3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

How do you fancy a nice stumble around in the dark navigating between bases where strange and exciting tasks have to be performed?

Afterwards you’ll return to the campsite to grab a few hours much needed sleep and then enjoy a huge breakfast of bacon or sausage butties the next day, before returning home again around lunchtime. If you think that you are up for it then come and join us for the favourite event of the Scouting calendar: the “County Night Hike” on 24/25 March 2012!

So far the location is a big mystery and won’t be announced until nearer the time. But you can be sure it will be dark, rather muddy and perhaps even a touch spooky!

Look out for the invite email and get your form in soonest. We’ve only a limited number of places and there’s a lot of you!

Simon

We hope that you had an awesome Christmas, ate far too many sweets and are now looking forward to getting back to school / homework this week…

Just in case you were wondering our first nights back will be Tuesday 10th / Friday 13th January. There’s a ton of stuff organised for this term and we know that you’ll have a blast. Our first night back will be the usual games, sorting out patrols and grabbing a chance to chat about the term’s programme.

If youa re keen to know what we’ll be up to this term you check out the attached.

Looking forward to seeing you all next week and in the meanwhile, good luck with ironing your uniforms. Let’s see if everyone can make a real effort to come along in proper scout shirt, scarf and trousers … perhaps even with all your badges sewn on! (just in case you aren’t sure where the badges go you can check here)

All the best!
The Scout Team

PLACES STILL AVAILABLE!

This evening is open to all Scouts, Leaders Parents and Siblings. We have pre-booked 40 places for Scouts and 10 places for adults.

Cost will be £7.20 and will be available on a first come, first served basis; we will do our best to order more tickets once the pre-booked tickets have gone however no guarantees can be given and the price may rise a little as we won’t be able to get a further group booking prices.

We are hoping to get permission to invest all those still waiting to be invested on the ice immediately after the session.

Please all make your own transport arrangements for arrival at 7.15 and pick up at 9pm at the rink in the palace grounds.

Download the Form;
Skating at Hampton Court Ice Rink 6 Dec 2011

Please return forms (available as download – see above or from Scout Section Meetings) with payment to 3HH HQ Box marked Ice Skating at Hampton Court Palace no later than Tuesday 29 November 2011.

Scouts – Don’t forget, there is no meeting tonight (Tuesday). There is a joint Meeting on Friday 730pm. Backwoods Cooking (bring your Own simple Food please) followed by Fireworks.

With a heavy heart we returned the team rifle, team pistol and the Junior Connaught trophy (overall junior champions) when we returned to Bisley on Friday evening, ready to compete in this year’s competition. We also had quite a few team changes with most of last year’s winners having migrated up to Explorers meaning we were wondering how well our Scout team would do this year although we still had a really good number of competitors on our team. This of course did mean that we took our strongest ever Explorer team this year however even they knew they were competing in a very strong field. (more…)

We will be running a cakes and refreshment stall at the Hampton Hill Summer Festival Event this Sat 16 July from midday on the Holly Road Recreation Ground.

Hampton Hill Summer Festival July 2011

Please come and see us and help us raise funds for the Group.

If you want to make/donate cakes please bring them to the Scout Hall on Friday evening from 7pm or on Saturday morning from around 10am when we will be setting up on the Recreation Ground.

If you can spare an hour we would also appreciate any help with setting up (from 10am), running the stall from 12 noon and taking the stall down (late afternoon). Thanks.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Given the weather’s ups and downs this camp was perfectly named! But despite the monsoon like conditions on Sunday this year’s “Water Weekend” camp was yet another runaway success You’ll see from the photos that everyone from across the Scouting district had a brilliant adventure packed time away – Scouts and Adults alike.

A huge thanks to the team who pulled this monster event together!

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Once again 3HH Scouts are entering the excellent Water Rockets competition held at Teddington’s National Physics Laboratory. The event is always a great hoot! Good luck guys!…

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Another outstanding performance from the 3HH Scouts at the District “dayprowl” competition. Well done folks!

Dayprowl is an annual event where teams of between 4 and 7 scouts navigate around a course during the day. Along the course there are a series of bases where the teams are presented with either mental or physical challenges. Points are awarded for how well the teams navigate around the route, how they tackle the challenges and for the quality of their route cards and general preparation.

Overall the 3HH Scouts did us proud and landed 1st, 3rd, 5th and 12th places. They all did brilliantly well

Many thanks to John W for organising everything to get 3HH there and for sorting out the base activities on the day.

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Just a quick reminder for the Scout sections that we will be having a joint night rowing on Tuesday 24 May. All the details have been sent out to parents already but please do remember to email John W in advance to confirm your Scout’s attendance so that we can ensure there is enough leadership / boats available to accomodate everyone!

We will be meeting at the jetty near to Richmond Bridge 6.30pm sharp and the pick up will be at the same place at 9pm. Please try to be prompt, once we set off only speedboats will ever catch us!! Wear full uniform and any outer clothing suitable for prevailing weather conditions. Life jackets are supplied.

Cost £3 in coins please, (don’t have to be real gold coins, but we have to cross the Capn’s palm me hearties)

There is limited parking nearby down Friars Lane/Water Lane, see map,( blue P) or at the large car park on the far side of the Green off the A316 (10 mins walk)

This part of the Towpath will be heaving if its a nice evening so allow plenty of time. Car sharing is recommended

John W

Just a quick note to say how brilliantly everyone did at this year’s Easter camp; the weather was outstanding, the activities were fab and the Scouts just incredible. It doesn’t seem possible that the last time we were at Downe there was 4″ of snow followed by 4″ of mud!

