We kicked off the summer term with a treasure hunt. We used maps to find 10 points on the existing orienteering course in the park. Some of these posts also had treasure (sweets!) hidden nearby! We also wrote down each…
Monday 31st March and Wednesday 2nd April – Easter Performance
To tick off part of both the My Skills challenge and the Creative badge, we used boom whackers in our Lodges to learn a (loosely) Easter themed nursery rhyme and then perform it to the rest of the Colony. The performances…
Monday 24th and Wednesday 26th March – Mother’s Day and Log Chew
This week we put together cards for Mother’s Day. We thought about what activities we’d like to do next term, what badges we’d like to earn and voted for our favourite thing from this past term. We also played a few…
Monday 17th and Wednesday 19th March – Team building part 2
Half of the Colony went out into the park and used maps with basic grid references to navigate to specific locations and answer questions. The other half used spaghetti and marshmallows to build free standing structures and then of course…
Monday 10th and Wednesday 12th March – Skills
This week we continued ticking off activities counting towards the Skills challenge badge. We practised laying a table and some of us even tried it blindfolded! We decorated cakes for (early) Red Nose Day. We learned to tie shoelaces and…
Monday 3rd and Wednesday 5th March – Global Issues part 2
For the second half of this badge, we made water filters using bottles, sand, cotton wool, charcoal and gravel. We also watched a video about fair trade and tasted some fair trade chocolate and bananas.
Monday 24th and Wednesday 26th February – Global Issues part 1
We started our Global Issues badge by considering endangered animals and recycling. We matched pictures of endangered animals to their habitat, picture, risk and a fact. We answered quiz questions about what items can be recycled and sorted some recycling…
Monday 10th and Wednesday 12th February – Builder badge
After planning our machines last week, the Beavers came armed with mountains of recycling this week and used tape, scissors and googly eyes to create a whole array of machines! After building, we briefly evaluated our builds with a partner.
Monday 3rd and Wednesday 5th February – Team building challenges
For our Skills challenge award, we needed to complete some team missions! In Lodges we tried to move a ping pong ball along a line of guttering pieces without dropping it and tried to solve a riddle involving a farmer…
