Activity Badge Workshop

Over 90 Cub Scouts spent the day hammering, screwing, drawing, sticking, bandaging, resuscitating and looking at the sky to gain their Handyman, Artist, First Aider and Astronomer Activity Badges.

Each Cub spent a morning or afternoon at one of the bases. During this time they were given full instruction on the particular badge they had chosen. This included making a bird box for the Handyman Badge, fridge magnets, a poster and a presentation box for the Artist Badge, giving first aid treatment to a patient for their First Aider Badge and being able to tell the Plough from Orion and Saturn from Pluto in the Astronomer Badge.

On successfully completing the requirements of the badge the Cub was awarded a certificate and will be presented with the appropriate badge at a suitable Group occasion.

In all, 168 badges were gained during the day.

Cub Trip

Approximately 80 Cubs and Leaders took part in this years trip to The Sandcastle in Blackpool, followed by a tour of the Illuminations.

The Sandcastle is not made of sand on Blackpool beach, it is actually an indoor leisure pool with slides, swimming pools, and a wave machine.  Once everyone had got into the water it didn't take the Cubs long before they all started to attack Big Barry.  As always Barry managed to defend himself admirably making sure that the Cubs got well and truly WET.

After spending a couple of hours in the water we kept the catering staff busy by ordering Burgers, Chips and a drink for everyone.

This was followed by an hours free time on the South Pier before getting back on our coach and driving through the illuminations.

5 a side Football.

Our annual 5 a side competition was held on Mothering Sunday.  Although we had less entries this year the standard of football was as good as ever with lots of parents present to cheer on their team  The teams were split into two leagues, with the winners and runners up going forward to the semi-final.

The final was between 7th Oldham, Leesfield and 127th Oldham, St Thomas, Moorside.  The team from Moorside scored an early goal and were looking certain winners, then with just 5 seconds left Leesfield equalised.   Extra time was then played and Leesfield scored the all important deciding goal.  Congratulations to everyone who took part and especially to the Cubs from the 7th Oldham.

District Cub Camp.

Approximately 120 Cubs and their leaders took part in the District Cub Camp at Bradley Wood Camp Site, the theme this year taken from the Naturalist Activity Badge.

At the Disco on Friday night a number of Cubs and leaders came in fancy dress, including Big Barry in a wild caterpillar costume.
On Saturday, the Cubs visited various bases based on the activity badge before trying out the on-site activities, e.g.. archery, air rifles, sledging and swimming.  Before going to the camp fire everyone had their face painted to make them look like an insect, i.e. a bee, a ladybird, a butterfly or a spider in its web etc, then they tasted various insect food which had been carefully prepared.  This included worms (spaghetti), frog spawn (tapioca), slugs (pasta shells) and much more.
On Sunday there was a Cubs Own service before doing more work on the Naturalist badge.

Everyone had a really enjoyable time and as usual came home exhausted.

This page was last updated on 1 July 2002