We hope you are enjoying the Queen’s Jubilee Weekend Celebrations, and sorry for interrupting them! We are pleased to report our winner from Wednesday’s 59 Club Draw …. the Lotto Bonus Ball was Ball No. 18, and the winner is Katie Oxford – congratulations on your win, and we will be posting the £100 winnings from the 59 Club shortly to you.
So what has the Group been up to in May? It appears quite a short report this month – even if all the four sections have been really busy.
Our Beaver Colony started May working towards our Adventure Challenge Badges, by each Beaver making their own kites – and then trying to find any breeze around the grounds of Woodcroft to fly them! We then spent an evening running around Wicksteed Park looking for natural objects that had the colours of the rainbow, again working towards the Adventure Challenge. The Colony finished the term sharing a Picnic on the Woodcroft Lawns with the Cub Pack to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee;
Our Cub Pack started the term with a gentle Night Hike between JLC and the pub car park at Rushton, then spent two evenings with around 20 Cubs on the River Nene with the County Scout Canoe Team – and which one got wet? Akela! The Cubs stayed with the nautical theme, making and sailing mini rafts on the Wicksteed Park Boating Lake, before finishing the term off by joining with the Beaver Colony for a Jubilee Picnic on the lawn at Woodcroft;
The Scouts have spent much of May completing the Fire Safety Badge – with a visit to the Station on the Headlands, learning about which fire extinguishers are good to use, preparing a fire escape plan with their families, and learning the bowline (almost every subject leads back to knots at some point!). We made use of Cairo and Dom’s new Bell Boat Helm permits spending a great Sunday afternoon on the River Nene racing and training to qualify for the Dragon Boat Badge. Our half term relaxing night was spent in revising the pioneering knots ready for the summer’s adventures, and racing the walking A frames;
Our Kracken Explorer Unit has spent most of May outside – over at JLC, revising how to start fires, cooking food over fires, and revising their navigation. Sharon is busy tying up the Explorers’ school-based Duke of Edinburgh Awards into the Scout Senior Awards now, as we are using the same DoE – and yes, it is difficult!
Next month’s 59 Club Report will be really full of exciting news. Not only will we have reports from three camps going on this month, but we will be reporting our biggest news in years – the opening of the 1st Kettering’s new Squirrel Scout Drey. This Drey is the first in the Glendon Scout District, and will be for 24 members aged between 4 to 6 years old. Our best wishes to Hannah and Tom in this new venture – and watch the July update to see how we got on with our first few meetings. If you know of any 4-6 year old who wants to be part of this, please email squirrels@1stkettering.co.uk – but please be quick!
For those who want to hear more about what we do – our Group’s AGM will be at Woodcroft at 7pm on June 16th which will be slotted in between Beavers and Cubs – you will be most welcomed.
Until then, we finish the June Report by repeating our “Thank You” again from all of our Group members for your continuing support.
1st Kettering (Parish Church) Scout Group
