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Tag Archives: ANZAC Day

Joeys….the Final Frontier

18 Sunday Sep 2016

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Advancements, Anzac Day, Moon Walking and Star Wars. Who wouldn’t want to be a Victor Joey?

Four Joeys become Cubs…

Wow, what  amazing achievement for our mob. With lots of hard work, nights visiting cubs and working on their individual Promise Challenge projects, 4 of the mob advanced into the cub pack.  There were 2 very proud Joey leaders and some even prouder joeys!  The mob took part in a Gross Fun Advancement night – armpit fudge, apple bobbing, a campfire filled with all of the 4 joeys favourite songs ( 20 000 feet, 3 chocolate éclairs, Hello my name is Joe) led on to Hawkeye taking them away to join the cub pack.  A very special supper and cake ended the very last Joey night for Oliver, Max, Jack and Travis.  Well done to you all and best wishes in the cub pack.

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Anzac Day March and Parade

The mob joined the rest of group for the Anzac Day March and Service.  Ben and Adam were given the honour of laying the wreath for the Joey section during the service. They both did a brilliant job and respected the solemnity of the day. On the Tuesday, we continued learning more about the Anzacs and their service by reading a book about the landing at Gallipoli, hearing about why Australia was involved and partaking in  activities that reinforced what we had learnt. The mob then made damper.

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Mothers Night

What happens when our mothers come along to Joeys for Mothers night?  They become honorary Joeys for the night and take part in ALL of the activities! And that is exactly what our intrepid and brave mothers did. Brainteaser questions, Bandelogs tails and shark island, clown dress ups for the malteser game and Hug-a-tree were all gamely played by the mothers before the joeys allowed them to have supper.  Luckily, the mob had made their mothers a lovely gift to show how much they care about them all – Fairy jars.

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Hairy Charlie Experience.

Visiting some of our favourite Australian children’s books is always an excuse for a mob ight of costumes, drama and laughter. This term we chose ‘Hairy Charlie and the Pumpkin’ by  Dawn French.  The mob stuffed scarecrows, made Hairy Charlie beards to wear and then were entertained by Bagheera playing Hairy Charlie dealing with a very fast growing pumpkin vine AND chasing away a very pesky magpie played by Wolf. The Joeys thought they were hilarious!

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Joeys…The Final Frontier.

Space – the theme for June saw the joeys designing their own space aliens,

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making space helmets and air tanks for their moonwalk and exploration of the stars/planets

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and culminated in them graduating from the Joey Jedi Training School.

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Spirit of Anzac Centenary Exhibition.

The joey mob attended a very special exhibition called “Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience’ with the scout section from Victor and with our mob buddies from Upper Mt Gravatt plus the cub pack from UMG.  It was an audio guided exhibition that took us through World War One from the beginnings of the start of the war, through the increasing involvement of the Anzac troops, examining the various battles and armaments before reaching the conclusion with Armistice Day and commemorating those service men and women who were lost. The joeys were so respectful and learned  a lot from the exhibition and we were very proud of them. Many of the families visited the exhibition a second time as it was so thought provoking. WP_20160618_15_29_30_Pro

Yours in Scouting,

Bagheera and Wolf


What a busy and exciting Term 2 the Joeys had!

07 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Term 2 shaped up to be even busier and more exciting that Term 1 for the mob.  There were so many wonderful activities – camps, campfires, Anzac Day and Mother’s Day – that the Joeys were busy every meeting!  Two new members were invested AND two of the Joeys achieved their Promise and Link badges and advanced to the cub section!

WEEK EVENT
1 Welcome back – HOP games and activities night
Special Event Anzac Day March & Service (6:30am – 8:00am)
2 Anzac Day Remembrance night
3 Space Night & Mothers Day gift making
4 Mothers Day – Mothers join Joeys for the evening (supper)
Special Event District Camp – ‘Roll up to the Circus’ (Joeys rally @ 9am)
5 Circus Night: “Lions & Tigers and Clowns, Oh My!”
6 Cooking: Monster munchies.
7 World Environment Day celebrations.
8 Special Guest & supper: Rikki (knots & yarns)
9 Cooking: Wombat Stew.
10 End of term Campfire & Going up night

A snap shot of the happenings that made up Term 2:

The 100th Year Celebration of Gallipoli and ANZAC Day.

The Joeys spent several weeks learning about Anzac Day, it’s meaning and why we celebrate it before taking part in the Anzac Day March and Service at the Holland Park RSL Sub-branch.  It was a moving service and the Joeys were respectful of the significance of the service and the ceremony of the day. Jason carried a photo of a family member who served in the First World War and Patrick helped to lay the wreath. Each Joey in the mob earned their ‘Their Service, Our Heritage’ Badge.

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Mother’s Night.

