Scouting News in Tameside April 2018

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Contents of Tamesider April 2018

Page 2 St. George’s Day Parades and Services

Page 3 News from 12th Ashton Scout Group

Page 4 GME Presentation Evening

Page 5 North Tameside Cub’s Cooking Competition 2018

Page 6 We Escaped

Page 6 Jamboree Fund Raiser

Page 7 Ashton Scouts – Target Spring Event

Page 8 – 9 GME – Ski Chill Factor

Page 10 County Shooting Team

Page 11 Diary Dates

Page 11 PRaTTs

Page 12 Swimming News

Page 13 – 14 Training News

Page 15 Yellow Card Update

Page 16 Winter Camp

Page 16 North Tameside District – Microsoft 365 Update

Page 17 Rail ‘n’ Road

Page 18 Jurassic Jamboree 2018

Why not vote for the Gilwell Oak as European tree of the year?

It's on the Woodland Trust website!

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St George’s Day Parades and Services

Tameside South

TS are holding a St. Georges themed District Camp 27th-29th April at Linnet Clough.

We will be holding a St. Georges Day service with renewal of promises on Sunday

22nd April, 2:30pm at St. Georges Church Dane Bank followed by refreshments.

Liz Rowles, DC Tameside South 07763 188149

North Tameside

Meet outside TSB bank on Old Street Ashton at 2.15pm on Sunday 22nd April 2018

Parade to Albion Church for 3.00pm and dismiss approximately 4.00pm.

Andrew Morton, DC North Tameside 07762 629721

Tame Valley

We are at Holy Trinity Church, Stalybridge on the Sunday 22nd April 2018 service

will be at 3pm meet at 2.15pm, Armentieres Square, Stalybridge

Arnold Ellershaw, DC Tame Valley 07958 304645

Glossop

The St. George's day parade for Glossop is on Sunday 22nd April

Meeting at 2pm to leave by 2.30 from St Philip Howard school playground.

We will have a parade through the town followed by a service at St Mary Church

Dispersal is expected to be at 4pm

Andy Wilson, DC Glossop, 07703654313

For more details please contact District Commissioner (DC)

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News from 12th Ashton Scout Group

12th Ashton Beavers, Cubs and Scouts

went to Ashworth Valley Scout Campsite

over the weekend in freezing conditions.

On the Friday night after setting up their

tents and cooking shelter.

This was followed up with a Water Aid wide

game, Scout Leader Morgan Crane

explained how difficult it was in the third

world countries to get water and they had

to walk miles to wells to get it. The Scouts

were split into teams, each member had a cup full of water and they had to get it back

to their campsite without the other

team spilling it for them, the winning

team was the one with most water

back at their campsite.

Following a hot drink and a warm up

by the fire it was off to their sleeping

bags in their tents to keep warm as the

frost came down.

The start of activities on Saturday, was a

tent and site inspection, followed by

breakfast. Other activities over the

weekend were orienteering, grass

sledging, pioneering, a camp fire and

backwoods cooking.

The Assistant Scout Leader Stephen

Crane showed them how to light fires and cook on it, the scouts liked the toasted

marsh-mellows cooked on sticks best.

During the weekend Ellie and Harrison were invested after moving up from Cubs into

the Scouts, and Beaver Dillon was invested into Cubs. Dillon said, ‘I like Cubs but this

camp was cold.’ Cub Scout Leader Hayley Mansell said, ‘It was my first time camping

in a tent. I liked it all except for my cold feet, I was surprised that all the Beavers, Cubs

and Scouts on their first camp liked it as well.’

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County Presentation Evening

Scouts, Explorers & Network Award Ceremony April 2018

Please find below the link for Award recipients, their guests and leaders

to book onto the next Presentation evening, which is on Wednesday

25th April 2018, again at Hyde town hall.

https://gmeawardsapril18.eventbrite.co.uk

This Award Reception is for Network, Explorer Scouts & Scouts is to be

held at Hyde Town Hall, Corporation Street, Hyde. You may book a

place at the Award Reception if you have recently gained either a Chief

Scouts Award (Gold, Platinum or Diamond) Queens Scout Award

Explorer Belt Young Leader Belt.

