qsg news winter 2012/13 - issue 5

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BRILLIANT ADVENTURE FOR

SCOUTS AT LOPC SPLASH CAMP

TOP MORNING:

TABLE TOP SALE A

SUCCESS

SPOOKY FUN: CUBS

HALLOWEEN PARTY

HELPING PUDSEY:

BEAVERS RAISE

MONEY FOR

CHILDREN IN NEED

Winter 2012/13

Issue 5

IN THIS ISSUE:

AT the end of September the

Troop took part in SplashCamp.

This is a fantastic event wherea 190 Scouts from all over

Leicestershire take part inadventurous activities, such asKayaking, Sub Aqua, Sailing,Climbing and the High Ropes

Course.This all takes place at the

Leicester Outdoor Pursuit

Center for one action packed

weekend.

During the weekend those

who wanted too took part in achallenge to see how fast they

could paddle a 100 metres on acanoeing machine.

The fastest Scout over theweekend won a prize.

This was our very own seniorpatrol leader Bevan Wray.

On the Sunday afternoon

there was another competition

between all the Troops.The Scouts had to do a relay

race on the canoeing machine tosee

who was the fastest Troopwhich Queniborough also won.

This was a brilliant way forthe lads to finish the weekend

off.Ian Merry

Scout Leader

SPLASHING AROUND: The Scouts having fun at Splash Camp at the LOPC in Leicester


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MESSAGES AND NOTESCHAIRMANS NOTE

As you read through thenewsletter, I am sure you will

agree with me that it seems tohave been a busy and exciting

autumn session with each ofthe sections putting together a

full programme of activities.We have a great bunch of

kids (and room for more ofcourse!) and it is exciting for

our leaders to see them havingfun whilst at the same time,

developing their personal skills

in line with The Scout Promiseand the Scout Law.

Scouting provides an

opportunity to develop lifeskills such as self confidence,

team working and leadershipthat will stand them in good

stead in the future when theyare looking to leave school and

start on their careers.That said, Christmas is just

around the corner and it seemsas good a time as any to use

this column to say thank you.

Firstly, thank you to all theleaders and those they have co-

opted to help for giving uptheir free time to run the

sections, raise funds, writeminutes of meetings, maintainthe hall and equipment andkeep the accounts in good

order.Secondly, my special thanks

to Ben King for all the efforthe puts into this newsletter and

for his patience in waiting forme to write this.

Thirdly, may I also thank

you, the parents and readers foryour continuing support andcommitment to the group as a

whole.And finally may I take this

opportunity to wish all theBeavers, Cubs and Scouts a

lovely Christmas and a veryHappy New Year. We look

forward to seeing you all inearly January.

Phil Iley

Group Chairman

ISSUE DATES FOR 2013 (subject to change)

No.

Copy Date

Final Date

6 11th March 2013 25th March 2013

7 10th June 2013 24th June 2013

8 9th September 13 23rd September 13

9 18th November 13 2nd December 13

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NOTICES AND OTHER NEWS

GROUP DIARY

Monday 3rd December

Group Executive Meeting

Friday 21st December

Schools close for Christmas

break

Monday 31st December

New Years Eve Disco in aidof the Group at Village Hall

Tuesday 8th January

Schools Open

Saturday 2nd February

Table Top Sale and Disco

Monday 4th February

Group Executive Meeting

Monday 4th March

Group Executive MeetingNEW MEMBERS

AND USERSIf you know anyone who would like

to join Beavers, Cubs or Scouts, thenplease get in touch with one of the

Leaders. Anyone who would like to

hire the use of the hall for any reason

please speak to the Chair of the

Fundraising Committee, NathanMartin on 07827925839.

THANK YOU TO THE

PARISH COUNCILWho have kindly donated 125 to the

Group from the Jubilee celebrations

earlier this year.

The money will go towards furtherfunds for the Hall.

