Kirkhill Beaver Scouts

New Term
Happy New Year to all of our Beaver Scouts and their parents, & welcome to our new members.

We’re looking forward to this busy new term – we plan to complete the Healthy Eating and Creative badges this term as well as celebrate Chinese New Year and get together for an evening of Viking celebrations with the Cub Scouts at our very own Up Helly A’a!

Up Helly Aa takes place in Lerwick, Shetland, on the last Tuesday in January every year; to light up this dark and cold winter evening, in a joint gathering with the Cubs, we also plan to hold an Up Helly Aa style event – there’ll be a (small) fire, marsh mallows to toast, hot chocolate and wee prizes for the best Viking costumes. Oh, and some fireworks to round things off. Wrap up warm and Viking-y!!
Note the times for this event – 6pm ‘til 7:30pm.

Help Always Needed
As ever, our group’s Beaver section is well attended, with the role now standing at 24; therefore, parent help will be much needed at our sessions. In common with other terms, our leadership team still feel that the best method for ensuring cover for each evening is to nominate parents for each session (at least two for some of our sessions this term).

Please see the term activity calendar for information. If you are unable to cover the evening for which you have been nominated, please arrange cover from/swap with another parent. Parent help is always much needed and appreciated. Your support and involvement will help to ensure the safe and smooth running of beaver sessions (many thanks).

If, like the Duchess of Cambridge, you’d like to become more involved in scouting, you could give flexible volunteering at your local cub pack a go. Please get in touch.

For info. about what flexible volunteering means, follow the links below…
http://scouts.org.uk/news/463/scouting-welcomes-royal-volunteer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16424198

Term Fees
The subs for this term are £15, due on the first day of term. The fee for new Beavers to the section is £20 for their first term (the extra £5 covers investiture). As usual, we would be grateful if you could pay this as early as possible. Thank You.

January – March 2012, Badges this term: Creative & Healthy Eating

Our New Email Address is: kirkhill.beavers@hotmail.co.uk

Mairi MacDonald, Beaver Leader (831116)
Madeline Simpson, Assistant Beaver Leader (831063)