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January 24 Cubs visit to Fire Station Grenoside Cubs visited Elm Lane Fire Station last week. they had a tour around the station, looked at the Fire Engines, and then some of the Cubs even had a turn with a hose - until the alarm went up and the Fire Engines and crew had to rush off!!    Freezer Camp - Scouts only!Date: 20th - 22nd February 2009 The ‘Freezer Camp’ is an event run every year by Hesley Wood, and this year we will once again be attending. To keep the cost down we will be sharing our site with the Explorers. You will be sleeping in tents, but we have booked a building for cooking, eating, hanging around in etc, and in case of really inclement weather! The Leaders of course, will be sleeping inside, because we’re wimps – sorry I mean, err, we need to be fresh in case of emergencies, to cook breakfast, we’ve done it all before etc etc… Rough Programme Friday – Arrive after tea, pitch tents, look for missing pegs etc, followed by a ‘Wide Game’ run by Hesley staff. Saturday – full of activities provided by the site, such as climbing, abseiling, archery, zip line, assault course, bouldering wall, orienteering, inflatables, buggies etc. In the evening there will be a disco and other activities Sunday - a day of competitions and challenges, with prizes up for grabs. This camp is normally brilliant, as all the activities available would normally cost a fortune, but we are able to run this camp for just £35. This includes all the activities, camp fees, food etc – everything but for a small amount of spending money! October 22 Carol ServiceChristmas Carol Service Friday 5th Dec Our annual Carol service will be held at 7:30pm on Friday 5th December. Everyone welcome, members past and present, parents, grandparents, brother, sisters, uncles and aunties – or even if you’re just interested in what we’re doing! Refreshments served afterwards in the Church Hall. Christmas FayreChristmas FayreSaturday 29th November, 10:30 - 12:30 There will be the lots of Christmas goodies for sale, as well as activities for the children, and you can have your photo taken with Father Christmas in his Grotto. Stalls include bottle tombola, cake sales, toys, cards, wrapping paper, lucky dip, Christmas gifts, and crafts for children. Refreshments will be available. Please come along to find those exclusive Christmas presents, take the children to see Father Christmas and have a chat with that old friend you haven’t seen for a while. Survival CampWhat a weekend! Really cold Friday night, then a bit of rain on Saturday… Good job the Royston Building was available! Highlights included the Scouts making the next best thing to a wooden hut to eat in (!), Frankie (who else?) getting wet at the canoeing lake, some fool of a Leader also getting pushed in (thanks Fuzzy), Sea Bass and Beer-Can Chicken to eat, hopefully two new Leaders (welcome Simon and Lucy), Cubs camping out whilst the Scouts and Explorers slunk off to the building, managing to build a bridge that stayed up and supported everyone and building rafts that nearly kept the right way up! Congratulation to first time campers Alice, Adam and Chris from the Explorers, Sean from the Scouts and Alex S, Alex B, Liam, Josh, Frazer and Adam from the Cubs. As you managed to survive the weather on Saturday night you know that you can survive anything. There are some photos below. August 02 Summer Camp in WalesThanks to everyone for making this year’s camp one of the best we’ve ever run. Yes we were lucky with the weather, but the campsite was in such a beautiful position that even if it had rained every day we would still have had a brilliant time…. Quick summary of the week: Saturday. Arrive at camp after 6 hour journey from Sheffield. We were held up by slow moving traffic and several sets of roadworks, including Station Lane at Oughtibridge being closed and completely foxing a couple of people – Mark included. He should never have gone to Stocksbridge to buy those sandwiches… Sunday. Back into the cars and minibuses for a day on the beach at Broad Haven. A lovely sunny day, spent body boarding, rock pooling, playing football, digging holes in the sand, kite flying, swimming and that other important activity – spending money in the shops! Monday. Hiking Day. Scouts and some Explorers did a 10 mile route, the rest of the Explorers 14½ miles. It was another beautiful day, and the views on the Pembrokeshire Coastal footpath were tremendous, even if the going was hard. Tuesday. After the hard work of the day before, we decided to take it easy and have a day out in Tenby. Cue more spending money in local shops, buying inappropriate gifts, fish and chips and ice creams! Also seen; a huge ‘KIT’ drawn on the town beach in Tenby, and underneath it? A small ‘Nowt’ of course! Cheers Joey. Wednesday. Coasteering and Kayaking. What a tremendous day! When we arrived at Abereiddy beach it looked a bit of a dump; grey skies, a rough, empty car park and no sign of ‘Adventure Beyond’. They arrived a couple of minutes later, and started handing out wet suits and buoyancy aids. Split into two groups, half of us went kayaking and the other half coasteering, swapping over at lunch time. The kayaking was fun, if a little bit uncomfortable for the older members – Kit, Mark, John… Playing tiggy with a ball, falling in, getting stranded on rocks and waiting to be washed off, falling in, realising how far we’d gone and that we’d got to paddle all the way back (thanks Alex J)… The Coasteering was absolutely fantastic; scrambling, swimming, belly flops, cannon balls, getting bashed around in the ‘toilet’, and finishing off for some with fantastic 35ft leaps into the water in the lagoon. Thursday. Off