Scouts

DSC_0026Juliet is in charge supported by Chris, Elsa, and George looking after the Troop of Scouts made up of boys and girls age 10.5-14

They meet on Fridays 19:00 – 21:00 and practice lots of outdoor skills ready for hiking and camping.

If you are not old enough for Scouts, have a look at the Cubs page.

Subs are paid each term.


Scouts Programme

Some of the things we’ve done at weekly meetings over the last six months or plan to do this term:

  • Cooking (both indoors, and outdoors on camp stoves)
  • Putting up emergency shelters in the park after dark
  • Lighting a fire with a firesteel – then toasting marshmallows over it!
  • Putting up tents to practice for our camping weekend
  • Photo scavenger hunt in the local area
  • Map-reading treasure hunt along the river.
  • Mini sports evening
  • Building a balloon launcher from staves and rope
  • Walking to Stave Hill to take bearings from the top of it and identify trees at the bottom
  • Making woggles from paracord
  • Learning knots
  • Learning to carve wood safely
  • Team-building challenges
  • Lots of games
  • …and more!

We also sometimes run weekend activities, which have included recently…

  • Camping at different South London Scout campsites. As well as putting the tents up and cooking our own meals, we tried archery, climbing, made pizza, and built shelters in the woods
  • Learning to use an axe to chop firewood then making a fire and cooking sausages
  • Hiking in various green areas reachable by train from Bermondsey.

Scouts Great Fun