Cubs 100 2016 has Ended

Sutton Cubs have celebrated the centenary of Cub Scouting throughout the year with a vibrant and exciting programme of activities for our Cub Scouts. This page shows the various Pack’s memories of the year. The major events like CUBJAM & CUBARNIVAL have their own page, as so much took place.

Promise Renewals

To complete our special year all the packs were encouraged to hold a Promise Renewal Ceremony. Some Pack joined together to party and others held sleepovers. Here are a few of the pictures received of a special time. Starting with 11th & 15th Wallington.

8th Cheam held a sleepover before going to the pantomime.

14th Wallington celebrated in their PJ’s before watching the Jungle Book

1st Cheam, 3rd Cheam and 8th Sutton joined together for a Promise Renewal Christmas Party with individual cakes.Old Cub games Staves and Kims, before the feast

9th Cheam had to hit a pinata before the sweets were up for grabs after their Promise renewal.

1st Homefield

Our newest group enjoyed making Hot Air Balloons to end their term and renewed their promise as Alan was invested as a Leader to support the 18 Cubs at the school.

3rd Carshalton Entertain

The pack celebrated their final meeting with some entertainment and the award of three Chief Scout Silver Awards. I was invited along to see the performance. Lots of good singing and special poems. Their Christmas Jumpers were inspirational. Father Christmas was quite happy too.

Congratulations to Thomas, Ava and Sam and good luck in Scouts.

A wonderful group photograph of all the colourful Christmas Jumpers

3rd Cheam Does Jungle Book

The Set is ready. Awaiting our Guests The cast makeup is applied by Gemma. Bradley prepares the lights and sound

Snacks in the interval – Snaggles is never far from the food

A surprise gift to say “Thank You” to Susan Peek from all at 3rd Cheam.

Cast and Crew (Snaggles could not resist a photo opportunity)

A huge 3rd Cheam ‘BRAVO’ to everyone involved in a great evening, organised and run completely by Young Leaders Bradley and Libby and their friend Gemma.

Scientist Badge

Saturday saw Sutton District Cubs assemble for their annual Scientist Badge Day at Overton Grange School. 93 badges

We had our mad scientists present as usual.

There were eight bases in total. Magnetism, flame tests, acid alkali testing, filtration, chromotography, microscopes, circuits and flight

The two favourite bases were The balloon cars and Midair flight

Annual Cub Scout Challenge Trophy.

Teams from all Packs are invited to take part in eight different bases.

Communication, Compass, Tents, Emergency Aid, Nature, Firelighting, knots and Tracking. Core activities for Cub Scouts. They have to work as a team of 4 to undertake the subject and get marks for teamwork and achievement.

Thanks to Ken Smith for his enthusiasm we did get some smoke and flickers of flame.

Saba & Joe felt they had all made a good effort, but needed to keep reassuring their patients

Knotting, and ropes are still a mystery even if you have just tied a reef knot it would appear from these faces.

Tent Knowledge is improving as more of our Cubs manage to get away under canvas said Matt.

Trees and Leaves. Nature identification. A interesting base for some as we are a town based District was the explanation. Our parks across the area have masses of trees.

The points were all submitted and totalled and the eventual places were

3rd 5th Carshalton (Floyd), 2nd 1st Belmont and 3rd Carshalton Winners

Congratulations to all who took part.

A New Term

September saw the District return to Cub activities and packs like 11th Wallington and 14th Wallington had camps .

Lots of interesting activities from rockets to chemical tests, air rifle shooting & Archery to ballista & gadget making. Plenty of Cub Scouts skills required.

The most important part of camp is though the food and eating . Therefore there is always making fires and backwoods cooking a must for all Cubs

Breakfast & what follows all food is washing up. They are all eager for this task because it will then be games time.

Kubb is a favourite whatever group you are with.

Some holiday pictures from America.

Flying to O’Hare Airport Chicago. I love planes.

I managed to visit a Chicago Cubs Baseball game.

Then it was time to think about Nashville. The County Music Hall

Music from this part of the Country is very famous. A weekly concert is held at The Grand Ole Opry. I joined in too!

I managed to find an interesting car that used to be in a television series in England called The Dukes of Hazzard. A Marine who use to be a Scout. He let me try his hat on for size. I relaxed in a beautiful chair at Nashville’s airport.

Thank you for some great adventures with Kevin and Clare 5th Carshalton Floyd Pack.

HAVING AN ADVENTURE

Sutton Cubs Mystery Trip

Six Cubs from across the district joined my ADC (Cubs) and Sam for a exciting adventure in August. The instruction told them to meet at Sutton Station at 9-30.

Susan collected a Cub in Cheam before travelling on a bus to Sutton Station where they met up with the other Cubs.

An assortment of young oyster cards and day travel cards in hand, we boarded the train to Victoria. We then transferred to the District line Tube, but found that there were signalling problems, so decided to take the Victoria Tube line instead. It was a long walk to this platform so they would have liked to sit down, but it was only one stop to Green Park to change to the Piccadilly Line. It was then seven stops to Hammersmith Broadway where we got on a number 9 modern bus to Brook Street. Then we entered a building and our mystery adventure started.

