This weekend is the annual joti event and the osr scouts in stoke Gifford joined in with all the fun and chats with scouts from around the world. Saturday was very busy and lots of conversations with cyprus, Swedish, Malaysian and American scouts. The osr scouts were able to join in the fun from home and remembering their how to be safe online didn’t give any personal information. The chat rooms are all monitored 24/7 so no one can get to carried away with silliness but the osr scouts had some fab online chats and really enjoyed the event. Tonight the osr scouts took part in different ways to communicate with one another for the communicator activity badge. They made sets of flags for semaphore communicating and were given the added pressure of a time limit, semaphore not used any more was for ship to ship. After each activity they were scored out of 10 points. Second was morse code which is good knowledge to have in your locker and finally phonetic alphabet used by emergency services and the military. The scouts did well, none of the message were fully achievable in the time limits but did add to the motivation and their competitive sides came out more and more. The overall winners were hawks. Big well done Today at St. Michael’s church the OSR scouts took part in running the Harvest Festival service and parade. Rainbows, brownies, beavers, cubs, guides and scouts paraded and walked to the st Michael’s church for 3pm. In fact when we all got in with parents and friends the church was full and we needed to put out extra seating. A lovely service with prayers, readings, donations of foods for the north Bristol Filton food bank. The flags collected in etc all by osr scouts as part of their Promise Challenge award. The main message about where we source our foods and the carbon footprint it leaves with honey from China and blue berries from Costa Rica. Big thank you to all the troop that came along and to those that read with no prior notice a big pat on the back too. This weeks old school rooms scout troop session was all about the weather or to be more precise the Meteorologist Activity badge. Invited into the osr was Martyn Wallis a geography teacher at the Winterbourne Academy and he took the troop through the 5 requirements which were really quite complex. Testing the scouts after each section to check they understood and of course a final test covering the whole requirements at the end. Martyn was fabulous and the scouts seemed to pick up everything well a result of just how well he put it across. Now all there is left to do will be the 14 days weather chart. Gl all and let’s hope for some varied weather. |
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