This is the 8th year the Scouts from the old school rooms have attended the Strategy weekend competition with camping held in the grounds of Cirencester Park. The team of 6, Amy, Charlie, Zoe, Rayne, Samuel and Rebecca all arrived at 5pm ish on Friday where Lee had already set up camp. The scouts chose their tents and after a chat could go off and do what they liked from either the silent disco to snacks in the cafe / tuck shop amongst lots of other things or just chill out. Saturday morning was a briefing and kit check before off around the park visiting bases to do challenges like hunt the haggis, cave bus, supermarket sweep and lots lots more. 30,000 steps and at 5pm it was over. Good job all. Now for an evening of entertainment or whatever the scouts wanted to do with scouts from all over the country in approximately 300 teams. Sunday morning and it was results. We don’t know where the 1st Stoke Gifford super stars finished yet but will publish once they’re sent out. We didn’t win but after 8 hours of competition in hot weather just finishing is a challenge. Good job all and massive TY to lee for setting up camp. Well the scores are in and we finished 60th out of 336 teams. The task was to beat the guides and I have to say we let 3 guide teams beat us! Only 3 out of the 59 teams that scored more points than us but 3 is 3 and you all owe me a bar of chocolate as a penalty Last evenings session in the OSR was a model making problem solving challenge using the SS Great Britain’s educational box to make a boat that could travel a set distance the fastest. The scouts in their patrols designed the boats with only the equipment provided in the box. A fab evening with some not as successful as others but a lot of fun This evening was the second half from last week, where half the troop were at the West Country water park rafting and the other half of the troop were at school problem solving and team building. As last week lots of fun on and off the water. Ty to the water rats and all the leaders! Tonight the osr scouts were split with half of them attending st Michael’s school to try some problem solving. Split again into 3 teams the scouts were challenged with a tyre tower of Hanoi, gutter ball and plank walk then leaky cup, disappearing carpet and blindfold rope shapes. All these will be included in Kahoutek and strategy camp so good to practice for the scouts. A few got wet and lots of laughter. Big ty to Lee and Oliver for helping out. |
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