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The Beavers held a coffee evening to raise funds for Jodie's fund.
GETTING CREATIVE
OCTOBER 10th
The Scouts spent the evening getting creative. We tried our hand at Knolling photography. Where a set of equipment is laid out geometrically and a picture taken from above. Here we have all the cooking equipment a patrol would take to camp and a complete Blacks Icelandic II patrol Tent and a Patrol of Scouts to sleep in it.
WALK FOR JODIE
Members of the group and their families took part in the Walk for Jodie. This event was organised jointly by Barking & Degenham and Romford Districts to raise funds for our new project #ForJodie.
The aim was to raise £10,000 to fund free First Aid training for the community, which will include dealing with major bleed traumas; and also to supply Bleed Control kits in key accessible locations across Barking and Dagenham and Romford, which it is hoped will save lives.
FOOD BANK
OCTOBER 3rd
The Scouts spent the evening helping to sort stock recently transferred to the local food bank's long term storage.
EXPEDITION
Two of our ex-Scouts and current Beaver Young Leaders visited to tell the Scouts all about the expedition they completed for their Silver Duke of Edinburgh's Award with their Sea Scout Explorer Scout Unit. Being Sea Scouts, the expedition was conducted in Canoes on the river Seven.
OBSTACLE FUN
September 21st - 22nd
Six Scouts, Eight Beavers and three Young Leaders attended our first night away of term together. The Scouts were at Crow Camp to build the obstacles for the District's Beaver Obstacle day on the Sunday. The Beavers thought if they were going to be there on the Sunday anyway, why not spend the night?
While the Scouts were hard at work lashing and building the Beavers played various games. When building the Areal Runway the Young Leaders had to indulge in some extreme gardening to trim the holly.
After dinner we got together for a camp fire which gave some of the Scouts an opportunity to show off their performance and creative skills!
The whole weekend was very hard work for the Scouts but they did all get the opportunity to test the Areal Runway a few times before the Beavers had a go......and a few more times after the Beavers had a go.
Of course the Leaders can't ask the Scouts and Beavers to do something we aren't willing to do ourselves. It wouldn't be right. So muttering something about final safety testing, the leaders made the Scouts pull them up the Areal Runway too!
SCOUT CHEFS
Thursday September 19th
The Scouts have been practicing cooking skills ahead of the district cooking competition in a few weeks time. Tonight was stir fry night at the Rowswell Hall.
CREATIVE CUBS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13th.
The cubs were being creative with cameras tonight. To the left they were painting with glow sticks.
Below we were trying to take portraits but kept being disrupted by ghosts.
SUMMER CAMP 2019
The Scouts have returned from Summer Camp. Full report and video will follow.
The nights are brighter and warmer so it must be time for the leaders to throw the Scouts in a pond!
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DISTRICT COMMISSIONER PULLS SCOUT LEADERS EARS OFF
No the DC wasn't pulling Jamie's ears off. Jamie was being presented with his Wood Badge to signify that he has completed his leader training. Jamie was also presented with a 5 years service award. Not wanting to be outdone, Mike was presented with his Queens Scout Award Certificate.
FRIDAY JUNE 28th - SUNDAY 30th
Our team of Scouts came 3rd in the 2019 Franklin Shield which is our best result in years. The Franklin Shield is the district's Scouting Skills and Camping Competition.
THURSDAY JUNE 27th
The Scouts have been practicing Camp Gadget making ahead of the Franklin Shield.
FRIDAY JUNE 14th
For the second Friday night in a row the Scout Hall was used for a sleep over, this time by the Scouts. We moved our night hike from Winter to summer for a change and to enable two of the older Scouts to use it as the first half of a two day expedition. This was particularly impressive when you realise that they slept for only about four hours!
THURSDAY JUNE 13th
The Scouts were back at Raphaels Park this week litter picking the river and Orienteering again.
We discovered that the Orienteering Answer sheet that the leaders had, may be a little inaccurate and so last week's results weren't as bad as first thought. Still the Scouts demonstrated that they were perfectly capable of repeatedly walking past the wooden checkpoints without seeing them.
SUNDAY JUNE 9th
Four days in a row of picture worthy news items! The Guides and Brownies were responsible for the Prayers and Readings at Church Parade this month but that didn't spot the Cubs and Young leaders helping out with the Sermon.
SATURDAY JUNE 8th
The Scouts were invited to build a rope bridge at a Church fete. This counted towards the Pioneer badge as well as the "Promote Scouting" part of the Creative Challenge Badge.
We used the event to tell people about the Voluntary Work the Scouts have been doing as part of this year's A Million Hands Campaign.
FRIDAY JUNE 7th
The Beavers were supposed to be camping at Crow Camp but the weather forecast was so bad, the night away got switched to our Scout Hall at the last minute. It didn't stop them getting outside to grill sausages on a fire.
THURSDAY JUNE 6th
This term we have themed a few meetings around this year's A Million Hands Campaign which is trying to get half a million young people understanding the issue of plastic pollution in our waterways.
This fits nicely with the river littler pick work the Scouts do with the Friends of Raphael and Lodge Farm parks. This was the first of two Thursdays in June that the Scouts spent clearing the river.