to Oakwood theme park. More eating junk food, getting wet on, and watching, the ‘Hydro’, nearly being sick on some of the rides; but why did no one repeat kit’s trick from 2 years ago on the water slide? J In the evening we head down to the beach as usual, but this time take the dinghy. A few trips around the bay, often finishing with the occupants taking an involuntary swim – well done Frankie for pushing Jared in, and to Steve and Kit for overturning the dinghy when Frankie was still in it! Friday. Wake up in the morning – and it’s raining! Our first spell of daytime rain, but it finishes before most of the Scouts and Explorers are up. We decide on a few hours in Milford Haven; more shopping, but also the chance for a prolonged spell of crab catching. Thirty odd crabs and one fish later, we head back to camp for our evening meal and breaking camp. A quick spell of bivvy building later and it’s time for our last stroll down to the beach, where everyone just seems to revel in the sheer joy of being with a great bunch of people in that place at that time. It’s a fantastically clear night, there’s no light pollution so we tilt our heads back and can see the Milky Way, constellations that aren’t normally visible, passing planes and satellites, and then just to cap the camp off nicely, a series of shooting stars! Saturday. Up nice and early for the trip back to Sheffield. Kit gets nicely stitched up by Steve and Alan on the journey… But still beats them back anyway J
July 03 Bag packingCongratulations and a big thanks to everyone who took part in the bag packing at Morrisons last Saturday. Between the Scouts, Explorers and Leaders we managed to raise over £900 for camp funds – well worth the effort for 5½ hours! CrewboreeCrewboree – or ‘Christmas; Aussie Style’!!! Members of the 14th Grenoside and 25th Ecclesfield Scout Troops, and the District Explorers, took part in this year’s Crewboree. Some cracking weather on Sunday helped, but we were already having a fantastic time! The Scouts took part in activities including canoeing (or falling in the water –Liam), climbing, archery, zip line, kangaroo boxing (has to be seen to be believed) and numerous craft stalls. As usual favourite activities included poking fires; wetting people, especially Kit, Liam, Hazel (I will get my revenge) and Abbey – see photo!); and seeing how many inappropriate comments could be put in the ‘Crewboree Cryer’ – just what are ‘Kit’s Baps? Something to do with the trailer I think… The sites were decorated in the ‘Aussie Christmas’ theme that was running throughout the camp. Ecco Scouts had a kangaroo swinging from a tree – shouldn’t that be a koala bear in the tree Chris? J Greno had a full beach scene on their site, including wind breaks, palm trees, a Christmas tree (with lights), body boards and even water and sand! The discos in the evening proved popular, or was it just the chance for the boys to chat to the millions of Guides that were around? Thanks to all the Leaders that took Don District Scouts and Explorers, members of the District that were on Crew or otherwise helping out, and especially to our sub-camp Leaders Margaret and Sylvia, who we have met somewhere before… June 04 Austria Next Year!We’re just starting our planning for next year’s camp – and we’re thinking about going to Austria. The dates we’re looking at are Sunday 2nd to Wednesday 12th August 2009. We’ll be stopping in Indoor Accommodation at a Scout Campsite just outside Salzburg. The camp is located next to a warm swimming lake, 1.5 km from the nearest village and 20km from Salzburg itself.
Activities planned include:
We hope to be meeting lots of Scouts from other countries, and will be taking part in the ‘Environment’ and ‘Friendship’ badges. We’ll be doing a lot of hiking and cycling in the immediate vicinity of the campsite, visiting local attractions such as lakes, swimming pools and villages.
This time we intend to fly instead of using a coach; after last year can you blame us? We’re going for 10 nights instead of the usual 6 nights plus 3 days on a coach, so we reckon we’re getting good value for money. The fully inclusive cost will be somewhere in the region of £550-£650; this depends on airfare costs. We will probably travel down to Stansted and fly directly to Salzburg; at the moment these are the cheapest fares - over £120 less than flying from Manchester even allowing for a coach hire to and from the airport. If airfares rise dramacticly in the next few months we do have the option of travelling by coach...
Websites for more information:
Campsite:
http://www.zellhof.at/0_english/01Main_Zellhof.htm
Activities/locality
http://www.bauboeck.com/hochseilpark/home.html
May 20 Cubs and the Police HelicopterPolice Helicopter No it didn’t come to take us away! Thanks to the kindness of one of the Cub’s parents, who is a Police Officer on the ‘Copper Chopper’, we were able to take the Cubs to a visit at the (recently deceased) Sheffield Airport. Despite numerous requests of ‘Can we get in it?’ Matt managed to keep his cool and didn’t fasten the Cubs to the rotors and fly away. Much to the Leaders disappointment! JJ Photographs are below Treasure Hunt and BBQTREASURE HUNT & BARBECUESaturday 15th July At the Scout & Guide Headquarters, Saltbox Lane, GrenosideA shortish Treasure Hunt around the village followed by a barbeque and games back at the Headquarters, from 6 p.m. until we get tired of playing football on the back field (normally about 9:30pm)! Tickets are £5.00 for adults and £3.50 for childrenTickets are available from Kit Levesley or can be ordered from any section leader using the slip provided below. Vegetarian meals are available if pre-ordered, and please remember to bring your own drinks!!
