On Saturday we took our Beavers to the Armagh planetarium. The colony enjoyed games, rocket making, a short alien movie, a beaver trail with questions and much more. We headed to Burger King for grub before heading back down the road to meet mums and dads at home. I must say the beavers where all still buzzing when they arrived back, so id say it was enjoyed by all.
Many thanks to Matt and David for all their help. 🙂
See you all again on Tuesday for our Halloween party!
Cypress & Willow.
Month: October 2016
This year we decided to sneak in an extra canvas camp for the cubs. We headed off to Breckenhill Activity Centre in Doagh.
The cubs, most of whom are new this year and relative novices took to the camp lifestyle with absolute gusto. We landed in the rain and Mr Dave and Miss Henry from Breckenhill had them feeling right at home and away doing activities from the get go.
Archery, Earth-ball, Trike relays, traversing walls, Splatmaster, Low ropes courses, Giant Catapults, orienteering, night-lines filled the day, and evening and the next day we had more archery as well as some team building inside games.
Campfires, smores, songs, snacks and meals made up the weekend.
A few of the cubs had never camped before and went straight at it and slept all night, the sixers were excellent at helping out and Wade, our new Senior Sixer, showed exactly what a scout is all about.
Facilities where fantastic, cubs had a ball and even though the weather could have been better everyone of them wants to go back. Even Dustbin Beaver our Young Leader / explorer cracked a smile.
Akela and Shere Khan even spent the night in Hammocks. Many thanks to Skip from Explorers for throwing a couple of Hammockinn customs them up to us.
As always – many thanks to Shere Khan, Kaa and Cypress Beaver for their help at making it such a great camp. Kaa’s spag bol was welcomed on Saturday night and Mrs Akela’s brownies ended the camp in chocolately style.
Many thanks to Mr Dave and Miss Henry – we’ll see you at Easter!
On Tuesday night in front of enthusiastic Beavers and their families and friend our latest leaders and Young Leader took their promise and law and became fully invested members of the Group and worldwide scouting family.
Congrats to Scott and David (Skipper) from Explorers, Roma (Willow) from Beavers and Nathan – Young Leader (Anti-scout / Dustbin Beaver) who successfully completed hi Young Leader Modules at the recent residential.
Welcome to the Team!
(We still have plenty of volunteering opportunities both uniformed and non uniformed!)
On Tuesday night Ballymoney Scout Group welcomed its newest members. 8 Beavers completed their promise and law and became fully fledged members of the worldwide Scouting Family.
For some of our youngest members their commitment, memory and enthusiasm was impressive – well supported by family and friends.
Well done Beavers! and congrats to Willow and Cypress on a sterling job getting the Beavers organised.
(Thanks to Shere Khan from Cubs for lending a hand!)
