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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


The start of another amazing year.

18 Sunday Sep 2016

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The new scouting year started with a bang and the mob were very, very busy!  We shared a very special ceremony with one of our joeys, took part in district events, had a buddy sleepover, learnt about Scouting history (and our Joey Promise, Law and Theme), had a campfire, invited our families along to celebrate Harmony night and finished the term with Easter craft and cooking.

Special Advancement night ceremony.

The mob were privileged to share Samuels’ advancement night with him early in the term. This is an important event in our Joeys scouting adventure as it means that they have completed their linking activities and undertaken their Promise Challenge Badge (the highest National Award that a Joey can earn). Tonight’s theme was “The Great Grey Ghost Elephant” based on Baden-Powell’s  Jamboree story of how Ging Gang Goolie came about. The official ceremony was held at the end of evening with a campfire filled with songs and skits that Samuel helped choose (his favourite songs like He fell from 20 000 feet and Ging Gang Goolie) with Hawkeye joining us to lead him away into the cub pack.  The end of the night saw the mob farewelling Samuel with a shared supper and best wishes.

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Founders Day and JACS Rally buddy sleepover.

Celebrations for Founders Day and the activity bases that follow for JCS Rally were combined with our first sleepover for the year with our friends at Upper Mt Gravatt mob. The mobs had a great time building friendships, sharing meals and having fun. The early morning district service for Founders Day led on to the rotations through some awesome activity bases that were run by district section leaders.  Thank you to Hawkeye for some of these fabulous photos.

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New Joeys are invested on Harmony Day!

As part of the mobs activities for Harmony Day, we performed a very special ceremony for our 2 newest Joeys. Genevieve and Adam were invested on first parade and they were both very excited to officially become Victor Joeys. Their parents helped with the ceremony  by presenting them with their scarves and woggles. After parade, we held a number of activities to celebrate Harmony Day, promote the theme of ‘Everyone Belongs’ and earn our special event badge. Some of the activities were pretty hard to resist ( especially those marshmallows!).

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Easter.

Cards, craft and a Easter Egg Hunt finished out Term 1. Phew!

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Yours in Scouting,

Bagheera and Wolf


 

Term 4 just flew by for the mob

18 Sunday Sep 2016

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Camp, End of Year Party, Investitures, Joeys

Term 4 2015 just flew by for the Joey mob as we rounded out another fantastic scouting year with many badges earned, exciting activities and the Annual Joey Christmas concert.

Adventure Challenge badges completed.

The Joeys were very focused on completing their Adventure  Challenge badges this term with each of the older joeys successfully completing theirs.

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Paper planes ( Nukamura folds and spy gliders) were created, hover crafts built and tested and catapults found many a target.

Spooky Halloween extravaganza.

Halloween was celebrated in true Joey style with a mob night filled with costumes, traditional Halloween games, treasure hunts and woggle making.  As you can see, the mob had a brilliant night and the smiles say it all.

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Investiture of our newest Joey.

One of the highlights of Term 4 was the night we invested our newest Joey officially into the mob.  Welcome Ben to your scouting adventure.

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 Annual Christmas Carols and end of year party.

Wolf and I were very proud of the Joeys when they performed the Christmas Carols that they had practised for their families on our last night for the year. There were a mix of traditional carols ( Jingles Bells, All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth) to classic Australian carols ( Give me a Joey among the Gum Trees ) and the all time favourites – 12 Days of Christmas and We wish you a Merry Christmas. And the parents weren’t left out. They all loved being cast as the reindeer in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  Santa also made an appearance just in time to give each of the mob a special Christmas present from Bagheera and Wolf along with their Christmas card and Scouts 2015 Christmas collector badge.

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All of the mob were presented with the badges that they had earned this term – Buddy badges, Service badges and Adventure Challenge badges before we all shared a fantastic end of year supper.  The Joeys then gave their families the gifts that they had made – a  centerpiece for the Christmas table complete with tree decorations that they had also made.

Bravo to the mob for another amazing year and we will see you all again in 2016.

