Diary

The Beaver/Cub/ Scout Motto
'Be prepared'

Michaelmas 2011 Programme

This term we welcome 8 new beavers : Kaan Ozgu, Daniel Clokey, Jasper Lawson, Joshua Griggs, Charlie James, Ben Beville, Tobias Martin and Beatrice Bradley. At the end of the term Rufus, William, Hannah and James will be going up to Cubs. Sadly we shall also sadly be losing our great leader Cara and we hope a new parent would like to take over as Vixen? Any volunteers to speak to Tarka please! Natalie Fatemi is helping us for a term for her Duke of Edinburgh award. This term we are going to gain the Creative Challenge Badge – one of the six Challlenge Badges the Beavers need to obtain before gaining the Chief Scout Bronze Award upon leaving Beavers. We will also do the Air Activities Badge (please see details at bottom of page), Please remember some of the Activity Badges can be done completely at home by the Beavers (especially Hobby, Animal Friend, Healthy Eating) and then shared with the Colony - please look at website in link below and tell a Leader what you plan to do and we need to find time during a Colony meeting for the Beaver to tell us what they have done. http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/6to25/beaver/badges/index.htm. WE SHALL BE OUTSIDE until half term so please bring jackets and trainers. PLEASE SIGN UP TO HELP TWICE THIS TERM ON BEAVER BOARD. Thank you. Tarka
Your Leaders are Tarka (details above), Elsa - Jackie Robinson 01491 680278 tandjrobinson@supanet.com (home)
07846 786073 and Vixen - Cara Chatterton 07957 322046 carachatterton@gmail.com

Date	Activity	Challenge	Area	Staged/Activity Badge	Important Information
14 Sep	Social evening - scavenger hunt, make silver hats for Beaver Fun Day on 17 Sep.	Creative	Creativity
21 Sep	Tracking round village in two groups. Archie Hobby Badge.	Outdoor Global	Adventure Environment
28 Sep	Mini Rugby with Tony (Tarka’s husband)	Fitness. Or (Outdoor)	Adventure or Agility & Fitness. (Adventure)		PLEASE BRING RUGBY BALL IF YOU HAVE ONE! Wear PE Kit and trainers. No studs please!
5 Oct	Half String Trail and half Floating experiment (how things work) then swop. Log Chew and make Code of Conduct.	Outdoor Creativity Promise	Adventure How things work Rights and Wrongs	Or Adventure
12 Oct	Take photo of Beavers in their lodges. Plant pansies in pavilion planters in Lodges. Visit by BA Pilot Capt. Varnes. Make paper planes. Learn about Promise etc for Investiture – promise game.	Global Or Friendship	Environment Caring for Others	Air activities	Bring gardening gloves. Take home Air Activities homework – Find out about a particular plane and describe a flight you have made in a plane.
19 Oct	Prepare new Beavers. for Investiture. Write something for Pen Pals in Australia to go with Lodge photos. Make and fly planes. (Concorde!)	Friendship or Global	People far away or World Scouting Rights and Wrong	Air Activities	NO ELSA.
26 Oct	HALF TERM BREAK	NO	MEETING
2 Nov	Decorate fireworks biscuits. Badge Presentations by Josh D and James. Make tea for parents to serve them with biscuits after investiture at 5.50pm. Sparklers	Creative Promise	Cooking Beaver Scout Promise		Hand in homework on Air Activities. Bring gloves for sparklers. 5.50pm Investiture. Families most welcome to attend this informal ceremony. Followed be tea and sparklers.
9 Nov	Science experiment with Vixen – (beavers need to do one to gain Creative Challenge Badge this term) 5.45 RAF Helicopter pilot visiting – Captain Lewis Quilter. Talk about flying.	Creative	How things work	Air Activities
*Sunday 13 Nov*	Remembrance Day Service at Checkendon Church. Oldest Beaver present will carry our Beaver Flag.	Promise	Your God		Meet at Checkendon Church in SMART Uniform at 10.40am please. Parents welcome to attend service too (but not essential – leaders will be there to accompany children)
16 Nov	Camp fire in Tarka’s wood – meet there. Talk about flying. Singing and eating.	Outdoor	Visit or Adventure	Air activities	Meet at Tarka’s house, Moonrakers, Busgrove Lane. Walk or park in Busgrove Lane as limited parking! BRING TORCH! HAND IN AIR ACTIVITIES HOMEWORK!
23 Nov	Make Christmas Gift and card. Badge work presentations if time.	Creative	Creativity	Or Creativity Activity Badge	Rufus and James attend Cubs till end of term.
30 Nov	Finish making Christmas gift and card and wrap it up. Christmas activities. Badge work presentations.	(Creative)	(Creativity)	(Or Creativity Activity Badge)	Please sign up to bring some food for next week’s Party on Food list on Beaver Board.
*Saturday* *4 December*	District Beaver Fun Afternoon of Christmas Actvities				Venue to be decided.
7 Dec	End of term party. Games and tea. Say goodbye to Rufus, William, Hannah, James and Vixen.				Please bring in an item of Food or Drink (see List on Beaver Board)
11 Jan 2012	Start of new term.

Creative Challenge
Creative Challenge
The Beaver Scout must complete four activities, at least one from each area.
Creativity

act or mime a simple scene
learn a new song and sing it
make a model out of something, such as junk, kit or Lego
make an instrument and play it.

Cooking

try some simple cooking, like making cakes or decorating biscuits
make a hot drink safely.

How things work

learn how a simple mechanism works, eg a lock, bike pump, Meccano, etc
learn what a magnet does
use some food colouring to, for example, tie-dye some material or watch celery change colour
light a bulb using a simple circuit.

Air Activities Activity Badge
To gain this badge, Beaver Scouts must complete the following: Air Activities Activity Badge

Make a paper dart out of paper and see how well it flies.
Find out about a particular aeroplane and tell others in the Colony about it. Examples might be Concorde, Spitfire, Airbus, Lynx helicopter etc.
Talk to someone who has flown in a plane, helicopter or hot air balloon and find out what it was like.
If you have already flown in a plane, tell others in the Colony what it was like. If not, tell them what you would like to fly in, and why.