3rd Romsey Scouts Parents Pancake Party

 

After weeks of planning - tonight was the night!  Invites had been written & sent, responses received.  Menus had been discussed, changed, amended again and then finally agreed on.  Sketches had been (quickly) rehearsed.  Shopping had been done.

The hall was full of Scouts & parents waiting to sample the delights of the PPP!

We appreciate the parents & siblings coming - it was lovely having you there - we hope you enjoyed it.

 

Thank you to the Scouts for doing what needed doing and being good about it!  A huge thank you to Shona & Tris who had the unenviable task of being in a very hot kitchen supervising the Scouts make 4 different toppings, cook over 100 pancakes - and topping the pancakes successfully!!  Lastly thank you to Alex & Joe, my Young Leaders, for keeping the squash flowing and taking/counting the votes.

 

Well done to Eagles & Kestrels who were joint winners of the competition for the best filling - all voted for by the parents.  The evening was slightly manic - but good fun!

Usually we ask a Scout to write the report for the evening, tonight it was written by a parent volunteer.......

An enjoyable evening with sumptuous pancakes and a truly mouth-watering experience with rip roaring skits – going home on a sugar rush and not feeling guilty because I had my 5-a-day!

 

THE MENU!

 

 

Sarah Beaman

3rd Romsey Scout Leader - Ashanti Troop

Young Leaders

What an evening for 3rd Romsey Scout Group

For the first time the whole Group met for an evening!

The Beavers & Cubs arrived at the Dr Peter Centre 5.30pm to start climbing, thanks to the fab District climbing team they all made it up the wall and had a great time!

 

At 6.45pm the Scouts arrived and Muntjac presented the Chief Scout's Bronze Award to Toby & Rory from the Beaver Colony, the Akela presented Lucy & Lily with their Chief Scout's Silver Award.  Unfortunately Amelia was unwell so unable to attend to receive her award in front of the Group.  We hope she feels better soon!

Then we welcomed Steph, Fundraising Officer, from Marwell Wildlife.  She came to present each Lodge, Six and Patrol with the certificates for the sponsored animals they had chosen.  Each section had held a sponsored silence and had managed to raise £390 to sponsor endangered animals at Marwell Wildlife.  This meant that as a whole the Group had sponsored 13 animals at Marwell - hopefully if you visit this year you can keep an eye out for our sponsored animals!

The animals sponsored were:

3rd Romsey Obuasi Beaver Colony - Owls - Zebra, Foxes - Penguin, Adders - Snow Leopard and the Colony a Meercat

3rd Romsey Kumasi Cub Pack - Yellow Six - Giraffe, Blue Six - Penguin, Red Six - Pygmy Hippo and the Pack an Amur Leopard

3rd Romsey Ashanti Scout Troop - Eagles - Tiger, Kestrels - Penguin, Falcons - Meercat, Hawks - Giraffe and the Troop a Snow Leopard

This is a fantastic achievement and it was lovely to have such a great evening for our first evening together as a Group.

Finally, we gathered together all the Cubs & Scouts for a photo who gained their Green Blue Peter Badge in Autumn - they worked very hard the last two summers pulling himalayan balsam from streams in the New Forest.  Catherine, New Forest Native Plants Officer, of the Hampshire & IOW Trust is looking forward to their help again this year!

Scout Report

Tonight we went to the Dr Peter Centre to do climbing.  We found out which animals we had adopted at Marwell with the money from our sponsored silence.  We then  split into two grouops.  One group did climbing, which was great fun, the other group did invitations for the PPP for their parents.  Then after a while we swapped over.  It was a great evening.

Team Building and Tower Building

This evening North Baddesley Beavers worked in their lodges and tried to do a team building exercise.   Although this proved to be quite difficult as 6 - 8 yrs don't really know how to communicate with each other at this age.  However with a little help from the adults some interesting towers were built out of spaghetti.  The aim was for them to hold a marshmallow - here are the results.

2014 The Awesome Year That Was In Scouting

Father Christmas visits North Baddesley Beavers

15th Romsey Beaver Scouts held their Christmas party last Tuesday and Father Christmas came and handed out some presents.

Cubs make their own lanterns

As part of the Romsey late night shopping evening a team of hard working volunteers organised a lantern parade through the town. The pack had an artist visit for two meetings to help make and cover the lanterns as part of a community project. We were tasked with decorating the creations with trees to make the forest for Red Riding Hood as part of the pantomime theme. Matthew took the microphone from the compere in the Market Place to explain we were from 1^st Romsey Cubs. Wellow Cubs also took part and were singing on route.