Cubs
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Cubs

Cubs is held on a Thursday night from 6.45pm - 8.15pm. We currently have 26 boys in the pack who are divided into 6 sixes (teams). Each six battles it out to be awarded the prestigious award of “Super Six” at the end of each term. They can earn points for good behaviour, smart dress at our inspections, winning or participating in team games and for good turns.

Camps
We aim to go on 2 camps per year, one in the Spring/Summer term and one just after the school summer holidays. This year we had a sleepover at HQ and went to Dewerstone Cottage on Dartmoor and had a wonderful time.

 

22 boys attended and gained their Nights Away badge. We learnt how to map read, peel potatoes for our tea, collect and chop fire wood, made rafts and then raced them down the river, played Pooh sticks off Shaugh bridge, had a mini Olympics, played Bingo and Beetle and had a super camp fire where we all sang silly songs, took part in stunts and drank hot chocolate around the roaring fire.

 

Excursions
We try to get out of the HQ at least once a term, this year we have attended the Callington Space Centre and learnt all about the planets. We went to the Maize Maze and got lost for a couple of hours and we went for a day out at Woodlands Adventure Park.

Gang Show
In December our fund raising committee put on a prize draw evening and we provide the entertainment for the evening, with a bit of help from the Beavers and the Scouts.
We practice like mad for a few weeks, but it's good fun and we know that the parents enjoy the daft things Akela gets us doing or singing about.

Badges
Each week at cubs Akela helps us to do projects which will count towards our Challenge Awards.

They are:

  • Fitness Challenge - We all had fun on a Climbing Wall in the Summer towards this badge.
  • Creative Challenge - We will be making the Christingle Candles for our Christingle Service which will be held in December and will also count towards our Caring Challenge - the money we collect will be donated to the Children Society.
  • Global Challenge - We learnt all about Diwali - the Hindu Festival of light for this one.
  • Outdoor Challenge - We went on a hike of the local area and were able to find out lots of interesting facts which were later used in our Local Knowledge badge.

We are able to work at home on our proficiency badges and the information we need to achieve the badge is found either on the Internet at www.scoutbase.org.uk or is in the book of badges which was given to us when we were invested. There are 32 Activity badges for us to work towards:

We can also work towards Swimming, I.T., Nights Away and Musician staged badges.