Chris Elmer – Page 14 – 5th Beckenham South Scout Group

Seven years under canvas with The Fifth

On June 22, 2012

In Beavers, Cubs, Explorers, Group, Scouts

How about some facts and figures? Camping is the best thing that we do in scouts and we recognise that with badges for the young people as they move through the sections.

2,464 nights away among our 155Â under 18s

That’s nearly 7 years away.

Between the cubs scouts and explorers:

only 5 young people have not been on a residential experience with us (and of those 5, 3 joined this term)
all the explorers have been on a residential.
I don’t include the beavers in this bit because they have 12 who do not have nights away badges but Badger and Squirrel have a sleepover planned next month

29 beavers – 17 have a nights away badge

and a sleepover is planned in July so that will round up the rest of them

11 have 2 or more

Cub Camp 2012 Group Picture

41 cub – 38 have a nights away badge

32 have 5 or more
14 have 10 or more

55 scouts – 53 have a nights away badge

40 have 5 or more
38 have 10 or more
19 have 20 or more
3 have 35 or more

Switzerland Trip 2011 Group Photo

31 explorers – all 31 have a nights away badge

29 have 5 or more
25 have 10 or more
22 have 20 or more
12 have 35 or more
9 have 50 or more
7 have 75 more
1 has 121 nights away

And every single one of these has been run by our 100% volunteer team of leaders

Thunder Troop Video Making Night

By Chris Elmer

On June 21, 2012

In Scouts

The scouts brought their props and they’re making their videos.

and we even managed to show them their videos before they went home

Hammocks for the summer

By Chris Elmer

On June 21, 2012

In Explorers, Scouts

The Fifth have started buying hammocks and tarps for the Scouts Summer Camp.

We hit a major stumbling block when we found out the price of tarpaulins (the sheet that goes over the top like a tent) but after alot of hunting and emailing, we found a supplier who has provided us with all the tarps that we need at a fraction of the cost. They’re ‘seconds’ so they are slightly discoloured but at a discount of more than 60%, I think that we can put up with that! (we’re saving over Â£1,000)

We can’t wait to try them out, the explorers are hoping to give them a trial run this Friday and then the scouts will be let loose with them in the Summer.

The pictures below are from our suppliers at DD Hammocks.

Video planning night

By Chris Elmer

On June 14, 2012

In Scouts

So we set each patrol the challenge of storyboarding a video tonight. Next week they will film them . Each patrol had a leader with them to offer guidance.

matt with his patrol

Chris keeping his team focussed

Nick with his patrol... they had to rework their original idea that contained rather challenging.themes that would prob get a bbfc rating beyond their years.

Louis' mini spielbergs cooking up some silver screen brilliance

Adrian sits back and lets Louise take charge.

Robert's patrol finishing off their storyboard

Homeward bound

By Chris Elmer

On June 4, 2012

In Scouts

the British waterways man turned up at 9.30 but some divvie boaters (not us)Â and poor water levels meant that we took a while to get through the locks. Lots of cruising to do today.