Happy New (Chinese) Year

2018 is the "Year of the Dog" and as part of the World Challenge Award work, the Cubs got ready for Chinese New Year on 16th February. They stir fried their selection of food, made dragon masks and made lucky red envelopes to give as a gift with (chocolate) money in.

Two More Chief Scout Silver Award's Presented!

It's always great when our young people work hard to get their badges and Awards. Not all of them manage to get all seven Awards, but we are delighted that Chloe and Maria have done so by completing all seven of the Challenge Awards. We took the opportunity to share their excellent achievement with the congregation at the Plough Sunday service and Reverend David presented both the badges and certificates. Congratulations Chloe and Maria!

Plough Sunday 2018 in Wilmcote

We feel like we are getting in to this service at St Andrew's more each year. Plough Sunday is held on the day of the family service in January and it follows the tradion from many years ago when the (shared) plough from the village was taken to church and blessed ahead of the ploughing starting in the new year.
We meet at Mary Arden's Farm and followed behind the staff and the piper. The weather this year was wet and very cold. Its a good job the Church is warm!

Disability Awareness Activity badge

Although this Activity badge has been around for a while, its not one we'd tackled before. The Leaders were delighted how positively our Cubs tackeled each part of the Disability Awareness badge. We used a mobility scooter to discuss wheelchair access, talked about equipment for the deaf and hard of hearing, made sandwiches using only one hand, the Cubs wrote their names in braille using food stuffs and celebrated the achievements of Jonnie Peacock (both in athletics and Strictly Come Dancing!)

 

Tin Can Cooking

This remains one of the most loved activities that we do and we repeated it again this January. For some Cubs, it was a return to cooking pancakes in a way that they remembered with enthusiam; for others, it was their first attempt. We think the record was 10 on the evening!