Beaver Visit to Barnsley FC

Today the Beavers enjoyed a full guided tour of Barnsley Football Club. The tour included a session in the players gym and an opportunity to practice football chants in the North Stand, a place usually reserved for visiting fans to Oakwell. As you can see from the pictures one footballer has been on a very strict pre season diet. A big thank you must go to BFC and especially to Craig who made the visit both informative and enjoyable.

Silverwood

For Sat-nav users the address and postcode for Silverwood Scout Camp is
Silverwood Scout Camp
Barnsley Road
Silkstone
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S75 4LE

Otherwise:

Darfield, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

1.
Head north on B6096/Garden St toward Barnsley Rd
Continue to follow B6096
0.3 mi

2.
Turn left at A635/Saltersbrook Rd
Continue to follow A635
2.8 mi

3.
Turn left at A633/A635
Continue to follow A635
479 ft

4.
Slight left at A635/Doncaster Rd
1.1 mi

5.
Slight left at Cemetery Rd
0.4 mi

6.
Continue on A6133/Park Rd
Continue to follow A6133
1.0 mi

7.
Turn left at B6099/Keresforth Hill Rd
Continue to follow B6099
1.7 mi

8.
Continue on Station Rd
0.2 mi

9.
At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto A628
Destination will be on the right
1.5 mi

Hope this was helpful

Camp

A copy of the camp Kit list and details, just in case you lost yours or did not get one.

Beaver Church Visit

The Beavers would like to thank Mr Venables for his time taken to show us around the local church. This is just one of the activities that the Beavers have been doing over the last few weeks and counts towards their Faith Badge!

Beaver Barnsley Football Club Visit

The Beavers will be touring Barnsley football club on Tuesday 9th June. We will meet at Oakwell for 6pm-in full uniform-and can be collected at 7pm from Oakwell.

Come on the reds!

Scout Magazine (June 09 - July 09)

I have added the link to the newest issue of the Scouting magazine in the sidebar. For section supplement (Beavers, Cubs etc.) visit the official scout association website and follow the links to magazine.

Beaver Activity Forms

All Parents of Beavers attending the camp day (13th June) need to have completed their health/Activity Forms and returned them to us by the 9th June.

District Camp

There will be a meeting about camp on Tuesday 2nd June at 7:45pm for all parents. We will try to answer any questions you may have about camp.

All Health forms must be completed and returned by Tuesday 2nd June to section leaders, if we do not get this form back then the child will not be able to stop at camp.

Beaver Visit to Barnsley Football Club

The Beavers will now be visiting Barnsley Football Club on Tuesday 9 June. A letter with full details will be available on Tuesday. This Tuesday we will be competing work on the Faith Activity Badge.

Countdown to camp

The Countdown to this years district camp has begun!!!

See the countdown section in the sidebar to find out how long is left until to best weekend of all year!

Lets hope that its sunny : )

Are you born between 25th July 93 and 27th July 97? (updated)

Jamboree selections will be coming up and as of now, I know up to only one group of 36 explorers able to attend from South Yorkshire, read the post on 'district explorers' (sidebar) to find out more!

I will probably be hearing more about this from county with in the next couple of months, but my selections camps took place nearly two years before the event.

The next jamboree is to be held in Sweden and lots of fund raising will be needed, as it will cost nearly double the amount of last time!

To find out more about the jamboree its self visit the official site at: http://www.worldscoutjamboree.se/

It will be a fantastic experience and I will personally support any participants in what ever way is possible! : )

I have been contacted by county and nothing has come up yet but 'watch this space'.

Beaver Badge

Well done to all the Beavers who received their Hikes away challenge '1'! This is a relativity new 'staged' badge which means you can transfer this badge from uniform to uniform (beavers to scouts), also as it is a staged badge you can achieve more and update it!

Holidays

There will be no Beavers, Cubs or Scouts now until the 2nd June, as it is half-term holidays.
Have a Good Holiday from all the Darfield Leaders!

Blog Quiz

Well done to all the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts who took part and completed the quiz! I hope that you liked your prizes, I will probably do another quiz after the Holidays.

Blog Quiz responses (so far)

Beavers: Dylan, Kenyon, Alex N, Jamie M
Cubs: Katie
Scouts: Devin, Thomas J

So far all correct, if you have done the quiz and have not emailed me then do so to enter the competition and to collect a prize on Tuesday. As long as I have your responses by 5:15 (Tuesday) you can still enter the competition!

You must email me as otherwise cheating could occur! adcraven@gmail.com

Bear Grylls appointed Chief Scout

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8054699.stm A great choice, I think.

http://scouts.org.uk/news_view.php?news_id=185

Beaver Hike

The hike was well attended with Beavers from Hoyland, Hoyland Common and Wombwell joining in with us. Well done to all the Beavers who completed the hike, it was a long way and at times very wet, but no one under the age of 9 seemed to notice. The 16 Beavers from Darfield who took part will shortly be receiving their Hikes 1 award. Thanks must go to Eager Beaver for all his hard work in planning the day and to parents for their support. We should all have dried out for Tuesday (hopefully) see you all then.

Beaver Hike

Just to confirm we will be meeting at the library at 11am. Full uniform please, Beavers should also have footwear for off road walking and water proof clothing. Please bring along a snack and drink for when we stop en route. We are due back at the Church Hall at approx 2.30pm. Keep fingers crossed that the rain will have stopped by then.

Blog Quiz (UPDATED)

If you have missed the 1st word then send me an email @ adcraven@gmail.com and i will send you a clue! You may still have a chance!

Send me your name and section (beaver/cub/scout) and the number of the word that you have missed.

So that I know how many prizes to get and to make this competition fair to enter you need to email me with the answer on MONDAY and then i will collect names and see you with prizes on Tuesday.

New Zealand

Hi everyone. It'sMonday morning and it's throwing it down with rain. I just wanted to tell you about my trip so far.
Well, the weather has been lovely, I've even been swimming in the sea and wore my shorts! Ot's got very cold now though and I had to wear a coat and my hoodie the other day. I was not impressed!
Everyone is lovely here and I have made some friends. The little boy I am looking after is called Noah and he is 4. He is good most of the time! His mum is called Marlene and she is lovely.

I am flying to Wellington in June for the weekend which will be exciting. I am also going to try and visit Darfield cubs which is on the South Island and quite far away.

I miss you all lots and I will post some pictures up soon

xxx