NEXT DISCO DATEThe next disco will be held inFebruary 2013. There will be a Table

Top Sale on the same date at

Queniborough Village Hall from 9am-

1pm. Tables are available from 6each. Entrance is 50p each.

For further information please contact

Colin Graham on 0116 2609100.

Thank you.

EDITORIALDear Readers,

As Christmas approaches fast,

I cant believe 2012 is almostover.

Its been an amazing year withthe Diamond Jubilee,

Olympics and Euro 2012, withplenty to celebrate.

Heres to next year, 2013, andall that it will bring!

Merry Christmas everyoneand Happy New Year!

Ben, The Editor

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YOU.

Parading for

Remembrance

SUNDAY 11th November saw

the Scout Group and other

village organisations take partin the annual RemembranceSunday Parade.

Meeting at the Village Hall at9.45am, the Syston Scout and

Guide Band led the parade up tothe church, where the reefs were

laid at the memorial and theservice followed.

The band then paraded usback to the Village Hall, where

Colonel Murray Colville, onbehalf of HM The Queen,

congratulated everyone ondoing so well and making the

nation proud.

By Ben King

REMEMBERING: The Group

ready to march off

NEW YEARS DISCO

The Group are holding a New yearsEve Disco on New Years Eve at the

Village Hall from 7.30pm onwards.

Tickets are 20 for a family (2 adults& 2/3 children) and all proceeds go to

the Group.

For more info contact Nathan on

07827925839. Thank you.


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THE Group had a successful

afternoon collecting donationsand packing bags at the local

Tesco store, it is announced.Members of the Beavers,

Cubs and Scouts, with the helpof leaders raised 291.31 for the

Group at Tesco in Syston onSaturday 17th November.

Chair of the FundraisingCommittee, Nathan Martin said:

Its a brilliant amount weveraised and turned out to be agood fundraiser.

We had about 10 lads turn

up to help out and they havedone us proud.

The youngsters, aged from sixto thirteen, helped pack

shopping bags and fill donation

buckets up from shoppers andwere all treated with drinks andsweets afterwards for turning

up.They were also giving out

Family Fun Night leaflets,

BUCKETS OF CASH: The Group raised about 290 at Tesco in

Syston, and theyre all having fun doing it!

By Ben King

ON our first night back after the

summer holidays, we took ourBeavers onto Queniborough

King George V playing fieldwhere we played team games

like rounders.We also held a chocolate

night, where as you can guess, it

was all about chocolate, whichwas a celebration of Cadburyscelebrating over 100 years.

In October we had a locallady who came to talk about her

hedgehog rescue. Pat Wadd,brought a hedgehog with her.

Pat gave us many useful tips

EASY FUNDARAISING UP-

DATE AS OF NOVEMBER

2012DONT FORGET TO

SIGN UP!

SUPPORTERS: 17AMOUNT RAISED SO FAR:

23.30TOP FUNDRAISERS: 1st -

Phil I., 2nd-

Karen M.,3rd-

Ben K.

Go to

www.easyfundraising.org.ukand sign up now!

THE Cubs enjoyed a fun

Halloween night of playinggames and making a Guy

Fawkes.The Cubs are also starting

their DIY badge and havecompleted parts of the Global

Challenge.As part of it, Kaa led a

session about recycling andTomsks dad Jez Bromley came

down to give a talk about thehistory of the computer.

We have had a mixed term,with Baloo unable to attend due

to work and Chil having left dueto other commitments.

We thank him for helping outover the past year and hopefullyBaloo will be back in January.

Overall, we are down to

seven Cubs after a lot went upto Scouts.

Chris KingCub Leader

copies of the QSG News and

recruitment leaflets.Scout Oliver King enjoyed it,

saying:It was really good that we

made so much money, becauseit will help the Group carry on

improving the hall.

Thank you to everyone youcame to help out, and to those

of you who didnt, you dontknow what youre missing!

about how to protect

hedgehogs, including how tomake gardens safe.

On Bonfire night we made aguy and entered this into the

Queniborough Guy Fawkescompetition. We came second!

