Both Cubs and Scouts had great Summer Camps - take at look at the posts and pictures to see what they got up to. I would also like to take this opportunity to say a very Big Thanks to everyone in the Leadership Team and the Group Exec at 3rd Hampton Hill for their continued hard work and support.
As the Sections prepare to return the Group faces the challenge of starting up a Second Scout Troop. Plans are being finalised and more information will be available later this month.
We are already looking ahead and planning future Events and a full programme of activities for all Sections.
We continue to need additional adult help and support; particularly at both Beaver Colonies (to assist and support Jane our Beaver Scout Leader) and also at Scouts to bolster the Scout Team which will shortly begin running a second Scout Troop on a Tuesday. The recruitment of adult help continues to be our top priority.
The Scouts held their Summer camp deep in the New Forest at the wonderful Ferny Crofts. We got very muddy in the bomb hole, celebrated two birthdays, made a pilgrimage to the home of Scouting on Brownsea to renew our promise, built sandcastles on the beach before munching through fish & chips, and got camouflaged up by soldiers at Beaulieu. In between we lit the odd fire, climbed very high towers, went for a bike ride, tried using a sextant, cooked over open fires using just aluminium foil instead of pans and learnt to build rafts that then fell to bits… whoops!
It was a fast paced and intensive week. We’ve never before run such a large Scout camp: 2 minibuses, 2 transit vans stuffed full of kit, 26 scouts, 2 young leaders, an average of 6 adults per day, and a couple of other children tagging along for the ride. (We also chomped through 592 rashers of bacon, lots of sausages and tons of cake )
Everyone was thoroughly done in by the time we came home. Let’s just say there must have been a fair number of bathrooms in Hampton Hill sporting a new tide mark the night that we came home!
Massive thanks to all the leaders and supporters who came along to make the week possible. Well done on pulling together a first rate camp. But mostly, well done to the Scouts for making the most of the time on camp.
CTT doesn’t quite remember such an excitable bunch of explorers - to say that all had a great time would be an understatement!! - check out the youtube videos of Apache
Top Gear’s The Stig joins Jamie Oliver, Alexa Chung, Ewan McGregor, Ray Mears and several other celebrities in being awarded a Scout badge as part of Scouting’s 101st birthday celebrations.
Their achievements over the last year were judged to reflect the skills and knowledge required to achieve a Scout badge.
In 2009 3rd Hampton Hill Cubs are planning on going to CUBJAM. This is a Cubs only Jamboree held every 4 years, this time at the Scouting World Headquarters in Gilwell Park. There will be about 2,000 Cubs on site and the theme for the whole event is “CARNIVAL”. There will be three different carnival sub-camps, Notting Hill, New Orleans and Rio De Janeiro. We’re currently assigned to New Orleans, but this may change.
The dates are Saturday 23rd to Friday 29th May 2009, basically the May half term week.
We’ll be putting out full details of the camp in September, but for anyone wanting to take a sneaky peek, have a look at the CubJam website.
They are also running various online competitions with prizes so why not have a go over the summer sometime? All the details of these are at http://www.cubjam.org.uk/09/competitions.php
There are wordsearch, badge and acronym competitions, Wend and Jon have already had a own go with the acronym, we came up with:
C ubs U ndergo B athing, J ust A bout M anage
The winner last time was Cubs Unite Bringing Joy And Magic. We know which one we prefer….!!
We should point out that only Cubs that are still Cubs in May will be able to go on this camp, so a few of you that will have moved on to the bigger and better world of full on Scouting won’t be eligible to go. Sorry about that, you’ll have to make do with Scouts Easter Camp instead, cooking on open fires and more adventurous fun stuff that we can’t do in Cubs!! We’re also limited to a maximum number so make sure you register as soon as possible when the time comes if you are able to go.
Cheers all, have great holidays and see you in September.
3HH cubs go camping “Hawaiian Style” maxing and relaxing at Chalfont Heights.
36 Cubs, 5 Scouts, 2 Explorers and 14 assorted Leaders and Adults had a wicked 4 nights getting up to all sorts and having loads of fun. That must be a record….???
It’s best said with pictures so check out what the cubs, and assisting scouts, got up to on camp, just click on the picture above. More pics to follow soon!
Remember to wear your camp scarves at the hut next term…
A quick note from me (Rich - Group Scout Leader) to say Thanks to All the Leadership Team and Group Executive Committee for another Great Term of Activity and ‘Scouting’ adventure!
Thanks also to All members of the Group for another happy and very enjoyable Term.
As I write this the Cubs are enjoying their Camp at Chalfont and they will be joined overnight by the Beavers for a Sleepover. The Scouts are looking forward to their Camp in the New Forest at Ferny Crofts in August.
I would like to wish you all happy holidays and a fantastic summer!
