Christmas Carol Service
Around 50 Beavers and Cubs along with a similar number of parents enjoyed a
Christmas Carol Service with a difference at Oldham Baptist Church.
Between singing Christmas songs and carols the Rev Rick Preston told the
story of the birth of Jesus, however it was done in a most unusual way and with
much involvement from the children and parents.
Towards the end of the service Cameron Heap from the 15th was presented with
his Chief Scouts Bronze Award. Well done Cameron.
Cubs visit Santa at Wakefield Mining Museum
60 members took part in a district trip to the national coal mining museum
in Wakefield. Santa was down one shaft of the mine and all the good boys and
girls got a present if they could ring his magic bell. In the afternoon we all
went down the shaft to a depth of 460ft to see mining from the 1800s to
present day crawling through the coal face and generally having a good time.
Sometimes in total darkness when the miners torches were turned off.
Thanks to Helen for her help in organising things with the coal mine.
5 a side
Football Competition
This year Cub Scout 5-a-side football competition was held on
the 9th March 2008 at Breezehill School, Lees.
There were 12 teams which entered from 11 groups
The winners were St Paul's Possy from St Pauls Cub Scouts
The Runners up were Knolls Knights from Knolls Lane Cub Scouts
The 12 groups were split into 2 leagues with each team playing one another.
There were points awarded for each match (2points for a win, 1 point for a
draw and 0 points for a loss)
The following tables show the results in each league
| |
Won |
Lost |
Draw |
Points |
Goals |
| League 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Margaret Marvels (85th) |
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
| Barny's Bashers (21st) |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
| Knolls Knights (10th) |
5 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
8 |
| Greenacres Gems (115th) |
0 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Moorside Monkeys (127th) |
1 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
| Uppermill United (20th) |
2 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
5 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| League 2 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Fitton Hill Billies (9th) |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
| Delph FC (3rd) |
1 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
| Agnes Army (10th) |
2 |
0 |
3 |
7 |
6 |
| St Paul's Possy (12th) |
3 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
7 |
| Crazy Cubs (15th) |
2 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
5 |
| Denshaw United (79th) |
2 |
0 |
3 |
7 |
6 |
In the Semi finals the results were:
Winner League 1 against Runner up League 2 - Knolls Knights V's Agnes Army
Knolls Knights won 1 0 with a Golden goal
Winner league 2 against Runner up League 1 - St Pauls Possy V's Uppermill
United
St Paul's Possy won 1 0 with a Golden goal
Final
Knolls Knights against St Paul's Possy in which the final score was 0 - 1
WINNERS :- St Paul's Possy
Click here to see a photograph of the
league 2 golden goal and the two teams in the final with their medals. District Cub Camp
This took place on another very wet weekend and reminded everyone of the
District Centenary Camp with mud everywhere.
Around 60 Cubs and their leaders survived a thunder and lightening storm on
Friday night, then showers throughout Saturday. Sunday was a little better and
everyone left camp saying what a good time they had.
The theme for the camp was pirates and the Cubs took part in various activity
bases using this theme.
Although this camp took part just a few days before Paul Riddle (the ADC
Cubs) emigrated he still wanted
to be a part of it and was able to spend Friday night and Saturday on camp. As
it was also his birthday on the Saturday he was presented with a cake and
enjoyed a
chorus of Happy Birthday.
Mike also visited the camp and was formally presented with gifts
to mark his retirement as District Commissioner by Dave Riley, the District Chairman.
Trip to Jodrell Bank & Manchester Airport
On Saturday 26th January 2008 42 Cubs and 17 leaders from 5
Groups visited Jodrell Bank and Manchester Airport to work towards their Air
activities and Astronomers badges.
The day started with a coach journey to Jodrell Bank where the Cubs got to see
the world famous Telescope and explorer the planets finding out about each of
them.
The Cubs learnt the following sentence which helps you to remember the order
of the planets. "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets" becomes
Mercury, Venue, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
The visit to jodrell bank finished with a special 3d trip to Mars.
After Jodrell bank we boarded the coach and went to Manchester Airport to find
out about the airport.
The cubs learnt that:
-22million people use the airport every year
-It is open 24 hours a day
-The Busiest months are August and September
-The quietest months are January and February
-There are 2 runways each measure 3048 metre's long To see some
of the photographs that were taken during the trip please
click here
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