If you have gained a Duke of Edinburgh Award in addition to your Scout

Award this may also be recognised in the programme, if you so wish.

Each award holder may book one place at this reception together with

places for two family guests. Your Scout Leaders will receive an

invitation separately therefore you do not need to book places for them

using this process.

As part of the booking process you will be asked to complete some

questions about you and which award you are to be presented with. This

will enable us formulate a brief personal introduction prior to you

receiving your Award.

Bookings will close on Sunday 1st April 2018 and invitations with full

joining instructions will be sent out by email approximately 1 week before

the evening

I’m pleased to say that we shall be joined on the evening by both the

Mayors of Tameside & Stockport.

Any queries please get in touch.

Claire Jarvis, Deputy County Commissioner - Operations

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North Tameside District Cubs Cooking Competition 2018

Cubs from six North Tameside Cub packs gathered on Sunday 18th March at 250th

Droylsden Scout HQ for the first ever district Cub's Cooking Competition.

The packs from 2nd Ashton, 3rd Ashton, 6th Ashton (Ford and Gregory packs),

413th Manchester and 339th Manchester have been practising their peeling,

chopping, frying and cooking skills for the past month in preparation. Leaders from

all the packs took turns to judge each other’s teams on safety, hygiene and practical

skills before the final meals were presented for the Mayor, Cllr Joyce Bowerman to

judge on taste and presentation.

The mains included garlic butter chicken,

homemade burgers, vegetable stew, cornflake

chicken fajitas, spaghetti bolognaise and Louisiana

chicken whilst the dessert menus featured rice

pudding, pancakes with fruit or lemon, Moravian

mess, apple pie French

toast and peaches and

bananas with custard.

The competition was incredibly tight with all

the Cubs showing an outstanding level of

cooking and teamwork skills. The eventual

winners were 6th Ashton Gregory pack with their

Louisiana chicken and

apple pie French toast

combination closely followed by 339th Manchester

and 413th Manchester packs.

The mayor commented that it was difficult to

choose between the teams as the standard of

cooking was very high. Yasmin, a member of the

winning team said 'It was nice to have a

competition that wasn't sport. I love cooking so this was something I wanted to

enter.'

Gill Cummins, ADC Cubs, thanked

the mayor and her Consort Mr

Fred Bowerman for turning out on

a terribly cold, snowy day and all

of the Cubs and leaders who

ensured that the competition was

a great success and hopefully the

first of many.

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We Escaped!

On Friday the 9th of March, we went to an escape

room. This experience was truly one to remember.

At first thought, the idea of being locked in a room

with a bunch of Explorers is terrifying, but once we

started to explore the room and become comfortable

in our surroundings, we were able to work as a team

to find our way out. It was a test of inquisition and

focus, whilst also laughing at the fact every time a

sound effect went off we would scream.

As a group that works together and meets up every week we are all used to working

together, but this experience has brought us closer than before. Normally we argue a

lot more and fight over what to do, but the threat of being locked in a room helped us

listen to one another and focus on working towards the same goal, even though we

did need quite a bit of help to work some things out. Although I began the night

rather sceptical, due to my claustrophobia, once we began working it was so much

fun and you can really get into the story. The entire group enjoyed the evening; it

was a new and interesting activity that has helped us work together.

Doug. (AESL Broadoak)

Jamboree Fund Raiser

For Tickets phone

Tina on 07411

773336.

Proceeds to the

jamboree fund.

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Ashton Scout performs in National Target Sprint event

A 12 year old scout from 6th

Ashton, recently competed in

the GB ranking event for Target

Sprint. The event served as a

qualifying event for selection

to the GB squad, who plan on

competing in various

international competitions and

world cups in Germany, Italy

and South Korea this year.

The current GB squad has 3 older Explorer and Network Scouts on it so there is

a history of scouts doing well.

The event format is run 400 metres, shoot 5 drop down targets using a target

air rifle, then repeating before finishing with a 400 metre sprint.