Yours in Scouting,

Bagheera and Wolf


21st August – Investiture of our five ‘Scubs’

12 Monday Oct 2015

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In addition to painting our fabulous new patrol boxes with a bit of help from Raven, we began the night with a very special ceremony.  Five of our scubs (cubs-linking-to-scouts) were invested fully into the scout section.  Ciara, Emily, Tom, Millie and Sophie were very excited to finally become fully fledged scouts.  We held the investiture in the bushland of Mott Park with everyone having glow sticks to help light the way.  After a farewell cub parade from our Group Leader/Cub Leader Hawkeye, each of the scubs was carried through the investiture gateway on a chair chariot by their new patrol members.  Once everyone was into the scout circle each scub wrote their name on the gateway crossbeam – the list is getting long and everyone loves looking at who has gone before.  Emily, Millie and Tom were invested into Penguin Patrol and Ciara and Sophie into Panther Patrol.  As usual there was some excellent descriptors by the PLs as to why their patrol is the best and a general welcoming of all the new scouts.

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7th August – Nathan’s Investiture & Packing for Nighthawk

12 Monday Oct 2015

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Tonight was a special one for Nathan as we invested him into the scout section.  Nathan comes from a multi-generationafamily with a passion for photography and off road 4WDriving.  So to make this ceremony extra special we organised to invest Nathan on the back of a ute!  Thanks to his parents for helping with the logistics.  As you can see from the pics it was a pretty cool investiture ceremony.

 

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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Scout Section Blog Weeks 4-6

16 Monday Mar 2015

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27th Feb – Investiture Ceremony & Lightweight cooking Mt Gravatt

Tonight was a very special evening. We went up to the Mt Gravatt lookout to have a combined cub linking and scout investiture ceremony.

It was really beautiful and memorable with the sun setting over the cityscape.

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Appointment Ceremony on opening parade. Our three new Patrol Leaders (Elliot – Penguin, Joseph – Panther and Koala’s PL) all took their Patrol Leader Oath and were presented with stripes, whistles and patrol staves. Two of our three Assistant Patrol Leaders (Panther – Michael and Laura – Koala) were able to be there and to be appointed.

Our linking ceremony was for Declan and Annie. Some of their cub leaders were able to come along and share some special stories with the cubs about Declan and Annie’s journeys through cubs and their achievements – both of whom have earned their Grey Wolf Award.

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One of our new traditions is that anyone who is invested into the scout section (be it from cubs or new) writes their name and the date of their investiture onto the gateway crossbar. We use the same bar every time so over the years we will have a fantastic record of everyone joining Victor scouts!

We also invested a new scout all the way from the UK – Michael.

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It was great to be able to share this ceremony with lots of parents who stayed and many people in our community who were at the lookout. It was also a great night to do a first link night for two of our linking cubs Austin and Adam. We are happy they are joining us and looking forward to when they too will have a special investiture ceremony. In the mean time they are starting to get to know what scouts is like.

As it happens everyone in the section received a badge of some sort tonight too; that doesn’t happen very often! Either for award work they had completed, a new patrol patch, investiture or linking badges.

For our activity tonight we also learned about light hike cooking methods using solid fuel (hexamine), liquid fuel (metho) and gas fuel (butane). Each patrol chose two of these methods and then cooked themselves some supper. Koala and Penguin patrol made s’mores (short for some more!) and Panther patrol made chocolate dipping sauce.

A huge thank you to all the parents and leaders who were able to stay for the investiture ceremony and also to Komodo for his brilliant orchestration of the tea/coffee/hot chocolate for supper.

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1st March – Postponed Founder’s Day Ceremony and Clean Up Australia Day

Due to Cyclone Marcia Founder’s Day was postponed to this date.

Some of our section were able to join the ceremony to celebrate Baden Powell’s birthday which is the date we use to remember the fabulous opportunities and experiences we all have through scouting that wouldn’t be possible without BP.

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6th March – Kitchen Fly Construction

An important scouting skill is learning how to set up a camp site. Tonight we learnt and practiced a few different knots and then used them to learn about teamwork and constructing a kitchen fly. The kitchen fly keeps the rain and sun off our camp kitchen and uses wooden spars, rope, pegs and a tarp. It also covers both Pioneer knots (clove hitch, rolling hitch, sheet bend) and Explorer knots (bow line) so opportunity for everyone to learn together. Even basic skills like how to bang a peg into the ground safely and how to look after gear. We didn’t quite get them completely up but that’s OK and we gave it a really good go!

