Thank you to Jenny for showing Arapaho Cubs how to make rocky road and for bringing in cupcakes for us to decorate!
Tag: SkillsForLife
Summer Hike
Explorers went on a summer hike across Brantingham Dale. More experienced Explorers coached the younger ones in essential navigation skills that will hopefully guide them throughout life. Lessons learnt in Scouting last a lifetime.
Cub Camp Craft
Cherokee and Arapaho Cubs took part in the District Camp Craft Competition. During the competition they undertook challenges including a giant ball maze, tent pitching, building sedan chairs, camp cooking, fire lighting, bivi building, map symbols and compass point pictures, They all had a great day with the Cherokee teams finishing in 2nd and 3rd…
Bivvy Building
Hessle Navajo Scouts spent a Friday evening in the woods, learning some knots & lashings whilst building bivvy shelters.
Sharing our Skills
The Hessle Scout Group adult team held a weekend camp to enable us to get to know each other better and improve our skills, ready to pass on to young people. The weekend started with information from our County and District teams and we then focussed on map reading, fire lighting, tent pitching and repairs,…
District Camp Craft Competition
Arapaho and Cherokee Cubs took part in the Blacktoft Beacon District Camp Craft Competition this weekend at Tablers Wood Campsite. Eleven teams took part including two from Arapaho and two from Cherokee. They completed many tasks during the day including tent pitching, sedan chairs, cooking, fire lighting, bivi building, maps symbols, compass points and a…
Hessle Foreshore
Cherokee Cubs had a great start to the term, working as a team in their sixes, they built and lit fires to toast marshmallows, and then safely extinguished them. As part of their Naturalist badge they also experimented with natural things to find which would dye a small square of fabric, and learnt some interesting…
Teamwork
Arapaho Cubs have been focusing on the benefits of working as a team. They took part in peer-led blindfold courses, problem solving activities and learned how to put up and take down tents.
Fires, Gadgets and Bugs
Cherokee Cubs have spent their first few weeks back face to face meeting in smaller groups. They have each learnt how to light and extinguish a fire at Raywell for their Backwoods Cooking badge, build a camp gadget using the knots we learnt on zoom at the Scout Den for their Pioneer badge, and identify…
Skills for Life
Arapaho Cubs have learnt and practiced some Life Skills, including ironing, putting on the washing, making hot drinks and cutting and peeling vegetables. By using these skills to help other people and do a good turn every day, they’ve been keeping their Promise and Law in mind, as well as completing parts of their Our…
Pancakes!
Cherokee Cubs practiced their pancake making skills last week. We hope they are making them for the whole family today!
Emergency Aid
Beavers practiced their first aid skills this week – cleaning a wound, applying a plaster and a bandage – and then putting someone into the recovery position. Thank you to all our willing patients!
Lego Map Symbols
As part of their Navigator badge, Beavers have been learning map symbols, by making them out of lego bricks. We also looked at a map of Hessle and identified lots of local features, and worked out what we should take in our rucksacks when we can eventually all go on a hike together.
Home Helps
Cherokee Cubs completed the next part of their Home Help Activity Badge, cleaning and tidying the living room and ironing their neckers. Let’s hope they keep using these skills every day during lockdown!
Communication
As part of their Communicator Activity Badge Beavers made their own semaphore flags, and practiced spelling out compound words. They have also learnt their phone numbers, solved a simple code and sent the answer to TicTac via text message or Whatsapp.
Skills for Life
Cherokee Cubs have been learning some important skills for life recently – how to do the washing (a bonus in lockdown that they got to actually do it – we don’t have a washing machine in our scout den), how to be safe both as a cyclist and a pedestrian, and how to read a…
Cherokee on the move!
Cherokee Cubs have just completed a three week rotation of activities – a hike around the Humber Bridge Country Park, a cycle ride across the Humber Bridge and activities on zoom towards their book reader badge. It’s great to be back outside completing challenges together, even if we are in smaller groups.
Apple Crumble!
