Tag: 1st Stoke Gifford Scouts

The Old School Rooms (OSR) troop recently spent time learning ‘all things aviation’ for the Air Activities Badge. This is a multi-stage badge, so anyone in Scouting can progressively learn more and extend their knowledge and skills from Beavers to Explorers. The first step was a visit to the Aerospace Bristol museum…

Members of the 1st Stoke Gifford Old School Rooms Scout troop have once again been taking part in the popular CREST award scheme, run by the British Science Association. The scheme provides opportunities for young people to explore real-world science, technology, engineering and maths projects in an exciting way.

Stoke Gifford’s Old School Room (OSR) Scouts have recently taken part in the Blue Peter ‘Climate Heroes’ challenge, which asked young people to become a ‘green-army’ to help tackle carbon emissions and climate change. The Scouts were asked to pledge to reduce their plastic use, save energy and plant pollinating plants.

The easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions from late March has allowed four Stoke Gifford Scouts to finally complete an expedition to satisfy one of the requirements of the Chief Scout’s Gold Award. The exercise followed weeks of planning and organising conducted via the Zoom videoconferencing platform.

Scouts of the Old School Rooms troop in Stoke Gifford slept rough – in their own gardens due to lockdown – in minus 3 degrees centigrade temperatures, with just their cardboard shelters for protection. Why on earth would they do that? I hear you all ask!

Two Stoke Gifford Scout leaders have received awards for good and long service to Scouting. Sue Baker, a Beaver Scout leader, and Michele Grattidge, a Scout and Explorer Scout leader, were presented with awards in December for their dedication and support to Scouting in Stoke Gifford.

As of early October, the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts of 1st Stoke Gifford Scout Group have finally been able to meet up face to face again. Since lockdown, many of the sections have been working hard to keep the young members involved in Scouting, but there’s nothing like meeting up in person.

Since lockdown began and face-to-face scouting was halted throughout the UK, the 1st Stoke Gifford Old School Rooms (OSR) Scouts have met regularly on Zoom (the videoconferencing app), where they’ve done loads of activities from baking, cooking, model making, Kahoot quizzes, bingo, scavenger hunts…