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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT 3GP

All our sections are now meeting face to face.

NEWS

SUMMER CAMP

Tuesday August 5th

This Scouts are back from Summer Camp. A report can be found here.

RAFT BUILDING

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Thursday July 17th

Time for a raft building exercise. Four teams of Scouts attended our meeting at Thriftwood where we built four rafts and attempted to complete parts of the nautical skills badge. It had been a warm day and some of the scouts were eyeing to cool lake before we even started.

It would be fair to say that the teams had varying degrees of success. Those that got stuck in and gave it a go, found that they needed very little scrutiny from the leaders before launching. And some of them even got off the lake dry afterwards. Those that hoped someone else would build it for them got on the water a little later and tended to have a muddy bath!

CAMP SITE SERVICE

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Thursday June 19th

The Scouts were back at Crow Camp, this time to do a bit of camp site service. They were picking up rubble that had been spread around some parts of the site that have been off limits since the old kitchen area was demolished. This will be a small step to unblocking the next phase of site improvements.

Whilst there, the Scouts also learned about effective campsite layout for the camper's badge and ended the meeting with a well-earned wide game.

TENT PITCHING

Thursday June 5th

This week the Scouts were practicing their patrol tent pitching skills. Many of the Scouts had never used a mallet to set a tent peg before so this was useful practice. Once checked the tents were packed ready for summer camp.

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UNDER WATER LITTER PICKING

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As the nights are warmer and brighter it was time for our annual trip to Raphael's park to littler pick the parts others are afraid to pick.

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We were once again supporting the Friends of Raphael and Lodge Farm parks by litter picking the exposed part of Blacks Brook. As well as the usual assortment of crisp packets and drinks containers we found socks, hanging baskets and a fully inflated space hopper!

TEAM BUILDING

Thursday May 22nd

The Scouts were back at Crow for a night of team building exercises. This involved a game with large skis as well as bulding and using sedan chairs.

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GETTING CREATIVE

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THURSDAY APRIL 3rd

The Scouts were encouraged to get creative by arranging the contents of things geometrically. On the right was the hall tool box. Below are the contents of a hike first aid kit and the dodge-teddy stock.

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A Kitchen Shelter and patrol

The contents of a patrol cooking box.

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BACKWOODS SKILLS

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THURSDAY MARCH 27th

The Scouts were at Crow Camp tonight practicing backwoods cooking skills. This was all the more a challenge because it got dark shortly after we arrived. A couple of teams created tasty meals, others were a little less organised and ran out of time.

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BEAVER SLEEP OVER

FRIDAY MARCH 13th

Our Friday beavers had a sleep over at our hall..

ORIENTEERING

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SUNDAY MARCH 10th

We entered two teams into the Romford District Scouts Orienteering competition. 21st Romford Scouts only had one Scouts so one of our teams kindly let him join them. That team went on to win!

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PIONEERING

Thursday Feb 27th

The Scouts built and tested this bridge before going home leaving the leaders to pack up.

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