February 2016

Friday 12 February

Present: John,  Dryden, Elizabeth, Angela (new), Ludwig (new)
Absent: PW, Erick, Berno, Willem

Tonight we had a coding theme and we started off by playing falling staves with a twist, so instead of calling out left and right we called cat or dog or even a type of cat or dog to make it more difficult this worked very well. Mitch then gave us each a note with 4 different codes to solve ranging in difficulty to solve and we ended up being the quickest patrol to finish all the codes as everyone worked together! We still had time left after this so we decided to play dodge ball in the hall. Mitch, Jana and myself tried to get all the the others out and in the end all the scouts had a turn to throw the 3 of us. We then had flag down after a great evening.

February 2016

Friday 5th February

Present: John, Dryden, Elizabeth, Willem, Erick
Absent: PW, Berno

This Friday the senior scouts had a COH which took up most of the night. While all the other scouts led by Viper went up Hoys Koppie to make maps. All the maps turned out quite  well and could be followed to an extent. Everyone then returned to the scout grounds for flag down.

January 2016

Friday 29 January

Present: John, Berno, Dryden, Elizabeth, Willem
Absent: PW, Erick

We started with a quick game of bogged down (stuck in the mud) With the whole Seal patrol 12 scouts chasing us.
We then had to grab equipment from the store and trek to the old harbour to go and make a free standing flag pole. It took us much longer then expected to walk to the old harbour with all our stuff so we had very little time to make the flag pole. The Seagulls won in the end because they were the quickest to finish, but ours was the most sturdy!

January 2016

Friday 15 January

Present: John, Berno, PW, Dryden, Erick, Christiaan, Elizabeth
Absent: Willem

This Friday was campfire, because we didnt have camp fire on troop camp. It was too light to have campfire immediately so we all went into the hall to fill in forms for star patrols. It went resonably well I think we got a bronze, but I thought we could do a lot better by planning more fun activities during the holidays, doing community service and keeping this patrol blog up to date.

After all the forms were filled in everyone gathered around the campfire as Dirk, Jana, Mitch and myself came with a long pole with a burning rag attached to it to light the fire it was a really unique way of getting it started. Then each patrol did a skit and a song and we had a naming cerimony where some new scouts were given scout names and it ended off with us all eating cupcakes, because it was Spirit Bear's birthday.

February 2015

Friday 13 February

Prsent: John, Berno, Daniel, Austen, PW
Absent: Cuan

We started off with an inter-patrol kims game. We had a minute to remember 24 objects, but we could work as a patrol. We then wrote down as many as we could and we got a great score of 23/24!

Mitch and myself had gone out into the graveyard before scouts and written down names and dates for the scouts to find. We explained to them the theme of 'friday the 13th' and they set out to try and find the names. Mitch and I had set the names out in quite a wide area, so in the amount of time it was quite difficult to find the names. It was quite a difficult task, but everyone enjoyed it in the end.

We then headed back to the scout hall for flag down.

January 2015

Friday 30 January

Present: John, Berno, Daniel, Cuan, PW (Iain has left to the seagulls patrol)
Absent:

Josie gave a talk on 1st aid ond a very important and indepth demonstration. While I took Frans and Iain to the field behind the Church, to help me set up a game. It involved getting discs from the centre of the field to the to your teams base. It was very fun and quite challanging and firts but in the end we got the hang of it.
We then walked back to the scout hall for flag down and the end of the evening.

January 2015

Friday 23 January

Present: Iain, John, Berno, PW, Daniel, Cuan
Absent: ---

Tonight there was a new vister to the troop his name is Cuan and he is very keen to join.
Josie took all the recruits and survivors to show them how to make fires without matches as well as looking at edible plants. The rest of us decided to make a catapult. We had 30min to build it and it turned out amazing. It shot  about 7 meters and it was the biggest one that we have ever made. Mitch bought water balloons at Checkers and many people got soaking wet from the catapult.
We than had flag down after a great evening.