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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT 3GP

All our sections are now meeting every week either on-line or outside face to face or both. As the evenings draw in, we are working with St Michaels Guides and Brownies to put measures in place to make sure we can start to meet safely in the hall. Plans change regularly as we adapt to latest advice from Government, the National Youth Agency and the Scout Association. Parents should lookout for emails from the leaders to keep up to date.

NEWS

BEAVER PIONEERING

Beavers

Friday June 18th.

There was a bit of a pioneering theme this week. On Thursday the Scouts built shelters from the rain and on Friday the Beavers were enjoying themselves pioneering too.

Where the Scouts used heavy poles and rope, the Beavers used sticks, Plasticine and their imaginations.

It was another rainy night so the Beavers were meeting in a well ventilated hall with windows well open.

THURSDAY JUNE 17th

WATER

Plan A was to do some heavy pioneering but on arrival we found the Rowswell Hall had a mote and a make shift bridge would need to be built just to get to the building.

We considered meeting inside but then remembered that we were 3rd Gidea Park and we weren't going to let a bit of rain stop play.

So there was a change of plan. Give each patrol enough equipment to build a shelter from the rain. And boy did it rain!

But in the end, the pioneering was fairly successful seeing as we haven't used the heavy poles for two years.

Scouts

CHIEF SCOUT GOLD AWARDS

Two more Chief Scout Gold Awards were presented this week. This is the top award that a Scout can gain.

The months of zoom meetings were used to finish off any parts of challenge badges that could be completed online or at home, this left just a few tasks to complete outside once the troop started meeting face to face again.

BEAVERS IN THE PARK

Crawl

MAY 25th

Our Tuesday Beavers were out for a walk in Raphaels Park where they met some baby swans.

CUBS

Cubs

MAY

Friday Cubs have been brushing up on various Scouting skills. The Cubs above had been learning backwoodsman skills by trying to bake chocolate cakes in a fire using just a hollowed out Orange wrapped in tinfoil as a utensil.

Meanwhile the cubs were also learning how to use matches to safely and calmly to light as many candles as they could with a single match.

WE'RE BACK

Beavers

Back but not quite back to normal.

407 days since the last time we had the entire Scout Troop meeting face to face together, we finally managed it on April 22nd. Some of our sections met a week or two before then and by the first week of May, all five of our sections were meeting face to face.

We are outside as much as possible, social distancing as much as possible and in the case of Scouts, wearing face masks when we can't distance consistently.

So not quite back to normal, but getting there.

Beavers

Friday Beavers have been making Grass heads and sending us pictures of them growing.

Meanwhile the Tuesday Beavers have been growing Cress and Tomatoes for the Gardeners Badge.

INVESTATURES

Three new Beavers were invested during one of this week's on-line Beaver meeting.

WALES

FRIDAY 05/03/2021.

The theme of our recent Friday Beaver meetings has been the countries that make up the UK. This week it was Wales and the Beavers made welsh cakes together.

One of our Scouts even managed to sneak in on the act.

Beavers

SHELTERS

Our Friday Beavers were challenged to build some shelters and sleep in them.

DIGITAL MAKER

The Scouts have been being creative with computers for the Digital Maker badge. They had to design characters and graphics for a computer game as well as learn about coding.

This gave our older leaders an excuse to bore the Scouts with tails of when they were a lad etc. It did give one of them the opportunity to demonstrate that after 40 years he still knows how to program a Sinclair ZX81! Typical of our Scout leaders to use a badge designed to demonstrate that Scouting is a modern relevant organisation to talk about ancient history.

GETTING CREATIVE

February 11th

This week the Scouts have been getting creative making sculptures out of Salt Dough together. We had a wide variety of creative ideas but at the end of the day, it was just nice to be able to do something creative together.