We also took part in theRemembrance Day parade and

had a good number of Beaversattend.

We had a marching practiceon our meeting night before

SPOOKY FUN: The Cubs have

fun creating their Guy Fawkes onHalloween

PUDSEY BEAR: Beavers raised money for Children in Need

SECTIONAL NEWS/GENERALthis.

We held a fundraising nightfor Children In Need where we

asked children to come in theirpyjamas, and the leaders wore

theirs too!We also asked the Beavers to

bring a teddy and some penniesto donate towards this good

cause.

Hannah LaneBeaver Leader

BAGS OF LUCK FOR GROUP AS

PLENTY OF FUNDS ARE RAISED


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PICTURE GALLERYREMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

Pictures by Kate King

TABLE TOP SALE

Pictures by Ben King

Anyone can send pictures for the gallery, just email us the pictures

at [email protected] and we endeavour to publish them.


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A WIDER VIEW

MYTHBUSTING FILM HITS NEW HEIGHTSThe following arcle is from www.scouts.org.uk:Our Expect More film,

which shows the positive

impact of Scouting on young

people today, has now

reached over 50,000 views in

just five months.

It tracks the journey of seven

teenagers from a tough Londonestate to Gilwell Park Scout

Activity Centre where they find

a true sense of community inthe activities they undertaketogether. Asking What do you

expect? the film challengesperceptions of Scouting and

highlights the difference wemake to the lives of young

people.

Expect more

Film-maker, Tony Lundon of

The Cell Productions, explainswhy he supported the project:

The opportunity to tell adifferent story about young

people, one with a bit of hope,was what interested me about

the campaign.Essentially, what I tried to

say was that young people,whatever their background, will

make both good and baddecisions - there is no getting

away from that. But the contextwithin which they make them

can be what makes or breaks ayoung person's future.

Camping, climbing, canoeing ... and now politics

FULL OF DIVERSITY: The film shows viewers how diverse Scouting can be and that people from all

backgrounds can be part of the adventure-

You can watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOM1n22XyHA

Our partner, The Discovery

Channel, supported thecampaign by releasing a 30-

second version of the film ontheir networks in July. In

another first for Scouting, thenational television advert

encouraged people to volunteerfor Scouting and help to change

a life.

Community impact

In 2011 we commissioned anindependent report to measure

our impact on young people. Itfound that Scouting can help

young people make a real andlong-lasting commitment to

their communities and developa wide range of valuable skills.

The film ends with themessage: These should be the

best years of their lives. With

your help we can make thathappen, and challenges viewers

to Expect more. Afterwatching the film the website

invites people to learn moreabout the impact of Scouting.

To support our work and thelives of young people in the UK

today, please text MORE022 to 70070.

SCOUTS took over the House

of Commons on Wednesday31st October to launch Talk

This Way: From Scout toSpeaker of the House, a re-

source to help Scouts becomeactive, engaged and informed

citizens, ready to play their part

in the democratic process.

To celebrate the launch, hun-dreds of Scouts challenged MPs

to test their brainpower as partof a head-to-head quiz in Parlia-

ment.Local MPs teamed up with 32

Scout Groups from across the

UK to compete against eachother in a quiz hosted by Going

for Golds Henry Kelly. Hetested the Scouts and MPs on a

range of parliamentary issuesincluding law-making, political

parties and the electoral pro-

cess.

Talk This Way, the new re-source pack launched at the

event, is available to all Scoutleaders and aims to educate

young people about Parliament.It uses a variety of activities to

show how they can engage with

and influence the democraticprocess. The resource includes

House of Commons-style de-bates to encourage Scouts to

think about arguments from allsides and develop their views ontoday's most important political

issues.

The resource, created in part-nership with Parliament's Edu-

cation Service, builds on activi-ties such as the successfulScouts Question Time and theScouts Speak Up events at this

year's party conferences. The

aim is to get young people talk-ing to politicians and to develop

the important relationships be-tween Scouts and their local

MPs.


