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

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!

[Feel free to browse the photos! Note that these have been loaded in a low resolution format – if you’d like a high quality version of any particular photo, and are connected with 3HH Scouts, please email one of the section leaders to request.]

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!

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

Cheers Wend

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

Please see attached the latest programme for the spring term which contains all the dates for both this term and for later in the year for you to pop into the diary.

Also attached is the flyer for the annual Volleyball tournament on Sunday 30th January, a fun sporting event held at our HQ.

Information on the other events such as Night Hike and Easter Camp will follow shortly.

Here is the first Newsletter for the KISC Trip. It contains some important information for all those going.

We will be holding a Quiz and Social Night on Saturday 26 March 2011.

Funds raised will go towards the Kandersteg Trip in the Summer of 2011 and Group Funds.

This event is open to everyone! All Welcome.

Please watch out for more details early in 2011.

Without a single puncture in sight, 22 of 3HH’s Scouts and a large number of supporting adult leaders embarked on a frosty weekend’s adventurous expedition to Cobham.

It was a cracking couple of days ride and everyone did brilliantly.

The expedition was an incredible culmination of all the work we had done this term in partnership with “The Turning Hub” mobile bike club. 3HH’s Scouts are now well drilled in fixing punctures, adjusting gears / brakes, defensive riding techniques and riding around tricky slalom courses on dark rainy evenings! It’s hoped that one day they may even see fit to actually clean their bikes

All of the Scouts should be proud of nailing the 47km ride: 23km on the first day’s route with a further 24km on the second day. It’s definitely the furthest that many had ever cycled before. To top the weekend off we also tried out the new caving experience at Walton Firs. With nearly everyone having a go at clambering / crouching / kneeling / belly crawling around the inside of the tunnel complex, complete with dinosaurs and stalactites, it was declared it to be utterly fantastic.

Thanks to all the adult team that made this excellent weekend so very successful. And in particular, a huge thank you to Jonathan, Melissa and the rest of the star team at “The Turning Hub” who gave up so much of their time over many weeks to help 3HH’s Scouts achieve their cyclists activity badge.

If you’d like to see more of our cycling adventures please just click on the photo.

A crisply cold weekend of shooting air rifle, pistol, field target, knockout, small-bore, full-bore and biathlon culminated in 3rd Hampton Hill’s best ever results at the annual National Scout Air Rifle Championships.

This year was once again their biggest entry with some 782 shooters from Scout and Explorer groups across the country, 3rd Hampton Hill entering 9 Scout shooters, 5 adults and a team of 5 from Hampton Explorers. Whilst we won’t know the full results for a few days, a closing ceremony chock full of awards for the top three places definitely left us with smiles on our faces.

Firstly, in the Biathlon, a completion to run 400m, shoot prone, run 400m, shoot kneeling, run 400m, shoot standing and then run 400m saw the junior competition and gold medal won by Tom H, even though he missed a target at prone!

The knockout is a competition requiring nerves of steel as well as good aim, standing shoulder to shoulder with your opponent aiming to be the first to knock down 5 targets and Rhiannon N continued with her good streak in this discipline taking equal third place and a bronze medal. Considering the size of the field this was an excellent result, especially as so many of us fell by the wayside very early in the competition.

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Hi guys, I’d like to say what a pleasure it was to see you all Sunday morning keen and raring for the fray despite the horrible weather You all played like beings possesed !! Despite being drawn against one of the better practised teams in the first round you rallied and played as a well rehearsed team from then on and acheived a very well deserved 3rd place!

There were silky skills in attack, cheeky and ferocious goals shared throughout the team, good passing and distribution in midfield, tenacious, terrier like defending, and solid and acrobatic goalkeeping. A wonderful effort which was exciting to watch.

Well done all of you, and thank you for playing that extra game at the end. Their leader said that despite their scoreline they enjoyed their two games against us best of all. A credit to your sportsmanship!

Our thanks to Clare for organising our entry, to Ann for shivering bravely on the touchline, to Paul for not refereeing ) and to all you parents who gave such wonderfully biased support

J

..and that’s Gradbatch not Gradback for the unitiated! Well as advised this was always going to be a different camp, however finding out belatedly that we were camped in one of the wettest places in England was mildly disappointing although it didn’t stop any of the activities; I suppose the family of ducks lodging with us for the week should have given us a clue!

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Some of 3HH’s Scouts braved Hawaii’s roaring surf (well the River Thames at Richmond) to enjoy an evening’s rowing. Well done folks…

[Feel free to browse the photos. Note that these have been loaded in a low resolution format – if you’d like a high quality version of any particular photo, and are connected with 3HH Scouts, please email one of the section leaders to request.]