Scouts Photo Albums

The Scouts designed and built catapults out of bamboo canes and elastic bands to fire beanbags at their somewhat complacent leaders. No leaders were hurt, or even hit, but there were some good attempts!

The Patrol Leaders and Assistant Patrol Leaders were invited to attend a one night camp near Royston on Saturday the 10th October. The Scouts cooked all their meals on open fires including sausages, chilli con carne, and pancakes with bacon and maple syrup. The key goals of the camp were to encourage responsibility and team building.

The Scouts were invited to visit Cambridge Fire Station. The group were shown around the fire engines and a selection of the equipment that they use. Thank you very much to all involved in making it such a great evening!

5th - 6th September. The Scouts visited Grafham Water Activity Centre where we did a number of activities including rock climbing, archery, sailing, orienteering, high rope crate stacking and the Grafham Challenge! We camped over night at the site.

The Scouts got to have a go at golf one Wednesday. They headed off to Whaddon Golf course to try their hand on the driving range. The evening ended with some chips and a drink. Thanks to the staff, and members, of the golf course and to Roger for organising a great evening. This has become a yearly event that the Scouts look forward to. See you again next years.

The last few weeks of the Scout summer term 2015 had the Scouts at the hall and out and about. We had a small hike around the farm that backs onto James warehouse where the Scouts had to collect letters hidden in the hedges to spell out a Scouting phase. Back at the hall the Scouts got to play with silly molding plastic. These came in the form of small pellets that you added hot water to and then could make any shape you liked. Once cold the shape stayed. Lots of fun was had by all.

This years Scout summer camp was held over the weekend of the 24th – 26th July 2015 at Two Mile Bottom Scout camp near Thetford. Allthough the weather was against us this did not stop the Scouts from having a great time. Friday started with the Scouts arriving and sorting out their tents then getting to know the site. Mean time James collected our food supplies, that Ben had pre-ordered before camp started, from the local Tesco. The evening was spent playing silly games and ended with a few games of bingo with hot chocolate in the big marquee before bedtime.

Saturday started with the Scouts cooking their own breakfast as they did with all their meals this camp. The morning was spent moving around three bases, rifle range, tea light tin can making and a scavenger hunt plus building camp gates for their colour patrol areas. After some free time it was time for some water based games. This involved the Scouts getting very wet playing various water based relay games. After lunch the Scouts headed out on a Geocache hike which lasted about two hours. The evening started with the Scouts cooking dinner, which comprised of hot dogs wrapped in dough cooked over open fires, followed by some free time and finished with marshmallow over a camp fire with a little sing song.

Sunday was spent cooking breakfast and racing to get the tents down before the rain came. Well done to all the Scouts and leaders as all the tents were down and packed away just as the rain started. Thanks to all the parents who came early to collect the Scouts as the rain cut the camp short. The camp was organised and run by Ben as part of his Nights Away permit course. The camp was a huge success and he passed with flying colours. Well done Ben. Hope you like the photos.

At this weeks troop night the Scouts were out and about with our long time friend, and ex Harston Scout, Rob Mungovan. This time Rob took the Scouts out on a quiz hike from Meldreth to Melbourn. On the way we were very luck to be invited in to look around Meldreth Mill. The Scouts had a talk with the current owners and got to have a good at using a hand turned scale version of the grounding stone to make flour. They also got to hear a ghost story about buried treasure. After the mill the Scouts hiked on and whilst listening to Rob had to answer some question on a sheet. At the end of the hike Rob got the Scouts to mark their sheets and gave out sweets as prizes. We are very luck to be able to call on Rob for this kind of activities and we thank him very much. Please enjoy the photos.

Over the weekend of the 9th – 10th May 2015 some of our older Scouts took part in our annual Survival Camp. This year’s camp was organised by James Prisk as part of his Nights Away permit and was held at the Leslie Sell Activity centre in Bromham Bedfordshire. The Camp was based on a series of challenges and involved the Scouts not only preparing and cooking all their own meals but building a shelter for them to sleep in which meant bartering with Colonel Timothy for supplies with "NO REFUNDS". Some of the other challenges involved helping a wounded Scout get to site, purifying dirty water for drinking and lighting a fire without matches. There was some bad news when some Wombles out tiding up accidentally stole the Scouts lunches and they had to go “Underground” in their burrow to get it back. Whilst at the site the Scouts used the pioneering poles to build a bridge over a very wide and very deep river and made use of the on site indoor rifle range. During the weekend we had two visitors from Royston district, first was Stuart who came to assess and pass James for his permit (well done James). Our surprise second visitor was our DC Geoff who came just to see how good we are. Both went off very happy and complementing us on how good we camp. All in all the camp was a huge success and the Scouts will all gain some very well deserved badges. Well done to all the leaders on another brilliant camp. Thank you. Please enjoy the photos.

On Wednesday 22nd April 2015 the Scouts took delivery of their new hike tents. To insure that the Scouts, and the tents, were up to being used them we had a practice tent putting up evening. After a few scratchy head moments all the troop, and leaders, managed to get the tents up all under the watchful eyes of our DC Geoff Kavanagh. They looked good and the Scouts seemed pleased with their work and are looking forward to using them for real on their hikes. Here are the photos of how they got on.