uk – 5th Beckenham South Scout Group

Busy Half Term at The Fifth

By Chris Elmer

On November 3, 2013

In Blog

Quick Update on what we’ve been up to

Those wires are going to be connected to a projector that we have had donated to the group. (Thank you!)

John has been installing covers for the lights, we’ve not had an accident yet but this will protect them from flying tennis balls and enthusiastic pioneering. John cut this all up, painted it and installed it to keep the cost low.

We spent an hour on sunday morning collecting litter – especially these annoying flyers.

A brilliant turnout saw it all done in less than an hour.

Thank you everybody who has been so busy for the scout group. Â See you at the Race Night!

Badger’s Five Year Award

By Chris Elmer

On October 25, 2013

In Beavers, Group

Thank you Lisa from all of us for your (now more than) five years with The Fifth.

Jamboree on The Internet 2013 is all set

By Chris Elmer

On October 18, 2013

In Blog

Joe, Nick and Jack set up the Jambore on the Internet suite last night. The hut is open to all sections on Saturday 9-5. Come along to chat to scouts from around the world.

Working away, 24 machines all ready to go

Looks good, doesn’t it? Half the machines were donated by Trinity School and we bought some cast offs from a local school too. We stuck some ram in them last year and they are still excellent machines.

We took off windows and they are running Ubuntu 12.04 and they fly. If you have an old PC in the house, think about switching to a Ubuntu to give your PC a new lease of life. Some German cities are giving our free ubuntu CDs to help their citizens keep their computers running for a bit longer.Â

Our gateway to the world.

ubuntu 12.04:Â http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/

how to install ubuntu:Â http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-desktop-long-term-support

Summer camp blogs

By Chris Elmer

On August 4, 2013

In Explorers, Scouts

Apologies for the lack of a summer camp blog. The site had no mobile signal and there were no hotspots locally. Â Hopefully you kept an eye on our Storify page that we’ve just updated again. Instagram pics uploaded occasionally when the wind changed and our phones got a bit of connection, here it is if you missed it (photos and videos to follow during the week):

Click Here for Summer Camp Storify

Happy Explorer Leader

By Chris Elmer

On May 23, 2013

In Explorers

happy Phil, a photo by cmbe1 on Flickr.

Phil Make Fire. Phil Happy.

Explorer challenge night

By Chris Elmer

On February 27, 2013

In Explorers

Tim was poorly so Phil and Von ran a challenge night for the explorers. (get well soon Tim)

Map symbol quiz

Logic puzzles

Marking by Von (thank you)

Flag quiz

As I left, they were playing a jumping challenge game and before I got there, they’d been knotting and doing something with hula hoops (i’m guessing a hula challenge).

Paralympic volleyball

By Chris Elmer

On January 31, 2013

In Scouts

After years of playing crab football in the hut we took some inspiration from The Paralympics and had a go at sitting volleyball and it was a brilliant success.

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxp3kIvgT_o[/youtube]

We followed it up with a rather chaotic world tradig game that let some of our younger scouts show their leadership skills. If we can turn them into PLs, we should have a fun few years ahead.