Somerton Scout Group attended the District St George’s Day parade with 15 other groups in the Yeovil and District area. at Huish Park in Yeovil. Although the weather was a little damp it did not stop us having fun at a great event.
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District Chess and Draughts Competition
Eight Cubs took part in Yeovil and District Chess and Draughts competition and had a lot of fun.
Congratulations to Lawrence who won the Cub Chess competition and Mark who came third in the Draughts competition
Visit to @ Bristol
The Cubs visited @ Bristol to complete their Astronomers badge.
The day started with a demonstration of different fuels to use to launch a rocket, with hydrogen filled balloons lifting weights and being set alight. Lots of loud bangs.
We also made rockets which were launched a planets to discover a interesting fact. We also learnt about the night sky in the Planetarium.
We also had time to explore @ Bristol and have lots of fun before returning home.
Autumn Cub Camp 2013
The Cubs arrived on a very wet Friday night at Huish Woods Scout campsite near Taunton, very excited about the weekend ahead.
The morning was spent on the aerial runway, followed by collecting wood and lighting fires and against the odds we found wood that was dry enough to burn,. The cubs then cooked lunch on the fires of Sausages and chocolate bananas.
After some free time playing in the forest they went around the orienteering course with some signs being more difficult to find than others but all managed to complete the course,
The day ended toasting marshmallows on a fire and drinking hot chocolate.
Sunday morning the Cubs took part in Archery then we all helped pack up the site and the very tired but happy cubs went home, looking forward to doing it all again next year,
Brownsea Island Visit
Brownsea Island is the birthplace of scouting where Baden Powell had his first camp in 1907. The Beavers and Cubs all set off early Saturday morning to catch the first ferry from Poole Quay to Brownsea Island.
When we arrived we had a walk to the other end of the Island to take part in the Survival challenge, which is one of the actual activities on the original Baden Powell camp. It was nice to get into the woods which was much cooler where we built a shelter, camp fire ( but not actually light it) and built a tripod to hang the cooking pot. Everyone really enjoyed it and was one of the highlights of the day.
In the afternoon we took part in playing games which were also part of the original camp, from throwing pine cones to knock tin cans down, a race to see which group could put a tent up the fastest.
On the return ferry ride we had a tour of Poole harbour before catching the coach back to Somerton.
Beaver Sleepover Kingsdon
The sun was shining when the Beavers set of for their Sleepover on Friday evening when they arrived at Kingsdon Village Hall. The first part of the evening was spent on the playing fields learning how to put up tents, and rolling down hills?! Then back to the village hall for camp fire songs and bed.
In the morning the Beavers hiked to Lytes Cary where they took part in lots of fun activities, following trails, playing Croquet, climbing trees and trying to complete as many of the things to do before you are 11 3/4 as possible.
After a packed lunch the Beavers all hiked back to Kingsdon and were ready to go home. All the Beavers completed their Adventure and Explore badges well done to all!
District Cub Camp 2013
Yeovil & District Cub camp was held in June with the theme of Hollywood. Thirteen from the Yeovil area took part with Somerton representing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The Cubs were busy coming up to the event making Tie dye T-shirts for the Oompah Loompah costumes for the Fancy dress parade on Saturday morning.
Over the weekend the Cubs took part in activities from playing Quiditch, making pizzas, painting plates, making Muppet pencil toppers, assault course, bouncy castle and of course Somerton’s activity making peppermint creams and much more!
On Saturday evening we all took part in the Camp Fire singing lots of songs with lots of silly actions.
Lots of fun was had by all and very tired Cubs went home and Sunday afternoon.