Sit up straight!

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The Cub packed walked down to the British Schools Museum to experience a real lesson at the British School.  They learnt about the history of the British Schools model of teaching, the fact that Hitchin has the only remaining British School and how the school day was back then. They were very well-behaved and really got into the spirit of the 19C classroom. Baaloo wondered if he could take some of the teaching methods back into his real-life school.  This trip out is another part of their Local Knowledge activity badge completed.

A very big thank you to William’s granma, Yvonne, for hosting us at the BSM.

Cricket (sort of)

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The weather was hot and the Scout Leader underprepared, so we all went out and played cricket. Sort of. The rules were a bit different from usual, but everyone had a good time. All excellently organised by our Young Leader.

Soccer and sausages

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The Patrol points competition (see Scouts page) is wide open after the Kestrels won our soccer mini-league evening at a local camp site. Afterwards we finished off with hot dogs, and buns to celebrate a birthday.

Crates and ropes and canoes

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The Scouts went to Fairlands Valley in Stevenage for an evening of high ropes and crate-stacking (more exciting than it sounds, when you’re standing on top of the stack…) and canoeing. Everyone got two activities, and we’ll no doubt go back another time to try the third.

Old favorites….a chalk chase

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Despite of (or should that be in spite of) the weather forecast, Cubs went out on a chalk chase last night.  Even Ka probably remembers doing chalk chases when he was a Cub….   It’s very simple – the first Six go out, walk a route and leave chalk marks on the ground for the following group to follow.  We leapfrog groups so everyone takes a turn to set the route.  Last night, we were up and down Sun Street, through St Marys, down William Ransom Way, through Bancroft Rec and back to Christchurch via the swimming pool.  Setting an ambush is all part of the fun.

Kite flying or tent pitching…?

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The weather got the better of us, so instead of practising pitching tents on a very blustery Butts Close, we pitched tents inside Christchurch and used duct tape instead of tent pegs. Cubs learnt the golden rules of tent-pitching: check for stones and sticks before laying out the tent; always push the poles, never pull; shoes off inside the inner tent and use your pole bag to check the canvas will fit back in the bag.