Fwd: Proposed District Scientist Badge Day

Dear All,

registration for the District Scientist Badge Day has opened. There has been a lot of interest and numbers are limited so on Friday I am going to send in the first tranche of entries that I receive.

If your Cub wants to attend the day then please bring a cheque for £10 payable to Brighton and Hove District Scout Council to the meeting on Thursday.

Gillie will be standing by to take your Cub's registration as they walk in the door. Please make sure your cheques are safely delivered to her.

I will also be sending in another batch of entries before the final closing date in the new year.

As a result of the high level of interest the District will be holding another Badge Day later in the year, so if you miss this one do not despair.

Thanks,

Tim


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31st Brighton Cubs
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Brighton and Hove District Cub Scouts are proposing to run a District Scientist Badge Day, the idea being that a cub can do all the activities to get the badge in one go.

http://scouts.org.uk/supportresources/1431/scientist-activity-badge/?cat=12,67,127&moduleID=10

The details are:

Saturday 23rd February 2013.

Where..Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Hall.

Time…10.00am to 4.30pm.

Cost… £10.00 per Cub

This will include all expenses for materials   plus  lunch and drinks throughout the day .

Limited to 40 Cubs in total,First come basis.

Without commitment the District would like get an idea of numbers.

Let me know by email if your Cub is interested and if it does go ahead we will sort out registration nearer the time.

Thanks,

Tim


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31st Brighton Cubs
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www.31stcubs.blogspot.com

The Pinewood Challenge

Dear All,

on 16th March next year Brighton and Hove District Cubs will be holding a Pinewood Derby Challenge. The Cubs  will have the opportunity to design and construct a freewheel model car from a block of pine to enter in the Challenge. The Challenge is an afternoon of racing the their cars down long wooden tracks. Sounds like boy heaven.

A couple of District organisers visited last Thursday to explain to the Cubs what the Pinewood Derby is all about and showed them some examples of cars made by cubs in previous years.

If you Google (other search engines are available) Pinewood Derby you can easily find lots of information.

Here is a video of one meeting in the US where it originated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLzgOCDwQzM

Over the next couple of months the Cubs will have the opportunity to design and construct a freewheel model car from a block of pine to enter in the Challenge.

We don't have the resources available to take every Cub through this without some support from home in the construction of the cars. It is not difficult but will take a bit of time.

If Cubs want to partner up and work together on a car then can enter the car jointly.

We haven't done the Pinewood Challenge before so we will be making it up as we go along. If you have some DIY skills, tools or time to get involved then please let me know.

Parent and carers can also enter their own car which can be made of any material but it must comply with all other rules.

In the first instance I need to collect together the entry registrations by the beginning of February. Entry fee is £2:50 per car.

So there is no panic this side of Christmas but if you want to register your cub's interest, or can help out at some of the meetings to prepare the cars then let me know.

I thought I would let you know about it now in case the Cubs want to have a play with drawing some designs over Christmas.

I have attached a copy of the rules.

Tim


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31st Brighton Cubs
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Activity Badge Work

Dear All,

we have been looking at a plan to work steadily through the Cub badges over the course of their cub years. 

We have divided the activity badges into two groups. There are badges we will do together as a pack but some we will support the cubs to do as individuals.

All the Cub badges are described in the badge book which they either already have or will bring home soon.

Badge information is also available at http://scouts.org.uk/supportresources/search/?cat=12,67

The idea is that if a cub has an interest in a particular badge then they can work on this at home. Where appropriate the individuals should get a parent/carer to sign off that they have completed the stages required for the particular badge the work at home. When the work is completed the cub can then report back to the pack, describing (and perhaps demonstrating) what they did towards the badge.

A couple of cubs have already completed their home help badge.

The suggested split between individual and pack activity badges is shown below. This is just a suggestion so if anyone wants to work on any badge at home they are more than welcome but it is possible that their work will be repeated at some stage in the pack. 

