As part of their Personal Challenge badge, we have asked Beavers to write a blog for us. Here is a write up from Joshua on activities we undertook for our Experiment Activity Badge and Challenge X during British Science Week. Last Wednesday I took my tooth brush with me for an activity. The activity I…
Category: Beavers
Hessle Beavers meet on a Wednesday evening from 5:45pm – 7:00pm. Our section gives children aged 6 – 8 years their first taste of scouting activities in a fun and friendly environment. The varied programme gives them the opportunity to earn a wide range of activity and challenge badges.
Our Colony is currently full, but if you would like to add a child to our waiting list please use the email address below.
For further information, please contact beavers@hesslescoutgroup.co.uk
Beaver Cooks
For their Cook Activity Badge Beavers have to prepare and cook three dishes, both sweet and savoury. Well done to Joseph and Summer, their food looks delicious.
Beaver Outdoor Challenge
Part of the Beaver Outdoor Challenge badge requires Beavers to take part in an activity using natural things like leaves, bark, twigs, sand and rocks. Well done to Aiden, Alfie, Amelie, Jessica and Summer for making us smile with their pictures.
Beaver Blog – Luke
As part of their Personal Challenge badge, we have asked Beavers to write a blog for us. Here is a write up from Luke on our World Book Day sleepover at Anlaby Park Community Library. Last Friday, the beavers had a sleepover at the library. We found different books for different categories on our sheet…
Beaver Blog – Seb
As part of their Personal Challenge badge, our second Beaver Blog comes from Seb. Tonight we was earning our First Aid badge. Then we split into three groups. First we learnt how to do the recovery position. Next we learnt if you need an ambulance or not, what we would do, and how to support…
Beaver Blog – Archie
As part of their Personal Challenge badge, we have asked Beavers to write a blog for us. Here is a write up from Archie on the Big Sing. At the Big Sing I went to the church and then I went around Hessle and gave people a leaflet to go to the Big Sing. I…
Welcome to Hessle Beavers
Six new young people have been invested into Hessle Beavers, welcome to Alfie, Aiden, Arthur, Isaac, Libbie and Summer. We then had a fun evening undertaking some problem solving challenges.
All Saints Church
Hessle Beavers visited All Saints Church this week as part of their Faith Activity Badge. The completed a treasure hunt around the church, and then Revd Gemma read the story of The Good Samaritan, which Beavers all thought fitted really well with their Beaver promise. We then made reflection / prayer chains which are now…
Bounce into Christmas
Beavers ended the term with a visit to Gravity. We also waved goodbye to six of our Beavers as they started their journey swimming up the river to Cubs.
Chief Scout’s Bronze Award
Congratulations to five of our Beavers – Bethany, Bradley, Charlie, Henry and Joseph – on achieving their Chief Scout’s Bronze Award. We hope you all have fun at Cubs.
Christingle
Lovely to see all our young people taking part in the Christingle Service this afternoon. As our Scouting promises and laws say ‘to be kind and helpful’ and to ‘think of others before themselves’, we did both this afternoon, working alongside The Children’s Society.
County Beaver Quiz
Well done to our four Beavers who represented Hessle and Blacktoft Beacon in the County Quiz today. You did brilliantly, especially in the team games!
Skills for Life
As part of their Camp Craft Activity Badge, Beavers learnt how to sew a badge onto their camp blankets. Big thanks to all the parents who helped!
Gruffalo Adventure
2019 is the Gruffalo’s 20th birthday, and to celebrate Beavers have taken part in a Gruffalo Adventure. Outdoors we enjoyed the climbing wall and go karts, as well as making pictures of Gruffalo characters from natural items, and hunting for bugs. We made our own pizza and Gruffalo feet for lunch, Gruffalo crumble for tea,…
JOTA / JOTI
Jamboree on the Air and Jamboree on the Internet (JOTA JOTI) are real jamborees during which Scouting experiences are exchanged and ideas shared using radios, phones, chat room and skype. Beavers and Cherokee Cubs had a great day at the BBITS event working towards their digital citizen and communicator badges. We spoke with scouts from…
Welcome to Beavers
Two new members were invested into Hessle Beavers, welcome to Oscar and Seb.
