This year Apache Scouts entered five teams into the District Camp Craft competition and came away with some fantastic results. The Scouts are scored on all the activities they take part in over the weekend, which includes setting up their own camp and cooking area, a selection of Cube / Taskmaster challenges, cooking all their…
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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…
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.
Hessle take the double!
Two Apache Scout teams have been competing in the Blacktoft Beacon Scout Campcraft Competition all weekend. As well as activities similar to the cub competition yesterday, they have had to camp without leaders all weekend, cooking and caring for themselves and their equipment, as well as completing challenges such as archery, making tin can burners,…
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. …
HUFFLEPUFF WINNERS!
Arapaho and Cherokee Cubs attended the 2018 Humberside Scouts County Cub Camp – ‘Fantastic Cubs And Where To Find Them’. As part of the Hufflepuff House, along with Cubs from Brayton Scarlet, 19th Grimsby (St Hugh’s), 1st Ricall, St Martins, Sewerby Methodist, Trinity Methodist, 1st Laceby and St Margaret’s of Scotland, they combined to win…
WINNERS!
What a weekend! Apache Scouts won the Scout Camp Craft Competition at Tablers Wood. They had a full weekend of challenges to complete, and managed them all. They also ran their own camp, setting everything up, cooking all their own meals, keeping everything tidy and camped without a leader. The team of five were fantastic…
WINNERS!
Arapaho and Cherokee Cubs entered teams into the Blacktoft Beacon District Camp Craft Competition today. The teams had eight challenges to complete each, and did so with great success. Twelve teams took part, with Arapaho girls finishing first with 110 points Cherokee boys second, with 98 points, Cherokee girls third with 92 points and Arapaho boys eighth. What…
Beaver 30th Birthday Celebrations
Beavers from all over Humberside County joined together this weekend to celebrate 30 years of Beaver Scouts – a day full of activities at Driffield Showground with the added bonus of a sleepover. The day all helped us to work towards our Creative Activity Badge and we enjoyed bouncy castles, learnt circus skills, made things…