Scout Troop News and Information
Three of our scouts were presented with awards by Tim Kidd, Chief Commissioner of England at a ceremony in Maidstone last night.
Riana Taylor and Elizabeth Dreksler received their Chief Scouts Gold Awards and Kelly Williams received her Bronze Volunteering Award alongside 30 other scouts from the county.
It was a great evening with a really inspirational speech by Tim
The Scouts built their own crazy golf obstacles on Friday – with each patrol creating a ‘hole’ out of cardboard boxes and other scrap.
Unfortunately, the Wolves obstacle was not in a fit state to be photographed due to some enthusiastic golfing…
4th Sevenoaks Scouts held a MasterChef: Outdoors evening last night – with each patrol competing for the Top Cook toque (chef’s hat). To avoid everyone cooking pasta – each patrol was given an unusual country and given a challenge to produce a two-course meal for two from that country. All within a budget of £6.
Menu: Meatballs with a spiced tomato sauce, served with almonds and corriander, followed by fresh orange slices dusted with blossom snow.
Menu: A starter of fresh melon, followed by thai green curry served with noodles.
Menu: Pork with white sauce served with swede and carrot mash, followed by pancakes with lemon, sugar and blackcurrant jam.
Menu: Russian burger served with home-made bread sticks, tomato sauce and sour cream followed by a crisp pancake.
Menu: Vegetable stir-fry served with fresh noodles and a teryaki and ginger sauce followed by Ringo Ame (toffee apples)
The competition was narrowly won by Wolves, with their Moroccan menu. Well done!
Scouts from 4th Sevenoaks tackled a 70 km off-road cycle expedition this weekend, taking them from Mayfield to Herstomonceux and Wilmington.
Kelly, Riana, Elizabeth and Sam – collectively known as ‘Team Penguin’ came joint first in the overall rankings at this weekend’s Operation Founder run by Tonbridge District Scouts. They visited all six bases and the check-point, coming in with a score equalling the best in-district team. As an out-of-district team this means that they won the Scotney Challenge Shield. ‘Team Icup’ – Harry, Matthew, Peter and Toby didn’t do quite as well – there is always next year. Operation Founder is an incident hike held on a Sunday around the date of Baden Powell’s birthday. Last year it was held in Knowle Park, this year it was held near Tunbridge Wells. There is full breakdown of the results on the Tonbridge District Site.
We listened to a presentation by Rachel and Carlton from Porchlight this week. Between them they really brought home realities of homelessness – both the number of hidden homeless (‘sofa surfers’) and living on the streets. Hopefully we will arrange a sponsored rough-sleep to raise money for them this year.
Click link to download the Cycling Herstmonceux Nights Away Form
Links: www.the-observatory.org, www.bushywood.org.uk, cyclist badge requirements
We cooked out scouts backwoods-style this year. We had to light fires and get them up to cooking temperature before we could eat!
I will post photos of pancakes if we get that far.