MAY 23rd
The Younger Scouts spent the evening practicing their raft building skills.
MAY 21st
Just in time for the Half Term Holiday, the Tiger Cubs have been making BBQ utensil racks with built in bottle openers.
MAY 17th - 19th
Spring Camp
The Scouts spent the weekend at Thriftwood Scout Campsite brushing up on their Scouting Skills. The weekend ended with a mammoth kebab making session. An inter-patrol kebab off!
FRIDAY MAY 17th
The Leopard Cubs spent the evening sending secret messages using semaphore, code bracelets and lemon ink.
And purely for fun they made some fruit salad!
MAY 10th - 12th
The Leopard Cubs were at cub camp this weekend.
FRIDAY MAY 10th
Oh no, the hall is haunted by Beaver Ghosts!
The Polar Bear Beavers have been getting creative with Cameras for the photographer badge. Each Beaver took ten or more pictures during the meeting but not just normal pictures, all had an unusual element of creativity.
Some used torches to draw spiky hair, others used long exposures to create ghostly effects and some took pictures from within a jar of water.
All of these pictures are as taken with no special effects added afterwards.
THURSDAY MAY 9th
The Scouts are spending two Thursdays at Thriftwood Scout Campsite. This week half the troop were climbing while the other half played wide games.
FRIDAY MAY 3rd
This week the Polar Beaver Beavers were at Crow Camp learning about tents.
SUNDAY APRIL 28th
The Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Young Leaders and Leaders were with the rest of the district in Collier Row for our annual parade in honour of St George. The parade is followed by a service during which we renew our promises. Baden-Powell said in Scouting for Boys that St George is also the Patron Saint of Scouts everywhere.
As you can see we had a few showers during the muster but the rain held off long enough for us to parade.
THURSDAY APRIL 11th
World Scout Jamboree
The Scouts have been learning about the World Scout Jamboree which takes place this summer in the USA. Four of our ex Scouts and one of our Scout Leaders are part of the UK contingent.
We started with a presentation before splitting up into groups for different activities.
What could be more American than making nice thick American style pancakes. Scouts split into teams of four to mix the raw ingredients before splitting down into teams of two to cook them.
SATURDAY APRIL 6th
The Leopard Cubs have won the district cub cooking competition.
APRIL 4th ANOTHER GOLD AWARD
This week we presented 3rd Gidea Park's 55th Chief Scout Gold Award since the award was implemented in 2002.
TUESDAY MARCH 19th
The Beavers visited the Metropolitan Police Patrol Base in Harold Hill tonight. They got to have a look around at everything and then got to climb all over a van, a car and a bike. They had a fantastic time and we are very thankful for their hospitality.
The visit was arranged by Tigger, one of our beaver leaders.
SATURDAY MARCH 16th
The Beavers were at Hargirves Scout Campsite for an adventure Afternoon.
FRIDAY MARCH 15th
Tonight the Beavers got creative making colour code name bracelets..... and the Thursday after the Scouts Vacuumed up lots of coloured plastic beads.
TUESDAY MARCH 12th
The Beavers spent the evening rehearsing camp fire songs so they could put on a show for their parents.
SUNDAY MARCH 3rd
Dear-oh-deer!
Three teams of Scouts and a team of Young Leaders from 3rd Gidea Park entered the district Orienteering Competition. It seems they may have got a little distracted by the deer rather than focusing on the competition.
FRIDAY MARCH 1st
Tonight the Beavers got Scientific with lots of experiments. And it doesn't get much more experimental than making ice cream in a plastic bag and eating it!
FRIDAY FEB 15th
The Beavers spent the evening learning how to behave around dogs. One of the bravest Beavers was initially scared to tears at the prospect of spending an evening with dogs but was absolutely determined to stroke one by the end of the evening.
JANUARY 31st - TWO MORE GOLDS
Two more Gold Chief Scout Awards were presented this month. These are 53rd and 54th Chief Scout Gold Awards presented at 3rd Gidea Park.
FRIDAY JANUARY 18th
Its been a creative end to the week at 3rd Gidea Park. First the Scouts with their magic (below) and then on Friday the Beavers were making 3D pictures.
JANUARY 24th - MAGIC NIGHT
We had worked out that not many Scouts have finished the Creative Challenge badge and so we needed more creative themed activities in our meetings. Our leaders aren't very creative when it comes to meeting ideas but some old Copies of Scouting Magazine gave them an idea. A Magic night!
FRIDAY JANUARY 18th
Our Friday Beavers held a Pooh Bear themed picnic.
SUNDAY JANUARY 20th
Chilly Mini Adventures
It was cold but both our Beaver colonies spent the day at Crow Camp with the Scouts. There was tight rope walking, bouldering, marshmallow roasting and aerial runway riding. A grand time was had by all.
JANUARY 18th - 20th
Overnight temperatures dropped below zero with some Scouts discovering frost on the inside of their tent doors (who left it open?) but everyone remained warm enough to start the new year with a camp. The Scouts spent Saturday building an Areal Runway for the Beavers to play on. Naturally the Scouts all needed to have 3 or more test rides each!
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