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Patrol Report – Kestrels

Kestrels Company Termly ReportTerm 4 2023 “The Big One” Term 4 was an extremely productive quarter for the Kestrels Company. We welcomed Employee MK to the team, saw our more “closer to the retirement home” employees run a good few activities, including CEO James with community service and a movie night, ending off with a …

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Patrol Report – Goshawks

The Goshawk’s Bush Hello, it’s good to see you again visiting “The Goshawks Bush”. Here’s what we got up to in Term 4 2023. Term 4 was a bit quieter for our patrol due to exams rapidly approaching, but that didn’t stop us still having an awesome time. Logan ran his first patrol activity taking …

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Patrol Report – Eagles

The Eagle’s Nest The Eagles have flown very high above the clouds of exams, burnt apple pies and the disappearance of some MSG from the bottle on our noticeboard. From what I have been told we all survived the tough exam time and only dropped a few members due to unmentioned AP exams but overall …

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Patrol Report – Swifts

The Swift Cave This past year has been eventful for Swifts. Starting in term 2 with Jack stepping down and myself taking his place; losing 3 patrol members and gaining a few as well, some patrol events such as my community service and camp and had a whole lot of fun along the way. We …

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Patrol Report – Boks

The Boks’ Rock In the past Holidays we had our Annual Troop Camp which gave our younger scouts some great lessons and experience.  We’re hoping to up our game next Year and Term, hopefully we will be running more events and earning more points. I am Looking forward to another great year with Boks, and …

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Patrol Report – Bats

The Bat’s Cave Bats had a great year, we managed to win MOSCIP twice. We had an activity filled year with hikes, camps, community service, cooking, advancement days and many patrol evenings. We had a very dedicated patrol throughout the year starting and ending with the same members as well as being I think the …

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Troop Event Reports

Orienteering Competition Last year was the first time 1st Claremont entered into the Orienteering competition for a long time. The Orienteering Competition is a competition where contestants follow a route and hit checkpoints as fast as possible. We entered 2 teams, a senior team and a junior team consisting of Peter and Julia, and Avila …

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Troop Annual Camp – December 2023

Day 1 This was the first day of the joint camp between Hout bay and 1st Claremont. For some they weren’t sure what it would be like having this camp as, for many, it was their first troop camp altogether or at least, their first joint troop camp. We were told to leave the hall …

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