Scouts Activities

Trentham Scout troop Activities 2006

December 2006

December was a month of mainly fun activities, the scouts visited Ten pin bowling locally and had a night of two games of bowling with a meal (when it eventually came). Top score was 126 with the lowest been 65, fair to say the leaders finished about midway down the scores.

We also had a free night of games and food on our last meeting before the Christmas holiday break, where the scouts played on computer games, table tennis, snooker and pool.

November 2006

November saw the scouts building a newspaper tower to support a weight, the highest tower stood nearly 3 feet tall (1 metre).
We also spent an evening producing a fires safety poster in order for us to enter the local fire safety quiz early in 2007. Further activities including starting to work on the IT badge and keeping fit by doing some basic circuit training as part of the Fitness Challenge award.

October 2006

October was a quite month in terms of activities as the Scout hut was closed for two weeks due to an extension and internal building works taking place however, we still managed to fit in a week of pancake cooking. Something we are hoping to repeat closer to Shrove Tuesday

September 2006

The early part of September saw the scouts putting the finishing touches to earn themselves the Camper Badge and the Challenge Activity Badge, in all 7 scouts earned both badges.

Mid September saw 8 scouts attend the Activity Camp at Kibblestone. The camp was attended by 250 scouts, mainly from Staffordshire but there were also scouts from Shropshire and Nottinghamshire.

The activities for the weekend included, canoeing, abseiling, rock climbing, go-karting, orienteering, crate stacking, archery, rifle shooting, wood turning, pottery making, assault course, the net amongst others, the weather was reasonably kind to us and a good time was had by all.

Plans are already in place for the next one next year.

August 2006

We were closed throughout the month of August, however one scout and one of the leaders did take part in a weeks camp at Rangemore near Burton on Trent, that involved a large contingent of scouts from Denmark.

July 2006

July saw most of the weekly meetings taking place outdoors, making the most of the good weather, throughout the month the scouts honed their camping skills pitching and striking tents (that’s putting them up and taking them down)!

We also had an activity to make a bridge to transport water over an imaginary ravine using wooden poles and rope only.

The last week before the school holidays was spent playing a wide game at Trentham Park Woods, which was enjoyed by all apart from the gnat bites.

June 2006

June saw four scouts attend the District Activity Camp at Barnswood, where the activities spread over the weekend were a day canoeing on Rudyard Lake and a day either hiking on the Roaches or rock climbing and abseiling again on the Roaches.

During that weekend the rest of the scouts still met and spent the evening orienteering around the scout headquarters learning how to use a compass, lets just say they won't be let loose on a hike .... just yet!

In early June while the weather was so glorious we spent an evening pitching our dining shelters as experience for future camps to give everyone the skills needed to pitch a camp.

The scouts also practiced building a fire and lighting it with one match to boil a pint of water, the scouts enjoyed this activity and all successfully boiled the water, but I think more than one match was used.

May 2006

In May, the scouts spent two troop nights practicing and performing a short play, the theme was fairy stories although the scouts were free to interpret the stories in their own way, and they certainly brought Goldilocks and the Three Bears into the 21 Century, it was more of a cross between Tracy Beaker meets the WWF Wrestlers!

Mid May saw 7 scouts attend the District camp at Beaudesert, the weekend was a tremendous success, the scouts took part in a wide game on the Friday evening, before taking part in 5 chosen activities on the Saturday, the Activities included;

Coracle Racing, Orienteering, Pedal Kart Racing, Tree Climbing, Volleyball, Crate Stacking, Aerial Runway.

Sunday was set aside for a cooking competition, the scouts had to prepare a 3 course meal and cook it on a camp fire, no fire gas cooking was allowed, the scouts had to cook Coq au Vin with at least two vegetables for a main course, the choice of starters and dessert was each troops choice.

We had Grapefruit for starters and Roly Poly and custard for Dessert the competition was won by Stoke Scouts and the Sea Scouts who will represent the District in the County Competition in September, the scouts did a great job of cooking and worked really hard.

April 2006

5 scouts attended the District Activity Camp at Kibblestone where they took part in various activities including :
Climbing
Abseiling
Bungee Run
Assault Course
Archery
Cannon Run.

There were a number of other scout groups at the camp and a good weekend was had by all even though it poured with rain when we were packing up on the Sunday Afternoon.

Also the scouts attended the District St Georges Day Parade, at Longton
Central Hall, following a parade down the Strand in Longton, a service was held in the hall then the scouts paraded back to the Car Park opposite the new Wilkinsons store.

On the parade the scouts were also joined by the Beavers and Cubs from
Trentham and groups from right across the district including the girl guide section.

Following two weeks off, one week due to a camp and one week during the Easter Holidays, the scouts started back with a 'River Challenge' night.
This idea was suggested by one of the patrol leaders.

The idea of the challenge was to construct a system that could be used to carry equipment across the river without either the scouts or the equipment touching the river, using only wooden poles and string. In the case the equipment was a Dixie (Saucepan). The Scouts worked in 3 teams (Patrols) and quickly started to build an 'A Frame' out of the larger wooden poles, they then added the smaller poles to the legs as supports, one A Frame was used either side of the river, using a rope, the Dixie was pulled across the river using a pulley system.

All 3 groups successfully managed to complete the challenge but I think some work on knots and lashings needs to take place soon.

March 2006

Fire Safety Quiz - The scouts took part in a fire safety quiz at Hanley Fire Station, competing against other scout groups and some school teams, in total nine teams took part with Trentham Scouts finishing in 3rd Place after a tie break question behind Heron Cross Scouts B in first place and Heron Cross A in 2nd.

The scouts had a practice of putting up the new four man tents recently
acquired the tents are lightweight and will be used for the first time on
the District Activity Camp in April.

At the end of March the scouts cooked Pancakes in a belated celebration of Pancake Day, the scouts cooked their own pancakes on camping stoves, then added their own toppings of Sugar, Chocolate Sauce and treacle, some even at the same time!! A good night was had by all and some scouts pancakes nearly looked like a pancakes!!

February 2006

Hot Air Balloon Making

Two troop nights were taken up making hot air balloon's from crepe paper. Each group of scouts managed to successfully fly their Hot air balloon up to the Scout House roof. The record for the longest time on the roof was 11 seconds.

Instruction sheet to see how to make your own hot air balloon.

Fire Station Visit

The other two troop nights in February were spent at Longton Fire station, receiving a Fire safety talk from two fire fighters from Red Watch. The fire fighters gave us lots of information about fire prevention, fire safety as well telling us all about the station and the effects that fire can cause. The visits will form part of the Fire awareness badge.

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