Beavers Dragon Boat Racing

Last week the Beavers were celebrating the Chinese New Year of the Dragon.  They took on a chop stick challenge, sent some unusual messages with Chinese Whispers and had great fun on our indoor dragon boat!  

Scouts (attempt to) build a model aircraft

  You know, building an aircraft is harder than you think! That Aeronautical Badge is hard work! Above is the "easy" model after approx 2 hours of construction from one of the Scout Patrols. ...

Beaver End of Term Presentations

Tuesday 6th December saw our last meeting for 2011.  The children performed our Beaver version of the '12 days of Christmas' and all of the children received badges after a great term of hard work and fun.  Now it's over to the mum's and nan's ...

A personal message from the Chief Scout to you

Getting ready for the Gang Show

Last night the Scouts planned and practised their Gang-Show sketches ready for next week. Each Patrol has planned something funny that should involve all members and be great fun to watch. I know that the group that I was helping are going to be acting ...

Sainsburys Active Kids kit being put to good use…

  Last Tuesday the Beavers started working towards their Healthy Eating activity badge by making some triple decker sandwiches.  They put the newly arrived Active Kids aprons to good use as they buttered and filled their sarnies to the brim.  They then made some spotty biscuits ...

Beavers at the Science Museum

On Saturday 12th November our Beavers took part in a District trip to the Science Museum in London.  Everyone got hands-on in the Launch Pad area and had great fun experimenting with shadows, splitting light, water pressure, magnets, wave electricity, thermal imaging and circuits.  We ...

Scouts Cancelled – not by choice!

It was a real shame that we had to cancel last nights Scout meeting. Sadly, there was no-one available at Thriftwood to let us into the building that we had booked with them, so after waiting around for about an hour, and "checking for life" at ...

Bowling at Hollywood Bowl

As an end of term "special" 3rd Brentwood Scout Troop went to Hollywood Bowl in Basildon last night for a few games of bowling. We occupied three lanes and caused utter chaos. Lane One was filled with the older Scouts, and even though they used the ...

50/50 Club results for 2011

Good news - the 3rd Brentwood 50/50 Club has been brought up-to-date and draws have taken place for the whole 2011 year to date. The results are shown below: Ticket No. Amount

Mini-Megan and Little-Lucy!

  At the Secret Nuclear Bunker event we found two young beavers who looked like younger versions of two of our Scouts. It was scary for the younger ones to see what they ...

It’s a baron, featureless desert out there!

It's official, all scout leaders, but especially Minty, are terrible at map reading! This latest news follows an excellent overnight visit to the Secret Nuclear Bunker in Brentwood, and a hike with the Cubs and Scouts the following day. All three groups managed to deviate from the ...

Community work at Brentwood Cathedral

Last night the Scouts spent two and a half hours helping to maintain the graveyard at Brentwood Cathedral. Collecting all of the leaves and generally tidying up all of the green areas.

Scout Leaders run a base at Essex County Marathon in the Peak District

This weekend 3rd Brentwood Scout Leaders Minty, Radler, G, Skip and Theresa all helped out at the Essex County Marathon running an activity base. The event was based in the Peak District, with HQ at the ...

There’s no such thing as a Gruffalo!

The Beavers spent an adventurous 2 hours over at Thorndon Country Park last night, exploring the woods for bugs and all things slimy! After turning up a number of slugs, spiders, woodlouse and even toads, I think the most shocking find was the Gruffalo! A ...