Scouting News in Tameside April 2018 Contents of Tamesider April 2018 Page 2 St. George’s Day Parades and Services Page 3 News from 12th Ashton Scout Group Page 4 GME Presentation Evening Page 5 North Tameside Cub’s Cooking Competition 2018 Page 6 We Escaped Page 6 Jamboree Fund Raiser Page 7 Ashton Scouts – Target Spring Event Page 8 – 9 GME – Ski Chill Factor Page 10 County Shooting Team Page 11 Diary Dates Page 11 PRaTTs Page 12 Swimming News Page 13 – 14 Training News Page 15 Yellow Card Update Page 16 Winter Camp Page 16 North Tameside District – Microsoft 365 Update Page 17 Rail ‘n’ Road Page 18 Jurassic Jamboree 2018 Why not vote for the Gilwell Oak as European tree of the year? It's on the Woodland Trust website! 1 St George’s Day Parades and Services Tameside South TS are holding a St. Georges themed District Camp 27th-29th April at Linnet Clough. We will be holding a St. Georges Day service with renewal of promises on Sunday 22nd April, 2:30pm at St. Georges Church Dane Bank followed by refreshments. Liz Rowles, DC Tameside South 07763 188149 North Tameside Meet outside TSB bank on Old Street Ashton at 2.15pm on Sunday 22nd April 2018 Parade to Albion Church for 3.00pm and dismiss approximately 4.00pm. Andrew Morton, DC North Tameside 07762 629721 Tame Valley We are at Holy Trinity Church, Stalybridge on the Sunday 22nd April 2018 service will be at 3pm meet at 2.15pm, Armentieres Square, Stalybridge Arnold Ellershaw, DC Tame Valley 07958 304645 Glossop The St. George's day parade for Glossop is on Sunday 22nd April Meeting at 2pm to leave by 2.30 from St Philip Howard school playground. We will have a parade through the town followed by a service at St Mary Church Dispersal is expected to be at 4pm Andy Wilson, DC Glossop, 07703654313 For more details please contact District Commissioner (DC) 2 News from 12th Ashton Scout Group 12th Ashton Beavers, Cubs and Scouts went to Ashworth Valley Scout Campsite over the weekend in freezing conditions. On the Friday night after setting up their tents and cooking shelter. This was followed up with a Water Aid wide game, Scout Leader Morgan Crane explained how difficult it was in the third world countries to get water and they had to walk miles to wells to get it. The Scouts were split into teams, each member had a cup full of water and they had to get it back to their campsite without the other team spilling it for them, the winning team was the one with most water back at their campsite. Following a hot drink and a warm up by the fire it was off to their sleeping bags in their tents to keep warm as the frost came down. The start of activities on Saturday, was a tent and site inspection, followed by breakfast. Other activities over the weekend were orienteering, grass sledging, pioneering, a camp fire and backwoods cooking. The Assistant Scout Leader Stephen Crane showed them how to light fires and cook on it, the scouts liked the toasted marsh-mellows cooked on sticks best. During the weekend Ellie and Harrison were invested after moving up from Cubs into the Scouts, and Beaver Dillon was invested into Cubs. Dillon said, ‘I like Cubs but this camp was cold.’ Cub Scout Leader Hayley Mansell said, ‘It was my first time camping in a tent. I liked it all except for my cold feet, I was surprised that all the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts on their first camp liked it as well.’ 3 County Presentation Evening Scouts, Explorers & Network Award Ceremony April 2018 Please find below the link for Award recipients, their guests and leaders to book onto the next Presentation evening, which is on Wednesday 25th April 2018, again at Hyde town hall. https://gmeawardsapril18.eventbrite.co.uk This Award Reception is for Network, Explorer Scouts & Scouts is to be held at Hyde Town Hall, Corporation Street, Hyde. You may book a place at the Award Reception if you have recently gained either a Chief Scouts Award (Gold, Platinum or Diamond) Queens Scout Award Explorer Belt Young Leader Belt. If you have gained a Duke of Edinburgh Award in addition to your Scout Award this may also be recognised in the programme, if you so wish. Each award holder may book one place at this reception together with places for two family guests. Your Scout Leaders will receive an invitation separately therefore you do not need to book places for them using this process. As part of the booking process you will be asked to complete some questions about you and which award you are to be presented with. This will enable us formulate a brief personal introduction prior