Upcoming
Friday 4 October:
Planning for the trip to SKY STUDIOS
For those who would like to attend, we are returning to SKY STUDIOS in ELSTREE to take part
We need to achieve a minimum of 20 students and a maximum of 30 students (excluding accompanying adults).
Sky Up Academy Studios is Sky’s flagship initiative to develop creativity and digital skills through a unique and immersive experience. We are thrilled to have opened the doors of our newest, state-of-the-art film and TV studios in Elstree to students, giving them the opportunity to create their very own pitch film in our state-of-the-art Extended Reality (XR) studios.
The Sky Up Academy Studios Elstree experience has been designed for students aged between 11-19
Past projects
2023-24
What we have been up to!
This year
- Trip to Windsor
- Fundraising challenge
- Rifle shooting
- Afternoon at the BMX track
- Lazy camping at PGL
- First Aid
- Night hike
- Camping
- Sewing
- Carol Singing
- Archery
- Expedition challenge for our Yr 8 & 9’s
Congratulations to our Jack Petchy Award winners for 2024
September 2024 – Edith Rose
CHIEF SCOUT GOLD AWARDS
Thomas & Leon
2022-23
The A-Z of Scouting this year is a follows:
- Baking
- Cooking
- Camping
- Climbing
- Debating
- experimenting
- Hill making (with bread)
- Hiking
- Jumping (well on a trampoline)
- Making ladders (some more safer than others)
- Listening – guest speaker from Scout Group in Africa.
- Lighting fires
- Learning new Skills
- Getting Sponsored
- Quests
- And Quizzes
- And a sleepover
- Visits and Touring – Houses of Parliament, Windsor, the night sky and Sky!)
- Walking (followed by Camping) – and then walking again!
- We have been on the Water and used water (well it was a bit of a drenching at the water fight!)
- And we have learnt the fine art of knowing how to land when coming down from a Zip wire! Well, some of us did… and some of us just didn’t!!
All along the way – earning badges.
Scouts of the Year:
Ethan, John-Joe & Sharama
Most improved:
Leon
Patrol of the Year: HAWKS
YOUNG LEADER AWARD
As soon as this young person turned 14 – his quest for more began… and even if I didn’t tell him – it was lovely to see!
For the diamond badge you completed Module A
You have completed your four missions of Games, Activity, Programme planning and delivery.
So well done to Shamara
Congratulations to our Jack Petchy Award winners for 2022-3
September 2022 – Shamara & Matteo
May 2023 – Leon
CHIEF SCOUT GOLD AWARDS
Ethan, John-Joe, Shamara & Matteo
2021-22
We have celebrated Burn’s Night and St. Patrick’s in our own special way. We have had a troop election that earned one patrol a tub of sweets… but election promises that they made did not hold up as well as their manifestos!
Somehow… in 2021-23 we managed to have 3 opportunities to camp giving up to 8 nights away –
- our relaxing and ease back into it camp in December at PGL – with added central heating…
- our Spring Camp that has a note to self of sleep miles away from Cub Girls… or put them in a field far away…
- and the District and Family Camp.
We have been trying to get out of the HQ a bit more.
Thank you to Ben and the Explorers for leading the Night Hike in February.
Getting out of the building has meant heading to the Battle of Britain Bunker in November (which was nice as it was open just for us), the RAF Museum gave us a day out in February in the District mini bus. Trying a bit of culture in attending and Organ Recital in June… and being able to end the term with a water fight on a hot sunny early evening in July.
Swim Gala with the District after Covid was not one of brilliant ideas… but congratulations to those that took part. The 5-a-side football District Competition
Outside of proper Scouting… a few from each section took time out to watch Women’s Football at Wembley…
Congratulations to our Jack Petchy Award winners for 2021-2
May 2022 – Ethan & John-Joe
September 2021 – Kitty & Ciaran