The 19th September every year is a special day. A special day that Chieftain Scouts choose to observe on a yearly basis. That day is ‘Talk like a Pirate Day’ and we choose to dedicate a Scout meeting to it every year by dressing up as pirates and doing pirate themed team building activities. We were planning to the evening on the 20th but it clashed with the Scout AGM.
I was very impressed to only see 1 or 2 Scout uniforms when all the Scouts fell in for flag. It was nice to see everyone taking to the occasion. To start off the evening we had a round of the boat game where the Scouts get to run around the hall and perform actions and I get to have a sore throat the next morning from shouting commands. 🙂
Bosun then divided the now very large troop into 6 teams who all competed in a range of team building activities ranging from a game of naughts and crosses:
And the snake/rock paper scissors game that I don’t think has a name:
As a final part to the evening we also did a ‘Crew Inspection’ where we judged each of the patrols for the best pirate costumes and got the Scouts to give their best ‘ARRRRR!’. This all scored points for patrols and got them off the mark for the year.
On top of the new Scouts from last week we had 2 more Scouts join us this evening, Zac and Alicia. I hope you a fantastic first evening.
We usually also have badges but we still need to order them. However we did have a certificate to give to Seamus for completing his shooting course he has been doing over the last couple of months. Well done!
This Friday coming, the Scout Group AGM will be running parallel to our meeting. We will most likely be having some of the older Scouts help with cooking among other things. The rest of the troop will be in with some of the leaders talking about things they are interested in.
See you Friday!
Ellis
