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‘The Scout Camp’ for Summer 2014
Come and be part of a great adventure. The fun starts with a Friday night opening ceremony with the daytime programme of activities started Saturday morning including inflatable, climbing, water sports and archery or relax with arts and crafts.
Evenings will be packed with entertainments including disco’s, cinema, Soft Rock Cafe and a chill out zone, even ‘Daisy the Cow’, the conversation caravan is back.
Join together with hundreds of Scouts across Essex and share the adventure.
Friday 6 – Sunday 8 June 2014
Friday 14th March saw many of the 1st Great Bentley Cub Scout attend their first camp of the year. The event started at 730pm with a 2hr night hike across muddy fields surrounding the HQ. After a good nights sleep (ok a little sleep) the Satruday was spent making camp fire to cook a lunch of jacket potatos and chocolate bananas. There afternoon was spent practising tent erection, and playing games. Sunday was a little more relaxed. After packing the equipment away more games were played and lunch consumed.
On Monday, slightly ahead of Shrove Tuesday the Scout had a go at making the traditional pancakes – some with food colouring.
New term
We start back at Beavers/ Scouts on Monday 6th January, 2014 and Cubs on Tuesday 7th January, 2014. All meetings remain the same at the Scout Hut Beavers 6-7pm, Scouts 7:15-9pm and Cubs 6:30- 7:45pm. Please make sure you bring your child into the hut for all sections and register with their leader on arrival each week. Please could parents also collect their child from the hut, we have had incidents last term where a parent has come to collect their child and the child has already left. We …
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This week the Scouts were challenged to create some seasonal Snowmen using the old favourite egg-white and icing sugar recipe.
They were quite creative; some were traditional, some were alien, some were Hollywood based, and some were melted!
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Saturday 26th October saw eleven Beavers undertake a Halloween themed sleepover. A number of skeletons and vampires arrived at the HQ at 11am. Their first task was to decorate Halloween themed cookies, followed by making sandwiches for their own packed lunch.
The morning hike, saw the Beavers undertake some road safety, water safety, and railway safety followed by the picnic they had prepared earlier. Upon returning to the HQ, other activites included pitching of tents, games, and of course Pumpkin Carving.
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Last nights meeting saw the Scouts getting a little creative with food colouring and pancake mixtures.
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With rain forecast for the weekend, and with Friday weather best being described as torrential, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the camp would be cancelled.
However, Scouts are made of sterner stuff, and a little bit of water has never put anyone off. As it happened, Saturdays weather forecast was very wrong, the rain clouds had disappeared well before the 9am muster time.
The Scouts, arrived packed for the weekend expedition, along with their chosen method of two wheeled transportation.
Before setting off, each bike was “M” checked, and tyres were inflated …
