If the hike at the beginning of the term was the ‘lets go somewhere’ hike this would be the map reading challenge equivalent. Following the planning from last week, Skip posed the challenge to the Scouts to see if they could navigate a form of the route.
If you recall to last week, Skip had the Scouts looking at a route in which they had to pinpoint grid references and understand the area around those grid references. Here’s a reminder of what that looked like:
Skip took those maps away over the week and now had marked 5 of them with various variations on that route. The Scouts were split into 5 groups this week with a few leaders and the odd parent accompanying them. The Scouts were mostly of their own accord as long as they were able to justify why they might be there.
The 2 Frome groups were at a further liberty with no help given and they were only corrected if they decided they needed help. Frome is a situation where the leaders are not around to help them so it makes sense they get more practice.
The 5 groups all completed the route well with my group especially doing well by the end. Some of the Scouts and our YL even corrected me in navigating. The leaders were all very impressed with the Scouts on the whole.
There was also some time at the end of the evening to play in the park.
As you will be seeing this the week after as I forgot (oops) there are no notices.
See you next week!
Ellis