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GENERAL NEWS

POETRY

CORNERFeel free to submit poems to be

published, just email the poem

with your name to the email

address above or contact Ben.

TWAS THE NIGHTBEFORE CHRISTMAS

"'Twas the night before

Christmas,

when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring,not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung bythe chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soonwould be there;

The children were nestled allsnug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plumsdanced in their heads;

And mamma in her 'kerchief,and I in my cap,

Had just settled our brains for along winter's nap,

When out on the lawn therearose such a clatter,I sprang from the bed to seewhat was the matter.

Away to the window I flew likea flash,

Tore open the shutters andthrew up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the

new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to

objects below,When, what to my wondering

eyes should appear,But a miniature sleigh, andeight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, solively and quick,

I knew in a moment it must beSt. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his

coursers they came,And he whistled, and shouted,and called them by name;'Now,Dasher! now,Dancer!

now,Prancerand Vixen!On, Comet! on, Cupid! on,

DonderandBlitzen!To the top of the porch!

to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away!dash away all!'

As dry leaves that before thewild hurricane fly

When they meet with anobstacle, mount to the sky;

So up to the house-top thecoursers they flew,

With the sleigh full of Toys,and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, Iheard on the roofThe prancing and pawing of

each little hoof.As I drew in my head, and was

turning around,Down the chimney St.

Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, fromhis head to his foot,

And his clothes were alltarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of Toys he had flungon his back,

And he looked like a peddlerjust opening his pack.

His eyes - how they twinkled!

his dimples how merry!His cheeks were like roses,

his nose like a cherry!His droll little mouth was

drawn up like a bowAnd the beard of his chin was

as white as the snow;The stump of a pipe he heldtight in his teeth,And the smoke it encircled his

head like a wreath;He had a broad face and a little

round belly,That shook when he laughed,

like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a

right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him,

in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist

of his head,

Soon gave me to know I had

nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went

straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings;

then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of

his nose,

And giving a nod, up the

chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his

team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the

down of a thistle,

But I heard him exclaim, ere he

drove out of sight,

"Happy Christmas to all, and to

all a good-night.'"

by Clement Moore

Sound

Off!By Oliver King

IN October, we had thenational Massed Bugle Band

rehearsal. On the 10th November we

had the Lord Mayors Show in

London, which was shown onTV.

The following day we hadthe Remembrance Sunday

Parades in Queniborough andSyston.

Coming up we have ourannual show, Sticks and Tones

at Wreake Valley Theatre inMarch, for which we are

currently rehearsing for.We also have a production

of Hello Dolly!, which is atthe Curve in Leicester.

THREE MORE CUBS GAIN SILVERTHREE more Cubs have

achieved the Silver Chief ScoutAward, it is announced.

Jaydn Kettle, Aaron King andStefan Nistor all earned the

award in September, shortlybefore their moved up to Scouts.

Cub Leader Chris King saidof the achievements:

Its great that the Cubscontinue to achieve these

awards.

Hopefully it will drive the

younger Cubs on to gain themin future too.

WELL DONE: Jaydn Kettle and

Aaron King, two of three Chief

Scout Silver Award holders

It shows what a credit they

are to Scouting.These achievements mark the

latest in a long line of ChiefScout Awards earned in the

Cubs this year, so hopefully itwill continue.

The Cubs have to complete all

their Challenge badges to gain

the award, plus a personalChallenge agreed with a leader.

Its a great achievement, sowell done to all three of them

and hopefully they will continueto do Scouting and strive to be

the best they can be.


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COMICS, PUZZLES AND MORE NEWSSOLUTIONS FROM THE LAST

ISSUE

THINKING LATERALLY17

COUNTDOWN CORNER

Numbers75 50 8 7 2 1

Target - 489

75+2=77

77x7=539

539-50=489

25 9 6 5 3 2

Target - 223

9+6=15

15x5=75

75x3=225

225-2=223

Countdown ConundrumOUNCEDISHCUSHIONED

OXONSHAPESAXOPHONE

COUNTDOWN CORNER

This secon gives you puzzles related to

the popular show, Countdown.