to you receiving your Award. Bookings will close on Sunday 1st April 2018 and invitations with full joining instructions will be sent out by email approximately 1 week before the evening I’m pleased to say that we shall be joined on the evening by both the Mayors of Tameside & Stockport. Any queries please get in touch. Claire Jarvis, Deputy County Commissioner - Operations 4 North Tameside District Cubs Cooking Competition 2018 Cubs from six North Tameside Cub packs gathered on Sunday 18th March at 250th Droylsden Scout HQ for the first ever district Cub's Cooking Competition. The packs from 2nd Ashton, 3rd Ashton, 6th Ashton (Ford and Gregory packs), 413th Manchester and 339th Manchester have been practising their peeling, chopping, frying and cooking skills for the past month in preparation. Leaders from all the packs took turns to judge each other’s teams on safety, hygiene and practical skills before the final meals were presented for the Mayor, Cllr Joyce Bowerman to judge on taste and presentation. The mains included garlic butter chicken, homemade burgers, vegetable stew, cornflake chicken fajitas, spaghetti bolognaise and Louisiana chicken whilst the dessert menus featured rice pudding, pancakes with fruit or lemon, Moravian mess, apple pie French toast and peaches and bananas with custard. The competition was incredibly tight with all the Cubs showing an outstanding level of cooking and teamwork skills. The eventual winners were 6th Ashton Gregory pack with their Louisiana chicken and apple pie French toast combination closely followed by 339th Manchester and 413th Manchester packs. The mayor commented that it was difficult to choose between the teams as the standard of cooking was very high. Yasmin, a member of the winning team said 'It was nice to have a competition that wasn't sport. I love cooking so this was something I wanted to enter.' Gill Cummins, ADC Cubs, thanked the mayor and her Consort Mr Fred Bowerman for turning out on a terribly cold, snowy day and all of the Cubs and leaders who ensured that the competition was a great success and hopefully the first of many. 5 We Escaped! On Friday the 9th of March, we went to an escape room. This experience was truly one to remember. At first thought, the idea of being locked in a room with a bunch of Explorers is terrifying, but once we started to explore the room and become comfortable in our surroundings, we were able to work as a team to find our way out. It was a test of inquisition and focus, whilst also laughing at the fact every time a sound effect went off we would scream. As a group that works together and meets up every week we are all used to working together, but this experience has brought us closer than before. Normally we argue a lot more and fight over what to do, but the threat of being locked in a room helped us listen to one another and focus on working towards the same goal, even though we did need quite a bit of help to work some things out. Although I began the night rather sceptical, due to my claustrophobia, once we began working it was so much fun and you can really get into the story. The entire group enjoyed the evening; it was a new and interesting activity that has helped us work together. Doug. (AESL Broadoak) Jamboree Fund Raiser For Tickets phone Tina on 07411 773336. Proceeds to the jamboree fund. 6 Ashton Scout performs in National Target Sprint event A 12 year old scout from 6th Ashton, recently competed in the GB ranking event for Target Sprint. The event served as a qualifying event for selection to the GB squad, who plan on competing in various international competitions and world cups in Germany, Italy and South Korea this year. The current GB squad has 3 older Explorer and Network Scouts on it so there is a history of scouts doing well. The event format is run 400 metres, shoot 5 drop down targets using a target air rifle, then repeating before finishing with a 400 metre sprint. The junior event is open to 11 to 21 year olds, and there is also a senior event for the 21+ athletes. The scout from Ashton was mainly running for experience in competitions, and for fun, especially as he was the youngest there. However, things got more serious on the track, where despite the 17 and 18 year olds racing off ahead, he ran his own race, coming in to shoot very well and fast, finishing in 7minutes 14 seconds, ahead of an older athlete and only 44 seconds outside the time required for an invite to try for the GB squad. This was a new Personal Best improving on his previous time by 2 minutes and 22 seconds.