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By: NickKinrade 16/12/06 |
| The Cub Event Reports have also been finished with a couple of photos from last week's Christmas Craft event. Next term's programme coming soon. Cubs meets again on 11 January at the school. |
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By: NickKinrade 10/10/06 |
| As you may know 2007 is the centenary year of Scouting and many events will be taking place both locally and nationally to celebrate, including 'Scouting's Sunrise' on 1st August. Please view the Flyer about the arrangements for 1 August on the Isle of Man and put the date in your diaries. |
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By: NickKinrade 03/10/06 |
| Three more Cub badges have been released. These are the Astronomer, Map Reader and Athlete Plus... perhaps this means we will get to see Akela run again!
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By: NickKinrade 03/10/06 |
| Staged Activity badges are avaliable throughout all sections (Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, etc). There are now 5 levels of Emergency Aid and a Badge called Hikes Away where you receive a different level after 1, 5, 10, 20, 35 and 50 hikes. The Nights Away stages have also been altered so you can now get stages 1, 5, 10, 20, 35, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200. If any Cub would like to sleep out for more than half a year and gain the 200 please contact Akela as usual!! Full requirements can be found here.
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By: NickKinrade 03/10/06 |
| The number of Beaver Activity Badges has now been increased from 5 to 12 with the addition of Adventure, Air Activities, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Hobbies, Imagination and Safety. Full requirements can be found here.
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By: NickKinrade 24/09/06 |
| Both the Beaver and the Cub Autumn Programmes are avaliable online. The Cub Event Reports/Photos has also began.
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By: HuwWarrington 06/08/06 |
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Well
done to Flo, daughter of our Group Secretary, who has recently completed
a spell of 3 months helping out at Cubs for her Bronze Duke of Edinborough's
Award. Flo was a great help and the craft activity of making fish
she ran was a huge success. |
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By: NickKinrade 05/08/06 |
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By: NickKinrade 04/08/06 |
| The present incarnation of 1st Laxey began in 1999. However it is apparant that before this certainly Cubs was running in the village in 60s. Below is a photo from 1964/65 of Laxey Cubs & Brownies at Laxey School. The Cub Leaders are teachers, Jack Gair and Peter Kniveton and the Brownie Leaders are Isobel Gorry and Betty Hotchkiss.
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By: NickBoon 26/07/06 |
| On Wednesday 19 July the Group held its 7th Annual General Meeting at Laxey School, bringing to the end another successful year for the Group. The meeting was a great success with all the reports and the accounts being received by the meeting. The Council also approved the nomination of Nicola Bowker for GSL and her nomination of Nick Boon as Group Chairman. The Group Treasurer and Secretary were also re-elected for a further year. Unfortunately the turnout from parents and members was extremely poor (no doubt due to the lovely weather) and thus the roles of Cub and Beaver Parent Reps were not filled, following Fiona Shimmin and Simon Haddock's standing down from the Committee. Please see here for more details on the roles of the parents reps. Cubs JosephC and CharlieH also received the highest award in the Cub section, the Chief Scout's Silver Award. The minutes and the section annual reports are available for viewing below:
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By: NickKinrade 18/07/06 |
| With just one Cub night left (the WaterBlast) and one fundraising exercise in August, Akela's first term is nearly over so I think we would all like to thank him for that. The Cub Event Reports will soon be completed for this term with the addition of the pack camp photos and next term's programme will be released in late August. This term we also say goodbye to Joseph, Charlie and Mick. Thus the sixes have been reviewed with Sam, Jake and Annie being promoted to Sixer and William, Fynn, Frankie, and George gaining Seconders badges.
Results for the Best Six and hence the Golden Woggle were announced at Camp and the trophies will be presented at the AGM this Wednesday.
We have also concluded the website survey and results will shortly be avaliable as well as a brief resume at the AGM. These findings will be implemented by September. |
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By: NickKinrade 07/07/06
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Congratulations to Charlie, Mick, Louisa, George, JoeC and Frankie. Last night the Assistant Island Commissioner for Cubs came down to see us and presented us with the trophy for the winning Six on the Island Cub Camp. We won the competition jointly with 5th Douglas and so will get to keep the trophy for 6 months. Well done! This is only the 2nd time Laxey have won (Vikings pack won in 2003). |
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Do you use Amazon to buy books, DVDs, etc? If so please use our link rather than going direct to their website. This will take you to the same page with the same prices but we will earn a 5% referral bonus on everything you spend - every little helps and this is at no cost to you!
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For the first time ever the Beaver Summer Programme is avaliable on the website. Thanks go to Nick Boon. Also check out the photos. |
Obviously we shall need somebody to replace Simon on the Committee following the June AGM so if you are interested please contact Nick Boon. Also we are still looking for more Beaver leaders, and anybody willing to start up a Scout Troop.
