Snowball's Movie

If you missed Snowball's Christmas Movie at the Church Parade on Sunday, or you would like another chance to watch it, you can find it on the Church Blog here. 

Die hard Queen fans might want to give this one a miss !

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Cubs Mounted Police Horse Visit

Cubs Visit Mounted Police Horse Section

The Cubs had a great time visiting the Mounted Police Horse Section where we had an opportunity to meet the police horses, the police officers and have a look round their stables and farm.

Church Parade this Sunday (7 October)

This Sunday it's the Harvest Festival Church Parade. All Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers are expected to to attend. Please be at Scout Hut for 10.15am (doors open from 10.00am) in full uniform. The service will finish at approximately 11.45am. Parents, you are very welcome to stay for the service if you wish.

Group Camp - 2012

GROUP CAMP WEEKEND - SEPT 2012

Silverwood - Barnsley

A big Thank you to all the Cubs, Scouts and Explorers who all attended our Group Camp Weekend at Silverwood, Barnsley.  

We all had a great time and plenty of fun.  A special big thank you to John, your cooking is amazing and without you we would have all been really hungry!  A another huge thank you to the rest of the Leaders, (and Ben's Dad Dave), for all of your hard work and help.

And finally, Akela has passed her nights away permit so many more camps and sleepovers for Cubs in the future!

Look out for next year's Group Camp!!!

Group Weekend Camp

A reminder to all Cubs, Scouts and Explorers wanting to go on this weekend's Group Camp at Silverwood: you need to bring your Permission to Camp form, and the the balance of your £20 camp fee this week.

Newtondale Trail Hike

On Sunday 2 September nine Scouts and Explorers took part in the Newtondale Trail Hike in the North York Moors. Starting from Pickering railway station, we hiked along the route of the North York Moors Railway, enjoying stunning views of the valleys and moors, before finishing at Goathland village. In total we hiked about 13 miles. Well done to everyone who took part.

CUBS - Always on the go!

Cubs have been doing lots of different and exciting things since January 2012 thanks to Akela Helen and the team - Becky, John, Emily and Gareth.  We have done dancing, visiting fire stations, walks out, bbq and campfire cooking, sleepover and visit to an observatory, parachute games in the park, visit to diggerland and much more.  Here are just a few of the pictures:

The Cub Section - and still growing!

Observatory Visit

A Wet walk round Manvers Lake

Visiting Manvers Fire & Technical rescue centre

Diggerland - Ian (Our Group Scout Leader) having fun!

I wonder who's in there?!

Street Dancing for our Entertainers badge

Akela getting water-bombed by the Cubs!

We would also like to welcome all of our new cubs who have joined us.  We now have a fantastic pack of 28 brilliant  Cubs!

Watch this space for the next adventures over the next 8 months!!

No Beaver meeting on 22nd August

Please note, there will be no Beaver meeting on Wednesday 22nd August due to Leader holidays. We'll be back to normal the following week.

What do you expect?

Newtondale Trail Hike: 2 September

On Sunday 2 September we’re planning to hike the Newtondale Trail in the North Yorkshire Moors. Starting from Pickering station car park, we’ll walk along the trail roughly following the route of the North York Moors Railway.

The activity is open to Explorers and older Scouts. The plan is for Scouts to walk from Pickering to the village of Goathland (also known as Aidensfield from the TV series Heartbeat). The distance is approx. 20km (13miles). Explorers will walk an extra leg from Goathland to Grosmont, taking their total distance up to approximately 25km (16miles).

We will return to Pickering station via steam train.

We’re still working out the details, but expect that the cost will be in the £10-15 range, depending on take up. We will set off at approx. 8am, returning at approx. 7pm. You will need hiking boots, suitable outdoor clothing, a day sack, and a packed lunch.

Group Weekend Camp : 14-16 September

We are holding a Group weekend camp at Silverwood Scout Camp near Dodworth, from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, 14-16th September 2012.

The camp is open to all Cubs, Scouts and Explorers and will be a fantastic opportunity for the Group to get together, learn new skills, have lots of fun and play plenty of games.

The cost of the camp is £20 which includes camp fees and all meals.

You should have a letter about this, but if not ask any Leader for details.

Last meetings before Summer Camp

At last night's meeting Scouts went on a hike to practice their map-reading and navigation skills. Our route took us along the Dearne Valley returning via Hollins Wood and Horsecarr Wood, a total distance of approximately 5km.

Meanwhile our Explorer Scouts successfully completed a six-week archery course, gaining their Physical Recreation badge. This was a joint activity with Barnsley Meths Explorers.


For Scouts and Explorers going on Summer Camp next week, please don't forget to bring your kit bag on Friday night at 7pm. We will be meeting at 9.30am Saturday, aiming to set off for camp at 10.00am. Remember you must travel in uniform and you will need a packed lunch.


There will be no Scout/Explorer meetings next week due to camp, but we are meeting through the school holidays.

