1st Tackley Heyford Scouts

1st Tackley & Heyford Scout Group offers children from the age of six opportunities to try new skills and have fun. Get in touch to find out more.

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For their Survival Skills badge, the Scouts prepped pigeon to make pigeon fajitas for dinner
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Cubs prepped their own beany stew and baked potatoes. Having marshmallows while they wait for it to cook.
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Cubs parents: so sorry. I've never seen Cubs manage to get so filthy on camp. They found so much mud. Pre-warn the washing machine! 😳

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We got the Knife Skills badge from the Swedish Scout Association so we ran a bushcraft knife skills workshop: law, danger zones, how to unsheath & sheath knife safely, learning how to hold the knife to control the cut in the wood. #SkillsForLife

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Scouts had a great time in the woods under tarps last night. Bacon or sausage sandwiches for brekkie.
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Cubs had a great time shooting a few arrows

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Morning! The Cubs & Scouts are u;, the sun is shining (for now 😬); Chris is having a shave; there are cute, weird bugs about and breakfast is on its way!

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Blummin good fire today, if I do say so myself 🤣 But I'm dreadful at remembering to take photos, so here's one of the demolished Dutch-oven-French-toast-bread&butterpudding-like-deliciousness we made! Cubs also had smores & hot choc. Sorry if they went home a bit sugar high!

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Fire lighting practise and bread-on-a-stick tonight with Cubs. No time for smores or hot chocolate. Maybe next week!
Fantastic parent help tonight, thank you so much!

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The village heath workparty has put up the bird boxes the Cubs made, this morning. Bat boxes too! Looking great. Well done Cubs!

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Final bracken bashing with Cubs. It is working, bracken everywhere else is 2m tall!
Played an ecosystem game where C was a sparrowhawk and then one about echo-location with a bat and a moth. That one may have needed more explanation, but they had fun 🤣

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More bracken trampling tonight for Cubs: before, showing what we're doing is working; after, all the new bits flattened; and the path in showing how high it is everywhere else!
Then into the woods for Imogen to talk all about the Wood Wide Web - absolutely fascinating science!

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All packed up and ready to go. Great weekend. The Scouts have been fab.
Tidy tent award went to Ben H & Benji
Scouts of camp went to Rufus, James & Daniel. But tbh they've all been great and it was hard to choose.

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Breakfast and water activities

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It is a tad hot and humid 🥵
Scouts on the water.
Tents are down in case it rains.
There's a horse fly which thinks I might be food 🤨

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Ben and Stan, get up ...

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It's a gorgeous morning, but due to rain, so Scouts have been woken 🤭 and are packing their stuff.
Tea urn on.
Breakfast next ...

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Some photos from Chris.