20th Southgate Scout Group
An up and down start to the summer term!
It's summer term time again, always the busiest time for the Cub Pack with lots of outdoors activities planned so hopefully the weather will oblige. Summer term is also of course the time for Pack Camp and before then there will be a taster for our newer Cubs with another Sleepover at the Hut. The older Cubs aren't being forgotten and they have got a day of water activities to look forward to. The summer term will also be featuring some new activities including a visit to the EcoPark and a District Cross-Country competition, so here we go again! This year is also the 110th anniversary of the formation of Cub Scouting and so our first meeting back celebrated this with some party games from back then and each Cub will receive a special commemorative badge. To celebrate this special anniversary our Cubs also enjoyed having a bouncy castle at the Hut and so it was quite an up and down, and up and down, and up and down first meeting back!
Our busy St. George's weekend!
The second weekend of the summer term was a particularly busy one for our Cub Pack. It began on the Saturday afternoon, 25th April when our full allocation of 18 Cubs took part in our second ever Sleepover in the Hut. Designed in particular to give a taster of a night away before our main Pack Camp in June, this activity began with some games that we can't usually play when everyone is there before we divided into two groups to go on a local area walk and chip shop survey - well done to George's who were the winners! Back at the Hut it was time for some pizza and ice cream before craftwork and then a film show, before bed and a 7/10 sleep rating! The morning featured breakfast and volleyball before time for a couple of hours at home to freshen up! Delighted to report that 23 of our Cubs came to the District St. George's event in Broomfield Park later that afternoon for a few hours of ceremony and games including a popular tug of war competition. A big thank you in particular to our parents who slept over on the Saturday night.
The Our World Challenge Award
I am sure that many parents will know that all Cubs must complete seven Challenge Awards if they want to achieve the Chief Scout's Silver Award. I think that the most challenging (no pun intended) is the Our World Award which the Cubs began working towards in the spring term. Some of their hard work included completing the Disability Awareness Badge, having an international evening (Poland), learning about the importance of teamwork - and what happens when there is a lack of teamwork, and learning about the environment. Moving into the summer term and one meeting had a focus on Community with the Cubs all designing own community maps, the quality of these needs to be seen to be believed, before (with thanks to Abdullah and Aydin) learning about Islam. Hard work rewarded with the completed badges.