Chickasaw Beavers

We started the new term with a welcome back games night. Luckily the weather was still fine so we could run around outside – the Beavers had lots of energy after the long summer break.

We are very proud that three of our Beavers received the Chief Scout Bronze Award from Jim, our Group Scout Leader. The Bronze award is the highest award a Beaver can receive so congratulations to Toby, Angus and Jack !

Toby and Jack also moved on to Cubs that night and will have great fun as they start to work towards the highest award in that section, the Chief Scout Silver Award.

On our last meeting before the holidays we visited the Birds of Prey Centre near Bedford. We saw a flying display of some very impressive birds and all had a great time helping to fly an owl and kestrel. A great way to finish the summer term.

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Chickasaw Beavers visited Shefford fire station on the 8th of July. We all had a great time, Mark the firefighter told us all about his work, then we had a good look at one of the fire engines and all had a good time with one of the hoses.

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We all had a great time at the District Teddy Bear’s picnic at Boyd Field on 17th June. For the first time in the 5 years that Red Squirrel has done this event, all of our teams finished the run around the field collecting stamps at the bases. One of our teams, led by White Rabbit, came joint first – well done !

We had a lovely walk on Weds 10th June – finishing at Radwell Meadows after noisily making our way through the woods. Many thanks to the parent helpers who were able to join us for a relaxing evening in the sunshine.

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We met at Boyd Field on Weds 3rd June for an evening of games and running around in great weather. Most of the time was spent playing football or trying out the rope swing, when we got tired of that and had a well-earned juice and a rest we hunted down the forty CDs which had been hidden in the trees (team 2 won this challenge). It’s possible a few weren’t found but we are going back there in two weeks for The Teddy Bear’s picnic so maybe we will find them then !

We had a great evening pond dipping (well actually wading in the River Ivel) on Wednesday 13th May – we caught lots of fish and shrimps, as well as plenty of mud, stones and leaves. Hopefully nobody caught a cold – we were very lucky with the weather, the sun shone right through to end of the evening when we invested our newest Beaver, Mason, in the river. Follow the link below to more photos from the evening.

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We had an evening working towards our fitness challenge badge. White Rabbit took us through a few group exercises to show the differences between speed, strength, flexibility and balance. We then had some relay races, played football and crab football and tried some new healthy foods. Some of these were really nice – amazingly even the radishes went down well !

On the second night of our Japanese theme we learnt about the Japanese Beaver promise, made origami paper boats (which floated very well) and exploded our papier mache Mount Fuji volcanoes outside !

We invested four new Beavers in to the colony, and we were very please that Black Badger received a badge for 5 years service – it is not often that the big people get badges, so as you can see from the photo she looks very proud !

We visited Pets at Home in Letchworth where we learnt about different sorts of pets, had the opportunity to stroke some rabbits and Guinea pigs, and worked towards our Animal Friend badge.