Woodland Beaver Colony's
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North Leigh Scout Group Needs You!
Can you help by volunteering for roles within our Group? Scouting worldwide continues to be as popular as ever. We are experiencing this trend here at 1st North Leigh Scout
Woodland Beavers – Last meeting before lockdown
We didn’t know it but this was our last meeting before lockdown. We did out safety badge, learning about water safety, road safety and safety in the home. After this
Woodland Beavers – Xmas 2019
Every year we make Christmas cards and go to sing carols at Madley Park House. These are our cards this year.
Woodland Beavers Camp at Brownsea Island
The beavers had an amazing time visiting Brownsea Island with the rest of the North Leigh Scout group. We stayed in a house on the beach while the rest of
1st North Leigh Centenary Camp
If you hadn’t realised, 1st North Leigh Scout Group is 100 years old this year! (Only a few leaders have been around since then, I’ll leave it to you to
Chip Shop Walk 2019
We end our summer term with the yearly Chip Shop Walk from North Leigh to Long Hanborough. Along the way we identified trees and other natural objects such as rabbit
Crocodiles of the World Trip!
The beavers had an amazing evening at crocodiles of the world, who had opened especially for us! We saw crocodiles, alligators, snakes and lizards. The beavers even got to stroke
Woodland Beavers at the West Oxfordshire District Camp – June 2019
The West Oxfordshire District Camp is a camp for all district scouts and the Beavers had a great time camping out for the night. This was the first real outdoor
Camp Fire songs at Madley Park House
In preparation for our upcoming camp we practiced our campfire songs and went to Madley Park House. We performed our full range of campfire songs in front of a packed
Air Activities
The Beavers have been working on their Air Activities level 1 badge. This included designing their own aircraft and making paper planes before seeing how well they flew. Mike and
Fire Lighting!
We went off to the woodland and with the help of the scout leaders all the beavers had the opportunity to learn how to light a fire! We all learnt
Duck Race 2019
This year’s duck race is on Sunday 14th July! Here’s all the information you need to know: What is a Duck Race?We float about 1700 plastic ducks along the river
Woodland Beavers – Toasting Marshmallows
Joff the Scout leader ran a session for the Beavers teaching them how to light fires without matches (don’t worry they need a lot more practice) and then we toasted
North Leigh 18 Mile Hike back for 2020!
2020 Event Sponsors Are you ready? Registration opening for 1st January 2020!We are back for 2020 and we are going to be bigger and better! Having moved our date for
Remembrance Day 2018 – 100 Year Anniversary
The Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts joined members of Girl Guiding and people from North Leigh to commemorate 100 years since the end of World War One, as well as remember
Group Day 2018
Although the weather could have been better, Group Day this year was great fun! Everyone had a go at two of the Youlbury activities, including climbing, abseiling, 3G swing, archery,
Beaver Sleepover!
9 gallant and adventurous beavers braved danger and dragons at the weekend in our knights and dragons themed beaver sleepover! They all had loads of fun learning about St George
St Andrews day celebration with the beavers!!
On the 29th November we learnt all about how the Union flag is made up of the flags of: St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. We also learnt that
Remembrance Parade 2017
This year 6 Beavers took part in the Remembrance Parade with the other Scouts and Guides from North Leigh. We marched all the way to the church, we’d practiced marching
Aunt Sally and Skittles!
We had a great time this week even though it was raining the beavers went to the Masons Arms to play Aunt Sally and Skittles. Aunt Sally is an Oxfordshire