Our Adventures in France

We spent four days in France in October, leaving Wilmcote in the early hours on 24th and returning very late on 27th. What a tremendous 4 days we had! It's really hard to show in just a few photographs exactly what we got up to, but our adventures included a long day in Paris, an even longer day at Disneyland Paris, a trip to the WW1 site at Vimy Ridge and a great stay at a Chateau.

County Quiz

As West Warwickshire District Cub winners (see March 2016), a six Cub team took part in the County Quiz on Sunday and finished 4th in a very close top group. It was great to see them winning the mini-pioneering challenge round by a huge margin! Well done Alfie, Harry, Maria, Aimee, William and Olivia.

 

Teamwork throughout the Quiz was excellent and they were a credit to the Cub Pack.

Seven More Chief Scout Silver Awards!

We're proud of all the achievements of our Cub Scouts, but we always like to shout about it when they complete their Chief Scout Silver Award - the highest a Cub can get. This week, seven more were presented by our District Commissioner. So, "well done" Jessica (not in the picture), Fin, Alfie, Scarlett, Martha, Maddie and Annabel.

More Daffodil Bulbs Planted

Our Blog Post from September 2013 showed us planting lots of daffodil bulbs and we had added to those we'd planted in 2012. Well, we also planted quite a lot in 2014 and this week we added over 400 more! We can't wait until the Spring to see how its all looking.

Science in September

We gave the Cubs a choice of four Activity badges for September. The older Cubs led the decision making and the choice was the Scientist Activity badge. So, they've been jumping to launch rockets, experimenting with building, running to see what happens with their pulse and building a wormery each. With two experiments to go, we'll finish this badge by the first week in October.

Our meetings in July

We've used the outdoors as much as possible this month and have done a variety of activities. One week, each Six made a Scarecrow; another week we repeated our Backwoods cooking activity of making stews (which allowed some new ones to have a go) and then we ended the month with a couple of weeks of games - including water ones on the hottest day of the year so far!

Anabel Murphy's Racing Stables

For our meeting after the Camp weekend, we had an interesting visit to Wilmcote's horse racing yard! It is owned and run by Anabel Murphy and we heard lots about the world of horse racing, how the horses are cared for and trained and how they all have different personalities. We also congratulated Mrs Murphy on her win at Royal Ascot this year. The parents who came along found it interesting too (plus one or two tips were discussed....).