The idea is that your scout gets to show you first-hand what they get up to in Scouting! Continue reading Join us on Family Camp in September!
Scouts born between 9/8/1997 and 27/7/2001 have the opportunity to go to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Japan.
To go you need to be selected (which is quite a fun process in itself) and then join in quite a lot of fund-raising (if you want to go for free), but it really is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Take a look at the attached letter and form.
Applications must be received the end of term.
The scouts had an evening as rocket engineers on Friday, with patrols building and then firing water-powered rockets.
Each patrol built three rockets and then competed on accuracy (the target was a paddling pool) and distance. In the event the competitions were forgotten in the rush to fire their rockets. Some of the rockets travelled over 60m (and off into the woods) – I think we will be finding them over the coming months as we do tree work. Continue reading Rockets Away!
You can now track the Group’s geocaching activity directly from the web-site.
The page is under Scouts on the main menu /scouts/geocaching/
