Woodland Beaver Colony's
News & Activities
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
Group Day – Saturday 23 September 2017
The 1st North Leigh Scout Group (which includes Beavers, Cubs & Scouts) had a Group Fun Day on Saturday 23 September 2017. It gave us the chance to all join
Mini Beast Hunting
The Beavers had great fun yesterday looking for mini beasts in the woods behind the school.Their task was to find as many as they could and take pictures of them!
First Beaver Meeting Back!
It was Beanie Beavers first meeting on Wednesday. However, he wasn’t the only new Beaver, we welcomed four new Beavers and also our new Beaver leader, Kite! We got to
OxonJam – Beavers
On the first Saturday of half term the Beavers visited OxonJam! OxonJam is a county camp, that saw over 4,500 Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, Young Leaders, and Leaders from across
Painting
There were only four Beavers at tonight’s meeting, as it clashed with the school play, but we still made the most of the sunny weather! We made simple tripods from
Marshmallow and Spaghetti Towers
This week, the Beavers were tasked with building the tallest towers they could out marshmallows and spaghetti! They split into two teams, planned out their design after a team discussion,
Village Litter Pick
3 Beavers and 11 Cubs took part in the annual village litter pick – one group looked for litter along Common Road, whilst the other group tackled Windmill Road. We
Planting Seeds
The Beavers had a go at planting seeds this week! They planted mixed lettuce, lollo rosa lettuce, and cress. Once they had filled their trays with soil, they divided it
S’mores
This week the Beavers went to Sophie’s Woodland to cook s’mores. They managed to toast their marshmallows on the fire, with many of them cooked to perfection and very few