It is very exciting when you are witnessing the beginning of something good.
Indeed on the 28th of February 2014 we saw the start of the 1st Jennett's Park Scouts Troop.
We met at the Jennett's Park Community Centre at around 20:00 on the night of that Friday, right after the end of the Cub's meeting.
All the members, including Leaders and young alike are still to be invested and make the promise. We started with the flag break and a couple of active games, table football, pass the ball and out main activity was Pioneering a bridge with bread-sticks and strawberry laces and also erecting a free standing tower with newspaper and tape.
Bread-stick pioneering is a delicate matter, not only the bridge needs to be able to hold itself up, the bread-sticks tend to crack under a tight lace or knot! Building segments and putting them together with a sequence of sheer lashings seemed to be the preferred way to tackle the bridge structure.
Building a free-standing tower with newspaper and sticky tape was again a team effort. My team used tightly rolled newspaper as the building segments of the structure, a scout actually said that we need an Eiffel tower approach, very impressive!
We ended the meeting with a couple more games, "It's a bomb it's a bomb it's a B.O.M.B Bomb!" and Ladders! where things did not get any competitive at all, not much!
What was talked about mostly was the upcoming camping weekend, 3 meetings and we are off to camp, that says something!
The meeting closed with a flag ceremony and a few words from the SL. simple and meaningful.
I love it that the first blog entry of my new troop is short simple and sweet. As characters develop and work is done this will be blogged here, a review of what went on, a resource for future programmes and a testament of what we started.
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We met at the Jennett's Park Community Centre at around 20:00 on the night of that Friday, right after the end of the Cub's meeting.
All the members, including Leaders and young alike are still to be invested and make the promise. We started with the flag break and a couple of active games, table football, pass the ball and out main activity was Pioneering a bridge with bread-sticks and strawberry laces and also erecting a free standing tower with newspaper and tape.
Bread-stick pioneering is a delicate matter, not only the bridge needs to be able to hold itself up, the bread-sticks tend to crack under a tight lace or knot! Building segments and putting them together with a sequence of sheer lashings seemed to be the preferred way to tackle the bridge structure.
Building a free-standing tower with newspaper and sticky tape was again a team effort. My team used tightly rolled newspaper as the building segments of the structure, a scout actually said that we need an Eiffel tower approach, very impressive!
We ended the meeting with a couple more games, "It's a bomb it's a bomb it's a B.O.M.B Bomb!" and Ladders! where things did not get any competitive at all, not much!
What was talked about mostly was the upcoming camping weekend, 3 meetings and we are off to camp, that says something!
The meeting closed with a flag ceremony and a few words from the SL. simple and meaningful.
I love it that the first blog entry of my new troop is short simple and sweet. As characters develop and work is done this will be blogged here, a review of what went on, a resource for future programmes and a testament of what we started.
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