1st Normandy Scout Group

The 2008 District Indoor challenge was an egg race. Each team had to design and build a vehicle to safely transport it's passenger (the egg).

Thank you to all the parents and Scouts that turned up for the Beetle Drive on the 9th of February. The event was a great success and helped to raise funds for new facilities in the Scout Hut.

There is not much to report since the last executive meeting, due to the Christmas holidays.

The district handicraft competition this year had the theme of the fair coming to town. The challenge was to design and build a model of a "travelling" fairground.

Carole having taken a break from Scouting in the trinity term, decided that the time was right for her to pass on the leadership of the Cub section.

We started the term with 19 Beavers. 3 have moved up to Cubs and I had sent letters to 6 on the waiting list. Of these 6 only 5 turned up.

The troop at present has 16 scouts. We lost four scouts at the end of the summer term.

There are 6 Explorers at present and 3 leaders. This is quite a fall in numbers over the last year, with Explorers mainly moving on due to age and other overlapping activities.

We’ve put on a varied programme of activities over the last year, including: a walk (and a very well fought game of Capture the Flag) on Puttenham common, tracking, pancake making, blindfold trails

The 2007 District Indoor challenge had an international theme to celebrate 100 years of scouting. On the day each of the 10 teams picked an envelope containing the name of a country.