Happy Hikers...

Five cubs had a great time when they went hiking in the Peak District yesterday with Spud and Chill. They navigated their way to Lost Lad Hillend (without losing any of the lads!)…

…and then on to Back Tor.



They learnt and put into practice lots of techniques to help them navigate safely. The weather held out well, with just the odd spit when we arrived back at the cars!

Everyone’s earned a badge too – either the Adventure badge, or a Hikes Away badge. Well done guys!

This weekend....

A quick reminder that the district Duck Race event, scheduled for this Sunday, has been cancelled due to flooding.

Scouts wanting to take part in the District football competition should meet at HQ at 12 noon this Saturday.

Build it and they will come......

Well, even though the church pulled out of the Summer Gala we went ahead as I was sure that the sun would shine - and it did! Pirate Akela ran the Coconut Shie and we also had stalls and games as well as hotdogs and popcorn. Just so you know, the Tombola items you donated raised £85, the books raised £38.50 and the Bottle Hoopla £60 as well as £18.70 from the Cake Stall. With the other things going on we raised a magnificent £270 despite most of Ardsley assuming we had cancelled along with church. However, word soon got round the village and people started to arrive. It would have been nice to see a lot more of our children and parents though! So, a very big thank you to all of you who donated, baked and attended this event. Every penny raised will be spent on the children and I will let you know what we buy asap.
Church have postponed their Gala until September so we will do it all again with them. Therefore, please keep donating tombola items, bottles and books whenever you like throughout the summer. I know the kids are grateful when they use the games equipment etc that we buy for them.
Kim

Cub Hike in the Peaks...

Cubs are invited on a Day Hike in the Peak District this weekend. The places will be limited, as usual, to a maximum group size of 7 including adults, so book your place as soon as you can… see me on Thursday for the "One Day Activity" consent form.

Section: Cubs
Planned Activity: Day-hike
Date: Saturday 23rd June 2007
Location: Peak District area
Meet at: B&Q car-park in Sheffield, on A61 at 0930 on Saturday 23rd June
Collect from: B&Q car-park in Sheffield, around 1700 on Saturday 23rd June
Cost: Free
Transport: Leaders will provide transport from B&Q car-park in their cars. If you are under 12yrs and less than 135cm please bring your booster seat.
Please bring / wear: All the equipment recommended on the "One Day Activity" form (which will be given out on Thursday if you’ve not already got one!). You'll need a packed lunch.
Weather: We’ll still go if it rains, just bring plenty of warm and waterproof clothes

You’ll have noticed we’re meeting in Sheffield… Spud commutes to Ardsely for Cubs & Scouts every week, so this time I’d like you guy’s to save me a quadruple journey… Sheffield B&Q is half-way to the Peaks! By all means, you can arrange amongst yourselves to share lifts from HQ or home to Sheffield!

Directions to B&Q car-park in Sheffield:
Follow A61 towards Sheffield, passing Worsbrough Mill, to Junction 36 of M1. Continue on A61 towards Sheffield, passing Hillsborough. A bit further, and you’ll see KFC on the right. B&Q is just after KFC, also on the right. Turn right at the lights between B&Q and McDonalds.

Art Attack!

As promised for a few weeks, here’s the pics of Thomas Yates’ "Art Attack" – it’s of a Cub, a Leader, and a campfire… he did it as part of his Artist’s badge. Have a look in HQ for the rest of his artwork. Well done Thomas, and your helpers!

SUMMER FAYRE

It's 8.15 on the 16th. Church have lost faith and cancelled their part of the fayre BUT we scouts are made of sterner stuff. The church folk might have lost the Dunkirk spirit but we have BP Spirit. The fayre is going ahead at this moment in time. Please tell everyone you see that we are holding the event as planned. Please come along and join us.
Kim

SUMMER FAYRE

Our annual Summer fayre will be held on Saturday 16th June at 1pm. You can help by donating good quality items such as books and other prize gifts, cakes, biscuits, chocolates and toiletries.Bottles of alcohol or soft drinks would be gratefully received. There will be food available plus games and stalls.

