Pike View

WalkersOn Saturday 20th April 4 teams of 2nd Ramsbottom Cubs joined our Scouts as well as Cubs and Scouts from Ramsbottom District on the annual Pike View Hike.

The “Pike View Hike” was originally conceived in late 2000. A group of Scout Leaders in Bolton set about planning an incident hike for Scouts, located in the area of Rivington Pike. Since the first event this has grown into a major event and Cubs, Scouts and Explorers from all over the UK attend the event.

Our teams did really well and we’re delighted with 5th, 10th, 17th and 31st place. Our navigation was “top notch” ; we just need to work on some of our Scouting skills so that we get maximum points at the checkpoints next year.

Spring seemed to have finally arrived and the weather was kind to us (although it was cold at night). This camp was the first time in the last few years that we haven’t had to hang wet tents up in the hall to dry.

For those interested in the details there’s a list of the points and places here:
http://www.pikeviewhike.co.uk/new/docs/2013_Results.pdf

6th Morley Scouts who won the event have created a musical montage to celebrate their win. This really helps to give a feel for the event. This can be viewed here…. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zqfmvg027xalifc/PVH2013.wmv

Paracord bracelets and key rings for sale

Sarah Bishop and Katie (Beaver) have been making paracord bracelets and key rings. Katie started making them for her Creative Challenge Badge and thought that selling them might be a good way to raise funds for the Scout Group.

Our bracelets typically have approximately 5 feet of para cord in them, so are handy to keep with you “just in case”. If the need arises, you could unravel the bracelet and use it for all sorts of things.

You may have noticed some of the more “dapper” leaders wearing them on pack nights. If you’re thinking to yourself, “How I can I look that good?”, then maybe a paracord bracelet is the answer. 😉 If a bracelet is out of the question, you might like one of the key rings instead. We have different colours available as shown in the gallery below.

Paracord bracelets are £3.00 each and key rings are £1.50 or £1.00 depending on size). There’ll be a pricelist on the wall in the Church hall from next Friday but feel free to download a copy if you want to put it up elsewhere.

To order, ask Richard (Bagheera) on a Friday night, send an email to richard@bish.co.uk or get in touch via the Facebook Group (search for “2nd Ramsbottom”). We’ll need to know your wrist size if you want a bracelet as well as your colour choice.

 

Badge Camp – January 2013

For those of you who attended badge camp in January, we thought that you might like to see the videos that we took from inside the Pack Holiday Centre. There are three videos, one each for Friday night, Saturday and then Sunday morning.

See if you can spot your own Cub or Beaver in the clips!

Friday night
Beaver sleepover

Saturday
Beavers leave, Cubs arrive and start their activities.

Sunday morning
Packing up (after rolling around in sleeping bags!)

 

Highlights…
I particularly like these stills where GSL Janice Butterworth realises that she’s being filmed!

Janice discusses camp with Akela

Janice discusses camp with Akela

Badge Camp still 2

Akela points out the camera !

Badge Camp still 1

GSL Butterworth checks to make sure she’s ready for the camera !

 

Cubs programme online!

I’ve updated our programme with what we plan to do over the next few weeks until July 12th when we will finish. There is a county activity at Ashworth Valley the weekend of the 19th for silver award holders which runs all weekend.

Any Friday night with a (A) requires additional adult help. If you can help please let me know either in person, email, text or phone. Some events require a CRB check to be completed.

Matt

Cubs Road Safety Badge

We’ve been working towards our road safety badge in Cubs. On Friday 2nd November we did the “classroom work” and on Friday 9th November we went on a road safety walk.
If “your Cub” wasn’t with us on Friday 2nd November when we completed the first part of the badge work he/she may like to do this “homework” which will enable them to catch up and receive the badge when the other Cubs get theirs.

To earn the badge, Cubs need to be familiar with how to behave in a car, how to cross the road safely (using the Green Cross Code and crossing in sensible places). As well as this they need to be familiar with road signs, we covered part of this last week, but we did it again on our walk.

To help your Cub earn his/her badge, it would be great if you could print out the attached documents and ask your cub to:

· Read the Green Cross Code and check that they know it DOWNLOAD – GreenCrossCode

· Know the four crossing types DOWNLOAD – Crossing types

· Draw a map of their “safe walking route to school” to bring into Cubs. Alternatively, If they go in a car, draw a map from the car park to the school avoiding obvious hazards if this is appropriate. DOWNLOAD – My safe route to school

· Complete the Road Safety Quiz and hand it in to me or Matt (Akela). DOWNLOAD – RoadsafetyQuiz-NoAnswers