celebration 25th anniversary joint group camp to youlbury, Oxfordshire, 23rd - 30th july 201627/7/2016
Twenty five years since 1st Stoke Gifford Scout group was formed and as a celebration a group summer camp was organised to Youlbury scout activity camp site. Both scout troops and the cub pack all attended some 40+ including leaders and helpers. Lots of fun activities on and off site including team building, swimming, high ropes and many more as you can see in the photo's. All the scouts and cubs slept out over night in shelters they had built. end of term low impact paintballing for osr scouts at skirmish, cribbs causeway, Bristol 20/07/201620/7/2016
Twenty two warriors from old school rooms scout troop and their mums and dads attended Skirmish a newish Paintballing centre near Bristol. This activity being made available to scouts thanks to a lifting of the restriction from the scouting activity list from Gilwell Park. The scouts waived all their rights and donned their protective equipment, after being scared half to death by the instructor about blindness and the speed per second of the paintballs. It was then the forming of the Red and the Blue teams and to battle. The wounded came back in to the safety area in dribs and drabs at first then in a flood, everyone played about 6 games and luckily it wasn't as hot as yesterday. The overall winners were team Blue but all had fun and some had flesh wounds to show their school mates tomorrow!! All jokes aside NO first aid was required during the making of this movie. visit to cattybrook quarry and brickworks, over lane, Almondsbury for geology badge (usa) 16/07/201616/7/2016
This is what Jeremy and I have been looking forward to ever since our recce patrol many weeks ago, I would like to thank Mia and the other members of staff for a very interesting and informative visit firstly to the quarry which most of us didn't even know was so close to home and just how vast it is. Then after drinks and biscuits the brickworks side of the business. So the scouts saw the whole procedure from collection to production of minerals from the earth into a useful item namely a Brick. Everything was so well planned and co ordinated also being a weekend there were no heavy machinery moving about the site. I am going to try and take up the offer of an engraved brick which hopefully we can donate to 40 acres conservation group for their bat sanctuary, commemorating us helping to renovate the old building in the field. This was a special evening Cody, Dan and Olly are leaving us soon to move on to explorers and although Dan completed his Gold Chief Scouts Award some months ago Cody and Olly needed to complete the 22 mile 2 day expedition last weekend to finally complete theirs, which they did (see earlier post). So Stu Ballard assistant county commissioner came out to Woodhouse Park to make the 3 Awards which are well deserved not only did these scouts do the 8 old syllabus challenge awards but also completed 4 of the new syllabus challenge awards also. Then it was the turn of Esme to come up and receive her Chief Scouts Commendation for Meritorious Conduct Award from Stu, a few words about why Esme was getting the award and Stu explained that this had come all the way down from London and Bear Grylls himself had written to Esme congratulating her on all her hard work. She was presented with her medal and certificate plus a personal note and then it was time to cut the cake. Well Done to all 4 of these scouts and a great example for the rest of the troop. |
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