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Growth Champions 2024
Congratulations to everyone who volunteers with the Mighty, Mighty 1st North Leigh Scout Group, we have been recognised as Growth Champions by the County Commissioner! Please click here to see
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Beavers – Olympic Games
This week, we decided to celebrate the upcoming Paris Olympic Games by holding the North Leigh Beaver Olympic Games. The four lodges circulated through four events and all took a
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Windmill Cubs – Wizard Camp (aka Cubwarts)
Cubwarts – 5 to 7 July Windmill Pack had a great weekend camping at Youlbury for our ‘Wizard Camp’. The event started off pretty wet, with constant rainfall. We started
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Beavers – Nature Hunt
This week, we went on a Nature Walk in one of the fields between Park Road and Church Road and we had a lot of things to find. Eagle and
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Beavers – Skills Badge
This week we went back to our favourite woodland (Sophie’s Woodland) to work on some more of our scouting skills. However, before this, we had a look at our bug
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Kestrel Cubs – Hoop Gliders
Kestrel Cubs enjoyed an evening making Hoop Gliders from paper and straws. Hoop gliders can go a long way! Here is some STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) information about
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Beavers – Shelters and Bug Hotels
This week we went back to Sophie’s Woodland to build some shelters and to make some bug hotels. Many thanks to Paul, our parent helper, for coming along to assist. We
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Beavers – Personal Challenge
The beavers visited North Leigh Roman Villa to put their personal challenges to the test! The beavers had been working on the personal challenge, that they set themselves, for some
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Beavers – Putting Up Tents
Scouts love camping and being able to put your own tent is one of the essential camping skill, so we start them early! After a quick demonstration of how to erect
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Beavers – Go To The Woodland
Scouts love going to the woods and scouts love knots; this week, we combined the two! We practised the following knots: Clove Hitch Figure of 8 Knot Square Knot (AKA
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Beavers – Go Geocaching
The idea behind Geocaching is to have individuals and organisations set up caches all over the world and to share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users
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Beavers – Back for the Summer Term!
It’s great to be back for the Summer Term and we have a few new faces! We sorted out our new lodges, played a game and a quiz that taught
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North Leigh Litter Pick
A big thank you and well done to all the North Leigh Scouts, Cubs and Beavers who took part in the North Leigh Litter Pick – all four of our
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Beavers – Chalk Chase
This week, we had a chalk chase around Madley Park. We split into 3 teams and each team had a turn at laying down a trail for the chasers to
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Beavers – North Leigh Hike 2024
Six intrepid beaver hikers set out to complete the North Leigh Hike and were amazing from start to finish on this tough 8-mile, very, very muddy trail. I didn’t hear a
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Beavers – Hobbies Show and Tell
This week, after a minimum of 6 weeks of having a hobby, our colony showed us what their hobby was. We were really impressed by the many different hobbies and
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Beavers – International Night
This week, the beavers have been learning about some other countries. We started by asking the beavers what words they knew from other languages and every beaver knew some words
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Beavers – Money Skills
This week, the beavers have been learning about money, which was one of the badges that they really wanted to earn! We started by giving each of the beavers a
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Beavers – Creative Evening
This week the beavers had a creative evening using a combination of their imagination and construction skills. Using Lego, K’nex and wooden blocks, they had to build something they thought
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Beavers – Burns Night 2024!
Thanks to Ant, Eagle and Bagheera for running our version of a Burns Night. To start, the beavers heard some poetry written by ‘Rabbi Burns’, then the Haggis was presented