Well what a brilliant start to the year. To start off we had the pleasure of 31 cubs last night. Here I was thinking that we would struggle with numbers on new a night, and new time. In the end we struggled to complete the night on time. First run at 1.5 hours and blew it by 30 minutes.
In all fairness though we did have some investures and awards to hand out, plus farewell 3 cubs as they move on to Scouts. I have to praise our pack on the behaviour on a night that had a lot of Ceremony.
To start the night we had special guests to help celebrate our first female Grey Wolf recipient. This is the top award any cub can earn and they have the privilege of wearing it on their Scout shirts, when they move up, for at least 1 year.
Our special guests were, the Federal government member for Forde, Mr Bert van Manen, our ever popular Branch Commissioner for Cubs, Robyn Devine, our Regional Cub Scout Leader, Donna Morgan, and last but not the least, Sallie Fletcher our Assistant Regional Cub Leader. We thank them for taking the time to come along and help present the top award to Tabitha. I know they enjoyed the night as they stayed for the entire night.
Once the ceremony was over we had the Sixers and Seconds present parents and special guests with Tea, coffee, cake and biscuits. It is a great chance for them to step up and use their manners. They do so well and it is those moments when you really know we are doing good things for our future adults.
In between the 'Boring stuff' the cubs got to play games of Exhaustion and Tiger Tales. These are running games where in one they run around a circle and chase until everyone is caught in your group. The other is to have a sock in you pocket and try not to have it stolen by the other cubs. They are so full of energy these cubs it is real good fun. I hope they slept well.
We also had a session on Scouting history and we were lucky enough to have our annual history DVD on hand. This was put together by Rann in previous years. He does a great job on those DVDs. He then pulled out the moment of the night. To help teach the kids about history of scouting he built a Time Machine and went back in time. On his return he was wearing a very old uniform. I hope he didn't leave some poor cub in the past without his uniform :)
Everyone loved it and we are going to continue the theme for the other cubs to come up with a thing from the past relating to Scouts.
In all it was a great first night and even though we lost 3 cubs, we gained for new ones. I am so looking forward to this year.
To my fellow leaders who worked tirelessly last night keeping it together. To Rikki and Yvette for doing the tea and coffee, to Dingo and Rama for the running the games and to Rann for is special presentation. I would also like to thank the Venturers and Scouts who assisted also on the night.
Parents parents/cubs please bring along water bottles for drinking out of, and 2x 1.25lt bottles
Until next week when we are at Eagleby Den.
Signing off
Bagheera
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