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7-8th March – Family Camp

Most of our scouts were able to join in the fun of family camp. As a section we were able to do some sewing of badges onto uniforms and to also get award work signed off. Camps are often an excellent opportunity to do these sorts of activities. Our patrol leaders taught everyone how to sing “Road Kill Stew” and some of our scouts either organised and performed skits or helped to lead songs. We also held a special ceremony at sunset on the Burleigh Heads Beach to invest Ellie into the troop and to appoint Tadgh as an APL. Congratulations to both. Well done everyone – camp was so much fun and you all helped to make it happen!

See the separate blog post of all the things that happened at family camp.

13th March – Operation Butterfly Preparation

In a couple of weeks some of our scouts are headed off to Operation Butterfly – this is a lightweight hiking camp over a 24hr period. Scouts navigate through bushland to reach different bases. At each base there are activities to complete as a patrol. This is a competition camp where points are awarded based on navigation skill execution, teamwork and completion of base activities. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter about points, it’s a great opportunity for scouts to meet other scouts in the South East corner of Qld. There are generally about 400-500 scouts that participate.

To prepare for this camp we had three bases – Navigation (run by Komodo), Teamwork skills – Walking on Mars (run by Falcon) and Menu planning (run by Echidna). Even for scouts not attending Butterfly these are all general scouting skills that are part of award work but also just having fun doing scouting things.

We also played some new games that were a hit – Evolution with almost everyone turning from an egg into a Butterfly and the Anti-gravity tent pole!

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.

Victor scouts Term 4 2014

16 Friday Jan 2015

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Well it was a very busy and exciting term for Victor Scouts

We reopened with a fun night and the rest of term went like this:

Badgers Wood Camp & JOTI

VS4 2Our first Camp as Victor scouts was awesome and was held the first weekend back.  We spent three nights at Badgers Wood Camp (Noosaville Sea Scouts). VS4 1 VS4 3

Over the weekend we had lots of amazing experiences.  There was lots of official investitures: We invested our Penguin Patrol leader Annie, We invested our Assistant Patrol leaders Elliot and Joseph.  Most excitingly we had an amazing linking ceremony and investiture for our two newest scouts – Tash and Livi.  This ceremony was held on Peregian Beach at Sunset.  The Penguin Patrol created a linking gateway.  This gateway has a special flag and the crossbar is special as each new linking scout will put their name and link date onto the timber after their ceremony.  The patrol also carved woggles from some salvaged timber where we camped and used these to carve woggles to present to new members.  Our resourceful District Joey Leader also found some cool penguin stickers to put on them!  We went swimming and fishing, beach games, carving, hiked through Noosa National Park and participated in JOTI which had us using the internet to talk to scouts all over the world!  Camp finished with a traditional leftovers breakfast – a novelty for some of our scouts and swimming at Caloundra.

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Crazy Russian Hackers Night

Inspired by the You-Tube collection, the ‘Crazy Russian Hacker’ teaches us all about how to do cool stuff that makes life simpler, or easier or practical.  Penguin patrol tried out a series of different hacks.  These included ‘making candles out of oranges’ and ‘cooking popcorn in a modified soft drink can’.

Spooky Disco

This year we went along to the District Spooky Disco hosted by Tarragindi.  The Venturers and Scouts had lots of great spooky ideas and we had fun too.  Next year (2015) Victor will host the spooky disco so get your thinking caps on!

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Backwoods Cooking

This is another term for cooking without utensils.  Food is cooked on an open fire using things like foil and plant leaves to cook.  The scouts learnt how to dig a fit pit correctly, to practice their fire construction skills and fire safety.  This time we cooked chicken and mixed vegetables and also chocolate smores.  Yummy!

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Water Safety Target Badge

Every scout at each cord level works on at least one target badge as part of their award work.  Tash, Livi and Alex all earned their Pioneer Water Safety Target Badge this term.  Elliot and Joseph have almost completed their Adventurer Water Safety Target Badge requirements.  Awesome; BRAVO everyone as this was lots of hard work and effort!

