The Scout Association has launched a new set of activity badges for each of the sections.
Click to view the complete list of new badges
Mass Investiture: 10 beavers invested in one evening
Ten beavers were invested in our meeting last week.
Welcome to the 4th!
Successful Camping Skills Weekend
We have just got back from a really successful camping skills weekend.
The programme was on Saturday
- Tent pitching school
- Flag break and investitures
- Axe and saw training
- Lunch (always popular)
- Cooking Competition
- Cake break
- Wide game – man hunt including the new occasional game ‘shoe hunt’
- Camp fire with cocoa and doughnuts
- Sleep!
The menus our teams cooked in the competition were
Stags: Homemade tomato soup / Chicken curry with rice and flat breads / Grilled bananas with chocolate filling
Foxes: Kebabs made with chicken, red peppers, onion and mushrooms / spaghetti with tomato sauce with meatballs and cheese / pancakes topped with fresh fruit
On Sunday, after an early start as the clocks had sprung forward
- Cooked breakfast
- Strike camp
- Tracking
- Home in time for lunch
The scouts did very well and all enjoyed, what was for many of them, their first camp as scouts. Maggie and Natasha did an excellent job as patrol leaders too.
Great Balls of Fire 2 – Revenge of the Scout
After the somewhat disappointing end to Great Balls of Fire 2: The balls bite back, where we failed to ignite our fireballs. We had another go on Friday, this time with more success!
Beavers gain Chief Scout’s Bronze Awards
Seven of our beavers received their Chief Scouts Bronze Awards from the Mayor, Cllr R Hogarth this week
Well done all of you
Flaming Balls Don’t
In somewhat of an anticlimax, our balls failed to light at the end of our trebuchet building evening on Friday.
We will investigate our ball issue and have another go at firing them next week.
Spring Quiz victory by just one point
After an long evening quizzing, the Bourbon Bunch came out top by a single point in the Sporting Quiz.
Many thanks to everyone involved in organising the evening and the fantastic food.
Raise Money with easyfundraising.org.uk
We have opened an account with easyfundraising.co.uk
This lets us take a percentage of your online spending back from the retailers you visit – it does not cost you any extra.
Unlike other schemes, this one is almost totally painless (and I am one who usually ignores this type of thing). There is a full explanation of how it works on the easyfundraising page under resources on the web-site.
Hundreds of main-stream retailers take part in the scheme. Here is a sample or go and see the full list on the easyfundraising website
Lots of sweets at Sixers & Seconders evening
You knew that, if the Cubs organised the evening themselves, there would be sweets involved, and that’s how it turned out!
They started with a paper aeroplane design challenge (sweets as prizes) to a paper aeroplane race (sweets as prizes) – won by Alfie.
The ladder game was followed by – which team can build the highest Polo tower (Kai’s group) (you can guess what the prize was). The evening finished off with an eating-sweets-with-chopsticks challenge (no prize necessary).
Let’s hope they all cleaned their teeth properly before bed! Well done to the Sixers and Seconders
Written with the help of Daisy!
Scouts Nighttime Navigation
Our scouts completed a night hike around Godden Green and Ightham Mote last night. They all did really well – each taking a turn guiding their groups and ticked off a chunk of their Outdoor Challenges.
After a hot chocolate back at the hut, you have never seen scouts go to sleep so quickly!
The weather really helped, as despite all the recent rain most of the route was solid underfoot.
View 2014-03-07 Night Hike Route in a larger map
Stats for the route were:
- Distance: 9.4 km
- Total Ascent: 191 m
- Total Descent: 243 m
- Start Elevation: 197 m
- End Elevation: 145 m
- Min Elevation: 97 m
- Max Elevation: 203 m