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Hunsdon
Cubs meet 6:15 - 7:45pm
Hunsdon Scouts meet 8:00 - 9:30pm
on Fridays in Hunsdon Village Hall |
Hunsdon
Beavers meet 6:15 - 7:15
on Tuesdays in Hunsdon Village Hall |
NEWS
FROM HUNSDON SCOUT GROUP
Many of you will know by now that we have established a new Beaver
Colony and we are pleased to report that it is positively thriving. The
section has about 20 Beavers, girls and boys aged 6-8 years and is run
by Badger (Simon Roberts), Mole (Terase Hunt) and Otter (Fiona Norris).
So what has the Group been up to recently?
In April Hunsdon Scout Group attended St George's Day celebrations in
Ware with a service in church, followed by parade to Ware Priory where
promises were renewed in glorious sunshine. Every year, at the end of
the ceremony, the Peter Geer Trophy is awarded to the group with the
most points for attendance at specified events for their section.
Hunsdon Beavers, being a new section, did not have the opportunity of
attending all their events, but having turned out in such force for
their Easter Eggstravaganza, earned the Group the maximum of 10 points
for that particular event. Unfortunately Scouts missed out at The Bowls
Gala, and the Heavyweight Competition, but scored well in 5 other events
during the year, especially in the Cooking Competition, and Green Beret
where they scored most across all Patrols in the District. Cubs
also did brilliantly well, and having attended every event with good
numbers, scored the highest points among all Cubs packs in the Ware
District. This is a fantastic result for the group, and we are very
grateful to all the young people and their families for their support
If you know a young person
who would like to join us please contact one of the leaders. In
particular our Beaver Colony (for boys and girls aged 6 to 8) and Scout
Troop (10½ to 14½) currently have vacancies.
Simon Roberts, Badger (Beavers)
Karen Osterley, Akela (Cubs): 07971 753193
Martin Hunt, (Scouts) |
CUBS
NEWS
Kip in a Ship
We have just returned from the trip of a lifetime - a sleepover on HMS
Belfast! Cubs carried their sleeping bags in their back packs while hiking
from Liverpool Street Station to the warship moored between London Bridge
and Tower Bridge. We arrived at 18:00 and soon after were shown to our
quarters, the 1950s messdecks, where everyone got a bit excited about who
would sleep in which bunk. Fortunately the pizzas arrived bang on schedule
and we tucked in to a party supper to celebrate Hannah’s 10th birthday.
As it was a lovely mild evening we came up the ladder and through our
hatch to play party games – including Captain’s Coming and charades - on
the quarterdecks. The setting, with the lights on the bridges, and the
Gherkin opposite, was beautiful. We had lots of fun, especially waving at
the passengers on the passing dinner cruises – whose idea was that?
Settling down at bedtime in the narrow squeaky bunks after watching a
spooky DVD was difficult, and we’re still trying to work out how Bagheera
(Kevin) managed it at all. There were creepy clanging footsteps above us
when the night security guard went on his patrol, and there were all kinds
of other disturbing noises, but eventually everyone managed to get to
sleep (although some say they stayed up all night).
After breakfast the leaders organised some communications activities to
learn about naval flags, morse code and semaphore. Then we went to the
learning room to hear all about the arctic convoys and fantastic stories
of life on board HMS Belfast in the Second World War and Korean War when
up to 950 men lived and worked on board. Some of the Cubs tried on
traditional uniforms.
It was a fantastic trip, a hike, a sleepover and a real adventure, which
perhaps we will be able to make again in the future. The Imperial War
Museum has already written to say they hope to welcome us on board again
one day, so you never know!
Read about the favourite memories of the Cubs earning their
Communications Badges:
When we first got there we thought we were going to sleep on the small
boat moored at the side, but we were on the massive one! It was quite
comfy on the ship. You could easily fall off the bunks but they were not
as hard as we thought they would be. We liked doing the Halloween treasure
hunt on the decks but we didn’t like the clanging noises in the middle of
the night. When we went to bed we imagined we were in the war. It was
totally awesome sleeping on a real warship. The stories about the men were
amazing, especially of the one who was saved from falling overboard in one
of the arctic convoy missions because his hand was frozen to the ship.
(Freddy, Dom, Joseph, Ben and Edward)
What we liked about HMS Belfast was that we got to sleep on old bunk
beds at the bottom of the ship. Also we liked the tour on Monday morning.
We also liked the view as we looked along the shore. But we will never
forget the helpfulness of Gary and Armando (Concierge). (Rachael and Ellie
F)
On 31st October we slept on a boat for 1 night. It was so fun. We looked
all around the boat and went in the gun turrets. Thank you to the leaders
for arranging this trip for us. (Ellie H)
My favourite thing about the trip was the view from the skuttle (window
circle, like a porthole). I could see the Gherkin – that was so cool!
(Tabitha)
I liked the thought of being floating on the Thames when we were asleep. I
also owe a big thank you to Armando (who was very cool) and Gary who has
been working as a Concierge on the ship for 23 years. (Olivia)
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