FUN IN THE SUN
Beavers enjoyed their last meeting of the term with some teamwork games involving lots of water. There were many happy squeals and some soggy clothes, but lots of fun was had.
North Cave Wetlands
Beavers learnt more about the natural world, as part of their World Challenge Badge, at North Cave Wetlands. We sat in the hides watching all the bird life on the lakes through binoculars, and then looked at different creatures found in the ponds in magnifying pots.
Hessle Foreshore
Perfect weather for an evening on Hessle Foreshore. As part of our Outdoor Challenge badge we built a fire, toasted marshmallows to make smores, and built some fantastic sculptures out of stones. Thanks to all the parents that helped us.
Group Camp 2019
Once a year we like to take all sections of Hessle Scout Group to camp, and as usual we’ve had a scorching hot, fantastic time. We had a circus theme for the weekend and learnt circus skills, made a circus ring, decorated t-shirts to wear whilst performing and had fun on an inflatable assault course…
Brake’s Kids Walk
Hessle Beavers took part in the Brake’s Kids Walk tonight. We walked around Hessle completing a mini monopoly run, whilst checking that there were safe places to cross the road and footpaths to walk on.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Beavers joined the Blacktoft Beacon District trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park. They met lots of endangered animals, which helped them work towards their Global Issues and Explore Activity Badges.
Welcome to Beavers
Four new Beavers have made their promise, and been invested into Hessle Beavers.
County Beaver Fun Day
Beavers had an action packed day completing their Air Activities Badge at Raywell Park. We made kites, boomerangs and helicopters, launched rockets, bounced on castles and watched an excellent show by the Earth Bound Misfits.
Chief Scout Bronze Award
Beavers completed their Creative Activity Badge by putting on a puppet show as a treat for Mother’s Day. Congratulations also to Beavers Ava, Ruben, Fraser, Jack who achieved their Bronze Chief Scout Award before swimming up the river to Cubs.
WELCOME TO BEAVERS
Welcome to our two newest Beavers!
DIGITAL MAKER
Beavers have been working towards their Digital Maker badge, understanding what all the different parts of the computer are called, and how we use computers in everyday life. To help us remember the parts we modeled them from salt dough.
THE GIANT JAM SANDWICH
As part of their Skills Challenge badge, Beavers have to go somewhere new. Today we visited Wilberforce College to watch the Back to Ours / New Perspectives performance of The Giant Jam Sandwich. We saw how one hot summer’s day, four million wasps invaded the quiet village of Itching Down. We joined the villagers in…
GREEN SCREEN
Beavers had a great time tonight using a green screen to kick start their Photographer Badge. We took some nice photos for another project later in the term but had time for some funny shots at the end of the night! #watchoutforthecow Beavers also got the chance to take photographs in lots of different ways; using…
CHRISTMAS CLIMBING
Beavers had great fun in the bouldering rooms at Rock City for their Christmas party. The excited shouts of ‘this is brilliant’ sum up an excellent evening.
CHIEF SCOUT BRONZE AWARD
As we approach the end of the term, it has been time to say goodbye to two of our Beavers, as they start their swim up the river to Cubs. However, not before having the great pleasure of presenting them both with their Chief Scout Bronze Awards. Well done!
THE ELF CHALLENGE
What a weekend! Hessle Beavers completed the Elf Challenge, doing all things Christmas. We made Christmas stockings, tree decorations, gingerbread houses – both large and small, we cooked Christmas dinner, decorated plates to leave goodies out for Santa, went sledging, made and iced Christmas cakes, watched the movie ‘Elf’ and then made sleighs from lego. …
Christingle 2018
Beavers and Cubs had a lovely afternoon at the Christingle Service at All Saints Church Hessle.
INVENTOR CHALLENGE
It’s amazing how the contents of our recycling bins can keep everyone occupied for an hour! Beavers were set the challenge of inventing something that could pick up a ping pong ball that was a metre away from them. Lots of different ideas, with varying degrees of success, but lots of fun!