To celebrate Mother’s Day, the Joey invited their Mothers or carers along to share a special  night with the mob.  The Mothers had to undergo the official Joey training ( with a pop quiz) before being inducted into the mob as ‘Honourary Joeys’ for the evening. The parents took part in games like “Hanging out the Washing’, Shark island and Hug a tree before sharing supper.  Thank you to all the parents who helped make it such a fantastic night.

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Roll Up, Roll Up to the District Camp!

Over a slightly wet weekend in May, some of the mob attended the District camp.  The theme this year was the Circus and what circus would be complete without clowns, strongmen or ringmasters (leaders).  Lot’s of great activities, food and a campfire rounded out what was a fabulous camp.  And let’s not forget the scouts creating some amazing swings, chariots etc. for the cubs and Joeys. And the jumping castle!

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Monster Munchies no bake night.

For hungry Joeys, this was a night of tasty treats that involved no baking.  The Joeys helped make coconut ice, chocolate crackles and Wizz Fizz before taking home packed containers and recipes to share with their families.  Need we say more?

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Wombat Stew – Ooey, Gooey!

What better way to finish off our cooking adventure than to combine a beloved Australian children’s book with making stew.  A rousing version of Wombat Stew was told by Rikki and acted out by Bagheera and Wolf to the joeys amusement.  Little did they know that all of the pot ingredients – flies, mud, gum leaves etc. – would be their supper.  Only kidding, the joeys actually had home made vegetable soup as their Wombat Stew to round off the nights fun.

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Campfire Going up celebrations.

With the final night of term upon us, it was time to celebrate two very special achievements.  Patrick and Jason had both undertaken the task of completing their Promise Challenge badges and their link work in preparation of moving up into the cub pack at the start of term 4.  They had both worked very hard on their individual projects and deeds.  Wolf and I were very proud of their hard work. As a fitting, and final, send off from the mob we held a special campfire with pizza and cake for supper to celebrate with them.  BRAVO Patrick and Jason!

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Yours in scouting,

Bagheera and Wolf.

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Term 2 Victor Scouts

20 Monday Jul 2015

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It’s been a really busy term in the scout section. Here’s a few snippets of what we’ve been up to…

March 24th/25th – ANZAC Day Sleepover

Tonight was very exciting. We headed down to the Holland Park RSL to make sure it was clean and tidy and ready for ANZAC Day service. We also held a very special linking and investiture ceremony for two new scouts, Adam and Austin, while we were there.

When we got back to the den we were very privileged to have Bill Whitestyles, our District Commissioner, pay us a visit and share some amazing stories with us about what he did during WWII in outback Australia for the war effort. We learned all sorts of things about transport trains and ambulance services, and really appreciate the time Bill took to spend with us. The scouts sat enthralled listening for well over an hour!

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We also celebrated Adam’s birthday with fantastic pizza – thanks Moritz/O’Donnell family; it was yummy.

To end the night we pitched out tents on the easement and slept over, ready to be up bright and early for our ANZAC Day Activities.

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March 25th – ANZAC Day Activities

Being the 100th Anniversary of ANZAC Day, Echidna organised a range of activities that all of us were able to participate in, depending on our other commitments to school and bands etc.

We started up very early with ANZAC biscuits for brekkie before headed off to the Greenslopes Hospital for the Dawn service. Most of us had never been to a dawn service before so this was very special watching the sun rise over Whites Hill as we remembered the fallen and the returned.

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Then it was off to participate in the local Holland Park march (or to join in our various school parades) followed by a service at the Holland Park RSL.

We were very thankful for our parents who ran the BBQ breakfast for the morning after the service and so was the community.   BRAVO mums & dads for an awesome effort.

Later a smaller group of us headed into the Brisbane City Parade. This is a very special opportunity where some scouts were able to carry banners and paddles to help identify different battalions. Those who participated received a commemorative medal and blanket badge. We then all marched as Qld Scouts at the end of the parade. (Some of us even managed to do some badge work in the in between times – there’s a great example of making the most of leader downtime)!

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May 1-3 Mt Barney Camp

Unfortunately, due to the severe weather event and flash flooding that closed many roads and caused major damage across SE Qld, we had to cancel this camp. It will be reschedule to later in the year.

May 8th – Mother’s Day Campfire

We invited all the mums to come along and share some special time around the campfire with their scouts. There were lots of songs, jokes and skits. Panther Patrol did a fantastic job of making very yummy golden syrup dumplings for supper too!

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May 15th-17th – District Camp at Rocky Creek, Sunshine Coast

Two patrols (Penguin and Panther/Koala) joined forces to attend the Scout Construction Camp at Rocky Creek. Most of us headed up on Friday night to get that extra night under canvas; towards Jamboree for some of us, or to just have fun making the most of camping opportunities. On Saturday our programme involved splitting into two groups. Patrol leaders spent some time learning how to cook hay boxes and to create various anchorage systems to support larger constructions. APLs lead their patrols off on a navigation challenge through the bush to locate a set of beacons. After this the patrols worked together to create their own hay box dinners.

