Oct 19 2021
The value of scouting for our youth is not in direct experience and the memories it creates but in the life skills that those experiences impart – the benefits of which are only fully realised years later. Without an indepth understanding of how this works, it is easy to deride scouts as a anachronistic organisation …
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Jun 16 2021
Western Cape Region ran an Outdoorsman Badge course for cubs at Hawequas. The Outdoorsman Badge is one of the badges for ten year old cubs, and the course usually takes the form of a 2-night “Survivor” theme camp, but this year it was reduced to a one day activity due to Covid. As usual 1st …
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Jun 16 2021
The Meerkats tackled the great outdoors, hiking with their families in the Cederberg, Ceres, on some beautiful beaches and all over our own Table Mountain. At the end of the first term we held a Camp at Home together which was great fun as we all caught up at bedtime for a Zoom chat. The …
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Jun 16 2021
Simon’s Springbok camp was so much fun! I wasn’t even invested when I went so I found the camp fascinating and new. The badge that Simon focused on was Fires and Cooking Scoutcraft. Simon did an excellent job at teaching us and made it so fun! Due to COVID-19 each person slept in their own …
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Why do we have to plan and report? Planning prevents poor performance Planning and reporting is how you run successful activities in scouts and how you improvise a successful one to be more successful or find out what went wrong with an unsuccessful one. The process of putting your plan and report on paper gives …
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Mar 24 2021
On a sunny spring morning in November 2020, eight eager Meerkats with their fathers or mothers met at Keurboom Park for an adventure. They had a map and had to negotiate tricky bridges, count distances, and climb trees. On the way back they picked up unusual items they found. It was meant to be leaves …
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Mar 24 2021
On the 6th of February 1st Claremont had one of their first hikes in over six months. It started at Rhodes Memorial and finally ended at the top parking lot at Kirstenbosch. It was a fun yet exhausting experience as most of us hadn’t exercised much over lockdown and weren’t as fit as we liked …
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