The Swifts dynamic has changed a LOT with the new patrol shuffling. We now have five new people in the patrol (Two of us also being new to scouts!). Five! Out of seven! Only two scouts have stayed in Swifts for a while. Considering everything, Swifts has been thriving. Although we have not run as …
Category: Smoke Signals
For the main Smoke Signal post each quarter
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Apr 04 2024
The Kestrels’ Tree
Kestrels Termly Report It has been a very prosperous term for the Kestrels Company, where we excelled past all other Claremont Corporations once again (reader is advised not to look at the MOSCIP scores). We would like to preface this article with unfortunate news: there has been an enormous drop in shares prices following the …
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Apr 04 2024
The Goshawks’ Bush
Welcome to “The Goshawks’ Bush” for Term 1 of 2024. This term has been really busy for the troop and our patrol’s focus has been being involved with these activties. Our patrol members have attend many events such as the Kon-Tiki raft prebuilds. While the patrol hasn’t had patrol activities, our members have been hard …
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Apr 04 2024
Rayner Trophy 2024
Day 1 For me and a few other scouts from 1st Claremont this was going to be the first Rayner that we had ever been on or experienced. From what people were saying it was a very difficult location to get legal hiking access to so we should be very happy to be doing this …
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Apr 04 2024
Quiz Night 2024
The Epic Night of quickness started with us being given brappels ( food and drink tokens). We then entered the spectacular scout hall lined with grand tables and chairs all assigned to the different competitors teams. Eg the meddlesome group, THE KLOMP, and the ancient Dinosaurs. The food/kos served was amazing and quite delicious, I …
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Apr 04 2024
James’ Springbok Camp at Delheim
In the recent January holidays, a group of us went on Jame’s Springbok camp at Delheim Estate, Stellenbosch. The two patrols were originally called The Lizards and The Snakes; and we then changed them to “Pronutro” and “LWeetworths” (with a silent ‘L’ : ). After arriving at Delheim and unpacking, we ate our packed lunch …
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Apr 04 2024
Pioneering Scoutcraft
This year’s first Pioneering Scoutcraft course of the year was run at the 1st Claremont scout hall base with about 40 scouts from various different troops in the region. This is a fairly large turn out for a course, but it’s great to see that there are so many scouts trying to pass off a …
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Feb 03 2024
Smoke Signals 2023 Q4
Welcome to the final issue of 2023 and welcome back to Scouts in 2024. There’s also a PDF version of Smoke Signals 2023 Issue 4 available online, and limited printed copies available at the hall. As always, a big thank-you to all who’ve contributed reports, and articles to Smoke Signals in 2023. This issue is …
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