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January 2019                                                                        January 2019


                                                                                                                                    Christmas, made gingerbread and
                                                                                                                                    enjoyed an end of year Christmas
                                                                                                                                    party,   We cooked and served a
                                                                                                                                    traditional  3  course  meal  for  the
                                                                                                                                    community  and  nearly  50  people
                                                                                                                                    came along to enjoy the meal, a
                                                                                                                                    games  of  bingo  and  a  sing  song
                                                                                                                                    with the Beavers.  Thank you to the
                                                                                                                                    cubs for the table decorations.
                                                                                                                                    We  say  goodbye  to  a  few  scouts
                                                                                                                                    who are hopefully all moving on to
                                                                                                                                    become  Explorers  and  we  look
                                                                                                                                    forward  to  welcoming  the  cubs
                                                                                                                                    who  will  be  joining  us  in  the  New
                                                                                            Year.    Congratulations to Aimee and Thomas who have completed the highest
                                                                                            award in Scouts and were presented with the Chief Scout Gold Award by the
                                                                                            District Commissioner at a recent meeting.

                                                                                            A  part  of  the  Creative  Challenge  badge  (needed  for  the  Chief  Scout  Gold
                                                                                            Award)  Scouts  have  to  promote  or  write  about  a  scout  event  and  to  have  it
                                                                                            published locally.  This has been written by Thomas.

                                                                                            Flash Expedition

                                                                                            Before  I  started  my  expedition  I  had  to  plan  my  route  to  the  campsite  in
                                                                                            Winterborne Anderson and back to the scout hut, to do that I used an OS map.
                                                                                            After I planed my route I made a route card and to do that I needed to look at
                                                                                            the map and for every change in direction I had to write it down on the route
                                                                                            card.

                                                                                            A few weeks later I got my personal kit ready and when I got to the scout hut I
                                                                                            needed to put my tent and my trangea and the gas and I was ready for a long
                                                                                            walk  but  one  person  in  my  group  was  not  there  because  they  got  the  times
                                                                                            mixed up so we had to wait. When they arrived me, Casey and Eleanor set off.
                                                                                            It took us 3 and a half hours to get to the camp site because  we took a few
                                                                                            wrong turns to get there but in the end we got it. When at the camp site we put
                                                                                            up our tents and started the fire and made a bench to sit on and eat the food.
                                                                                            Before I went to sleep me and Casey played a card game and Casey lost 10-3.

                                                                                            The next day before we set of we had some breakfast them packed our things
                                                                                            and the tent to go. On the way back it was just me and Casey became Eleanor
                                                                                            had to go to a family party. On the way me and Casey went the wrong way
                                                                                            and went down  White Lane and had to turn around and walked back to the
                                                                                            right route but somehow we still got back to the scout hut early.

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