Group camp 2014

This years group camp was held at Templars Park near Aberdeen in August. The camp saw Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers all camping together for three days taking part in Commonwealth themed activities.

Backwoods cooking – India and Trinidad & Tobago style, New Zealand Haka & rugby, Canadian lumberjacks and Kenyan crafts were just some of the activities on offer on Saturday. The evening saw a campfire, a disco and wide games. Sunday was putting competing in our own Commonwealth games – with sports, a quiz and the assault course gaining points for each team.

Gordon Gathering 2014

Its been 7 years since the last Gordon Gathering - but this year will be one to remember!
6-8th June 2014 saw the whole district meet at BA stores, Dunecht for a weekend of activities and adventure. Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and Network camped for the whole weekend - with the beavers joining us on Saturday for their annual fun day. That took us to 1200 Scouts on site on Saturday.

Friday was setting up and meeting new friends.
Saturday we opened the event and took part in loads of activities from sailing to pioneering, archery to rabbit skinning, crafts to digger driving!


In the evening we had a wet campfire and a disco.

Sunday was a free for all on activities followed by a fond farewell from the organisers - during which two Scouts were presented with their Gold chief Scout awards.

HUGE congratulations to them!

Scouts survival nights

Bear Grylls has got some competitions on his hands!

The past few weeks the Scouts have been learning some scout survival skills and trying them out at Daviot.

We started by looking at semaphore signalling and water purification, then made Gordon a cup of tea on the trangias while he was outside we were fire lighting!

We were starting fires with flints and then had a go with a car battery - plenty sparks here!

The following week we had a look at the safety and rules around using stoves - to make popcorn! - gas lamps, knives, axes and saws.

To finish off our survival season we went up to Daviot campsite to try out our skills. Mixed results with the firelighting but everyone had a go at chopping wood for our big fire, which the patrol leaders set up earlier. The leaders and PL's came along early to set up and cook dinner on an open fire - a little reward for the hard working PL's.

We also played a few wide games around the site and finished off by roasting some smores.

Harlaw DIY camp

The Harlaw Cub DIY Camp took place form 15th to 16th March in the Inverurie Cub Hall. 19 cubs attended, including some of our new Beavers.

The cubs all successfully completed their DIY badge while at camp, making a bird box and key hanger and learning about tools and their safe use and using a range of saws.

We had the support of 4 parents - 3 assisting with DIY and one excellent chef! Cubs enjoyed an indoor campfire sing along and a great game of rounders in the Academy grounds.

Beavers go around the world!

Leslie Beavers went around the world in a day. After going through passport control and getting our passports stamped we were in Australia, where we played a didgeridoo and made the famous cork hats and learnt about the great barrier reef!

We also had a traditional BBQ for our dinner.

Japan was our next stop where we learnt about the World Jamboree that will be happening there next year. We became sumo wrestlers and did some origami.

We woke up in South Africa, where we had gather water then had a water fight. After flying to Mexico we made ponchos to fit in with the locals and have nachos and wraps for lunch, it was time to go home.

Scouts get adventurous

This week saw Inverurie Scouts get all adventurous at Transition Extreme. As well as having loads of fun this will count towards their adventure challenge badge. 

The Scouts took part in rock climbing on the indoor walls where they learned how to safely climb and belay - even the little one made it all the way to the top!

 They also had a go on the arial assault course towering above them before jumping off the Extreme Drop!
The Aberdeen sea side winds were around to test the Scouts head for heights!











Finally we headed back inside for a go at Skate boarding! A few lessons from the instructors and all the Scouts were zipping around the skate park - the leaders had "mixed results" (and bruises...).

Everyone had a great night and a few are heading back for more adventures!

Harlaw Cubs - update

Had a really busy term!  A camp at Daviot and this last weekend we were at Dalguise.  Well done to the cubs who all found the weekend a challenge and some fears where overcome!  Lots of high activities and  getting wet (more so for some!) and muddy!  Plenty of dirty washing returned home.  Lots of memories to last a lifetime.  Cereal though - Well done to you all.  A huge thanks to Karen, Heather, Gordon and Susan - without you we could not have done it!

We have also had three cubs achieve their Chief scout Silver award.  Well done to you too!

Akela