Jul 25 2025
Daniel le Jeune, our Troop Scouter from 2022 to 2025, stepped during Term Two. Daniel was a Springbok Scout at 1st Claremont, then an Assistant Troop Scouter, and then took over the Troop when David Knight stepped down as Troop Scouter. It’s hard to put into words how much Daniel contributed to the Troop in …
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Jan 28 2025
Caleb Sebastian Serafin – scout since October 2013 and ATS since 2020 – is leaving us for the beautiful but distant land of the Czech Republic. I write this article with a heavy heart, since it is finally sinking in that Caleb is – for real – departing. I have been forced to reflect on …
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Feb 03 2024
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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Feb 03 2024
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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Feb 03 2024
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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Feb 03 2024
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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Feb 03 2024
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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Feb 03 2024
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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