Category: Cubs
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Last weekend at cubs, the young people were tasked with writing a story. The stories that were written varied – some were scary, some were funny and some were based on real stories! The young people shared their stories with each other at the end of the night. Good work cubs and some really creative…
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Last night at cubs, the young people make some paper snowflakes and participated in some archery. The snowflakes were made from A4 paper, with six flakes constructed by cutting and sticking with sticky tape, and then stapling the individual flakes together. We decorated the Christmas tree and our pack celebration board with these snow flakes.…
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In Fridays session the cubs joined in with the beavers. We played some games such as dodgeball, duck duck goose, smash window, mount/dismount and we played stuck in the mud too. Next week we’re going to start map work including map keys, 2 figure grid references and a look at a real OS map, Hadrian’s…
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Tonight at cubs the young people participated in the pirate game. This is a strategic game, somewhat comparable to battleships, where they have to fill in their grid with different abilities and points. Grid squares are called at random and the youngsters can declare if they have anything special, like a pirate ship which allows…
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The young people participated in a games night tonight, including dodgeball, lighthouse and volleyball, along with others which meant that they had a chance to blow some cobwebs away! The cubs joined in with the beavers tonight. Sorry, I didn’t take any photographs! Next week the cubs will be playing the pirate game – ahead…
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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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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…