Individual Activity Badges

Animal Carer

Artist

Book Reader

Chef

Collector

Communicator

Cyclist

DIY

Entertainer

Equestrian

Hobbies

Home Help

Martial Arts

My Faith

Physical Recreation

Skater

Sports Enthusiast

Water Activities

Pack Activity Badges

Air Activities

Astronomer

Athletics

Athletics (Plus)

Camper

Global Conservation

Home Safety

Local Knowledge

Map Reader

Naturalist

Navigator

Personal Safety

Road Safety

Scientist

World Faiths

If you have any comments on this then feel free to email or find me at the end of a meeting.

Thanks,

Tim

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31st Brighton Cubs
31stcubs@gmail.com
www.31stcubs.blogspot.com

Proposed District Scientist Badge Day

Brighton and Hove District Cub Scouts are proposing to run a District Scientist Badge Day, the idea being that a cub can do all the activities to get the badge in one go.

http://scouts.org.uk/supportresources/1431/scientist-activity-badge/?cat=12,67,127&moduleID=10

The details are:

Saturday 23rd February 2013.

Where..Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Hall.

Time…10.00am to 4.30pm.

Cost… £10.00 per Cub

This will include all expenses for materials plus lunch and drinks throughout the day .

Limited to 40 Cubs in total,First come basis.

Without commitment the District would like get an idea of numbers.

Let me know by email if your Cub is interested and if it does go ahead we will sort out registration nearer the time.

Thanks,

Tim


******************************************
31st Brighton Cubs
31stcubs@gmail.com
www.31stcubs.blogspot.com

Road Safety Badge

Dear all,

over the last couple of weeks the cubs have completed nearly all the requirements for their road safety badge. Hopefully it will also keep them a little safer out and about.

The only thing left that they need to do to get their badge is to draw a road safety poster.

There are more details about the road safety badge at http://scouts.org.uk/supportresources/1430/road-safety-activity-badge/?cat=12,67,127&moduleID=10

When the heavens open this weekend and they are staring out of the window wondering what to do, they might wish to pull out some coloured pencils and paper and create a poster to get their badge.

There is no time limit on when to produce the poster so they might prefer to save it for the the Christmas holidays.

Have a good weekend.

Tim


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31st Brighton Cubs
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No cubs meeting next week.

Having taken a straw poll of the number of Cubs attending the Spooky Disco next week we have decided to cancel the Cubs meeting.

There will be no meeting on Thursday 25th October.

The next meeting will be after half term on Thursday 8th November.

Conkers - last reminder.

This is the last reminder for the District Conkers Competition on Sunday.

If anyone else wants to go then feel free to turn up and make yourself know to Mandy when you arrive.

A reminder of the details for those that are going:


Date: Sunday 21st October 2012
Time: 1pm-4pm - registration from 12:30pm
Where:  15th Scout Hall, Manor Road, Brighton, BN2 5EA

Don't Forget

Please check in with Mandy when you arrive and she will help you to register if you need it.
Please arrive  in plenty of time to sign up before 1pm. Doors open at 12:30pm.
Cubs must attend in uniform.
Don't forget your £1 entry fee.
Take plenty of conkers (predrilled!) and shoe laces (the professional conker player's string).
Cubs are welcome to bring a packed lunch, drinks and sweets will be available fro the tuck shop.

I still have spare conkers if anyone needs any more.

Have fun.

Spooky disco clash.

Thank you to everyone who let me know in advance that their Cub couldn't make it last night, it really helps with planning the team events.

On that note there is the Spooky Disco at Westdene School on the 25th October. Can you let me know by return email if your Cub is not coming to the meeting that night and we can decide whether it is worth running.

Hopefully everyone survived the Conkers competition last night and well done to Green Six.

I can still take names for the District competition on 21st October of anyone else wants to go.

Thanks,

Tim


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31st Brighton Cubs
31stcubs@gmail.com
www.31stcubs.blogspot.com

Transferring Cub badges

I have spoken to Nigel (The Grand Poobah of the 31st Brighton) about badges for the cub uniforms.

Three badges need to be transferred from the old Beaver Uniform to their new Cub Jumper.

