This week at Scouts, there were no Scouts……………………………..wait what?
This week for the blog we are not talking about what the Scouts did, we are going to talk about what the Leaders did over half term with the normal Scout evening. First however, we are going to touch on our last meeting before half term.
Our last meeting of last term was actually swimming and all the Leaders got to take part as well :). We took a trip to Coral Reef as a treat for the end of term. There were multiple slides and chances for all kinds of fun in the water!
Now as for this week, the Leaders got together to deal with one of the biggest thorns in our side: the cupboard. If you didn’t know, our cupboard was a tip. It had little to no organisation and we just had to take a guess where things were. Last Friday, we decided to change that. All the Leaders got together for pizza and then got to work on clearing the cupboard out in full.
As you can see above there is a lot of stuff, most of which, was just garbage like cardboard we were not using. First thing we did was work out what we needed to keep (stationary, sports equipment, airfix kits) and what we wanted to bin. Next we wanted to re-purpose the coffin that used to store camp gear but was never full. That now stores all our gear for games and sport. We then decided to give it a label so we can easily locate things.
We took the same approach for most of the cupboard. Find a group of items that fit an activity or need and put them all in a box or a specific place. I can now exactly tell you where all the stationary is. Its the best! You can see our efforts below:
This is only the start of what we want to do with the cupboard and will require multiple sessions but hopefully this will allow us all (Scouts included) to find stuff easier.
As for this week, one of the Leaders will be in touch with what we are doing.
See you soon!
Ellis
