May 2016

Friday 7 May

Present: John, Berno,  Dryden, Angela, Ludwig
Absent: Elizabeth

Tonight we decided to play the game. It is a scout game that we thought of it has no name and is very complex. We just has to get the other patrols discs to our side before the time ran out and without them touching us and if they did touch us we had to go to prison and the only way you can be freed from prison is if your patrol members come to free you. We had nothing else planned for the evenng so we just played several rounds of it and we played until the end of the evening.

February 2016

26 Feburay

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

Tonight Frans and Berno ran a fitness program which involved several activitites that we needed to complete as a patrol, we had to do to push ups, sit ups, Group burpies. We had to carry patrol members on our backs across 6 meters and we had to get to a really high point on a tree and as the finale we had to climb a rope from sitting without using our feet. We finished the quickest, but the penguins were able to finish everything

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.