NUMBERS

Can you reach the target number?

100

50

8

4

3

2

Target: 588

75 10 9 5 2 1

Target: 742

WORDS

What is the biggest word you can make?

G O J N F E E A L

B I W D O O C I S

COUNTDOWN CONUNDRUM

Can you work out what these words are?

D E F Y R O B I N

C L E A R C U T I

THINKING LATERALLY

A woman watched her husband plunge head

rst down a deep ravine. She returned home to

nd him in the kitchen, chopping onions. How is

this possible?

THE LAST LAUGH (credits go to Ian WestScouting Magazine)QUOTE OF

THE SEASON

If you can dream it,

you can do it.

Walt Disney

JOKE OF THE SEASON

Why is it so cold at Christmas?

Because its Decemberrrrrrrrr!

PROFIT OF 170

MADE AT TABLE TOPThe Group made a profit of

170 at the Table Top Sale, it isannounced.

The event on Saturday 3rdNovember saw shoppers flock

to Queniborough Village Hallto support the Group and try

and find a bargain.About nineteen tables were

sold and about a good hundredor so people came to feast their

eyes on the different items onsale, including, cakes, clothes,

woodwork and toys.

Tea, coffee and biscuits were

also on offer where you couldsit down to read the latest copy

of the QSG News, which wasbeing handed out all morning.

The next Table Top Sale isscheduled for Saturday 2nd

February, again from 9.30am to1pm.

The Valentines Disco is alsoscheduled for this date.

For more information pleasesee the notice on the event on

page 2.

SHOP TIL YOU DROP: Plenty of keen collectors and traders swooped

into Queniborough Table Top Sale in November


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ROUND-UP

Next

Issue

Out: 25th

March

2013

A ROUND-UP OF THE FIRST

YEAR OF THE NEWSPAPER

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TO US!The newspaper is one year old

this issue.It officially started life as an

idea that Phil, our Chairman had,

and was thought of on Saturday

29th October 2011, at the CubsDistrict Swimming Gala. Hesuggested that I create thisnewspaper in order to Keep the

Group connected, hence the

slogan, and also to help with mystudies.

The newspaper always aims to

keep people up to date with

Group Developments, SectionalNews, UK Scouting and other

Group events, which we also try

and do our best to cover.

If for whatever, we dont coverthe event or activity, then please

dont hesitate to send in your own

report with a picture or two, andwe will do our best to publish it!

Thanks for the continuingsupport with regards to the QSG

News, and I hope it will continue

for a few more years to come!

Badge PositionsThis issue: Scouts

Over the past year the QSG

News has covered many eventsand below is a summary of

those from this year ofQueniborough Scouting.

OCTOBER 2011

The group numbers were on therise, with 20 Beavers, 14 Cubs

and 9 Scouts. This was thebiggest rise for 4 years.

NOVEMBER 2011

Remembrance Day saw theGroup take part in the annual

village parade.

DECEMBER 2011

Ian Freer became the new

quartermaster, while John

Lewin (Baloo) took over astreasurer.

JANUARY 2012

The Duchess of Cambridgebecame a Scout Volunteer.

FEBRUARY 2012

Group holds another successfulTable Top Sale.

MARCH 2012

The Group joineasyfundraising.org.uk.

APRIL 2012

Queens Scouts parade at annualWindsor parade in the presence

of HRH The Queen.

MAY 2012

The Cubs hold their indoorcamp and the Scouts hold their

patrol camp.

JUNE 2012

First set of Cubs achieve the

Silver Chief Scout Award.

JULY 2012Beavers achieve Bronze Chief

Scout awards.

AUGUST 2012

Phil Iley becomes new

Chairman and Clive Grahambecomes new GSL.

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