During a recent Saturday session, the Beavers of our Scout Group participated in a district-organised athletics event held at Longford Stadium. The young attendees were involved in various track and field activities throughout the day.The event provided an opportunity for…
Tents and fires
This week the Monday Cubs took part in putting up tents and practiced lighting matches and gathering wood to create some fires.
Beavers 40th Birthday
This year Beavers are 40 years old so we held a party to celebrate! There was pass the parcel, balloon party games, bunting decorating and of course, cake! We also invested 5 Beavers.
Community work – litter pick
During our recent Saturday Beavers session, the young members engaged with the local community by learning the Green Cross Code. The emphasis was on practical tips to ensure safety while crossing streets. This included identifying safe places to cross, understanding…
Pizzas and knots
Half of the Beavers made pizzas using pitta bread and a selection of toppings, as requested in last term’s Log Chew. At the same time, the other half of the Beavers practised tying knots – reef knot, figure of 8…
Lego Challenges
The Beavers enjoyed a fun evening of Lego challenges, working in teams to complete a tower-building relay, creating models for others to guess Pictionary-style, and spending time free building. These activities helped tick off parts of their Creative and Skills…
Emergency Aid
This week we completed our Emergency Aid level 1 badge, which also ticked a few boxes on our ongoing Outdoor Challenge badge and the Safety badge. We had 4 bases comprising: dealing with cuts using plasters and bandages, phoning 999,…
Wide Games
We started off the new term welcoming lots of new Beavers and also appointing some new Lodge Leaders. We made the most of the lovely weather heading out into the park to play wide games. There were 3 teams each…
Easter biscuits and Log Chew
We took part in our termly Log Chew, where we suggested activities we’d like to do next term and voted on the badges we’d like to do. We made Easter bonnet biscuits, using marshmallows, icing and sprinkles. We also invested…
Sunflowers and bug hotels
We’ve kicked off our biennial sunflower competition by planting seeds to take home. The Beavers will do their best to look after them and then measure the height of their plants in mid July. Watch this space for photos of…