That’s it now until September, I hope you all enjoyed the summer term as much as we did.
THANK YOU as well to all the people that have helped out over the last year at all the events and camps we’ve had. From running teams at district events and supporting us on camps, to simply bringing your Cubs down to the hut every week on time and smartly turned out, it all adds up to give an AMAZING result.
We would also like to recognise and say a big THANK YOU to Rich Moody, our Group Scout Leader. For those that don’t know, he’s the guy that keeps us all on track (and occasionally keeps us in line!), looks after our interests within the district and the county and does a HUGE amount of co-ordination and organisation behind the scenes on our behalf.
We’ll be saying cheerio to some of our Cubs over the summer, THANK YOU for all your energy and enthusiasm. We wish you all the best with Scouts.
Summer campers - will see you all on Saturday 26th.
First nights back in the Autumn will be Monday 15th and Wednesday September 17th for games, new Sixers & Seconders and hopefully welcoming some new Beavers. See you all then.
Hi all, just before we break up for the summer, we thought you’d like to know about some incredibly important and exciting breaking news……
Everyone knows from the pleas for help that have appeared from the Troop repeatedly in recent months that we’ve been struggling with the Troop at the size it is with the feed through from two Cub packs only exacerbating the problem. We’ve put in place various processes and procedures to control things but being victims of our own success, we still continue to grow and could be starting the autumn term with a troop size of 50! Unbelievably and after much discussion we have agreed to open a second Troop night on Tuesdays from 7 - 9pm and our target is to begin after the October half term.
We’ll still need some buy in from you our parents to both make this possible and support our gallant leaders and we’ll be letting you know more details when we start again on Friday 12th September.
Following the awesome Borough Camp held at Walton Firs in Cobham we have posted some photos of the event. Just click on the image to see the whole collection.
All of the 3HH contingent had an amazing time - with climbing ropes using Prussic loops laid on as our activity for everyone at the camp to try out.
Also while not trying to be too competitive about these things, 3HH Cubs were thrilled to win the Borough Football competition with some daring displays of skill. Well done guys!
3HH performed really strongly in a bunch of other events as well and came close to hoisting many more winners medals. Shame guys but all the best for next time!
The search is over, the competition won and a new Superscout has been crowned for 2008. The Scouts had to compete in a number of disciplines, some sporting, some mental and ones of accuracy.
In the under 12s the placings were:
3rd Will W 41 points
2nd Tom H 44 points
1st Rosie J with 48 points
And in the 14 and under:
3rd Alice CB with 39 points
2nd Alex L with 42 points
1st Ramy C with 46 points
So the overall winner and congratulations for being the first female winner of Superscout is Rosie J.
Last weekend saw another group of young adventurers successfully complete their silver DofE assessed expedition.
The weather was rather mixed but luckily for all the much threatened rain held off. With far less drama, kinder weather and fewer hills than the practice expedition on the South Downs as well lots of munchies, the team comfortably made their way through the 2 night / 3 day journey deep in the beautiful New Forest.
This final exped was the culmination of months of preparation and training covering camping skills, navigation, first aid and actual practice hikes.
A team of Scouts comprising Jack O, Will H, Ben T and Tom H being the designers and constructors of the best water rocket at troop nights, represented us at the above competition. This was an excellent evening with beautiful weather and despite feeling somewhat intimidated by the size and complexity of the competition we did ourselves proud with our basic (but efficient) launcher and single-stage rocket.
Apart from recording the longest time the rocket stayed in the air, the object is to land your rocket in a 10m wide zone some 65 metres away which gives 30 bonus seconds. There were adjoining 15m wide landing zones in front and behind the target zone giving an additional 15 and 20 seconds respectively. With our first launch, we pressurised the rocket to 60psi before pulling the release and were rewarded with a beautifully parabolic flight which flew over the main target zone, landing in the next one over. 50psi saw our second flight also just overfly the main target zone, but our third shot at 45psi landed spot on.
We didn’t win any awards on the night but are reasonably sure that we embarrassed quite a few much more professional looking outfits. For full results when published and photos etc, please follow this link. Thanks to Fiona and Darrell for being there ‘just in case’ and to all our supporters.
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Hi all. To avoid that last minute flurry of phone calls over the next couple of days, I’ve summarised all the Scout camp information below.
Apart from recording the longest time the rocket stayed in the air, the object is to land your rocket in a 10m wide zone some 65 metres away which gives 30 bonus seconds. There were adjoining 15m wide landing zones in front and behind the target zone giving an additional 15 and 20 seconds respectively. With our first launch, we pressurised the rocket to 60psi before pulling the release and were rewarded with a beautifully parabolic flight which flew over the main target zone, landing in the next one over. 50psi saw our second flight also just overfly the main target zone, but our third shot at 45psi landed spot on.
