Weekly Summary

This week the cubs practised their grid references, they each used ordinance survey maps to find symbols and confirm their grid reference. We are hoping to use grid references or compass directions for an easter egg hunt at the Spring Camp so the practise will pay off then!

Next week

The Cubs will build catapults with bamboo and elastic bands.

Events

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.  Unfortunately, we may not be able to provide tents for adults.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is £50 for the entire weekend.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

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

With this weekends big bird watch in mind, we decided to create bird seed balls. The Cubs loved crunching up mealworms with various other ingredients that the birds thoroughly enjoy and need in this colder weather.

Next week

The Cubs will continue to practise their grid references, which will come in very handy for planning hikes in the future.

Events

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.  Unfortunately, we may not be able to provide tents for adults.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is £50 for the entire weekend.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

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

This was first meeting of 2019 and the Cubs started the year by creating and performing a small play of their adventures over Christmas. It’s great to see they all had a lovely time during the break and are raring to go for another term of scouting!

Next week

The Cubs will continue to practise their grid references, which will come in very handy for planning hikes in the future.

Events

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.  Unfortunately, we may not be able to provide tents for adults.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is £50 for the entire weekend.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

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

This week the cubs learnt to make cup cakes and biscuit snowmen, many, many thanks to Danyaal’s mum for running the programme, it was another great session from her!

Next week

Next week is the last meeting of 2018, we will be celebrating this with a party.  The event will start at 7pm on Tuesday.

The group will be serving food and drinks (bring your own stronger drink if you would like)

Non uniform day! Bring your family although let us know how many we would need to cook for.

The Scouts will be running party games on 6 bases and fundraising at the same time so please get your 20p (children) and £1 (adults) for age appropriate prizes. It will be surprise so we will just have to wait and see what games will be laid on!

Parents can you be charitable and   donate a bottle so that we can give these as prizes to our other adult winners.

Thank you for your generosity in advance.

Events

Christmas Party

Date: 18th December

Time: 19:00

Once in a year party and fundraiser.

The group will be serving food and drinks (bring your own stronger drink if you would like)

Non uniform day! Bring your family although let us know how many we would need to cook for.

The Scouts will be running party games on 6 bases and fundraising at the same time so please get your 20p (children) and £1 (adults) for age appropriate prizes. It will be surprise so we will just have to wait and see what games will be laid on!

Parents can you be charitable and   donate a bottle so that we can give these as prizes to our other adult winners.

Thank you for your generosity in advance.

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.  Unfortunately, we may not be able to provide tents for adults.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is £50 for the entire weekend.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

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

This week we started the Christmas preparation early and made baubles for the tree.  The Cubs really got into this exercise and created some lovely decorations as you can see below:

Next week

Next week we continue with the Christmas theme, Danyaal’s mum has kindly volunteered to bake cupcakes with the Cubs.

Please bring an apron and something to take a cup cake home him.

Events

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

Christmas Party

Date: 18th December

Time: 19:00

Once in a year party and fundraiser.

The group will be serving food and drinks (bring your own stronger drink if you would like)

Non uniform day! Bring your family although let us know how many we would need to cook for.

The Scouts will be running party games on 6 bases and fundraising at the same time so please get your 20p (children) and £1 (adults) for age appropriate prizes. It will be surprise so we will just have to wait and see what games will be laid on!

Parents can you be charitable and   donate a bottle so that we can give these as prizes to our other adult winners.

Thank you for your generosity in advance.

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.  Unfortunately, we may not be able to provide tents for adults.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is £50 for the entire weekend.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

http://52efsscouts.org.uk/cubs/cub-camps/cub-camp-kit-list/

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

This week we didn’t get to build bridges, we played games based on making knots.  We will continue with knots next week and work our way up to building bridges.

Next week

Next week we will focus on knots and pioneering

Events

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

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.  Unfortunately, we may not be able to provide tents for adults.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is £50 for the entire weekend.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

http://52efsscouts.org.uk/cubs/cub-camps/cub-camp-kit-list/

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

This week we practised our sewing by making small poppies out of material and buttons.  I’m glad to see all the Cubs did really well and we had no accidents with the needles!

On Friday we also joined the Cubs District Quiz, which was great fun and the 52nd behaved impeccably in front of all the other cubs.

Next week

Next week we will focus on pioneering, making bridges out of bamboo.

Events

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

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.  Unfortunately, we may not be able to provide tents for adults.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is £50 for the entire weekend.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

http://52efsscouts.org.uk/cubs/cub-camps/cub-camp-kit-list/

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

Firework night was a success again, an excellent display and a great turn out from Beavers Cubs and Scouts.  We also raised over £100 forLondon Neonatal Transfer Service, many thanks for all your donations!

We also had an excellent turn out from Beavers, Cubs and Scouts or the poppy appeal yesterday.  Everyone was well behaved and we met some lovely people throughout the day, including an ex-RAF pilot.  We had several very heavy collection tins, so we are hoping to have raised more than last year.  We will share details when the funds are confirmed.

We published a photo gallery for the poppy appeal here – http://52efsscouts.org.uk/galleries/2018-poppy-appeal/

Next week

Next week we will continue to focus on the poppy appeal, the Cubs will practise sewing by making poppies.

Events

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

District Quiz

Please join us for the annual cubs scout quiz, full details below:

Location: Wanstead Scout Hut, 72 Hollybush Hill, London E11 1PE

Date: Friday 16th November, 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Refreshments will be served at half time.

