Weekly Summary

This week we completed a chip shop hike where we visited 3 local chip shops and reviewed their chips.  The cubs need chose Woodford BBQ, although Tony’s fish bar was a close second!

Next week

Next week will be learning how to make rope out of twine, now that it’s dark enough we will also be playing the cubs favourite game – spotlight!

Events

https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/events.php

Fire station visit

Date: 9th October 2108

Time: 18:00 – 19:30

A firestation visit to see the fire engines, operate the equipment including the fire hose, sitting in the truck and wearing protective clothing

Parents are welcome to accompany their cubs. Places are limited so please book early for a free place.

Leaders, please indicate if you are attending too so that we know how many leaders we have.

Location

2 Snakes lane west.

https://goo.gl/maps/87sDYFzeeek

Understand about:

• What to do in the event of a fire
• How fires start
• How to call emergency services
• Parents to drop off and pick up at firestation and not at scout hut.

Please call your leader in case of any emergency we will contact you via group sms/text likewise

Please walk, take a bus or car share if you can.

Autumn Camp

Date: 19-21 October

Location: Tolmers Activity Centre – https://goo.gl/maps/f44kFvudDD32

An exciting family weekend for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, we encourage parents to come along and see what fun we have on camp and during our meetings.

We really need more adult helpers, so please do join in the experience.

The activities have been confirmed as the following:

• Rifle shooting
• Indoor climbing
• High ropes
• Gladiator
• Fire lighting

The site is Tolmers Activity Centre, we have book a hut that sleeps up to 34 people.  Parents and carers are welcome to stay, as long as they are DBS checked.  Due to the layout of the accommodation, parents/carers will not be able to sleep in a room with their cubs.

The cost is £15/per person for the entire weekend, this covers the food whilst the 52nd EFS group will cover the costs for camping and activities.  Parents/carers staying for the weekend will also be charged £15/each.

The address is:

Tolmers Activity Centre
Tolmers Road
Cuffley
Herts
EN6 4JS 

A map for the location is here: https://goo.gl/maps/e58N6sdSpEH2

This will be an indoor camp for Cubs and Beavers, Scouts will camp (any willing Cubs, Parents/Carers can also camp if they choose to).

Requests

Parents, please volunteer to help on the rota. https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/programme.php

Please also note that once you have booked for an externally paid event, if you do not notify us in time, you are obliged to pay for it. As a matter of courtesy we hope that you can understand why we request this and how it affects spaces, leaders required to attend and the potential damage to our reputation. Please respect this and let us know via OSM.

All bookings MUST be made via OSM and payments should be automated as it saves us much time in administration.We may be requesting an additional charge for any manual payments in the future.

Yours in Scouting

52nd EFS leaders

Weekly Summary

Last week we had the AGM at the hut, there was a great turn out and it’s great to see parents volunteering for the executive committee.

This week

This week we are doing a chip shop hike, the cubs will visit 3 of the local chip shops and review their chips.  This goes towards their hiking badge.

Events

https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/events.php

Autumn Camp

Date: 19-21 October

Location: Tolmers Activity Centre – https://goo.gl/maps/f44kFvudDD32

An exciting family weekend for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, we encourage parents to come along and see what fun we have on camp and during our meetings.

We really need more adult helpers, so please do join in the experience.

The activities have been confirmed as the following:

• Rifle shooting
• Indoor climbing
• High ropes
• Gladiator
• Fire lighting

The site is Tolmers Activity Centre, we have book a hut that sleeps up to 34 people.  Parents and carers are welcome to stay, as long as they are DBS checked.  Due to the layout of the accommodation, parents/carers will not be able to sleep in a room with their cubs.

The cost is £15/per person for the entire weekend, this covers the food whilst the 52nd EFS group will cover the costs for camping and activities.  Parents/carers staying for the weekend will also be charged £15/each.

The address is:

Tolmers Activity Centre
Tolmers Road
Cuffley
Herts
EN6 4JS 

A map for the location is here: https://goo.gl/maps/e58N6sdSpEH2

This will be an indoor camp for Cubs and Beavers, Scouts will camp (any willing Cubs, Parents/Carers can also camp if they choose to).

Requests

Parents, please volunteer to help on the rota. https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/programme.php

Please also note that once you have booked for an externally paid event, if you do not notify us in time, you are obliged to pay for it. As a matter of courtesy we hope that you can understand why we request this and how it affects spaces, leaders required to attend and the potential damage to our reputation. Please respect this and let us know via OSM.

All bookings MUST be made via OSM and payments should be automated as it saves us much time in administration.We may be requesting an additional charge for any manual payments in the future.

Yours in Scouting

52nd EFS leaders

Weekly Summary

We has a nice introduction back into the autumn term, the cubs showed us how well they know their compass points and all did an excellent job creating plays of what they did over the summer holiday.

This week

This week is the AGM, all parents are encouraged to come along to find out what’s happening across the entire group.  The 52nd EFS group is run by parent volunteers and it’s important all parents are part of the AGM.

Events

https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/events.php

Autumn Camp

Date: 19-21 October

Location: Tolmers Activity Centre – https://goo.gl/maps/f44kFvudDD32

An exciting family weekend for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, we encourage parents to come along and see what fun we have on camp and during our meetings.

We really need more adult helpers, so please do join in the experience.

The activities are being confirmed but we are considering some of the following:

• Rifle shooting
• Indoor climbing
• High ropes
• Bungee run
• Trampoline

The site is Tolmers Activity Centre, we have book a hut that sleeps up to 34 people.  Parents and carers are welcome to stay, as long as they are DBS checked.  Due to the layout of the accommodation, parents/carers will not be able to sleep in a room with their cubs.

The cost is £15/per person for the entire weekend, this covers the food whilst the 52nd EFS group will cover the costs for camping and activities.  Parents/carers staying for the weekend will also be charged £15/each.

The address is:

Tolmers Activity Centre
Tolmers Road
Cuffley
Herts
EN6 4JS 

A map for the location is here: https://goo.gl/maps/e58N6sdSpEH2

This will be an indoor camp for Cubs and Beavers, Scouts will camp (any willing Cubs, Parents/Carers can also camp if they choose to).

Requests

Parents, please volunteer to help on the rota. https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/programme.php

Please also note that once you have booked for an externally paid event, if you do not notify us in time, you are obliged to pay for it. As a matter of courtesy we hope that you can understand why we request this and how it affects spaces, leaders required to attend and the potential damage to our reputation. Please respect this and let us know via OSM.

All bookings MUST be made via OSM and payments should be automated as it saves us much time in administration.We may be requesting an additional charge for any manual payments in the future.

Yours in Scouting

52nd EFS leaders