A couple weeks ago we had a talk from Yvette at Pickering Road Orchard, about how apple trees grow through each season. This week we saw some excellent cooking skills by our Beavers. Young people used vegetable peelers and knives, rubbed butter into flour, and produced some brilliant apple crumbles. We hope they all tasted…
Keeping Safe and Tidy
Cherokee Cubs met on Zoom this week and completed parts of the Fire Safety, Home Safety and Home Help badges. Cubs drew a floor plan of their house and then investigated where the smoke alarms and fire exits are, they looked at what dangers there are that could start a fire in each room, and…
Problem Solving
Cherokee and Arapaho Cubs completed a ‘Leaning Tower of Feetza’ problem solving activity alongside a game of battleships using the phonetic alphabet during their weekly Zoom meeting.
Chief Scout Silver Award
Congratulations to Cherokee Cubs Archie, Oliver and Seth on achieving their Chief Scout Silver Award. These were presented by Charlotte our GSL during our online Zoom meeting.
Chief Scout Bronze Award
Hessle Beavers made history this week in presenting eight Chief Scout Awards via Zoom! Charlotte, our GSL, joined us to make the presentations virtually, and big thanks to all the parents for their assistance. Congratulations to Luke, Archie, Jesse, Rowan, Joshua, Jessica, Amelie and Rosie on their achievements. We also presented lots of other badges…
Zoom into Space!
Beavers held their first weekly meeting via Zoom and we worked towards our Space badge. We talked about the planets, the moon and astronaut Tim Peake, made our own picture of the solar system, recreated it from spherical shaped items found in our homes, and a toilet roll middle rocket!
Beavers 2020 Lockdown Sleepover
Beavers had a fun packed weekend at their Lockdown Sleepover. We had a scavenger hunt, learnt about maps and what to take on a hike, made bird feeders, toilet roll superheroes and our own crazy golf course, as well as the usual camp activities of cooking our own food, singing campfire songs and playing bingo.
Cherokee 2020 Lockdown Camp
Cherokee Cubs enjoyed a weekend of activities, all done from the safety of their own home during lockdown. The chose to sleep in either a tent in the garden or a den they built themselves, and during the day made an obstacle course, camp gadgets, lunch and tea, a bug hotel and completed a scavenger…
Learning in lots of different ways
Our young people are showing us that as well as doing school work, they are learning lots of new skills whilst at home. We hope they continue to practice them every week! Well done to Cubs Amber, Henry, Fraser, Caleb Owen, Isaac, Harrison and Beaver Aiden.
Home Helps
Cherokee Cubs have been completing lots more activities towards their Home Help and Skills Challenge badges. Excellent job Caleb, Joshua, Isaac, Bethany, Fraser. Don’t forget to keep practicing all these skills!
Creativity
Creative activities are good for our health too, and many of our young people have been putting their imaginations to good use. Well done to Cherokees Owen and Dexter and Beavers Rosie, Aflie and Daniel.
#skillsforlife
Cubs have been both helping at home and practicing their cooking skills. Well done to Arapaho Amber, Cherokees Fraser, Charlie and Dexter and Beavers Jessica, Joseph and Jacob.
Beaver Cooks
Lots more cooking has been taking place in Beaver homes, and it looks delicious. Well done Rosie, Alfie, Aiden, Isaac, Daniel and Joseph. Keep on scouting, learning those important skills for life.
Cub Skills Challenge
Cherokee Cubs have been making themselves useful at home and completing parts of their Skills Challenge Badge. Well done to Bradley and Harrison, making cups of tea, setting the table for a meal and peeling vegetables.
Beaver Cooks
For their Cook Activity Badge Beavers have to prepare and cook three dishes, both sweet and savoury. Well done to Joseph and Summer, their food looks delicious.
Beaver Blog – Seb
As part of their Personal Challenge badge, our second Beaver Blog comes from Seb. Tonight we was earning our First Aid badge. Then we split into three groups. First we learnt how to do the recovery position. Next we learnt if you need an ambulance or not, what we would do, and how to support…
Minecraft Camp
Cherokee Cubs took part in a minecraft themed camp, lots of fun with lots of #skillsforlife too. We used saws, sandpaper and screwdrivers to make creeper bookends, we used sewing machines to make TNT and creeper cushions, an iron to make hama bead minecraft creations, and Raspberry Pi’s to play minecraft, as well as a…
Hull4Heroes
Apache Scouts have been undertaking a project to support soldiers of The Yorkshire Regiment, after hearing an appeal put out by Hull4Heroes. They encouraged all members of Hessle Scout Group to donate shoe boxes of gifts to send to the soldiers whilst they are stationed in Afghanistan this Christmas. The boxes include nice things like…
Skills for Life
As part of their Camp Craft Activity Badge, Beavers learnt how to sew a badge onto their camp blankets. Big thanks to all the parents who helped!