Those badges are:

The Membership Award

The combined County/District Badge

The Group Name Tape

The position of the badges is illustrated at http://scouts.org.uk/documents/Memberresources/Uniform_diagrams/Cub-Scout-uniform.pdf

Happy sewing,

Tim


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31st Brighton Cubs
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Earlier finish to Cubs

Now that we have had a few weeks for things to settle down we can see that we mostly have a younger group of Cubs at the 31st. As a result I am going to change the finish time to 8pm so that they don't have such a late finish on a school night.

The meeting will now run from 6:45pm to 8pm every Thursday.

The older Cubs were really helpful last night and did a great job supporting the Cubs who have just swum up from Beavers.

Hopefully everyone is having a lot of fun but if you do get any feedback from the Cubs then let me know because it would be really helpful as we build a program of activities for the coming year.

Please get in contact if there is anything you want to discuss.

Tim


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31st Brighton Cubs
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District Conker Competition

Brighton and Hove District Conker Competition 2012

Date: Sunday 21^st October 2012

Time: 1-4pm

Where:  15^th Scout Hall, Manor Road, Brighton, BN2 5EA

Rules
Each Pack may enter as many cubs as they like. The competition will be run on an individual basis, so the more cubs we enter, the better chance we have! The cost for the competition is £1.00 per child which needs to be taken on the day.

Cubs will play each other in 3 minute games with judges deciding win, lose or draw. Players receive points for each draw (1) and win (3). At the end of the afternoon, the Cub with the highest score wins the trophy for their group.

Arrangements
One of our Leaders will be there on the day to look after the Cubs from the 31^st. 

Please can Cubs arrive from 12.30 at 15^th Scout Hall, Manor Road, Brighton, BN2 5EA to register, ready for a prompt 1pm start. Children are welcome to bring a packed lunch, drinks will be available.

There will be a tuck shop open for Cubs to buy a few sweets in the break half way through.

Please email me at 31stcubs@gmail.com  to let me know if your Cub will be part of the team. I need to know by Sunday 7^th to get numbers back to the organisers.

Any questions then please ask.

Tim.

All Change at the 31st Brighton Cubs

You may already have heard that I will be taking over from Grant as the new section leader of the 31st Brighton Cub Scouts.

Mandy Walsh will be continuing to assist in the running of the pack and Nigel Dengate will be there to keep us all in order. We have also managed to cajole some more volunteers to help out.

The other new faces that you will see each week are Steve and Ghyllan Farley whose son Samuel is moving up from Beavers. When we need some extra hands two other dads, Gary Williams and Paul Winsor will also be on hand.

Please feel free to pop in before or after the meeting and say hi.

As part of the change over there is a new email address to contact us with, the one that this email is sent from. I will be sending out notices and updates from this account and it is the one to use to let me know if anyone cannot make a meeting or if you have any questions.

To further help improve communication I have created a blog at http://31stcubs.blogspot.co.uk

You will see that this has a calendar of activities and events and also somewhere for us to  post messages. We will always use email to send out main notifications but we will copy them to the blog so that if you think you have missed anything or deleted something by mistake then you will be able to find it there.

As we start to build up the programme of activities for the forthcoming year we will add some of the information to the calendar so that you can see the sort of activities that are coming up. It will take a while to get this all up to speed and if you have any suggestions then please email them to the new account.

Some Cubs will be shortly moving up to Scouts and Nigel will be contacting you shortly with more details on this.

Starting this week we will have a new tranche of Beavers preparing to swim up. They will be coming for their first taste of Cubs and we have a number of activities at this week's meeting to facilitate this.

It means that we have a lot to get through so we need to make a prompt start. Would everyone make a special effort to arrive ready for a start at 6:45.

Thanks,

Tim Lavender

A New Blog for the 31st Brighton Cubs

We have created this blog to help improve the communication about meetings, events and activities for the 31st Brighton Cub Pack. If you are unsure about where or when a meeting is then the information you need will be listed on the calendar here. The meeting descriptions in the calendar will often describe the evening's main activities so that you have an idea of what is coming up. There won't be a detailed entry for every meeting and details may change as we develop the plan for forthcoming activities, but it should give you a good view of what is going on.

Feedback is always welcome and so please email us with any comments at the new 31st cubs gmail account.