Scouts

L/Cdt. R. L. Bruce is to be congratulated on the award of a Flying Scholarship. Together with L/Cdts. Dawes and Outhwaite, he was also successful in passing the Advanced Proficiency Examination.

Flight 2, whose members take the Elementary Proficiency Examination in June, has continued to receive instruction from Cpls. Skiera and Robson under the supervision of Fl./Sgt. Barrs of R.A.F. Topcliffe.

The Unit was fortunate enough to be able to take advantage once again of Chipmunk flying facilities at No. 9 Air Experience Flight. 18 cadets, mostly from Flight 2, were able to record 30 minutes flying each at R.A.F. Church Fenton on Sunday, 4th February.

ARDUOUS TRAINING

After some seven hours' travelling, the party arrived at Cwm Pennant at 1600 hours on Tuesday, 27th March, and pitched camp near the old farm house, to be used as H.Q. The first day's walk was to the top of the valley over the hills; the range of the W/T sets proved to be too short for our purposes. Rail fell heavily that night, during which Wing Commander Cummin and Cadet Slade arrived. The next day the two parties (C.S.M. Territt, Cpl. Parker, leaders) set out for Beddgelert through the forest. Cpl. Parker's party arrived back very late having 'taken a wrong turning'. After a night in the farmhouse, we set out to climb Snowdon; owing to thick ice the attempt was given up 50 feet from the summit. We returned along the S.E. ridge and by the time the road was reached several members could go no further. The following morning was spent climbing and walking for the fitter persons under Captain Gaastra; Commander Styles, R.N.R. was the climbing instructor. The party pitched camp I mile away from H.Q. that night and returned next morning for more climbing. We left Craesor that afternoon (Sunday) for Chester and spent the night in a Military Police barracks outside the city. A tired but very happy party arrived back in York at 1315 hours on Monday. We all owe our thanks to Captain Gaastra for a lively and very enjoyable course.

C.G.E.

THE SCOUT GROUP

We were very grateful for the help of Mr. Oxley, who joined the staff for the Easter Term, and hope that he enjoyed his spell with the Scout Troop. P. M. Read took over from J. F. Williams as A.S.M. attached to the Senior Scout Troop and received his Warrant at the end of term.

SENIOR SCOUT TROOP

Training for a selected number of badges has continued and the Senior P.Ls. are taking advantage of the opportunities for leadership which are offered by our training programme. The principal badges dealt with have continued to be the Ambulance, Meteorologist and Senior Pioneer badges, while next term we hope to deal with the Conservation, Rescuer and Venturer badges. A number of Seniors have been studying separately for a variety of individual badges and three or four should qualify soon for the Bushman's Thong and the Queen's Scout Badge. 24