Robot Wars – Week 2

Robot Wars – Week 2

We started the night with a word game, in round 1 they had to all write a word starting with a letter called out by the leader. The group with the second longest word moved forward one space, we played again where the longest word moved forward. Carrying on from last...
Robot Wars – Week 1

Robot Wars – Week 1

We started the week with a game, which was ‘Scouts choice’, or perhaps in this case better labelled as ‘can’t make a choice’ though they did get around to something in the end! We then spent 20 minutes going over Scout Craft knots, with...
Camp Preparation

Camp Preparation

After parade the Scouts headed outside for a quick game. They were paired up randomly and one person blindfolded, their partner then had to guide them down to the other end of the field and back. Oh and they were not allowed to touch their partner or use any words in...
Campcraft and Planning

Campcraft and Planning

Our first night back and we started with a balloon tower challenge, the Scouts had 15 balloons each and a roll of sticky tape. Their task to build the tallest free standing tower in 5 minutes. The final result was very close, within 1cm, though unfortunately the urge...
Talking About The Future

Talking About The Future

With the end of the school term approaching a large number of our Scouts were away tonight, leaving us with a patrol of two. As such we left completing our camp menus until next term and instead sat down for a chat. First on the agenda we spent some time talking about...
What’s For Dinner?

What’s For Dinner?

We only have a few things left to complete from the Campcraft section, though we will not get it fully completed until the next group camp in November. However as always we started the night with a game, a Scout favourite Pool Noodle Marco Polo. The ‘it’...