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Yesterday the cubs participated in the outdoor activity day as part of the district. Activities included orienteering, problem solving games, archery, crate stacking and snow-tubing. During the orienteering activity, the group was split into two, with one group going out at a time, whilst the other group partook in problem solving exercises. The young people
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On Friday the cubs went up to the park to follow instructions whilst blindfolded, and they also played a game of Chinese whispers to investigate how messages can change as they’re passed from person to person. The cubs then had a chance to play in the play park before returning to the hut. The communications
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Last night at cubs, the young people listened to one of our scouts, Charlie, talk about sending emails, sending text messages, and got to know each other by having conversations. They also wrote a news article about the St George’s Day parade which happened two weeks ago. Charlie ran the sessions very well, and we
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Yesterday at cubs, the young people visited chase park for a run around. Here’s some pictures of the young people having fun: Next week it’s the St. George’s Day parade and short church service. This is not a religious service, more a patriotic one and a celebration of the scouting movement in the district. Please
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Today the cubs spent their final session on wellbeing looking into bullying, preventing bullying and defining the three types of bullying. They looked at: And they produced some fantastic anti-bullying posters. Take a look at some of them here: And here are some pictures of the young people in their sixes creating their posters: This
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On Thursday we took the young people to jump giants as part of the wider Gateshead District event. The cubs had a great time. It is one of the biggest trampoline parks in the region and has much more than just trampolines. I didn’t manage to capture any photographs unfortunately, so I’ve stolen a one
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At scouts last night, the young people built bridges with cardboard, with the ultimate goal of having the strongest bridge. They were taught about strengthening their bridges, building a bridge with strong bases and had a test (which involved sitting on their bridges and placing heavy books onto them) to see which one was the
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Yesterday at cubs we walked around Whickham and parts of Watergate park, in the dark. With our torches and maps, we made our way along Whickham front street, up Washingwell Lane and around the local countryside, to turn back and go through Washingwell woods and along Cornmoor Road returning to the church hall. With all
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Today at cubs, the young people learnt about how and why people feel down sometimes, and what we can do to support each other. The young people game some fantastic answers to some questions about bullying, feeling left out and supporting their friends and family. Here’s some pictures of the cub-scouts working at their tables
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We had a whale of a time at the winter activity camp at Hawkhirst this year, with the cubs, scouts and explorers all taking part in a range of different activities, such as abseiling, zipwire, low ropes and the crate stack. We also went for a night hike with the cubs and scouts, and went
