An action packed week was had in Ireland, with a great deal of fun with many great Scouts & Explorers.
Highlights included, Zipit, Dublin Tour, Coastal walk, the Zoo, Guinness Lake, Kayaking and loads more.
The camp was split over 2 sites. One in Dublin & one in the Wicklow mountains.
Here are some of our highlights.
The Crays Pond campsite near Goring was the fitting location for 3rd Reading’s 2018 Summer Cub Camp – originally founded in the 1920s, the picturesque location was the perfect setting for over 40 Cubs to discover some of the more traditional scouting skills, such as pioneering and camp fire cooking, as well as to become acquainted with a variety of more contemporary ones, such as circus skills and bicycle pump rocket blasting – perhaps not surprisingly, a firm favourite! Slathered in sun tan lotion to cope with tremendous weekend weather, the Cubs revelled in the camaraderie and the challenges. 2018 Summer Cub Camp was a tremendous experience for young and old hands alike.
It was a fabulous morning by the river, followed by a brilliant win at lunchtime. We were not sure whether we had won and had to wait for the photo finish to be checked.
The results were:
Race 1, Boat 3, Finish 2nd
Race 2, Boat 1, Finish 1st
Race 3, Semi Final, Boat 4, Finish 2nd
Race 4, Final, Boat 4, Finish 1st!
The Cubs adopted Woody, the dog, as their mascot and motivation for winning.
There were only 9 Cubs in the boat.
The organizers praised Reading 3rd especially, highlighting their behaviour, which was polite and attentive. That’s always good to hear.
A few pics from our Wednesday & Friday night hikes earlier this term.
A full 2 hours, but a good time had by all.
On a sunny weekend, 9 Scouts & Explorers headed up to the big smoke for some old fashioned exploration.
It was a busy itinerary, we camped in a gem of a Scout Campsite in Southall, on Friday evening we took advantage of camping near an Asian community & hit the food shops big time. What an amazing array of food.
Saturday was a long day, leaving our site, at 9am, we headed out for over 12hours of exploration.
1st up, a trip to Downing Street and get our all important pics in front of number 10.
The after a quick Tube ride, we headed to Tower Bridge and walked over, high up over the river.
After all that, well time for lunch. We wandered up to London Bridge and into Borough Market. It was crammed, but the food was worth it.
After lunch, it was time for a view, what better way to see London than up the Walkie Talkie building to see the views from the Sky Garden.
Well, its been full on so far, so now for some relaxation, we head to the Serpentine Lido. A great day for a dip.
After all that exercise, well it must be dinner time. Where to go? Chinatown
Finally after a long day, we saw the street entertainers in Covent Garden.
Wow, ok, back to our site in Southall. Long day ,but fantastic.
Sunday , after a quick breakfast, we got in a few hours in the Science Museum.
All in all. A great weekend.
All, please note our AGM will be on Tuesday 22nd May at 20:00 at 3rd Reading HQ
All welcome
Back in April, Thomas, Taine and Fred took on the challenge of our District Cooking Competition.
They fearlessly managed to cut their casserole vegetables without injury (mostly). Their fruit salad was delicious and they were an amazing team.
With little cooking experience; working together carefully following instructions helped them to win and be District champions!
Then later the same term , our creative Cubs made an amazing effort for the autumn District Handicraft Competition. Parents, Leaders and Cubs all worked hard together to transform pasta, wooden spoons and shoe boxes into vampires, mummies, campsites and skeleton fish (and other animals). Our efforts were rewarded by becoming joint first, well done everyone.
It has been a busy week at the 3rd.
Wednesday evening at Beavers, was only for the brave, tarantula’s, snakes and more reptiles came to visit one of our youngest sections. Judging by their gleeful faces there was no fear !
Wednesday and Friday saw the Scout section, performing their own remembrance evening by visiting the war memorials around Reading town centre and Caversham.
On Saturday night the 3rd Cubs & Scouts enter the District swimming gala. A fantastic evening was completed with the 3rd heading home with the winners trophies. Well done !! Great effort.
Finally to a sunny & cold Sunday morning, members of all sections joined the Caversham remembrance parade at Caversham War Memorial with young people from many other organisations. Well done guys for representing the 3rd.
Last night on a late September evening, 40 intrepid Scouts & Explorers completed a night hike from Emmer Green to Hurst.
Working in small groups, they survived a lot of mud on an otherwise mild evening.
Great progress was made completing the 9 miles in 3-4 hours. Given the ground underfoot all very impressive.
Thanks to Hurst Scouts for the use of their Scout HQ. With 28 scouts sleeping in your hall, I’ll leave it to your imagination how much sleep was had !
A secret agent mission took place at Youlbury Scout camp site this weekend…
The cubs had an amazing time, performing many activities to work out who the secret agent was.
Over 40 cubs took part in camp fires, abseiling, Jacobs ladder, fencing and loads more.
It was a lot of fun, and Akela – we can’t wait until the next one!