The junior event is open to 11 to 21 year olds, and there is also a senior event

for the 21+ athletes.

The scout from Ashton was mainly

running for experience in

competitions, and for fun, especially

as he was the youngest there.

However, things got more serious on

the track, where despite the 17 and

18 year olds racing off ahead, he ran

his own race, coming in to shoot very

well and fast, finishing in 7minutes 14 seconds, ahead of an older athlete and

only 44 seconds outside the time required for an invite to try for the GB squad.

This was a new Personal Best improving on his previous time by 2 minutes and

22 seconds. A large part of this improvement was due to recently training at a

local athletics club.

The maturity, resilience and work ethic of the scout impressed all the coaches,

and we look forward to seeing how he competes going forward as he gets bigger,

stronger and faster.

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Greater Manchester East Scouts

Ski Chill Factore

25th & 26th April 2018

Bookings can be made on eventbrite with each session shown separately

Session 1 - 25th April 19.15 arrival - finish 21.00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scout-and-explorer-ski-tasters-tickets-44653553982

Session 2 - 25th April 20.15 arrival - finish 22.00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scout-and-explorer-ski-taster-2-tickets-44653830810

Session 1 - 26th April 19.15 arrival - finish 21.00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scout-and-explorer-ski-taster-3-tickets-44654033416

Session 2 - 26th April 20.15 arrival - finish 22.00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scout-and-explorer-ski-taster-session-4-tickets-

44654130707

Once bookings confirmed invoices will be sent out for payment. Upon receipt of payment

the booking will be confirmed.

For any members who are able skiers and wish to accompany their troop or unit on the

night we will be arranging lift passes to allow skiing on the main slope.

To arrange this please contact:

Phil Santana-Reedy - County Snowsports Advisor

phil.santanareedy@gmescouts.org.uk / 07962072888

The price to attend is £14.50 (Normal price £25) and includes equipment hire and instruction.

Leaders do not need to attend as I will be co-ordinating the events each evening and will have

a team with me to assist with ski fit etc.

This is an excellent opportunity to try this sport and covers elements of the progressive award

scheme such as Adventurous Activity and Snowsports badge.

Should interest be high with overbooking evident I will look to provide additional sessions on

alternative dates. Booking is made by Eventbrite only.

Phil Santana-Reedy - County Snowsports Advisor

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News from County Shooting Team.

In April, the annual scout intercounty target shooting competition will be held at the West

Midlands Regional Target Shooting Centre in Aldersley, Wolverhampton. The competition

focuses on the Olympic shooting disciplines of 10 metre Air Rifle and Air Pistol. Teams of 8

Scouts from around the UK will compete with

the best competitors being potentially invited

to join national squads.

In preparation for this competition Greater

Manchester East Scout County held a

selection event for scouts from across East

Manchester to find a team of young people

to represent the county.

On a cold Saturday morning, 22 young people made the trip to Linnet Clough Scout Activity

Centre to compete in Air Rifle and Air Pistol.

For many this was the first time using an Air

Pistol or using a compressed air rifle and

competition sights.

Olympic 10 metre Air Rifle/Pistol shooting

takes discipline, focus, attention to detail and

patience to do well, all valuable skills that

scouts can be taken forward into later life.

All the young people took the competition in a serious and mature manner and completed

their shooting successfully with some interesting inter group, inter section and sibling rivalry.

The day threw up some surprises, with the youngest shooter on the day at 10 years old from

Ashton-under-Lyne coming third having only recently moved up from cub scouts.

The top 8 scoring young people were then selected

to represent their scout county, with 4 reserve

names.

Ashton-under-Lyne are well represented with 2

scouts and one Explorer scout in the main team, and

also having similar numbers making up the reserve

list.

The team will now go forward to travel to Wolverhampton and represent Greater Manchester

East Scout County. The first time that the county has been represented in this competition.

Everyone is now looking forward to the experience of the competition.

The event could not have happened without the kind support of Parents, Scout Leaders,

Linnet Clough Activity Centre, GME Scout County or British Shooting.

