Highfield Scouts

Our Cubs had the chance to emulate Luke Donald when we were joined by Katie Dawkins, PGA Pro from the Cowdray Park Golf Club. Katie enthusiastically introduced us to the game in the indoor setting of the Tauntons’ College Hall. The Cubs putted and then drove with increasing confidence, to great effect and with perfect photo finishes

December was a fun filled month for the Beavers, they all did a wonderful performance at the Christingle service, and everyone enjoyed our Pass the Parcel game.

We had a fantastic 2011

Take a look at our photoshow to see what we did…

It was a night of titanic swimming battles at the Southampton City District Gala yesterday. Our Scouts were narrowly beaten by the 11th Scouts. Our Cubs were narrowly beaten by the 22nd Cubs. Our leading Beaver Swimmer was narrowly beaten into second place in the Beavers final. But consistently good performances by all our Highfield competitors meant that we claimed the coveted overall Group Swimming Trophy for the fourth year in a row!

Here’s some more photos.

Our Cubs earnt their Astronomers Badges at INTECH near Winchester. They drew Constellations, took part in quizzes and even made an orary before watching a spectacular show in the INTECH Planetarium!

Our Beavers visited St Mary’s fire station, where they all had the chance to look around the station, sit in an engine and play with a fire hose!! They also learnt what to do if there’s a fire in your home and how to make an emergency 999 call. Hopefully all the children have taken away some valuable life skills from our visit. By Monsoon.

We said farewell to Nico at the Pinewood Derby today. He’s moving on to become the Southampton City District Training Manager. But after 16 years as Chairman, Scout Leader and Group Scout Leader he leaves behind the legacy of a Scout Group that reflects his personality – warm, welcoming, friendly and fun! We wish him every success in his new role but hope that he will keep strong links with the 14th.

As well as engraved whisky glasses (and whisky!) we presented him with a display of individual thank you cards that had been made by our Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Leaders.

And all this on top of another exciting, colourful Pinewood Derby. 32 Fantastic Cars entered the competition. Results to follow.

Exploring the woods, making survival shelters, climbing, GPS-ing, Wide Games, Campfires and much, much more – Cub Survival Camp 2011 had it all!

Here’s some more photos on flickr P.S. It rained a bit too!

We had a great time learning to climb at the 11th Southampton’s climbing wall – many thanks to Russ and Mike of the 29th Southampton for making it possible.

We challenged the Cubs to solve a series of clues around Highfield and to take a photo to prove that they’d solved the clues.

They were also given a series of special Challenges – including, as a Six, creeping up on a Cub Mum on a bench without her realizing that they were coming…

It was a beautiful evening and the Cubs took some great pictures, here are the rest of their photos on flickr