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Cubs are making a movie!

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

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The cubs are creating and starring in their very own movie this term.

By request from the cubs it will feature a murder mystery, zombies, lightening-tongued killer frogs, cyborgs, a cow on a skateboard, godzilla, a mysterious island, aliens, superheroes and their very own headquarters!

Hawkeye will be working his movie magic to bring all this together somehow and says “never work with children or animals right!” 😉

The ‘feature film’ will be coming to the Victor Cubs “American Cruiseliner Movie Night” later this term.

We can’t wait to see how all this comes together.

PS there will be bloopers ;)-

Cubs Term 1

16 Monday Mar 2015

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2nd Feb Welcome Back Night Our first night back at cubs saw three new cubs join us for the first time which is really exciting. We had lots of fun doing different games and activities. Our favourite part of the night was making paper planes and having group launches to see how far they would go. Turns out we are all really good at making paper planes – perhaps it was all the inspiration we got from the recent movie? Our cub leader Kaa has been quite unwell and has had to have surgery. She is having the term off to recover properly and Hawkeye will be filling in for her. Bagheera (Victor Joey leader), Echidna (Victor Scout leader) and Emu (District Joey leader) will give Hawkeye a hand and we would love for some parents to help out when they can too. Paper planes 9th Feb Law & Promise Night For many of us learning about the scout promise and law is a new thing. We had a great chat about how we can live the cub scout way by doing our best, being loyal and obedient, not giving into ourselves, helping other people and ultimately still having lots of fun living and sharing. We have also been learning how to do parades which can be a bit tricky sometimes. 16th Feb Campfire Hawkeye loves campfire and he has a really funny hat that he wears too! We also discovered that Denae and Nolan’s Dad has an amazing scout blanket from Canada that he brought to use at campfire too! He has some really awesome badges. The cubs are starting to learn some new campfire ceremonies and songs. It was fantastic to see some of our parents be able to join us around the fire too. The highlight of the campfire was the ceremonial lighting where all the cubs called out in their biggest voices to the special ‘firefly’ that flew around the den grounds and then set fire to the campfire for our enjoyment! Cub campfire Parade after campfire 1st March Founders Day and JACS (Joey and Cub Scout) Rally Due to Cyclone Marcia Founders’ Day ceremony and JACS Rally had to be postponed to the 1st of March. Unfortunately this meant that some of us weren’t able to go to JACS Rally.  For those of us who did go it was an awesome morning of fun with Joeys and Cubs from the whole of Toohey Forest District joining in. Our favourite base was the Baden Powell Birthday Cake game that our fantastic Joey scout Leader Bagheera created! FD yarn JACS parade BP Birthday cake base

23rd Feb Bushwalk Tonight we went exploring off into Whites Hill State Forrest. It was an exciting adventure and we saw lots of things. Thanks so much to Archie’s Dad for spending time teaching some of us about all the cool insects and things in the forest. For some of us it was a fun opportunity to join in with Declan’s Grey Wolf hike. This was the last thing that Declan needed to do to finish his Grey Wolf award. We went up a big hill and together we made it!

2nd March Fitness with Scouts We are starting to get right into doing our Boomerang award work and tonight was a great example. Hawkeye invited the scouts to come along and join us to help us learn about different fitness activities. It is always a good opportunity to get to know the scouts better when they come a help us and ultimately it will help us when we eventually go up to the next section because we will already know them. We split up into our Bronze, Silver and Gold Boomerangs to work on different fitness activities. The scouts help run each activity (and that helped them get their badge award work signed off too!) What we learnt was that lots of us a really good at skipping and doing funky basketball dribbling moves! We even had a go at big skipping all together – it was hard trying to do it all together but it was fun! Basketball Big skipping

