This week at scouts we were celebrating Chinese new year! We did Chinese new year trivia, did some food tasting and created our own ornamental Chinese lanterns! Well done scouts!
Mon 9th January 2023 Games
This week, our first after Christmas, was the usual games evening when we try to give the Beavers their most popular games including the “Parcel Pass” when a story is read out which includes a lot of “Left” and “Right”…
Festive Fun!
To celebrate Christmas the explorers went to lazer tag and after all that energy burning they had a pizza feast of 15 pizzas! Merry christmas to all our explorers and thankyou for a great year. We look forward to seeing…
Scout Section Christmas Party
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the Longford Scouts’ Christmas party now, would it? The Scouts ran around laser quest zapping each other and burned off all their energy at the Laser Quest in the Trafford Centre. We all battled it…
Night Hike
For the last of our programmed weeks before the Christmas break, we took the scouts on a cold and icy night hike around Chorlton water park. The difference in temperature between the two weeks mysteriously correlated with the difference in…
Air Rifle Shooting
This week Scouts took part in target shooting at the Ranche. Each young person was taught how to correctly handle, aim, and fire an air rifle under the careful supervision of our leaders. All Scouts managed to hit the target; with some being…
28th & 30th November St Andrew
With St Andrew’s Day falling in this week what better than to have a Scottish flavour to the meetings. The Beavers coloured , cut out and stuck together a drawing of Nessie. They also decorated biscuits with St Andrew’s flag…
Programme Planning
This evening we have been doing some programme planning where the explorers planned their own Programme with a balance of awards,camps,fun stuff and lots of exciting ideas !! Well done explorers !
Mon 21st & Wed 23rd Nov Space Activity Badge
This last week the Beavers were trying to complete the various aspects of this badge. The Mon colony unfortunately had bad weather and were unable to see the sky and consequently no stars, planets or space craft were visible. This…
Wed 9th Nov Mini bonfire & song
On Wed 9th Nov the Wed Beavers lit fires, cooked marshmallows and learnt a camp fire song.
