Badminton
On Monday, Shackleton Explorers visited Hazelwick for a game of Badminton. Everyone had fun but not sure we have any future competitive stars in the unit based on their performance during the evening!
Meeting nights
Chief Scout Gold and Platinum Awards
On Monday 23rd Jan, Shackleton had a good meeting on mental health and identity. All of the leaders were incredibly proud of how engaged and mature the young people were during the informative evening. We also invested 2 new members to join the unit, welcome Mirjam and Ben. We also had the pleasure of presenting 3 chief scout gold awards and a chief scout platinum award. The CSA Gold is the highest award a Scout can earn. To complete it, you need to complete all nine of the Challenge Awards, plus six Activity badges. The CSA Platinum award is the next …
Lazer Tag
Tonight Shackleton Explorers celebrated the end of term with a trip to Lazer World where they battled out 3 different games. Red 10 was frequently the best scoring player so I expect there may have been some cheating going on! Time for a relaxing Christmas break, we will see you all in the new year.
Phil’s Cooking Challenge
This evening, the explorers took part in a cooking challenge to create the best tomato soup and toasted cheese sandwich. As easy it should have been, after multiple fire alarms, much burnt toast, each team presented their creation. The results were variable but at least it was all edible!
Jamboree Led Evening
Last Monday (28th), Joe, Tom and Leo who are off to Korea next year led the evening. They gave a short presentation about the jamboree, led a jamboree quiz, taught some basic phrases and led a couple of Korean themed games. All in all, a very educational evening!
Rifle Shooting / Tennis
Over the last few weeks, we have split into 2 groups and alternated rifle shooting and Tennis/Chip Shop Hike. Well done to all the shooters who improved over there turns!
Indoor Caving
On Monday 17th, we visited some indoor caving to see how our explorers could navigate through dark, tight spaces! After familiarisation, we had some head to head races before Avighna was named the overall winner. Well done all for giving it a try, next year we will have to find some real caves!
Chief Scout Awards / Investitures and D of E Expedition Reports
On Monday 3rd October, Shackleton Explorers had a very busy evening! We started off with a brief lesson in Heraldry before the Explorers started to design their own coat of arms to represent them. We then moved onto a more formal part of the evening where we had expedition reports from our 2 D of E Bronze groups and 2 D of E Silver Groups (which parents were welcome to attend). At the end of the evening, we were joined by Robert Sawyer (our County Commissioner) who presented Chief Scout Gold Awards to Ash, Kevin, Ben and Samuel. He is …
Taskmaster
This evening we held a taskmaster evening. 5 different challenges to compete to be crowned the winners from the evening and secure lots of sweets! The tasks were varied including potato art, creating a like for like portrait of the unit leader using only natural materials, eat one, balance 1 and throw, egg chariots and story time. We also spoke to several of the Explorers and managed to sign off 4 CSA platinums by looking back at the last 18 months of their scouting. There are 4 more close behind so keep getting those D of E sections signed off! …
Autumn Term Programme 2022
We hope you have all had a good summer. A new term means a new programme which we have attached below. Take note of some key event dates to get these in your diary now! See you all in September. Sean, Clair, Phil, Ben, Nicole, Elliott and Katie Date Activity Location Other Details 05/09/2022 Monopoly Run 4th Worth Full Uniform 12/09/2022 Task Master 4th Worth Full Uniform 19/09/2022 Archery / Fire Lighting Stanford Scarves / Outdoor Clothing 26/09/2022 Archery / Fire Lighting Stanford Scarves / Outdoor Clothing 03/10/2022 D of E Reports / Heraldry 4th Worth Full Uniform / Investitures 10/10/2022 Phil’s Practical …
Tomahawk Throwing
This week, Shackleton Explorers had an evening of Tomahawk Throwing to build on the taster session last year. Several of them were naturals managing to perfectly hit the target over and over… others were not so practised!!! They also spent some of the waiting time, planning their upcoming assessed expeditions and attempting to build match stick rockets with limited success! A few photos are available below:
Tent Maintenance and Games
As we approach the summer, it was time for us to hold a tent maintenance evening ahead of our upcoming summer camps. Many broken poles were repaired and our shiny new mess tent was put up for the first time. Now thats out if the way, our next few weeks are back to more exciting activities including tomahawks and rafting.