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Caving School 2016

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In the April holidays, a few of the Venturers went to the National Scout Caving School in Waitomo. The caving school is one of many fantastic national schools, along with ones like photography school, aviation school, snow school, mountaineering school and canoe school. We spent 5 days up there, going into a new cave everyday. We spent about 7 hours each day underground, squeezing into gaps, scrambling up rock falls and trying not to get lost. Despite getting wet, cold, tired and bruised all over, all who went are keen to go back next year!

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Venturers Explained

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This Monday we went to Kelburn Scout hall in the Botanic Gardens and told them all about  who Venturers are, how we work, and the fun stuff that we do! This is partly to recruit new members, but also to generally raise awareness of Venturers, because we enjoy it so much and want others to be able to have fun too. Here are pictures of some of the fun games we played with them!

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Fun With Forms!

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Recently, our Venturer unit hit the town in a game of ‘Fun With Forms’. The aim of the game is to get as many points as possible. Points are awarded for pictures taken in front of specified places or things such as The Beehive or Readings Cinemas with the whole team and a bench, or ‘form’ in the photo. Points are deducted if the team is caught on camera by a leader and they are not all sitting on the form. It is somewhat of a tradition in this group and like every other time, a fun night was had by all.

 

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Concrete Working Bee

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A BIG thank you for the great turnout for last weekend’s working bee.
 
It turned into a real family day –mums and dads and scouts working together –and pizza in the sun for those still shifting clay late in the afternoon.

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We managed to transfer two cubic metres of concrete from the truck to post holes and our new storage pads under the porch in 40 minutes.  How is that for team work!! And then we shifted a vast amount of clay by trailer to the tip. It became a long but very productive day for some.
 
This is a major step forward and Terry and I feel very supported after a pretty intense week preparing everything for the pour.
 
By the end of the school holiday you should see the  bearers and joists in place ready for decking to go down.
 
Keep an eye out for the next working bee
 
Thanks everyone
 
Rex and your committee