There is a limit of 6 cubs, so first come first served.

Cubs need to be in uniform.

Spring Camp 2019

Date/time: 6pm 5 April 2019 – 12pm 7 April 2019

This will be the first time the 52nd have camped at Skreens Park in a number of years, it’s a lovely spot with some fantastic activities.  We have booked a camp site next to a fire pit at camp isn’t the same without a good fire!!

It will be a Cub and Scouts outdoor camp, tents will be provided for Cubs and Scouts.

Parents and carers are welcome to join us, but you will need to be DBS checked first.

Activities are still being confirmed, but they will include:

• Air rifle shooting
• Sumo suit wrestling

The cost is most likely going to be £50 for the entire weekend, we will confirm this once the full camp plan has been finalised.

Details on Skreens Park:

Skreens Park Activity Centre
Skreens Park Road
Roxwell
CM1 4NL
https://www.skreenspark.org.uk/

The kit list can be found on our website:

http://52efsscouts.org.uk/cubs/cub-camps/cub-camp-kit-list/

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

This week we celebrated halloween with several games and the cubs thoroughly enjoyed a lego card swap session.

The games included:

• Apple bobbing
• Making mummies
• Hanging biscuits

Several more badges have been earned, it’s wonderful to see so many Cubs earning their challenge badges, we have several Cubs with the Chief Silver Scouts award now.

Next week

Next week is our annual firework night, please join us at 7pm for the bangs and flashes.  There will be food and drinks served, parents and siblings are welcome.

This years charity collection will be for the London Neonatal Transfer Service, who have provided an outstanding service when helping members of our group, please donate generously.

Events

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

Poppy Appeal

Date: 10th November, 10:00-17:00

Location: George Lane, Woodford

This is a  fund raiser by all sections of the 52nd EFS Scout group (Beaver, Cub and Scout) for the British Legion accompanied by parents/carers/friends – please note that you may have to accompany your own child as we will not have enough leaders to safeguard your Scout (as we need 2 adults per group).

We shall be handing out special Scout Poppy badges to all who participate (at our section meetings after).
Scouts may wear this with pride on their sleeves -sew on the same side as activity and stage badges.

Please do your good deed for the day by helping with the Poppy appeal. Meet between the Boots/M&S shop at the time that you have put down and for the duration.( 1hour, 2 hours etc…) then hand over to the next set of parents/children when they come. Please also be patient and respectful with each other as sometimes journeys may be delayed. 

Your Scout will be in FULL SMART UNIFORM at South Woodford public shopping area with your parents/their friends, collecting for the Poppy appeal. You can walk up and down the high street or stay still but will always meet around the boots/M&S area

District Quiz

Please join us for the annual cubs scout quiz, full details below:

Location: Wanstead Scout Hut, 72 Hollybush Hill, London E11 1PE

Date: Friday 16th November, 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Refreshments will be served at half time.

There is a limit of 6 cubs, so first come first served.

Cubs need to be in uniform.

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

Family Camp

This weekend we thoroughly enjoyed the family camp with the beavers and scouts, everyone was extremely well behaved and we managed to squeeze in the following activities:

• Rifle shooting
• Photo hunt
• High ropes
• Indoor climbing
• Gladiator
• Map reading/navigation
• Night hike
• Fire lighting

We have created a photo gallery for the weekend:

2018 – Autumn Family Camp

Next week

This week is half term, there is no meeting until 30th October.

Events

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

Fireworks night

Date: 6th November, 19:00-20:15

Location: 52nd EFS Scout Hut.

This is another family occasion for beavers, cubs and scouts.  Please do bring siblings to enjoy the bangs and flashes.

Burgers, sausages, tea etc will be served.

There will also be a charity collection.

Poppy Appeal

Date: 10th November, 10:00-17:00

Location: George Lane, Woodford

This is a  fund raiser by all sections of the 52nd EFS Scout group (Beaver, Cub and Scout) for the British Legion accompanied by parents/carers/friends – please note that you may have to accompany your own child as we will not have enough leaders to safeguard your Scout (as we need 2 adults per group).

We shall be handing out special Scout Poppy badges to all who participate (at our section meetings after).
Scouts may wear this with pride on their sleeves -sew on the same side as activity and stage badges.

Please do your good deed for the day by helping with the Poppy appeal. Meet between the Boots/M&S shop at the time that you have put down and for the duration.( 1hour, 2 hours etc…) then hand over to the next set of parents/children when they come. Please also be patient and respectful with each other as sometimes journeys may be delayed. 

Your Scout will be in FULL SMART UNIFORM at South Woodford public shopping area with your parents/their friends, collecting for the Poppy appeal. You can walk up and down the high street or stay still but will always meet around the boots/M&S area

District Quiz

Please join us for the annual cubs scout quiz, full details below:

Location: Wanstead Scout Hut, 72 Hollybush Hill, London E11 1PE

Date: Friday 16th November, 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Refreshments will be served at half time.

There is a limit of 6 cubs, so first come first served.

Cubs need to be in uniform.

Requests

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

We have not had any volunteers for the last couple of weeks, which makes it very difficult for us to plan the meetings.  The 52nd group is run by volunteers and we really need help of parents on the night.  If we don’t get volunteers we will start to nominate parents for each week.

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