Winter Term – January – April 2010

We came back after Christmas all raring to go after the break. It was nice to see so many Beavers return on the first night, albeit a postponed first night because of the snow!!

Our first half term period was spent trying to work on the Healthy Eating badge and also on Health and Fitness. Some of the Beavers had already achieved the Healthy Eating on their own, but we decided that we would try and get as many of the others as possible and incorporate this with their Health and Fitness.

The H&F requires the Beavers to learn a little about personal hygiene, what foods are good for them, and what foods are not so good, also why being active is important and what exercise means to our bodies. Hopefully we managed to get through to as many as possible. We set them all a little homework so that they had to do some things for themselves to be able to qualify for the badges. If any of the Beavers are still outstanding these and want to complete the tasks then please come and see me and I will let you know what we need to see them complete.

In January we welcomed Ethan as a new starter and after half term we were joined by Oliver, Peter and Nicholas.

With four new faces we have said goodbye to four familiar ones who all moved up to Cubs at half term on the 8^th Feb, they being Luke, Nick, Ben and Kris who are all doing well in Cubs.

The second half of the term has been taken up with Air Activities, making paper air planes, and playing games with an aircraft theme.

We have also had a couple of nights which were mostly ‘craft’ nights concentrating on Mothering Sunday in which Beavers all decorated some glass jars in their own personal way to create a present for mum. Hopefully they kept their promise for breakfast in bed for mum!!  We have also had a night dedicated to Easter crafts with Angela taking centre stage for both the crafty nights.

We finished the term off by saying good bye to both Christian and Louis who have moved onto Cubs.

Looking forward to the Summer Term, we hope to welcome Rhiannon, Mikey, Connor and Jack after Easter and later after half we will bid a farewell to William and Ben.

We will be doing some activities geared toward Imagination, and hopefully with good weather we will be spending some time outside in the evenings.

With the longer nights we really do need our parent helpers as much as possible. Our young helpers, Charlotte and Lara, who are with us doing their community service part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, and Stefan with us from Scouts, are on exam time now and we probably will be without them a few nights between now and the end of the school year, so for us to do anything outdoors we do need to have the extra supervision. Please feel free to ask if we need extra help and if you can stay.