Cranham Scout Group

Today, the Cubs’ focus was fitness. The Fitness Challenge badge requires, amongst other things, that they show an improvement in a fitness activity over a six-week period, so we started with a relay race between the sixes as an opportunity for them to compete in teams, then gave them some practice at twirling hula hoops (borrowed from our kind Beaver leader, Jacqui). When we next have an opportunity to pursue fitness, we will have a competition as to who can twirl for the longest without tiring, which will go on file so we can try again six weeks later and see who has improved…

Then we finished going through the available activity badges, gathering votes on who would like to do what. I will examine these this weekend to decide what we will do in the badge evenings scheduled for later in the term. Some of the badges are mainly “do something at home then bring in evidence and demonstrate in front of the group”, so for the popular ones of those, we will issue take-home sheets detailing the requirements, and we can arrange the demonstrations for the badge evenings. This is good, since it will allow the Cubs to cover a diverse range of badges guided by their own interests.

Then the Scouts discussed and considered renewable energy sources, while pairs of them came out to remove, discuss, and re-attach the battery of our van, towards their Mechanics badges. Thankfully, the van still worked afterwards.