Wingspan Issue 7 - Friday 7th Aug 2009

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WINGSPAN Friday, August 7 2009

Issue 7

A night to remember BY SARAH PAGET REMEMBER that nervous excitement of the first camp, the first day at school or your first scout or guide meeting? Well 160 Cubs and Brownies have enjoyed their first Jamboree experience, with a whistle stop tour of Windsor Great Park. Having arrived around tea time, each of the groups were paired off with a host group who showed them how they have been living for the past few days. The Cubs and Brownies were set their own challenge for their time on camp, to try and complete a speciallycommissioned passport, which they were able to do while their hosts were

busy putting the finishing touches to their dinner. Some units tried to impress their guests by dressing in national costume, or as dragons in the case of the Free Spirit Explorers. Others were treated to their own unique cultural experience, the 88th Braehead (Stirling) Scouts piped the Brownies from 1st Holyport to their camp where they had dressed their tables with tartan and offered the visitors Haggis on oatcakes. Each unit hosting some Brownies or Cubs told them a little about Guiding or Scouting in the country they come from. Molly from 1st Owlsmoor Brownies visited the Edinburgh Guides and explained that they had chatted and

badge swapped. While Josh of 1st Cold Ash Cubs enjoyed playing frisbee with the Irish Scouts he visited, and his friend Thomas managed to swap a flag for a neckerchief. At the end, the visiting groups were taken down to the main arena where they had the chance to watch the start of WINGS Factor 2009. Most then headed home, hopeful of a return in 2014 when they themselves will be fully-fledged participants. Visit organiser Ian May said: “We want them to get a flavour of guiding and scouting; to go away with one memory of WINGS. “A small thing like the taste of the camp food or the vibrant camp flags,

will make them feel like they were part of the camp”. The 4th Woodley Green Brownies certainly lived up to that – they’d

phoned home to ask parents to collect them later than originally planned - a message well received by organisers and heeded for the future.

Today’s highlights Page 2 - The Chief Guide shows how it’s done

Page 3 - Time for tea with The Queen

Page 4 - A world of inventive fun


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