We are pleased to report that all four sections have been meeting normally – ish this month ….
- our Beaver Colony started the month by turning Woodcroft into a waste sorting centre, and by making Recycling Robots. We followed this up with a Life Skills night, where we taught rolling neckerchiefs and imaginary lighting a candle, before finishing the term with a Halloween Games Night. We are looking forward to joining our Cub Pack for the Remembrance Weekend Camp next weekend, and to presenting seven Chief Scouts Bronze Awards to our Top Beavers at the Remembrance Sunday Parade
- our Cub Pack has been really busy despite school activities and illness taking its toll on attendance at times. The month started with the a focus on the Cubs’ Skills Badge, a fun night teaching them to make a dance video with glow sticks then how to use an iron. The following week we focused on Fire Safety – this will be completed during November after the Fire Brigade comes to visit! Before we finished for half term we had a map learning evening. During half term, the Cubs were given £5 each with the challenge to increase the amount,. We were staggered with the response – and we’ll tell you how they did next month…..
- the Scouts started October by finishing the Pioneers Badge – building a monkey bridge, a full sized swing, and an aerial runway at Woodcroft. The Troop ran indoors from the rain into the Parish Hall for our first meeting of October, using the Trangia stoves to make kartoffelpuffer mit apfelmus (potato pancakes with apple sauce to you und me), before completing the last of the Pioneers Badge knots, and revising our map work. Fifteen Scouts spent the first weekend of the half term holiday in four teams on a two-day expedition, navigating from Ecton to Spotley Woods Camp Site where we slept over, before walking back to Wellingborough Rail Station to journey home to Kettering. We too are looking forward to next weekend, when we have a Wide Game Sleepover with some 25 Scouts with us, before we too present four well-earned Chief Scouts Gold Awards the following day
- “our” Explorer Unit now has a name – the Kraken Explorer Unit. In our Unit’s first proper month, we held a Wet Wide Game at JLC in the rain, prepared a “Ready, Steady …. Er, Cook” meal with whatever food Sharon brought along, and then, on the last joyous night of the term, we visited the Troop so the Scouts could see 8 Explorers and 2 Young Leaders being invested along with 3 Scouts. A proud night for the Group!
Running weekly section meetings this term continues to be complicated with the leaders, young people and families suffering from Covid staying away as their part in controlling the infection. As our numbers are now picking up again, we hope we are now past the peak of this – and that we can continue to offer Scouting safely and normally as we are able.