All this for the Autumn Make Do Share Magazine

We had pizza for lunch and then I bet you cannot guess what the Cubs were doing here or why?

Later in the day we left our special activity and started the journey home. The signalling problem had been solved, so it was a quicker trip home to parents waiting at Sutton station

The District Centenary Trophies were presented at Cubarnival

In joint 2nd Place was 3rd Carshalton and 3rd Cheam, but the winners with 16 nights away in the year were 1st Cheam

3rd Cheam Do a good turn.

The challenge set was to collect 100 pieces of litter

I think they must have been very much appreciated by the amount they collected. Full bags

Well done for a very good turn and keeping the Cubs law and promise

14th Wallington Go for a Ride.

Now let us have a relay.

Not sure who the winner was, but everyone had a good evening

3rd Cheam

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUR MAJESTY

Congratulations to our Queen as she celebrates her 90th birthday.

We all like parties and last week I joined 3rd Cheam for their Street Party! I had to help with the preparations.

Lots of Lovely Food

Decorations …. I love balloons

Union Flags & Bunting Inside and Out

Fun and Games for everyone

Adult Egg & Spoon race

Three legged race for younger ones

As if that wasn’t enough …

Akela was celebrating her 80th birthday. We surprised her with a lovely cake, but I let her blow out the candles.

We also surprised Our ADC for Cubs when she was awarded the Ron Wilkinson Trophy

Celebrations all round and IT DIDN’T RAIN!!!

1st Cheam

In June the group Celebrated the presentation of an Award of Merit to an ASL Gary & of 4 Chief Scout Silver award at their Annual General Meeting. In true tradition there had to be a cake

Then my friend 3rd Sedgley Snaggles and I watched while the decoration took place

Here are two of the Cubs cutting the cake for all to eat.

They were also presented with the fifth 500 point certificate of the Cubs 100 District Challenge.

District Challenge 500 points

Since Half term 14th Wallington, 3rd Cheam, 3rd Carshalton, 11th Wallington & 1st Cheam have received their certificates and prize

Only three weeks to go until the Winning trophy will be presented at CUBARNIVAL

Then some Athletic Badge activities for 11th Wallington Cubs

Cubjam Report on a separate page, but just a taster

8th Sutton Trinity

Special Cubs 100 meeting. The original law of the Wolf Cubs.

This was not changed for many years and as can be seen by the Wolf Cub Promise life was very different in 1916. Most of those active in Scouting today will have promised to serve The Queen

Each pack would have a totem pole to attach ribbons to when badges were awarded & the top award was The Leaping Wolf Badge. The pack made an example of a modern day Totem pole.

Beautiful Colouring before adding to a pole so the Cubs can add ribbons for any badges they received. The section’s name change to Cub Scouts in 1967 following the Advance Report.

All prepared and ready to start preparing bunting and their flag for Cubarnival.

5th Carshalton (Arthern) Pack

The first ones are of the war memorial at the duck ponds in Carshalton.

The tree shows the cubs and the grand scale of the largest plain tree in London.

The third set of photos shows the water tower which is in St Philomena’s School grounds.

The final location was the historic bakery run by one of our ACSL’s family.

The Stennings bakery, where he made us all a batch of do nuts! They were delicious.

A very pleasant evening was had by all…

14th Wallington Shelter Building

Team Building Activities

Digital Citizen Badge

Once again Carshalton Boys Sports College opened their Computer suite so our Cubs could have a fun morning of activities. Thanks to Phil Brittain and his staff

Sutton Contingent Cubjam Sleepover

34 Cubs from across the District will roll across The Praries to Tombstone Subcamp to srt up SUNTOT Teepee for Cubjam 2016.

Our sleepover adventures.

I met our Mascots OTE and Little Ote

Totem Pole making

Our tribe medallions

Followed by lots of games, Costume designing and our wonderful headdresses

Then we made some Wind Chimes for our Teepee before we undertook an Eagle Egg Hunt.

The weekend finished with learning some Native American songs

We are the Red Men and Land of the Silver Birch

We are all prepared now for our exciting adventure in May when we join over 1000 other Cubs at CUBJAM

14th Wallington – Spring Camp.

Early season sleepover at Wilberforce Scout Centre

Breakfast was good

Learning some knots and then our Cub Scouts Own with our GSL. More Nights Away points for the Disatrict Centenary Challenge

3rd Cheam at Easter

Sainsbury North Cheam supported our Easter Egg Hunt and only one escaped

We found 99. Do not know where the missing one went

SUNTOT Reservation Cubs

Sutton United supported our Cubjam Cubs with a bucket collection

We raised an amazing £176. Thank You SUFC Supporters

3rd Carshalton – Reptile Encounter

11th Wallington – Coombe Farm Lloyds Park

Astronomers Badge, Communication & Entertainment.

Disc Golf for our hand eye skills and fun in the park.

All finished off with a campfire where a new leader from Spain was invested into the group on his first Nights Away adventure in England and has taken the name Hathi.