News from the Keas...

Next week is the last week for Kakapo (Sharyn) who is onwards and upwards to Cubs. She will be missed by all the Keas. Kelley (Takapu) and Gendie (Takahe) are taking on the role of the new leaders for these keen little possees.

Our biggest event this term was the...

Keas sleepout night at Takapu's December 2nd, 2011

We had fun walking up to camp, staying in the barn, making damper, roasting marshmallows, playing games, identifying the local trees, and generally having fun...





Here we are...making damper

What a cracking day!

Thanks to everyone who made it yesterday, hope you're all not too sore.

We had amazing weather and achieved so much more than expected. The spare building now has a sound roof, a metaled drive, a great fire pit and a new fence to keep the cattle of our shiny new area.

So thanks to everyone for your hard work, lending your tools, vehicles and skills. We look forward to some great nights at the new building.

This week we went up to Bloomfield park where we taught the Cubs how to lay a fire and cook pancakes.The weather held up for us and a lot of fun was had by all.

Term 2 is upon us, and we start it with a second Cub group which will run on Wednesday nights starting at 5:30pm and finishing at 7pm.

On Tuesday night this week the cubs and keas all walked up to the top of Bloomfield park. Previously the scouts had dug out some fire pits so these were put to good use.
All the children collected firewood, and made one huge pile - I think they thought we were going to have a great bonfire. Then the Sixers with the help of a few scouts started the fires. Pretty soon we had lots of happy cubs and keas cooking damper bread and roasting marshmallows.
Lots of parents came along too and I think they all had a great time.
Hopefully we will get some pictures up soon of the event.

wow, we had a great day today at the Helensville Show grounds for Kea day.
Everybody was dressed as pirates and the kids had fun making swords, pirate ships, flags and treasure maps.

Well it is now 2008 and we have a new theme for Term 1 - Moving Mountains.
Some of the mountains that need to be moved are personal ones - which means that each Cub will have some personal challenges to overcome.

The challenges we are setting are
- complete one interest badge in Term 1 - see your Cub book for ideas
- improve your memory with Kim's game - cubs view 15 objects for 1.5 minutes, then have
to write down as many as they can remember

Also, we will have challenges for each Six
The first challenge is to improve on a relay race result.
This week all the Sixes had a go and recorded the following times


Blue - 3.35
Green - 3.21
Black - 3.00
Yellow - 4.05
Red - 3.45

Over term 1 we will repeat the relay race and see if the sixes can improve their times.

The last set of challenges are pack challenges.
These will be
- cycle up Mt. Cook
- Climb a mountain

More will be revealed on this as the term progresses.....

So the challenge is on!