We are proud to announce that we have 3 contingent leaders and 6 participants from Huddersfield North attending the 22^nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden next year.

Seamus Quinn

Ros Fellows

Chris Knight

Participants:

William Kitchen

Oliver Goddard

Tillie Waddington

Rebecca Wilson

Stephen Cater-Woodhead

Adam Saied

The District would like to congratulate all the Leaders and Participants and wish them well in all their training for the event.  As you will imagine it is not cheap to attend such an event and as such there will be lots of fundraising events, please support them all you can.

On the weekend of 20th & 21st February 2010, Huddersfield North Scouts joined 200 others from across West Yorkshire to enjoy their annual Winter Camp at Bradley Wood Campsite. Whilst the rest of the country was coming to a standstill, the Scouts made the most of the snow and enjoyed a variety of snow related activities including skating, sledging, snowballing and ice climbing. The really brave even tucked themselves into hammocks and slept in the trees! (See picture)

The call went out and it was answered by the swift and not so swift Huddersfield North’s Olympians. The second annual Scout Olympics was hosted again in the Great Hall of Newsome High School.

Three hours of intense shouting and sweating saw the teams of 6 (ish) from every Scout troop in the District, bar one, take on the new and not so new Olympic sports of Unihok, Cricket stumps, Badminton and Table Tennis.

Phil excelled again this year in his umpiring of Table Tennis when, with the able assistance of Jo, managed to teach the basics of stroke play, tactics and baffle everyone with the scoring system.

Again the shuttlecock soared through the steamy evening air often with the height requirement superseding the directional purpose. Luckily the requirement to count to 11 was within the mathematical capabilities of both Chris and our new French referee Jay.

Cricket Stumps has been one of the neglected sports in the International Olympiad of recent years but we revived it with gusto. Tom and Chris oversaw a wild variety of bowling actions from the fast Freddy Truman overarm, through the straight Bazooka throw to the slow trickle resembling a mountain stream. The sport has now achieved its rightful place in the Scout Olympic annals.

Unihok was a mainstay of the first Olympiad and remained so this year. The trick to this sport is the organisation of every team managing to play every other team and Dave Bottom was like a human supercomputer working out the combinations and timing the matches. The 2 Young Leaders from Oakes braved the centre of the court with their Ipods drowning the cries of pain, triumph and frustration of the contestants.

5-a-side Football and Basketball were introduced as non-combatant sports (ie the points didn’t count) and this seems to be the solution to Nuclear War threat of Football.

Sally Nook were strong again this year but by just one point Birchencliffe took the Gold and Cowcliffe, a new troop on the podium took Bronze. Oakes, Outlane and Bradley were enthusiastic participants with fewer points.

The night was a great development on last year’s event with over 45 contestants and a strong support from parents. Again we have to thank Phil and Newsome School for the brilliant venue.

 

233 young people (plus a few adults, some of whom got stuck) enjoyed the course over the week that it was open.