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Diary Dates 2018

April

13th to 15th April ALL residential training weekend

22nd April ALL St George's day parade.

25th April ALL County Presentation Evening, Hyde Town Hall.

25th April County Hillwalking classroom Evening (T1 summer)

28th April County Hillwalking training day on the hill (T1 summer)

May

2nd May County Hillwalking night navigation (T1 summer)

10th May County Climbing wall workshop, Awesome walls, 7.30pm-

9.30pm

11th - 13th May NT Scouts district competition camp, venue and times TBC

14th May Glossop AGM 7.00pm Central Methodist Church

16th May NT District exec 125 Curzon Rd Ashton. 7.15pm.

16th May Tameside South District AGM, St George’s Centre, 7.00pm

17th May County Climbing wall workshop, Awesome walls, 7.30pm till

9.30pm

PRaTTS (Public Relations and Trailer Team Scouts)

Help is needed with the recruitment of Adults and Scouts at various events in this

new year 2018. If you or someone can help please let me know and as I get more

details I will send them out to you. The general job is we sit in the trailer, if cold, with

the heater on, or outside, if sun shining drinking tea and chatting, if someone comes

up to us that means they may be interested in Scouts. We give them their nearest

Scout Group contact details and take their details plus the section they want to be in.

The dates I have up to yet are ;-

12/5 Sat Hurstfest Hurst United Football Ground. Vols - Tina

9/6 Sat Amazing Ashton Ash Market Vols - Tina

Thanks for your help. Yours Alan Fish.

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SWIMMING NEWS

Hello everyone,

My name is Paula Thomas and I help run The George Bradley

Scout Swimming Club at Medlock Leisure Centre, Droylsden.

The swimming sessions are every Wednesday evening 7.30pm

to 8.30pm, at a cost of £2.00 each.

The session is open to any member of scouting and guiding.

We welcome any group to attend either each week or every

now and then to complete swimming badges or just to have

some fun.

Groups can come together or parents are welcome to bring

individual children along. You do not need to book, just turn up.

Please think about popping along and supporting us either as a

group or letting your members know they can come along.

Thanking you in advance. Paula (paula.thomas@ntlworld.com)

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First Response Training.

These are being run by County Training and booking is via the County web site

gmescouts.org.uk, then Training Development, then Training, then Learning

Opportunities, then Getting Going, then First Aid (Mod 10), book onto course

You will need your membership number or put in 00000.

TRAINING DATES

Bookings can be made through www.gmescouts .org.uk and going to the

training tab.

Training Programme for 2018 for Greater Manchester East County.

Friday 13th April 16.30 to Sunday 15th April 16.00

Residential Training Course Mods 12a, 12b, 13, 16, 17, 18 and 19

Cardinal Langley School

Saturday 21st April 10.00-12.00 Mod 8 Skills of Leadership 1st Hazel Grove

Saturday 21st April 12.45-14.45 Mod 9 Working with Adults 1st Hazel Grove

Monday 23rd April 19.30-22.00 Mod 10 First Aid part 1 1st Heaton

Moor

Monday 30th April 19.30-22.00 Mod 10 First Aid part 2 1st Heaton

Moor

Tue 15 May 19:30 - 22:30 Effective Executives - Introduction - 21st Stockport,

Saturday 2 Jun 10:00 - 16:30 Module 10 - First Aid - 1st Dinting,

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Sunday 10 Jun 10:00 - 12:00 Effective Executives - Introduction -

2/230th Manchester,

Sunday 10 June 13:30 - 17:00 Effective Executives - Follow up for

Officers - 2/230th Manchester,

Sunday 17 June 10.00 – 12.00 Module 7 – Scouting for All 2/230th

Manchester

Sunday 17 June 12.45 – 14.15 Module 5 – Fundamentals of Scouting –

2/230th Manchester

Sunday 17 June 14.30 – 16.30 Module 11 – Administration – 2/230th

Manchester

Sunday 1 July 10.00 – 12.30 Module 13 – Growing the Section –

2/230th Manchester

Sunday 1 July 13.30 – 16.00 Safeguarding Ongoing Learning –

2/230th Manchester

Sunday 8 July 10.00 – 16.30 Module 10 – First Aid – Cheadle Base

Sunday 15th July 10.00 – 15.00 Getting Started – 2/230th Manchester

Sunday 15 July 15.30 – 16.30 Mod 6 – Changes in Scouting – 2/230th

Manchester

Wednesday 25 July 19.30 – 21.00 Manager TA Update 21st Stockport

Training Venue Addresses

Residential Course. Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School, Rochdale Road,

