Imagination Badge Letter, 30/08/11

Dear Parents / Guardians

This term the Beaver Scouts are going to be working towards their Imagination Badge.

A requirement is that they will have to build a model using a variety of objects. For this activity the Beavers will need to bring in some materials
such as:
Paper and cardboard of different textures & colours, Old magazines, Scrap material and fabric, Plastic bottles, Cereal packets, Shells and pebbles, Margarine tubs, Matchboxes, Cardboard tubes, Egg boxes, Wool scraps, Shoe boxes, Washing-up liquid containers, Yogurt and cream cartons, Soft drink cans.

Please bring these in during September and October.

Many thanks, and yours in scouting,

Beaver Leaders

Bravery

Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris knows that might does not always mean right. He explains: Not long ago, after a day of filming my television series, I went alone to a small Texas cafe. As I sat in a corner booth, a large man towered over me and said with an edge to his voice that I was sitting in his booth. I didn’t like his tone or his implicit threat, but I said nothing and moved to another booth. A few minutes later, though, the big fellow was headed back in my direction. Here he comes, I thought, a local tough out to make a name for himself by taking on Chuck Norris in a fight. When he arrived at my new booth, he looked directly at me. “You’re Chuck Norris,” he said. I nodded. “You could have whipped me good back there a few minutes ago,” he said. “Why didn’t you?” “What would it have proved?” I asked. He thought that over for a moment and then offered me his hand. “No hard feelings?” he said. “None,” I said, and shook his hand. I had avoided a confrontation and made a friend.

I had won by losing.

Quote of the month, August 2011

'Rejoin the adventure.'

Adventure

We offer outdoor activities and adventure for everyone at every level.

Scouting Values, August 2011

Challenging: We don’t just climb mountains, we move them.

Impactful: Scouting changes lives. That’s a fact.

Positive: Help someone learn how to smile again.

Optimistic: If they can do it, you can do it.

Committed: You can’t change the world in a day. But together we can.

Informal: Got a few seconds? It might just change your life.

Humorous: Where did all that mud come from?

Friendly: Up to much on Thursday? Fancy 28 million new friends?

Surprising: Eleven of the twelve people to walk on the moon were Scouts. Surprised?

Striving: Let’s give young people a chance – one by one.

Inspiring: Two things matter in life: Follow your dreams and look after your friends (Bear Grylls).

A Scout Is Clean

(You will need one clean, opaque cup filled with very dirty water and one opaque cup, dirty on the outside and filled with clean water. The soiling of the outside

of the dirty cup and the murkiness of the water in the clean cup must be exaggerated.)

(Hold up both cups so that the Scouts can see the outsides clearly but not what is inside.) Which of these cups of water do you think I should drink from? You probably think that I should drink from the clean cup. But, you see, the cup that appears clean really contains very dirty water. (Walk around the room and show the dirty water to the Scouts.) It’s the other cup, the one that looks dirty on the outside, which is really clean. (Show the clean water.)

It doesn’t really matter if Scouts play hard and get dirty doing the many fun activities we do in our troop. We can always take a shower and get clean again. But, it is a little harder to keep our insides clean. When the Scout Law says “A Scout is clean,” it is also referring to our inside selves. A Scout has clean language, clean manners, and clean thinking.

The Future, 22/07/11

Games: indoor parachute, obstacle course (giant feet, cones, frisbee, ladders)

Drawing the future

Badge requirements achieved:

Fitness - part in co-operative games (parachute games), Take part in a team game (obstacle course)

Imagination - Draw or paint a picture imagining what life might be like in the future

Quote of the month, July 2011

'Get to know your kids better. Send them away.'

Fun and friendship

These are the reasons people join Scouting – without it they leave.

Pirate Camp, Blackwell Court, 16/07/11

Joint camp with the Cub Scouts

Camp activities included orienteering, night line, water fight, rounders, grass sledging, backwoods cooking and two treasure hunts! It even included inflatable palm trees!

Badge requirements achieved:

Adventure - Treasure hunt, Grass sledging

Fitness - Take part in a team game (rounders, water fight), take part in co-operative game (nightline)

Nights Away - one night away as part of a recognised Scouting activity (in tents)

Outdoor - Visit a Cub Scout Pack camp, Help put up a tent, Follow a laid out trail, Take part in an outdoor activity (grass sledging, treasure hunt)

Pirate T-Shirts, 08/07/11

Games: played "Pirates" footsteps, head or catch, dodgeball

Designed pirate t-shirts

Pirate Flags, 01/07/11

Games: Pirate balloons - last one to burst won! Memory & jigsaw game

Then we designed pirate flags to put on our tents for Pirate Camp at Blackwell Court