Scouts
‘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
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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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 …
Just a quick reminder that we are looking for help from both parents and Scouting members tomorrow at the Village Show Tea Tent.
Scouts can help with the crockery smash stall, and Cubs and Beavers can help clear tables – Please remember to wear your uniform.
Time Table
9am – Scout Hut for sandwiching making.
9am – On the green to erect the marquee.
10am – In the Tea Tent to set out tables & chair
11am – Serving commences
5pm – Pack away
A warm Monday evening saw both patrols construct catapults for the sole purpose of launching water balloons at each other.
The patrol worked well together constructing the frames using their rope skills, but the launching wasn’t quite as impressive as they had hoped – however a few Scouts got wet, but from their own supply of ammunition!
Saturday 29th June was the date for the annual Great Bentley Village Carnival.
The weather of the the proceeding weeks, and damp at best. Most days were scattered with showers, and it rains most nights – we were all expecting to get wet and soggy on the Saturday. However, our concerns with the weather were to be unwarranted. There was a brief shower in Saturday morning, but this had dried up by 11am when the carnival procession members began to assemble for judging. Scouting had two entries, the Beaver as a …