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The King Orry Summer Programme is online here. Previous Event Reports for the Summer Term have also been started with the photos of St George's Day Parade.
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Hello. I am doing the Race for Life in May for Cancer Research. please visit my fundraising page at http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/emmamorter |
I have recently recieved some photos of the Vikings Winter Camp held at Ardwhallin in 2002. This was my first camp with 1st Laxey so it outdates the involvement of all current members and leaders (apart from Julie, Claire and I) but they are now there for past members visiting the site. These photos were originally put on a website in 2002 but quickly removed due to complaints about a photo of a Cub with an axe (now omitted)!
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Posted By: NickKinrade 15/04/06 |
| Just to clarify (after an enquiry), we do not bother to email or post messages, here on the home page, about every update made to the website. Emails are only sent half-termly and only major events/updates are mentioned here. So for instance the King Orry Event Reports were in fact updated with Thursday's pictures/news at some point last weekend and photos have just been added to Beaver Event Reports.
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Donation
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Posted By: NickKinrade 31/03/06 |
| Please visit the website of one of our former Chairmen Suzy Holland and consider donating to her parachute jump in aid of the Multiple Sclerosis Society. |
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Group
Disco |
Posted By: NickBoon 23/03/06 |
| After a quiet spell, the Executive Committee of 1st Laxey Scout Group came up with an exciting, if unoriginal, idea to have a disco for the local cubs and beavers. A date was set and arrangements put in hand. Initial plans to have Tony Blackburn as DJ and to be supported by live acts such as an Elvis lookalike floundered after Nick Black injected a little reality in to the situation by explaining that loss making ventures would defeat the object of raising funds for camping and play equipment!......
To read the rest of this report and see the photos goto either the Beaver's previous event reports or King Orry's Spring 2006 Reports. |
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Well
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Posted By: NickKinrade 14/03/06 |
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Joseph C has now completed the IT3 Staged Badge online via this website. He is the first to do so and badge 3 is designed for Scouts so he has done extemely well to achieve it as a Cub. See his short article about his rabbit here. To complete any of the IT staged badges 1 to 3 go here. IT1 should take less than 10 minutes! |
Congratulations to our team of Joseph, Mick, Josephine, Jason, Louisa and Charlie who came 2nd in the Cub section of last night's fun swimming competition in Peel. We were very unlucky not to win being 6 points ahead of the 2nd placed team before the final event. However we ended up losing by 1 point. See the results for more info.
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Posted By: NickKinrade 09/03/06 |
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Huw Warrington will take over a CSL of King Orry Pack from April 2006. Huw (Bagheera) is currently an Assistant Cub Leader and is taking over following Nicola's change of role. |
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Posted By: NickKinrade 09/03/06 |
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Due to
the increasing demands of running a business the current CSL, Nicola
Bowker, is standing down as CSL but will continue to assist
King Orry at certain events. Nicola
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also offered herself as Group Scout Leader, a position which has
been vacant since 2000. Although the Group
Exec and the Appointments Committee are yet to confirm these
appointments, it is hoped we will have a GSL again by the start
of next term. Nicola will be ideal in this role, having previously
been a GSL in Totternhoe, England as well as being involved with
Scouts and Ventures there.
Nicola set up King Orry Cubs in January 2003, but had been living in Laxey for two years prior to that. Her son was a Beaver at 1st Laxey from February 2001 and when he was 8, the Vikings Pack was oversubscribed so Nicola volunteered to set up a second pack with the help of Huw and Mez. The Pack has thrived ever since and we hope it will continue to do so under Huw. |
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Island
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Posted By: NickKinrade 05/03/06 |
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A reminder that this coming Saturday is the Island Super Splash competition for King Orry pack in Peel. This year's St George's Day parade will be held on 23 April at Rushen Abbey. All members of the Group are expected to attend. See the letter below for more information: |
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Guestbook |
Posted By: NickKinrade 01/03/06 |
| I have now added a Guestbook to the website so you can leave your comments/suggestions there. |
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Disco - Update |
Posted By: NickKinrade 17/02/06 |
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Following the meeting of the Executive Committee on Thursday, it has been confirmed that the fundraising disco, previously announced here, will be held at Laxey Football Club on Saturday 18 March from 19:00 till 21:00. Tickets go on sale after half-term. You can download the form below: |
Sixes
page & Members Area
updated with new Cubs and changes to the Sixes. Also if you are
logged in you can post messages to this page - click the posted
by above. Members only links are now shown by the image: |
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| Today marks the 7th Anniversary of the start of 1st Laxey Scout Group in 1999. |
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| Wonder what badges are for and where they go? See our Interactive Beaver & Cub Uniforms. Click on a group of badges to see what they are for. |
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