9th March Health & Safety, New sixes, Induction of Sixers Tonight was extra special. We had a really big opening parade. Everyone got assigned to new sixes (Grey, Black, Tawny, Red and White). We have five new sixers and four seconders. From now on we will do activities in either our sixes or Boomerang award levels depending on what the activity is. Being chosen to be a sixer or a seconder means that you are growing up and starting to demonstrate some leadership skills. It is hoped that the majority of cubs will at some point have the chance to be at least a seconder if not also a sixer before they move up to scouts. We have had quite a few new cubs join us from other groups who bring a lot of experience with them from their old groups. They will only be sixers for a short time until they’re nearly ready to go up. When they move up to scouts new sixers and seconders will be appointed. Those cubs who are moving up to scouts very shortly get to be in a special six – Grey. Here they are able to finish off any badge work they would like to complete (hopefully Grey Wolf awards but not necessarily as not everyone wants to do badge work and that’s fine too) before going to scouts and their job will be to help the cub leaders with activities. Congratulations to all our new sixers and seconders and we hope you enjoy your new sixes!

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Grey Austin –
Black Jack R Taliesen
Tawny Jack LS Alex
Red Emily Nicole
White Ciara Sean

Our sixers IMG_6197 Black Six IMG_6201 Tawny Six Tawny SixRed Six IMG_6200 White Six IMG_6199 For activities tonight we were looking at health and safety. Each six developed a skit together that demonstrated something dangerous to cubs that might happen in the home. After each skit we talked about what we could do to make sure that the bad outcomes didn’t happen and that we could be safe. There were lots of great topics – Granma’s medicine cabinet, a home invasion when parents weren’t home and the dangers of sharp knives. At the end of the night we played some really cool games with the scooter boards Hawkeye made for us. The first game was Cub Hungry Hippos where we had to work as a six to catch as many balloons as possible from the middle of the hall. Cub hungry hippos

The second game was Creek Crossing where we had to transport our whole six across the entire den by using just the scooter board and a piece of rope. Creek crossing

There was lots of laughing and fun and we all worked really well together.

Declan’s Grey Wolf Award

16 Monday Mar 2015

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Declan has been in scouting since he was a Joey up in Rockhampton. He started cubs with another group and came to Victor at the start of the year having started linking into Victor scouts.

Over the summer holidays Declan worked really hard to finish off all the components of his Gold Boomerang and planning his walk to complete the award. It was a great effort and he did a fantastic job!

On Friday 27th of February we held a ceremony at the summit of Mt Gravatt to award Declan his Grey Wolf award and to also invest Declan into the scout section. It was really great that some of the Victor cubs and Declan’s old cub leader, Lorikeet, were also able to come along and share this special event with him.

It was a fantastic night as you can see by the pictures. Declan’s Mum also made a yummy cake to celebrate.

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Family Camp at Camp Kallaroo 7-8th March

14 Saturday Mar 2015

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On Saturday 7th of March we had our very first Victor Family camp at Burleigh Heads Camp Kallaroo. It was an absolutely beautiful weekend for a beach camp with nearly 60 family members attending.

We spent part of both Saturday and Sunday at Burleigh Heads beach. There was lots of yummy food and we all had a great time getting to know new and old Victor families better. It was so lovely to see everyone pitching in and helping out and working together for a great weekend.

At the beach there was lots of swimming, body surfing, digging, sea princess headpiece creations and sand castle building along with afternoon tea on the beach which always tastes great!

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Saturday night, just on sunset, the scouts headed down to the beach for a special ceremony where we invested Ellie into the section and appointed Tadgh as an Assistant Patrol Leader with Burleigh Headlands in the background, the sun setting over the mountains and the tide rolling in.

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After a great BBQ dinner we headed to the campfire, where Hawkeye, with his funky campfire meister hat, lead us together in a rousing cub-type campfire. There was singing and skits and jokes and riddles along with a lighting ceremony and a Mowgli Jungle Book yarn. Turns out all our favourite campfire songs are rather macabre but funny. For many this was their experience of a scouting campfire and followed with supper of hot milo!

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Sunday morning was a lazy start with egg and bacon rolls for brekkie and back to the beach. There were all sorts of activities going on with sewing lessons, camp face squares, board games, soccer, skateboarding and signing off some badge award work.

