In August, 33 youngstersand 6 members of stafftravelled to St. Omer innorthern France for a sixday holiday. The groupwere made up of Hull andEast Yorkshire Battalion,however the majority werefrom 5th Hull, here atDerringham Bank.

The youngstersparticipated in manyactivities including visits toTyne Cott cemetery, theMenin Gate in Ypres andthe trenches. There wasalso a visit to aBoulangerie, a sweetfactory and a theme park.The youngsters also wentthe beach, cooked crêpes,had fun and games at thecentre as well as visiting a massive shopping centre in Calais on the way home.

Everyone had a fantastic time in France and on the visits to Belgium and thoroughlyenjoyed the new experience.

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France 2006

Founders Day 2006

5th Hull Band willjoin other BattalionBand Members andlead the BattalionFounders DayParade onHolderness Roadnext weekend.Good Luck to theBand.

BrigadeCouncil

Vicki and Paddi travelledto National BrigadeCouncil in September.This weekend meetingwas held in Cardiff andvotes were held regardinguniform and girls. Wenow have one uniform forthe first time since 1927and the limbo of the ‘girlssituation’ lingers on - lookout for more news heresoon.

President’sBadge

At Presentation Night in July twoyoungsters were presented withtheir President’s Badge. This isthe second highest award in the Boys’ Brigade andgives access to the Queen’s Badge (the highestaward). Both Claire Sparkes and Peter Spencer werepresented with this award and join Tim Miller as thethree most recent recipients of this award.Congratulations go to Peter and Claire.

TescoSports

The Boys’ Brigade are collecting ‘TescoSports for Schools and Clubs’ tokens.These are available with every £10 spentin a Tesco store and allow the registeredgroup, in this case 5th Hull BB, to orderfree sports equipment.

Please save your Tesco tokens and passthem on to any of the Boys’ Brigade staff.

We will let you know what we purchaseafter Christmas. Please check out thechart on the BB cupboard door to seehow many tokens we have collected.

Due to the numerous promotions to the JuniorSection this year, we currently have a numberof spaces in the Anchors.

The Anchors meet on a Thursday evening forjust over an hour of fun and games. They meetat 6.25pm and finish at 7.30pm. Each weekthey do craft, singing, games and a story.Youngsters also do music, mime and drama,cooking and trips out. Subs are £1.00 perweek. As we are Christian organisationyoungsters have bible stories and undertakebible based activities.

If you know any youngster who would beinterested in joining us, then ask them to comealong to Derringham Bank on a Thursday Nightand see if they like what we do!

Contact Details:

For more details about anythingin this newsletter please contact5th Hull Boys’ Brigade:

Email: hull5th@aol.com

Text/Phone: 07961 851250

Website:http://5hull.boys-brigade.org.uk

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Happy Campers!

Small groups of youngsters spent a nightunder canvas at Rosedale Abbey campsitein August. The youngsters spent timepractising their camp craft skills, exploringthe local area and cooking for themselves.The youngsters all undertook work for theirGrade 1 Adventure badge.

KGVIThree youngsters from 5th Hull undertookthe first week of the prestigious KGVIOfficer Cadet training course in August.This two week course, spread over twoyears, takes place at BB HQ in HemelHempstead. Tim Miller, Claire Sparkes andPeter Spencer had a fantastic time makingnumerous new friends and learnt a lotabout what being a BB officer entails onthis week long course. They undertookcourses in Child Protection and Safety aswell as having a lot of fun.

New StaffClaire Sparkes and Peter Spencer wereboth promoted to the rank of StaffSergeant at the Presentation Evening inJuly. This means that both Claire andPeter hold the highest rank possible inthe Boys’ Brigade and are also nowconsidered as Junior Staff members. Welook forward to their greater participationin the life of the Company.

Other promotions included Tim Miller,Jessica Bromby and Avril Purchon to therank of Corporal, Callum Savage to therank of Sergeant and Phil Ellarby to therank of Lance Corporal.

Leading Boys in Anchors are now RyanDalo and Connor Wharton. In the Juniorsthey are Aaron Streets-Wray, DanielCollings and Jack Mander.

Starsof 2006Presentation Night in July 2006 again saw the presentation ofnumerous badges and the much sort after top awards. The topaward winners from 2006 are pictured here.

In the Anchors Ebony Beaudoin won the Best Anchor with ConnorWharton as Runner Up.

In the Juniors the Best Junior was Jack Wingfield with Nathan Joneswinning the Officers Award.

In the Company and Seniors Peter Spencer won the top award (TheAndrew Carmichael Trophy) with Paige Savage taking the OfficersAward for the Company Section and Callum Savage taking theOfficers Award for the Seniors.

In the Marching Band PaigeSavage won the Best BandMember Award and Daniel Collingstook the award for the MostImproved Member.

Congratulations go to all the awardwinners of 2006.

Booster SeatsNew laws regarding the transportation ofchildren in cars came into force last week.This means that all youngsters who areboth under the age of 12 and under 135cmmust use a Booster Seat when travelling ina car. As we often transport children incars to BB events and competitions this isgoing to mean a reasonable expense to 5thHull Boys’ Brigade.

So far we have managed to purchase twobooster seats. If anyone has an unusedbooster seat, which theywould like to donate to theCompany then they wouldbe gratefully received.

A number of youngsters from 5thHull have received MV certificatesand awards for 100 or 200 hoursservice to the community.

Avril Purchon (100 hours), JessicaBromby (100 hours), Tim Miller (100hours), Peter Spencer (100 hours,200 hours, 200+ hours) and ClaireSparkes (100 hours, 200 hours, 200+hours).

Current ActivitiesAs part of the Boys’ Brigades Objective is“the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom”,we regularly undertake Christian Activities.

Our current topic with the Anchors andJuniors is food in the Bible. The Juniorshave learnt about Manna, Fairtrade andGod’s creation. They have coveredFairtrade fruit with fair-trade chocolate aswell as enjoying games, colouring andfigure marching. The Anchors have alsoheard the story of the Gingerbread man,decorated gingerbread biscuits and heardthe story of the Tiger who came to tea.They also made Tiger masks. Youngstersenjoy singing and favourite songs this yearhave included ‘Jesus Superhero’, ‘Godloves me’ and ‘Who’s the King of theJungle?’

In Company/Seniors the topic hasbeen Creation and we have lookedin detail at the story of creation,Adam and Eve and temptations inlife. In Company and Seniorsbadge classes have includedcamp cooking, baking, craft,camping, woodwork and snooker.