Ticket requests must be in by Friday 6th July
Table Top SaleTable Top and Car Boot sale A BIG thank you to everyone who either had a stall, helped out or came down and visited us at this event. Hope you managed to find that bargain you were after. Thanks to everyone’s sterling efforts we raised over £300 for Group Funds St. George's CampSt. George’s Camp Everyone who attended had a great time at this camp – although some of the Scouts objected to having to go out hiking twice in one day! The Cubs had a great time playing with fires (?) and competing in the Stag Trophy, and we all enjoyed the Camp Fire that followed the renewal of promises. Especially Sarah and Jess from the Explorers, doing the Lappa Dance… After the brilliant weather on Saturday it was a shame to wake up to rain on Sunday, but Danny, Dom and Kyle enjoyed their mud fightJ Congratulations to both Scout Teams for completing the Night Hike without getting (too) lost, and coming 4th and 8th overall.
March 28 CrewboreeCrewboree 2008
Date: 6th – 8th June 2008 The ‘Crewboree’ is an event run every year by Hesley Wood, and this year we will be attending once again. The camp is aimed at Scouts, Guides, Explorers and Rangers – i.e. no pesky Beavers or Cubs!
Rough Programme Friday – Arrive after tea, pitch tents, search for missing pegs etc, followed by a karaoke and disco run by Hesley staff.
Saturday – full of activities provided by the site, such as climbing, abseiling, archery, zip line, assault course, bouldering wall, orienteering, inflatables, buggies etc. In the evening there will be an ‘Aussie’ themed disco, with prizes for the best fancy dress!
Sunday - a day of competitions and challenges, with prizes up for grabs.
This camp is normally brilliant, as all the activities available would normally cost a fortune, but we are able to run this camp for just £30 (that’s £20 for Hesley, £10 for food) – or if you pay your £10 deposit by the 10th of April then it will be only £28, as we receive a £2 early booking discount. The fee includes all the activities, camp fees, food etc – everything but for a small amount of spending money! St. George's DaySt. George’s Day Camp- 25th – 27th April
This years St. George’s Day Promise renewal will be during a campfire at Hesley Wood on Saturday 26th April. The Cubs, Scouts and Explorer sections have decided to make a camp out of this event, with activities for each section. The Beavers will be up at Hesley for Saturday afternoon and evening. March 19 Conditions of MembershipIf you have not already done so you will soon be receiving 2 copies of the new ‘Conditions of Membership’ for your section, plus a copy of the new ‘Group Disciplinary Procedure’. You or your parent/carer MUST sign both copies of the Conditions of Membership, and return one copy to your Leader. These two documents will give you a clear idea about what’s expected of you as a member of Grenoside Scout Group, and what you can expect from your Leaders. Good FridayNo Scouts this Friday, as the Leaders are taking a well deserved night off. Instead there will be a session of outdoor cooking Friday lunchtime, from 11am to 2pm. Turn up, get a fire going for your group, then start cooking! We’ll supply the food; you supply yourselves in suitable clothing (weather wise and you will stink of smoke). Of course if the weather does its usual Easter trick and it’s absolutely pouring down then we’ll have to migrate indoors, and we’ll use the camping stoves instead. St. George's DayAs you may know, St. George is the patron saint of Scouting, as well as England. Baden-Powell chose him as he felt that the Saint George of legend set a good example of faith, courage and perseverance. St George's day is kept on the 23rd April and most Scouts throughout the country will hold some form of celebration on the nearest Sunday. At these events all members renew their promise, from the youngest Beaver to the oldest Leader (not Kit this time!). This year we will be joining the rest of our District for a camp fire at Hesley Wood, on Saturday 26th April. As a bonus, there are additional activities for all sections. Beavers: Activity sessions Saturday afternoon, camp fire, then go home. Cubs: Saturday; take part in District Activity Competition, camp fire, then camp out for night. Scouts: Camp for weekend. Saturday; work towards Outdoor Challenge Badge, Camp fire, then take part in District Night Hike. Sunday; backwoods cooking. Leaders: Work hard all weekend, arrive home Sunday afternoon tired but happy, knowing they contributed towards making life a little bit better for a lot of people! February 19 Table Top SaleThe Group are holding a Table Top/Car Boot sale at the HQ on SATURDAY 10th May. Tables are only £5 each, so why not book one and get rid of some of that stuff you have had hanging around for ages? February 18 Freezer CampYes it's this coming weekend. If you need any more information you can obtain it from the 'Camps' file below, or contact us through the usual channels. There'll be around 60 of us there, so it should be a busy weekend... |
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