Scouts

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Diary

April
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Thu 24th: First troop night of term (parents please sign up on helpers rota)

May
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Thu 1st: Troop night

Thu 8th: Troop night

Thu 15th: Troop night

Thu 29th: NO Scouts, half term

Fri 30th - Sat 1st June: Sailing weekend, 'Pioneer'

June
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Thu 5th: NO Scouts, half term

Thu 12th: Troop night

Thu 19th: Troop night

Fri 20th - Sun 22nd: Patrol Camping Weekend

Thu 26th: Troop night

Fri 27th - Sun 29th: Malvern Challenge

July
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Thu 3rd: Troop night

Thu 10th: Last troop night of term

Sun 13th: Raft Building

Image: Scout packing rucksack

What's the point of Scouts?
We help our Scouts grow in confidence, integrity and self-reliance, teamwork and leadership ability. We do this through challenge, adventure and fun!

What kind of things do we do?

* Car maintenance (Mechanic badge), with the guys in the service department at Phoenix Vauxhall.
* We *very* *nearly* got the 'polar badge' for camping at below freezing point, but it wasn't quite cold enough!
* Building catapults.
* Scuba diving.
* Cooking (apple fritters)
* Rock climbing
* Mapping and navigation, night hike on Wimbledon Common
* Lived on board a 90-foot sailing ship for a weekend. Sailed round the Thames Estuary and out to sea. Steered the ship, set and trimmed the sails, climbed the mast, went out on the bowsprit.
* Made shadow puppets and performed plays with them.
* Backwoods cooking: chocolate oranges
* Camp training: learning to cook on wood fires, gas stoves, petrol stoves.
* Rock climbing: scaling the natural sandstone rock face at Harrison's Rocks.
* A day of watersports at the Dockland Scout Project
* Went to the Malvern Challenge with 3000 other Scouts, completed the activity hike and did loads of other activities!
* Juggling, Poi, and other circus skills
* Quad bikes
* Low ropes - teamwork and confidence games
* Camp cook skills: menu planning, shopping to a budget and cooking a weekend's meals for a group over a wood fire.
* Tie-dying t-shirts
* Cooking: stuffed tomatoes
* Mountain biking
* First aid
* Mini-catapults
* Orienteering
* Making friends with snakes, spiders, geckos, and loads more (the python was called Monty!)
* Origami
* GLSW Night hike and overnight camp
* Cooking: Shepherd's pie
* Life skills: ironing a shirt, sewing
* Hiking on South Devon's coastal path and on Dartmoor.
* Dinghy sailing.
* BBQ on the beach.
* Paragliding!
* Teambuilding games
* Cooking a pancake (but using only a candle flame!)
* Making bird feeders
* Cooking eggy bread
* Patrol barbeque competition
* Aviation activities: Flying a light aircraft, visiting a working airfield, visiting the control tower, pre-flight aircraft checks, airfield safety and signals, building model aircraft, flight simulators.