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Kidderminster District Beaver Scouts
Badge Day 2004
16 May 2004 at Rhydd Covert |
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The weather was fine (as had been ordered), the
bases were manned & ready to roll, the food had been bought, the squash
containers were stocked, badges had arrived, the certificates had been
signed, and the Leaders had the paracetamol at the ready, as 129 Beaver
Scouts descended on Rhydd Covert for Kidderminster Districts first ever
Beaver Scout Badge Day. |
| After an opening ceremony and flag break the
Beaver Scouts were divided in to ten mixed groups, which were identified by
different coloured badges five pale colours & five dark in the morning
the Beaver Scouts wearing dark badges moved around the Discovery Challenge
Badge Bases where they Learnt about magnets Used chromatography to learn
about colours Felt their pulses before & after exercise Learnt how to
summon help in an emergency and Filled spice jars with layers of
different coloured sand. The sixth element to this Badge was to learn a new
song which they did after lunch. |
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In the mean time the Beaver Scouts wearing pale
badges were moving around the Outdoor Challenge Badge Bases, here they -
Learnt about Conservation by transplanting saplings and stone picking Had
a practical lesson in Recycling Cooked some Sausages & twists Backwoods
style Learnt how to pack a rucksack and Followed some tracking signs
through the woods. The sixth element to this Badge was attending the day. |
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| After a lunch of hot dogs & burgers (and the afore mentioned
sing song) the bases got underway again, but this time with the pale badge
wearers doing the Discovery Badge & the dark badge wearers doing the Outdoor
Badge. |
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The day finished with the Beaver Scouts being
presented with a certificate and both badges, flag down, closing ceremony,
and thank yous and bravos to all concerned. The day was a great
success, which was due to the hard work of all the Colony Leaders for once
again planning and running such imaginative bases, and also supporting this
new event Thank you. |
| Thanks also to Fellowship for keeping the bases stocked with
squash, cooking lunch, and running the backwoods-cooking base. Thanks to the
Explorer Scouts for running the Pack a Rucksack base & the Rhydd Team for
manning the car parks and running the Conservation base. Lastly thanks to
the Beaver Scouts for responding and behaving so well, we asked a lot of
them - 10 bases & an 8 hour day in hot weather too. |
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LETS HOPE NEXT YEARS IS AS GOOD AS THE FIRST!!
Ann Denton ADC Beaver Scouts |
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