Well, we may have a bit to go before we’re contenders on the TV programme, but Patrols enjoyed making themselves dinners nearly as much as they enjoyed eating them afterwards.

Patrols worked together to decorate shoe boxes and pack them with gifts for children in places where they would otherwise get nothing at Christmas. Then we took them along to Sunday’s church parade to be collected and passed on for shipping. This fitted well into our term’s theme of the Global Challenge.

With bonfire night fast approaching, and the annual town event at the Hockey Club to look forward to, each Patrol made a Guy and we delivered them to be burnt on the fire.

A wide game is a game that needs a wide open space. We went up to the local camp site for the evening.

What if everything about you was suddenly taken away, and you had to buy a new personality? What would be important to you? Fame, family, friendship, faith or fortune? Patrols made bids to buy themselves new lives, and then we discussed their choices and what really matters to the Scouts.

Each Patrol used models to discuss what makes a good site, and where to put our tents and other facilities. Of course, every camp site is different, and we won’t always agree about the answers, but we have all thought about what matters when we choose.

For our Global Challenge, thinking about what it’s like not to be a first-world country, we played an economics game. Each Patrol was a different country, with its own limited natural resources and its own peoples’ needs to meet.

We started the term with an evening of Scout games – a chance to run all the Troop’s favourites, plus a few different ones.