Large Construction

Construction is always a part of scouting from small gadgets, to general purpose camping equipment, to awesome large constructions.  The scouts wanted to construct a log swing.  This is an awesome project for a team to work together on and it includes knots and lashings from all award levels (Pioneer – clove hitch, square lashing; Explorer – Figure of 8 lashing, diagonal lashing; Adventurer- Japanese & Filipino lashings (which can substitute for square and diagonal)) along with a painters hitch.  Having a mini model helps a bit to work out all the pieces you need and what needs to get tied where.  Of course the best part of making such a construction is that at the end of it you get to play on it! We heard (at the Bunnings BBQ) from a local family who are too young for scouts yet that they saw the swing and thought that it was brilliant!VS4 17VS4 16  The scouts were keen to leave it up for the cubs to play with but safety and security were other considerations.  Not to worry the District All Sections Camp in 2015 will be a large-scale construction camp for the scout section so I’m sure there will be more of this to come.

Visiting the cubs for Water fun night

The scouts went to visit the cubs and join in their water activities night. Elliot and Joseph were able to talk to the cubs about pool water safety (including why you shouldn’t pee in the pool) and what to do in an emergency.  Then the scouts split up and joined in each sixer group to play some great games Kaa had organised and then a massive water fight.  It was a great night and we will be trying to plan at least one cub/scout activity every term.

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Christmas Woodworking

On our last night for the term the scouts learnt about woodworking by drawing, cutting, painting and assembling a timber Christmas tree each.  It was fantastic to have Raven (Assistant District Commissioner) and Hawkeye (Group Leader) along to help out.  We also had a couple of cubs (Declan & Nathan) from another group come along to do a link night to see if they might join Victor scouts in the new year.

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Massive Achievement Celebrations to finish the year: Komodo’s Woodbadge and Anastasia’s ASM

We finished the year off in style with the presentation of Komodo’s Woodbadge and Anastasia’s Australian scout Medallion.

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The Woodbadge is the culmination of formal and required leadership training for any scout leader.  It involves many hours of paperwork and several weekends away learning much about scouting.  It is a fantastic achievement and one to be proud of.VS4 22

Joining us to celebrate these achievements were Kiwi (Bill Whitestyles, DC), Raven (Warren Hope, ADC), Baghera (Leaza, Joey Scouts), (Bruce, Joey Scouts/Activities Branch Team) and Emu (Emmi Thomas, District Joey Leader) with apologies from Pieter Van der Kamp (Regional Commissioner).  It was a pretty impressive parade too as almost all these leaders also belong to the Gilwell Troop (the name of the group of leaders who have completed all training).

In our group this means that we now how three woodbadge qualified leaders with our other three leaders well on their way to also completing this training.  Something to remember though – this is the formal training, all our leaders have lots of other training and skills too, gathered throughout their life be it in or outside of the movement too.

Australian Scout Medallion

Anastasia (Annie) has been in the scouting movement since she was nearly 9.  She started as a cub where she earned all boomerangs and her Grey Wolf award.  Since she has been in scouts she has worked hard and learnt lots of different things to achieve the ASM.  The scout section is the only section where scouts have to regularly demonstrate and teach many of the skills they learn.  As a result not every scout will actually achieve the highest award level.VS4 23  To earn the ASM a scout must earn Pioneer then Explorer and then Adventurer Cords, attend leadership training and run a camp on their own.  Each cord level requires a journey to be completed.  At Adventurer level this is a 3 day, 30km journey where the scout has to plan and meticulously prepare every element of the journey, gather a group of scouts to go on the journey and write a reflective report that has to be approved at district.  If anyone would like to see this report there is a copy available in the den.  By progressively developing skills over 4 years Anastasia was able to successfully complete the award.  We remember too that no scout can ever achieve any award alone.  It is a joint effort between the scout, their patrol, troop, leaders and parents.  It was lovely to have Justine come and help Annie celebrate as they had been in the same patrol for six months.  This achievement is even harder earned as Annie has completed it having been in two different groups and three different troops due to changes in times and other family commitments.  She has also been a patrol leader for Platypus and Penguin patrols in this time since she was 12 (which is quite young to become a PL).  Annie is currently linking to Venturers and we hope she will continue in the movement and earn her Queen Scout Award.  Hopefully in the future we will have our own Venturer leader and be able to open a Venturer unit at Victor Scouts too.  BRAVO Annie!VS4 24

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