Synergise cancelled

Unfortunately, this weekend's Synergise event has been cancelled due to the adverse weather and water-logged condition of the site. As soon as we have further information relating to rearranging the event or refunding payments we will let you know. The organisers have asked us to pass on their apologies for any inconvenience caused.

5 go on an Expedition

The Famous Five at the end of the adventure

5 Explorers undertook their Bronze DofE this weekend, and successfully achieved their aims and objectives.  They survived the worst that the British weather could throw at them, and they had tall stories of wild beasts causing them delays and detours along the way.  What is most important is that they all enjoyed each others company and using the skills of the group they got to where they needed to be.

Well done to all 5 of them and I hope we hear more of their adventures and experiences when they give their presentations.

Cathedral Sleepover

The Sheffield Star has run an article about tonights sleepover: http://www.thestar.co.uk/community/the-diary/the-diary-sleep-worshippers-take-over-cathedral-for-kip-in-the-crypt-1-4699932

For those who are attending, don't forget your forms:
NAIF and Kit List - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6_BzVAudyX8SjhnTFlxdjI5Wlk

Sponsorship Form - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6_BzVAudyX8UlQ4b3dmeTVCRms

Cathedral Sleepover 06/07/2012

For those Scouts who are brave enough to sleep in the medieval cathedral, please meet behind the Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, Sheffield 06/07/12 19:15

Summer fair

Thank you to everyone who helped us raise a fantastic total of £612 at today's summer fair.

Summer Fair

It's this Saturday, all the fun starts at midday. Bring your money and your kids and their friends, in fact bring anyone who has a pulse and a wallet or a purse :-). See you at the Scout Hut.

Scouts Geocache is live

Scouts attending the Turf N Surf weekend, hid a geocache as part of their activities.  That cache is now available to hunt and has already been found 5 times!

You can keep track of it by visiting its own webpage: http://coord.info/GC3P82B and see how many visitors we get over time.

Cathedral Sleepover - NAIF, Kit List and Sponsorship Form

Please find the Nights Away Information Form, Kit List and the Sponsorship Form for the Cathedral Sleepover on the 6th of July 2012.  Please complete these if you are attending and bring them with you on the night - please do not send them in prior to this, thank you.

NAIF and Kit List - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6_BzVAudyX8SjhnTFlxdjI5Wlk

Sponsorship Form - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6_BzVAudyX8UlQ4b3dmeTVCRms

Thanks.

Ed.

Turf N Surf Weekend - A great escape (from the weather)

10 Scouts joined in for a fun packed weekend, starting with a sleepover at the Scout Hut on Friday night, where after pitching up hike tents in the main hall, the Scouts played a Wii Bowling competition.  As usual the Scouts stayed up chatting and catching up through the night, but all were really well behaved and that did not change all weekend.

On Saturday the Scouts enjoyed various activities including hiding a geocache treasure*, making nettle tea on the trangia stove, practising their first aid skills and some of the younger Scouts were introduced to a few knots and as a result had fun building shelters and tripods.

Our newest Scouts enjoy their first Nettle Tea

Always choose the location of your shelter carefully, inside the Scout Hut gives the best protection against the elements!

Check out those lashings!

Later in the afternoon we played table tennis, pool, table football and darts and picked our time (watching the weather) to set up a gazebo under which we had placed our BBQ.   As well as doing all these activities the Scouts had already put down their tents to make space for the games in the hall and had prepared the best tasting jacket potatoes of the year that included a range of delicious fillings and had prepared a fire (for cooking the potatoes on).

When it was time for our BBQ, the weather was the best it had been all week and we enjoyed a few hours eating and experimenting with some new menu additions, our newly added Spicy Lamb Kebab went down a storm with 9 out of 10 customers!

Sitting round the camp fire with these Scouts was a really enjoyable experience, made all the better for the support of all the adults who helped on and off during the weekend, and the 2 young leaders.  Thank you to Andrea, John, Gareth, Ian, Richard, Sam and Ethan.

On Sunday after quickly packing up, and having had some tasty bacon sandwiches, we set off to Pugneys waterpark to join the rest of the district Scouts, some 120 young people, who were making their day in Canadian Canoes and Kayaks on the water.  Whilst the weather was not that of the same event last year, it did stay dry and was reasonably warm.  The Scouts as you will be able to see from the photos shown on Flickr, all had a really fun time in the end, despite some of them being a little apprehensive of going into the water at first.

Thanks to all the leaders from across the district who volunteer to set up and run these district events, they are always really well received by the Scouts.

This canoeing lark is much easier with a tow!

Developing their paddling skills, Ardsley Scouts take to the water

It's all smiles at the Turf N Surf Weekend Finale

*Details of the Ardsley Scouts Geocache hide will be appearing shortly.

Next Sleepover will be inside a Medieval Cathedral in Sheffield City Centre - here's the all important link: http://ardsleyscouts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/cathedral-sleepover.html - replies are due in at the Scout Meeting this Wednesday.

Link to all the photos from the weekend on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30263703@N04/sets/72157630267381960

Ed.