Hessle take the double!
Two Apache Scout teams have been competing in the Blacktoft Beacon Scout Campcraft Competition all weekend. As well as activities similar to the cub competition yesterday, they have had to camp without leaders all weekend, cooking and caring for themselves and their equipment, as well as completing challenges such as archery, making tin can burners,…
Campcraft 2019
Congratulations to everyone that took part in the Blacktoft Beacon Cub Campcraft Competition today. Lots of opportunity for Cubs to both demonstrate and learn new life skills – cooking on fires, bivvy building, puncture repair, making a water filter, wiring a plug, pioneering, lighting a fire, putting up tents, to name just a few. A…
CHEROKEE SPRING CAMP
What a weekend of fun, sunshine and adventurous outdoor activities at Bramhope Scout Campsite. We conquered the climbing wall, completed the orienteering trail around Chevin Forest Park, cooked breakfast on a fire, identified trees and creatures for our naturalist badge, swung through the trees on the low ropes trail, whizzed down the ski slope, chased…
WORMERIES
Cherokee Cubs have been completing their Scientist badge. They have made slime, created explosions, and made wormeries. We hope the worms have survived!
YEAR OF THE PIG
Cherokee Cubs middle group worked as a team to produce a very tasty Chinese banquet. This was part of their International Activity badge, and they chopped and prepared all the ingredients and made sure they were all cooked correctly. The whole pack got to sample the food at the end of the evening. Thank you…
GREEN SCREEN
Beavers had a great time tonight using a green screen to kick start their Photographer Badge. We took some nice photos for another project later in the term but had time for some funny shots at the end of the night! #watchoutforthecow Beavers also got the chance to take photographs in lots of different ways; using…
CHRISTMAS CLIMBING
Beavers had great fun in the bouldering rooms at Rock City for their Christmas party. The excited shouts of ‘this is brilliant’ sum up an excellent evening.
Welcome to Cherokee
Cherokee Cubs welcomed seven new members recently, as well as presenting our young leader, Nitin, with his Module A certificate and leader Emma with her 10 year service award. Well done everyone.
BACKWOODS COOKING DAY
Cherokee Cubs had a great day at the Humberside County Backwoods Cooking event. We cooked hot dogs, omelette, cakes, pancakes and bread twists all on open fires, we lit fires without matches and learnt how to extinguish them, we practiced some first aid, made hot drinks, set the table and learnt about hygiene when cooking. …
AUTUMN DEN TIDY
Thank you to everyone that joined us for our Autumn Den Tidy today. We have made an excellent start of clearing the area around the den, and could not have done it without all the volunteers. If you can spare some time to help us finish it, please let a leader know.
Welcome to Beavers
Six new Beavers were invested into Hessle Beavers. During the evening we had been working towards our Disability Awareness Activity Badge, and had learnt our promise in sign language. Whilst the new Beavers said their promise, the rest of the colony signed it. Lots of badges were awarded to everyone, along with a Chief Scout’s…
Skidby Hike
Beavers enjoyed their Autumn Hike, across the fields to Skidby Windmill. We had several stops along the way for everyone to find where we were on the map. Alas, our geocache which we planted a couple of years ago was nowhere to be found.
HULL MARATHON AND FUN RUN
Thank you to the Cherokee Cubs and leaders who were up bright and early this morning to present the medals at the end of the Hull Marathon Fun Run, helping in our local community. Perhaps next year we could run too!
SWIMMING UP THE RIVER
Well done to Freddie and Seth who swam up the final part of the Beaver river, and were then invested into Cherokee Cubs. GSL Paul also presented Seth with his final Beaver badges, and his Chief Scout Bronze Award.