Bit of a Challenge....

We rearranged our meeting last week to the Wednesday night so as to avoid the England game. Those that could make this change of evening had a challenge: They had to use the available materials to get a candle so that it burnt the balloon. However, Akela seemed to have bought fireproof balloons, so the challenge was changed to burning through the string that held the balloon. Good news - all the groups achieved it!



PGL Activity Weekend

On Friday 6th June, we went off to Liddington in Wiltshire, for an activity weekend. Here's a few pictures of some of the activities we got up to:

  Aeroball (hard to see in a photo though!)

  The Giant Swing (check out the video on Facebook)

 Archery

 Crate Challenge

 Zip Wire

 Vertical Challenge

 Sensory Challenge

Making large Catapults

 

As part of  learning about pioneering, we made some mini-versions of large catapults at this week's meeting.

They were made out of bamboo canes, rubber bands and a strong plastic cup to place a ping-pong ball in to fire.

 

Some were defintely better than others, but they all fired in a straight line and achieved the challenge set.





Good luck England

We decorated the HQ with England banners this week to wish lots of England teams "Good Luck".



We talked about the Men's England Football team at the World Cup of course, but we also mentioned the Men's Rugby team playing New Zealand three times this summer (the first match is on the Saturday of our PGL weekend), the Men's Cricket team play Sri Lanka (they were playing a Twenty20 match that evening - England lost unfortunately) and India in all three forms of the game and the Ladies Cricket team play Sri Lanka in August.



Plus there's the Commonwealth Games at the end of July! Lots of sports are represented and some banners included athletes and rugby sevens players.

Well done Cole - our first Bronze & Silver Chief Scout's Award holder

Well done Cole! He is the first individual in our Group to gain both the Chief Scout's Bronze Award (in the Beavers) and now gone on to complete the Silver Award with the Cubs. A terrific achievement and one you should be proud of Cole!

His badge and certificate was presented by the local author, Helen Watts.

 

Helen lives locally and her first novel "One day in Oradour" tells the story of events in a small French village during the second World War. Although the book is aimed at a slightly older age group than our Cubs, her next one in September is closer to their age and Helen has agreed to come back, tell us about it and do some work around the Bookreader and Hobbies badge (lots of Cubs bring books in).

 









Four weeks to go...

We are four weeks away today from our Activity weekend at the PGL Centre at Liddington in Wiltshire. Three adults are travelling there with our party of 15, and the Cubs will be doing all sorts of activities over the weekend.

This activity is scheduled for Sunday morning!:



Another Chief Scout Silver Award!

Well done to Louis who has become the fifth Cub in the Pack to complete all his Challenge Awards and be presented with this badge.

He received the certificate at this week's Pack meeting, but he got his badge a couple of days previously when he was presented it at the St George's Day Parade service, in front of the District, by Tony Guy who was representing the County Commissioner.