This week at Ardsley

We welcomed Alicia, Kaishan and Jessica to Beavers this week and wrote letters to some Joey Beavers in Australia. Kim will send these off to her contact there and fingers crossed we'll get some replies.

Cubs said Hello to Gabriel and Deacon(Kim really likes "Mrs Gabriel" as she did ALL the washing up and made us all a drink AND washed up some of the Scouts mess from Weds night - she can come again -PLEASE!) We also said a fond farewell to Spike and Matty who are moving up to Scouts. They have been a really great pair of Cubs and I'm sure will be a lovely addition to Scouts. (sorry about the 'lovely' lads but I can't think of a more macho word) This week we had feedback from the Synergise camp (sounds like we missed a treat if we didn't go) and had a think about recycling for our Global Challenge badge.

Scouts had a great time doing Ready, Steady Cook and came up with some tasty and innovative ideas from simple ingredients. Leaders were impressed with their ideas and use of knowledge learned in previous cooking sessions we've done.

We will be running sessions for all sections as normal throughout the half term.

Kim

cub walk update

Just to let you know that my info was incorrect. The walk will finish at 8 and not 7.15. Sorry.
Kim

A Great Weekend at SYnergise

The SYnergise camp at Hesley Wood was a huge success. About 1500 campers from all over South Yorkshire enjoyed the fun and games! Around 100 kids from the Barnsley Fitzwilliam District joined in the Centenary Celebrations, and we all enjoyed camping, cooking, and playing together as a District. Here we all were after a bit of 100-year-old birthday cake!!

A huge THANK YOU goes out to everyone who was involved in the organisation of this event… we all saw an awful lot of smiling faces throughout the weekend (kids and adults alike), which made it all worthwhile. They might have been smiling, but they weren’t always clean…

Many games came about… some organised… and some spontaneous… and our cubs really enjoyed “exploring” the whole campsite!

My activity was climbing… even the youngest beavers gave it a try, and some of our cubs and scouts enjoyed taking on the wall!

On Sunday, we all renewed our Beaver, Cub, or Scout Promise, and we heard about what Scouting meant to some different people.

Later, as they washed up the cups, some of the cubs discovered that even doing a “good turn” can be fun… although I’m not sure if they had played Drip Drip Drop earlier!?

Ardsley Cubs did themselves proud again on the 5-aside football pitches… not only were they recently winners of the District Cub Football competition, but now they have also won at County level! Great job guys!

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Unfortunately, our fun had to come to an end on Monday…tired but happy, we went home to get washed!

I’d like to thank all the parents who offered to help transport other kids to and from camp – and thanks to everyone for dropping off and collecting kids on time. That really helped things run smoothly.

Campers were all given a SYnergise Camp badge. This is a green, oval badge. It should be sewn onto the right sleeve just above the cuff, in line with the district and county badges which are at the top of that sleeve.

If you have a Centenary necker, you will also be given a Centenary Camp badge, and a Joining-In The Centenary badge. These are to be sewn onto the back of the Centenary necker. There are four centenary badges to collect, which end up forming a diamond with a gold trim. See the image below for where to sew each one.

If you’ve not yet ordered a centenary necker, and now you think you’d like one, leave £6 in an envelope with your name and “late order” on it, and I’ll get you one in due course.

Well done for choosing to join in… you’ve been a great team… enjoy the rest of the Centenary Celebrations throughout 2007!

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Beavers Thursday 24th May

There will NOT be a Beavers on 24th May as Kim is not available. There will be a Cubs as normal though.

District Cub Walk

Cub Walk: Tuesday 15th May
Cubs to meet at Wombwell Scout Hall at 6pm and be collected from there at 7.15. Wear appropriate clothing for the weather, you don't need money. please wear your necker. There will be a Cubs on Thursday 17th