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Sue Baker, a Beaver Scout leader and Michele Grattidge, Scout and Explorer Scout leader were presented with awards in December for their dedication and support to scouting in Stoke Gifford. Michele started as a parent helper at 1 st Stoke Gifford Beavers in 1997, when her son Chris joined the colony. She soon went into uniform as an Assistant Beaver Leader and from there has been a Cub Leader and then on to be a Scout Leader with the 1 st Stoke Gifford School Scouts, based at St Michaels Primary School. In addition, she was a founding member of the Solar Explorer unit in 2007 and was an Assistant Explorer Leader until 2020. She is a trained Duke of Edinburgh assessor and played a leading role in many Solar D of E expeditions and camps as well as supporting other groups with their assessments. She has been on more camps than she can remember and played a part in the growth and development of so many young people over the years. She is the first person to be a leader at all our units, i.e. Beavers, Cubs, Scout and Explorers. Chris has gone on to be a Scout and Explorer Scout Leader himself, keeping up the family tradition. Michele was given an ‘Award for Merit’. This award is given for outstanding service of not less than 12 years. It rewards keen, conscientious, imaginative and dedicated service over a sustained period.  Sue was a founder member of the 1st Stoke Gifford Beavers in 1993 and is the longest continuing serving member, having done all of her 27 years’ service with the Group. She still loves the interaction with the children and cannot remember how many sleepovers and camps she has done, though she does say not much sleep was had on any of them! Her husband Lee has been a Cub and Scout Leader and as a result her children Lauren and Daniel have spent more nights under canvas than most children! In fact she jokes than Daniel probably had his “Nights Away 50” badge before he even joined Beavers, aged 6! Sue says that she sometimes thinks of retirement from Scouting, but would miss the friendship and the camping too much. Sue was awarded the ‘Award for Merit’ in 2015 and this year was presented with the ‘Bar to the Award for Merit’. This was awarded in recognition of her further years of outstanding service.  We are very proud of and grateful to both Sue and Michele for their many years of service to the 1st Stoke Gifford Scout Group and delighted that this has been recognised accordingly.
This weeks challenge for old school rooms scouts in Stoke Gifford was to write a weekend camp menu and cook a 3 course meal for their families. The scouts were involved in shopping, storage and cleaning up after. The parents were sent a score card to record their scouts preparations, technique, presentation, and taste of all 3 courses. The scouts had fun and learned new things. As a bonus if all 3 courses were from the same non UK country they earned bonus points plus it counted towards the international activity badge as well as cook activity badge. This week the scouts from OSR troop in SG were set the challenge to identify 12 local landmarks around the village and using theyre exercise per day to travel around taking photos at each scene either portrait, landscape, action, time lapse etc. Then after duplicating the photos turning 6 black and white and 6 altering the image in some other way using features on their phone or camera or an App. Lots of the troop took part with their families and enjoyed the exercise with some imaginative photos being taken. The session also increased their knowledge of the local area. So 2020 has been tough for scouting no camping or expeditions but on the other hand it has given the OSR scouts opportunities to do crafts and online activities. This Christmas the troop were set 2 challenges; Firstly the gingerbread house/ scene Secondly the penguin challenge Below are some of the results. |
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