Welcome to Beavers
Six new Beavers were invested into Hessle Beavers. During the evening we had been working towards our Disability Awareness Activity Badge, and had learnt our promise in sign language. Whilst the new Beavers said their promise, the rest of the colony signed it. Lots of badges were awarded to everyone, along with a Chief Scout’s…
Skidby Hike
Beavers enjoyed their Autumn Hike, across the fields to Skidby Windmill. We had several stops along the way for everyone to find where we were on the map. Alas, our geocache which we planted a couple of years ago was nowhere to be found.
SWIMMING UP THE RIVER
Well done to Freddie and Seth who swam up the final part of the Beaver river, and were then invested into Cherokee Cubs. GSL Paul also presented Seth with his final Beaver badges, and his Chief Scout Bronze Award.
CHIEF SCOUT BRONZE AWARD
Congratulations to Freddie and Alfie who have been awarded their Chief Scout Bronze Award, having achieved all their Challenge badges, as well as an armful of activity and staged badges. They have now both started their swim up the river to Cubs.
Melton Bottom Challenge Camp
Hessle Beavers and Cherokee Cubs had a great weekend in the sunshine completing their Outdoor and Adventure Challenge badges. They took part in activities which included archery, making and lighting a fire, crate stacking, making woggles, pitching and striking a tent, playing bingo, building a shelter, an incident hike, cooking on fires, making pot bags,…
CYCLING THE HUMBER
Beavers completed their cyclist badge in perfect weather. We cycled from the Humber Bridge Car Park over to the bridge tower on the south bank of the Humber and back. Thanks to all the parents that joined us to make the trip possible.
DEN BUILDING
Hessle Beavers and Beech Tree Beavers had great fun building dens in Nut Wood. Thanks to all our adult helpers, who we also think had a great time!!
2018 Jamboree on the Trail
Well done to everyone that took part to help make our 2018 Sponsored Walk, Family BBQ and AGM such a success. Whether you walked the route, cut the grass, prepared the food, cooked the food, or even just ate it, helped with road crossings, put the tables and chairs out or away, led the singing…
St George’s Day 2018
It may have been wild and windy up on the racecourse, but we all had a brilliant day. Archery, circus skills, pancake making, Lego, Humberside Fire & Rescue, inflatables, volleyball, skate park, dragon making, pioneering, martial arts, glass engraving, climbing wall, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, to name but a few. With over 500 young people plus…
HESSLE FORESHORE BEACH CLEAN
Well done to the Cherokee Cubs, Beavers and their parents that helped at the beach clean yesterday. Working alongside The Deep and the Marine Conservation Society we all collected many bags of rubbish, as well as some more unusual items such as a car wheel and tools. This has helped the young people work towards…
A MILLION HANDS MOMENT FOR WATER AID
Hessle Beavers took part in a hike with a challenge for Water Aid. We walked from Hessle Foreshore into the Humber Bridge Country Park where we filled our milk bottles with water from the pond, learning about water safety whilst we were there. Beavers than had to carry their 4 pint (2.27 litre) cartons back…
WILLIAM’S DEN SLEEPOVER
Beavers and Cherokee Cubs had a fantastic time sleeping at William’s Den. They had plenty of time to enjoy the indoor equipment, had some outdoor team games and singing, made their own pizzas for supper and then got to choose where they slept in the play area. Another Programme Spark completed #PS41, sleeping somewhere unusual. …
BEAVERS INVESTED
Congratulations to Bradley, Charlie and Matilda who have made their promise and been invested into Hessle Beavers
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Beavers had a fun week taking part in the Programme Sparks Winter Olympics Challenge, and even Edward the Sparks Bear came to watch. We competed in a ‘No Snow Biathalon’ where we had to slide up the room and then shoot cups with nerf guns, ‘Ice Hockey’ where rather than being on ice, the puck…
Hessle & 1st Laceby Beavers Blastoff!
Two colonies joined together for a sleepover and completed their space and builder activity badges. Staying in the Nyeri Centre at Raywell Park they made spacesuits and helmets, with a jetpack for their back as well as pot bags so that the Beavers do not lose their cutlery and crockery at future sleepovers. Outdoor games…