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Yesterday, the scouts eagerly participated in patrol team-building activities,strengthening their camaraderie and enhancing their collaborative skills. The Scouts engaged in a patrol competition featuring team-building games like the Alphabet Scavenger Hunt and the Team Cup Stacking Challenge.The Panther Patrol emerged victorious in the challenges; however, all participants excelled in demonstrating exceptional communication and teamwork skills.…
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Yesterday at cubs we made some fires again and heated up some food on them. We heated up chocolate bananas, marshmallows and baked potatoes with cheese. Here are some photographs: Our next session will be at Whickham Thorns, but this time just for a run around and for some free time.
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We had a fantastic time at Dilston this weekend. Here are some photographs: The cubs took part in a blindfolded trail, made pancakes, cooked on a fire, made their own fires with flint and steel, walked to Corbridge, played Cricket and archery. The scouts made pancakes, had a water fight, played some wide games and…
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Yesterday at cubs, the young people started work on their Fire Safety and Backwoods cooking badge. This included a 20 ish minute discussion on smoke alarms and heat sensors, fire extinguishers, and safe camp fires. The young people then read about the fire triangle, which lists the three things that you need for a fire,…
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On Friday night the scouts put up tents in preparation for Dilston Scout camp coming up soon. The best team was to win a prize. Here’s some pictures:
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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…
