| Date | Programme | special instructions |
| 17th&24th Sept | Camp preparation and scout skills (knives and axes). Bring your penknife if you have one. | |
| 26th-28th Sept | Patrol Camping at Goring Heath. This is a great opportunity to gain the experience needed to go to CPCW on 3rd Oct. | |
| 28th Sept | Senior gang auditions | If you are interested, please talk to a leader. We don’t know a great deal about the selection process, but we can find out for you. |
| 1st Oct | Visit the circus! We are going to Oxford to the Moscow State Circus. Attending the circus will count towards the Circus Skills Activity badge. | Smartest uniform and school shoes please. |
3rd-5th Oct | County Patrol Camping Weekend ’08. This is a fantastic opportunity to camp as a patrol without Dave, Vikki or Simon nagging you to wash the dishes properly. | |
| 8th Oct | Craft night. Make leather woggles. You won’t look like cubs and you will be working towards the Creative Challenge Badge. | |
| 15th Oct | Mini pioneering | |
| 18th&19th Oct | JOTI - This is your opportunity to take part in a world-wide event and make contact with scouts from all over the world. Some preparation is needed if you intend to take part and this is a perfect opportunity for you to take the lead and organize this event. The leaders will provide support where needed, but this one will be up to you. This will make up part of your Global Challenge Badge. | |
| 22nd Oct | International evening. There will be an international theme to this evening. Any scouts attending JOTI will be able to finish their Global Challenge Badge. | |
| 5th Nov | Remember remember - we will be celebrating Guy Fawkes’ Night tonight, probably with fire, but how will be up to you. | |
| 8th Nov | See event notice above. If you are interested, please talk to a leader. We don’t know a great deal about the selection process, but we can find out for you. | |
| 9th Nov | Church Parade. We have been invited to attend the remembrance service marking Armistice. Details of times will be provided closer to the day. All scouts who attend will earn a point for their patrol. | |
| 12th Nov | Wide Game. We will have fun running around in the dark whatever the weather. Bring enough warm clothes and a good torch. Look at the equipment list on the web if you don’t know what to bring (Night Hike). | |
| 15th Nov | Day trip to the RNLI Headquarters in Poole. We have a fantastic chance to visit the headquarters of the RNLI in Poole, Dorset. We will be shown around the site and may be able to get a look on one of the lifeboats. | We can only take 15 scouts, so it’s first-come, first-served. |
| 15th&16th Nov | District Night Hike - for all scouts and older cubs in the district. Unfortunately, there was a change of date and it now clashes with our trip to Poole, but we will see what we can do. | More information will be provided soon. |
| 19th&26th Nov | Balloon racers. We will be making racing cars one week and racing them in a tournament the following week. There may be a prize for the winning team, plus a patrol point or two. | If you do not have badge 1 or badge 2, you have the opportunity to get them tonight. Look in your badge book for the requirements for these badges and bring along any certificates if you already have the training |
| 3rd Dec | First Aid. We will be teaching and practicing 1st aid techniques and plan to do half of Emergency Aid badge 3. We will finish badge 3 next term. | |
| 10th Dec | Parents’ Night. Bring along the folks so that they can see what we have been doing in 2008. Mince pies welcome. | |
| 17th Dec | Christmas treat. We went to the cinema last year. What would you like to do this year? You tell us and the PLs will organize it. | |
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