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Unfortunately some of our families were unable to attend due to prior commitments. We missed them all. Overall it was an absolutely fabulous weekend and we hope to do the same thing as an annual event.

Clean Up Australia Day

14 Saturday Mar 2015

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On March 1st a group of our Joeys, Cubs and Scouts were able to get together and give up a couple of hours of their morning to help clean up our local area – Mott Park. We were fortunate enough to have our local councillor, Ian MacKenzie, and his wife come and join in with us. It’s great to see scouts and government working together to make our community a better place. We had a fun time working together and found some interesting rubbish too – like a car exhaust pipe!

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Sign On Day ! Want to Join Scouts and find out more…nows your chance!!

03 Tuesday Feb 2015

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IMG_0269If you have ever wanted to join scouts but didn’t know how, come along to our sign on day at the Den to find out more!

Saturday 7th February

State Sign-on day for new scouts

10am-2pm Victor Den

Quickbeds Fundraising Program

16 Friday Jan 2015

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Victor Scout Group has just signed on to be part of the Quickbeds Grassroots Fundraising Program. This is a great opportunity for our club to raise funds.
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IT’S VERY SIMPLE:
Next time you are booking accommodation, go to Quickbeds and use our unique Grassroots Code: 1406 and you’ll be helping our club. medals

HOW TO DO IT:  

  • Click on this link:
    www.quickbeds.com/?grassrootscode=1406
  • Find the hotel you want
  • Book it
  • That’s all

Click on the link now and our club code will be stored on your computer…

CLICK HERE NOW
www.quickbeds.com/?grassrootscode=1406

WHY QUICKBEDS:
Quickbeds is an accommodation search and booking website owned by the Flight Centre Travel Group.

  1. Price Beat Guarantee – if you find a cheaper price we’ll beat it
  2. Huge range of hotels, apartments, resorts and B&B’s in Australia and around the world
  3. 24/7 Customer Support from an Australian telephone support centre
  4. No Fees – no booking fees, no credit card fees
  5. Raise Funds for Victor Scout Group with every booking

Click now and check them out…

CLICK HERE NOW
www.quickbeds.com/?grassrootscode=1406

TELL YOUR FRIENDS:
You don’t have to be a member to use the club code. Copy the link above into an email to your friends and family. If they click on the link and book the money goes to Victor Scout Group.

Thanks for your support 🙂

Bunnings BBQ

16 Friday Jan 2015

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Our latest Bunnings BBQ, held on Saturday 10th January, was a great success!!

We raised almost $1300 for Victor Scout Group. A fantastic effort!

Thanks so much to:

  • Karen and Dave for organising the food and drinks and making it all come together on the day
  • Our wonderful parents, committee members and leaders who volunteered their time on the day
  • Bunnings Mt Gravatt for giving us the fundraising opportunity
  • The wonderful Brisbane Southside community who bought almost 45 kgs of snags from us
  • Special mention to leader Greg who wielded the BBQ tongs for a full 7 hours!

We’re always looking for more fundraising opportunities! If you have an idea, please let us know 🙂

Victor Cubs Newsletter, Term 3, 2014

13 Monday Oct 2014

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Victor Cub Scouts Newsletter Term 3

Hi Everyone, have a look at this fantastic Victor Cubs newsletter and the great activities Victor Cubs and Kaa got up to last term. Get well soon Kaa. We miss you.

School Holiday (and Camping) Rules :-)

19 Friday Sep 2014

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Well, it’s the last day of Term 3 (already?!), and I recently stumbled on this wonderful printable which has some great advice for our Joeys, Cubs and Scouts who are about to embark on school holidays, as well as District Camp and Cuboree!

Click on the link below and you can print it out to hang in a prominent position in your kitchen, campsite, anywhere!

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Have a great holiday everyone! See you back at Victor in a couple of weeks for an action-packed Term 4!

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