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Beaver News - 1st Stretford (Longford) Scout Group
Beaver News

Beaver News

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 were surprisingly good and there was some lovely singing too!

Afterwards we took advantage of the lighter evenings and the good weather to play a wide game in the park.

We also awarded a Bronze Chief Scout Award to other of the Wednesday Beavers.

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 games.

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 they had to eat them!

After about 25 mins the two halves swapped over.

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 practised reef knots and sheet bends and we learned how to roll our neckers. We even learned a new song all about a baby bumblebee!

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. 

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 into hoops. We also played a team game where we turned over cones pretending we were turning light switches on or off.

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. 

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 getting corn, a fox and a chicken across a river. We also started our Builder badge by planning our designs for next week. 

We started our Gardener badge by playing a game where each of the corners was labelled with a session and we had to run to the correct corner for each statement about trees, e.g. when do fruit trees have blossom? 
Then we split in half to consider what plants needs to grow and to pot some bulbs and seeds to take home; while the other half identified a variety of gardening tools.

 Longford Scouts is an active Scout Group based at the Ranche in Longford Park, Stretford in Manchester. We accept boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 18. We are a registered charity.