A huge thanks to all the adults who made the camp possible, and especially to Clare and Sarah who did all the hard work planning the camp. Thank you so much.

We have posted a bunch of photos below and will add any more we find in the coming days. But please do take a look; the shots of scouts barrelling down the zip wire upside down and clambering around the knee wobbling hi-ropes course offer a glimpse into what they get up to while away with us (as well as proving that they do in fact actually know how to wash up .. err, well just about).

This year in particular the quality of the “skits” around the camp fire, which we shared with the 3HH Cubs on the final night, were just stunning. It’s wonderful to see the Scouts put together something so well. And the “hammocks ‘n tarps” sub-camp on the final night really underscores what amazing adventures the Scouts get to enjoy. Long may it last!

As always, if you have any feedback please do let us know. Otherwise we’ll see you in the new term and enjoy the rest of the holidays / kit washing / Easter eggs etc.

Simon

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I knew there was a reason I forgot to return the trophy that Claws Troop won last year at the Richmond District Air Rifle Competition…….. and that would be that I didn’t need to!

Claws were the first troop shooting in the competition last Monday 7th March and set the standard with a team score of 605. Talons shot in the last slot this Tuesday 15th March and came in with an (unconfirmed) team score of 530 points therefore taking second place and meaning that Claws have retained the title for a second year helped by good scores from Jacob H (109 and 2nd placed 12 and under), Ella L and Clare M both with an excellent 106 (both 3rd placed 12 and under).

Other highlights include: Mattie top U14 with 114 and Hampton Explorers taking 1st place in their league.

Well done to all in the teams and to my training team for producing such high standards. We now form half the team going to represent GLSW in the inter-County competition so good luck Mattie, Lily, Jacob and Sam.

Please find attached an invite and payment slip for the end of term quasar laser party. This will be held as a joint evening at the Megabowl, Feltham, Tuesday, March 29, 2011.

It’s £6.00 per person (child and adult) and includes 2 games of Laser tag and food.

Deadline for payment is March 25, 2011.

Cheques should be made payable to “3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group” and marked on the back of the cheque with your child’s name and the event name. Please bring your completed returns and cheques in an envelope to the scout hall.

As a special promotion we have some 3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group ‘Groupwear’ (such as the embroidered Polo Shirts) at special prices! We also have some other special offer reduced price items available. These items are on sale at the 3HH Scout HQ – please ask your Section Leader.

Also, we are now taking Orders for more Groupwear items. See the letter for details 3HH_ClothingLetterFeb2011. These items are invaluable on Camps and many other activities and Section Meetings. Please ask your Section Leader for an Order Form. All Orders must be placed by the end of February.

How do you fancy a nice stumble around in the dark navigating between bases where strange and exciting tasks have to be performed? If so, come and join us in the favourite event of the Scouting calendar: the “County Night Hike” on the weekend of 19/20 March 2011.

The application form, instructions and other essential stuff is all attached to this note. It’s all explained in the invite letter but to make it fair to all, please can I ask you to either post the form, or put through it my front door, in a sealed envelope. Do not bring it along to the HQ.

1./ Application Form
2./ 3HH Health Form
3./ County Event Consent Form

As there are a limited number of places, don’t delay; you may end up disappointed!

All Scouts and parents who own their own air pistols and/or rifles, please see this link for a new law applying to storage and care of this kit – link.

Essentially a new offence to stop under 18s gaining unauthorised access to airguns has been introduced by the government today. From 10 February, owners will be liable for a fine of up to £1000 if they do not take reasonable precautions to stop unauthorised access to their airgun by people under the age of 18.

For everyone coming along to Kandersteg please see the latest newsletter.

Cheers Wend

Once again both Sainsbury’s and Tesco have started their voucher schemes ‘Active Kids’ and ‘Schools and Clubs’ and this year your Scout group is registered for both. These are excellent schemes which in previous years have supplied the group with tents, cooking and camping equipment along with games and activity bits and pieces as well, so by donating your vouchers you’ll be helping to keep your subs and camp costs lower as we use these schemes to replace tired equipment.

There are two boxes in the HQ by the kitchen hatch, one for each supermarket so relieve those bulging wallets and purses of all those unwanted vouchers and help your group both get the kit it needs and save your cash!

All, the district rifle competition will be held this March at Twickenham Rifle Club and the attached flyer advises. Practice and team selection will be at our HQ from 7-9pm on Thursday 3rd March and the selected team members will need to make their own way to Twickenham Rifle Club with Claws (Tuesday Troop) shooting on Monday 7th March meet time 6:40pm latest and Talons (Friday Troop) shooting on Tuesday 15th March meet time 7:10pm latest. Each competing Scout will also need to have filled in one of our annual Permission to Shoot forms, so if you haven’t filled one in yet, please do so and bring to the team selection evening.

For everyone coming along to Kandersteg please see the attached news letter and forms. There are three documents that you need to read through and action:

Newsletter #2
Health form
Activity permission form

It is essential you return the forms to me at the hut by 31st January. In particular, I need everyone’s full name as shown on their passports in order to obtain the travel insurance, which needs to be done as soon as possible. Cheers Wend