The Scouts have been enhancing their outdoor skills by learning navigation techniques, such as how to read a map, use a compass, and take bearings. These skills are crucial for activities such as hiking, camping, and orienteering, which the scouts…
Mon 6th Feb Bird Feeder
This week the Beavers are making Bird Feeders. They are simple things to make . The cardboard tube from a roll of toilet paper is covered in peanut butter which is then rolled in bird seed so that you have…
My Skills Challenge Award
This week all three Colonies are concentrating on getting the domestic skills part of the Award completed. After the Beavers have learnt how to fold their neckers we should have some smart looking Beavers. They should also be useful at…
23rd January 2023 Chinese New Year
This week we are celebration the Chinese New Year. On Monday the Beavers played a game where each Lodge became a dragon with a “head” and a “tail”. The idea was for the “head” to catch the “tail” without breaking…
16th & 18th Jan 2023 Health & Fitness Badge
This week the Beavers have been working on this badge. They took their resting pulse, some with greater ease than others and then took it again after moderate exercise and then again after further exercise to see if this had…
My Skills Challenge Badge
This week we were playing games and talking about telling a Beaver about how to play a game as part of My Skills Challenge Badge.
Chinese new year!
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…