Middleton. M24 2GL

2/230th Manchester, Seymour Road South, Manchester. M11 4PS

1st Hazel Grove, Hazel Grove Methodist Church, Wesley Street, Hazel Grove SK7 4JQ

1st Heaton Moor, St Paul’s Road, Stockport SK4 4RY

1st Dinting, The Scout Centre, Adderley Place, Glossop SK13 6PA

Cheadle Base Camp, Oak Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle SK8 5DR.

21st Stockport, Carnforth Road (bottom of Nelstrop Road), Heaton Chapel, Stockport,

Cheshire. SK4 5LD

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YELLOW CARD UPDATE - Hi Scouting people,

The Yellow Card is out whoopee, so check on the front of your Young People First Yellow

Card it should be Version 6 2018, if not you need a new one.

They are free from Scout Shops (scouts.org.uk - click shop - search Young People First) or get

you GSL or Chair to order some for all your group, then throw your old one away.

Scouting want us to look at the changes and apply them, but they haven't bothered to

change theirs on the Scout website, scouts.org.uk - click members - click - safety, health etc -

click Child Protection - click Young People First it's version 5 2016, so you can't even look up

the new changes.

So in an attempt to keep your hours below the 2 hours a week I have listed main changes

below.

Young People First page, should be, Version 6 2018.

What do I do if.

New 6. Include the time and date and full names of those involved.

If you are concerned.

New 3. Include the time and date and full names of those involved.

Added. It is your duty to report ALL safeguarding concerns as a matter of urgency following

the correct process.

Added. You can also contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000 or help@nspcc.org.uk

Code of Behaviour page;-

There are now 20 Do's and Do not's whereas the old card had 27 Do's and Do not's.

1. New. Do remember that you are a role model at ALL times, inside and OUTSIDE Scouting.

2. Same with added. In line with the Scouting Values. 3. Same as 4.

4. Same as 6. 5. Similar to 19. 6. Same as 17. 7. Same as 16.

8. Same as 7. 9. Same as 12 ish. 10. New. Do encourage an open and

transparent culture. 11. Similar to 10. 12. Same as 9. 13. Same as 20.

14. Same as 18. 15. Same as 23. 16. Similar to 8 & 19. 17. Same as 21.

18. Same as 24 & 25. 19. Same as 5. 20. Same as 27.

Therefore not much more for you to learn, but you need to be very aware for your own

Leader Protection of the Yellow Card, because in the Child Protection world it appears you

are guilty until proven innocent. So be very careful out there.

Disclaimer. The views expressed above are my AFM views and may or may not be pc, and

may or may not be the same as the Scout Association's. AF.

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CANCELLED DUE TO WINTER WEATHER

North Tameside District - Microsoft 365 Update.

Every leader, assistant leader and section assistant in the district has been allocated access

to a GME email address and Microsoft 365 online. You should have had an email to your

address listed on Compass with a link to the portal and a temporary password. If you cannot

retrieve it or the password link has expired please email gill.cummins@ntscouts.org.uk and I

can reset this for you. It is anticipated that all Scouting related emails will only be sent to

this email address in the near future because of new Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

You should have also been added to mailing lists relating to your group and your section,

please check that you belong to the correct groups and let me know if you think there may

be a mistake. Newer leaders will be added when they attend Appointments Committee

although if requested this can be done sooner.

There is an update day in a couple of weeks so hopefully we may have more info for next

month.

Gill Cummins

North Tameside District Scouts

ADC Cubs/IT

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