For a short time the cubs commandeered the scouts to be part of their sideshow alley as clowns that they fed lollies too – of course the scouts hated that!!! NOT!!! And Hawkeye clowned around 😉

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The afternoon was spent making big construction items. Often these take a couple of hours to make, which is difficult to do on a normal den night. Victor scouts created one of the most popular items – a complex swing structure. Always up for a challenge this design was one that we had never made before. The two patrols worked together with the assistance of Komodo and Echidna (and a few others at various points) to assemble it. Each group made a different item. Wishart-Chester made an amazing whirly-gig and pully system, Tarragindi did a fabulous job to construct a hyperbolic-parabolic gateway, Rochedale made a very cool monkey bridge.

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Having made them all, we had a quick afternoon tea, and then spent the remainder of the afternoon playing on everything. It was really great that we could then just serve up dinner ready to eat as we were all tired from our construction efforts.

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Both patrols hosted leaders from other troops to dinner, with a chicken risotto and beef stew going down well for all. Unfortunately, storms passing over meant that campfire had to be cancelled but those of us not too tired were able to play a fantastic wide game called Funny Money.

On Sunday we cooked up a yummy breakfast and then headed over to the campfire area to appreciate Wombat’s fire construction (even though we didn’t light it). All our scouts were involved in the Scout’s Own held there. For those of you who don’t know what a Scout’s Own is, it is a time of reflection and of giving thanks for opportunities experienced. Elliot and Joseph helped prepare and lead the Scout’s Own, with Explorer level scouts assisting and Pioneer level scouts participating in the shared reflection of what they liked best about camp.

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Then it was time for trying to pack down all the construction items and our camp sites in between the sporadic downpours. All up: everyone had a great time and learnt something new.

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May 29th & June 5th – Pioneer Hike Preparation

We are spending some evenings this term preparing and planning for a Pioneer Hike. This is the last activity quite a few of our scouts need to earn their Pioneer Cord. This is an opportunity to plan things like: where we are going?; what we need to pack?; and what we might eat and wear on a hike?

June 12th – Wide Games in Mott Park

Tonight we were out and about playing three awesome wide games in Mott Park. For those of you who don’t know what a wide game is it involves creeping around in the dark and using stealth and strategy to successfully achieve a specific objective as a team. We played three different wide games – Funny Money, Knights in the Castle and

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June 19th – Badgework Signoff Night

Each term we are going to try and schedule a night dedicated to getting through award scheme work. With so many active and engaged scouts there often isn’t enough time each week to get through everything people have been working on. We also filled out lots of proficiency badge planning forms and practiced, or learned, different knots and first aid information. Best of all is that Raven (our new District Commissioner) dropped by and taught us a new version of dodgeball and an awesome game called Duster Buster that even our injured scouts and leaders could still join in! Thanks Raven! We’re also getting really good as working as a team in Hungry Hippos even though this is only the second time we’ve played.

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June 23rd – District Ice Skating

Some of us (those who had finished assessment for school already and didn’t have any other activities on) were lucky enough to be able to attend the annual District Ice Skating event at Ice World. It was cold to start with but we had a lot of fun zipping around on the rink. Thanks Raven for organising it.

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June 26th – Boardgames & Homemade pizza

To finish off the busy term our last night involved spending time having fun together. We played lots of different board games such as Connect Four, Chess and Sequence. In between games a few of us finished off badge work activities and we all made really yummy pizzas in the brand new kitchen and oven. Thanks so much to the hard work by committee to provide this fantastic resource for us to learn about cooking and food preparation/hygiene. Troop council also worked hard by approving a total of 11 proficiency badge applications ready for scouts to fill their holiday downtime with lots of fun activities!

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June 27th – Pioneer Hike from Wishart to Minnippi Parklands

All our planning and preparation this term culminated in a group of scouts leading and completing a Pioneer Journey. We started at Boorabbin Parklands in Wishart and followed along the Bulimba Creek biketrack and walkways all the way through to Minnippi Parklands in Tingalpa. Along the way we stopped at almost every single playground for some alternate activities. We had lunch at the Cadogen St Park where many of us cooked up hot lunches to practice our campcraft skills. On completion of the hike we had a very special parade on the water platform of the lake at Minnippi. Four of our scouts (Alex, Tash, Livi and Laura) had earned their Pioneer Campcraft and Pioneer Badges by finishing the hike. In addition, Alex, Tash and Livi also earned their Pioneer Cords! BRAVO to the three of you – you are all set to go to Jamboree now. Thank you to Komodo, Falcon, Hawkeye, Echidna and Garlanja for all your assistance today. A special thank you to Raven who came down to the park to help celebrate these achievements and present some of the badges. The kids really love and appreciate having such an engaged group of leaders and District Commissioner!

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