Scouting

The annual Summer Camp will take place from 26th July to 3rd August, each of these dates being a travelling day. The place of the camp is not yet known, but all Cadets are reminded that they are expected to go to camp, and that camp has always proved a useful, and usually enjoyable, part of the year's training.

SENIOR SCOUT TROOP

At the beginning of the term seven Scouts came up to the Senior Scout Troop, bringing numbers up to 20. As a result a fourth Patrol, Wingate, was formed, D. Pfluger becoming P./L. (S.). The vacancy as P./L. (S.) of Livingstone Patrol was filled by D. M. Walker.

We congratulate P./L. (S.) D. A. A. Lamb, P./L. (S.) D. Pfluger, and Sec. (S.) E. H. N. Turner on becoming Queen's Scouts. Their addition brings the total of our Scouts who have attained this distinction to seven.

Activities during the term have concentrated on revision of much of past badge work and courses have been run in both the Ambulance Badge and the Fireman Badge. It is hoped to complete these courses early next term.

During the Christmas holidays the Senior Scouts once again banded into a choir and on two evenings went carol singing as a Christmas Good Turn. That we were able to send £7 to the Royal National Institute for the Blind is a tribute to the generosity of those whose ears we assailed.

SENIOR SCHOOL TROOP

Although very few Scouts had remained in the Troop for another year, the new arrivals enabled us to form three patrols, of which Wright, Bygate, and J. M. Smith were made Patrol Leaders.

At the beginning of the term we were able to hold most of our meetings out of doors, and our first attempt at some pioneer work was the construction of a rope bridge over the stream on the Ings; unfortunately we had not sufficient time, and the bridge could hardly be described as safe. The aerial runway which we constructed shortly afterwards was, however, highly successful and proved very popular. Then we managed to use the floods, which had stopped so many school activities, as an opportunity to construct rafts; each patrol was given staves and oil drums with which to build one, and the finished products all floated, but with varying degrees of seaworthiness.