6th Plympton Beaver Colony

What is Beaver Scouts

Beaver Scouts are young people usually aged between six and eight years old. They belong to the first and youngest Section in the Scouting family. Young people can join Beaver Scouts from their sixth birthday. They can move to the next Section, Cub Scouts, between eight and eight years six months.

Easily recognised by their distinctive turquoise sweatshirts, Beaver Scouts enjoy making friends, playing games, going on visits and helping others. They usually meet together once a week in a Beaver Scout Colony.

The Beaver Scout Promise is:

I promise to do my best
To be kind and helpful
And to love God.

The Beaver Scout Motto:

Fun & Friends

Beavers are run by three Beaver Scout Leaders : Roo (Christine Wiles)
Owl (Matthew )
Rabit (Nikki Finnerty)
Beaver also have the help of 3 young leaders.

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Some Comments the Beavers have written:

Beaver club is really fun. We do all sorts games at beavers here are just some of them: hockey, football, dodge ball, prisoner, crab football and captain coming. We also do a lot of art and craft we make food cards and small gifts. Beavers is once a week and we we get there Nutkin will sell you sweets.

We do loads of challenges and if you do them you will get earn badges. We have day trips some times where we go bowling and beaver fair and Crealy adventure park

You can join Beavers when you are six years old and stay until you are eight years old. When you are eight you can swim up to Cubs. When you are ten you can swim up to Scouts. Finally when you are fourteen you can swim up to explore Scouts.

At Beavers you can play lots of games like Sharks and Fishes, High Jump, Crab Football, Football and lots of other games. We make things like pancakes, dragons, drawings, cards and buns.

Some times we go on trips. I've been to megabowl, on a train to see a christmas play and a night hike.

Beavers is fun and I recommend it to any six year old.

Beavers is a fun activity for after school. You can progress from Beavers to Cubs and then on to Scouts. The person in charge of the whole scout community is called Baden Powell. In the Beavers part you just get to do games like footbal and stuff. In cubs part you get to do things like go camping in a tent and go and search for things and stuff.

This Year the Beavers have Done:

Please note that some Beavers are not allowed to have photo's on the website.

This year the Beavers attended the St Gorges Day March at Ivybridge. Scout Units all over England all march to church for a service to celebrate St Georges Day. All the Beavers know the story about St George. This year some Beavers, Cubs and Scouts where asked what they had done to achieve their Chief Scout Award and the theme was about being prepared.

Part of Scouts Stage Badge is the Emergency Aid Badge. Luckliy for the Beavers the ADC Beavers is also a Paramedic . He agreed to come along to one of the meetings to show the Beavers some of the equipment that they use and how to recognise some of the symptoms that we might have if we are ill.


	Beavers were shown on a dummy what to look for is someone is chocking this includes what colour the person may turn.		Beaver being show a devise to measure blood pressure and pulse. The beavers were allowed to try the devise to measure their pulse		Beavers being shown what to do if they find someone who is unconscious. Most important to look for more danger.

One Sunday in June the beavers went for a day trip to Kents Caverns in Torquay. After a good trip up we arrived at Kents Caverns in time for it's opening. On the tour aroud the caves the Beavers learnt about stalagmites, and stalacitights and how they grow. The Beavers were shown a stalactight that was the fastest growing one in the cave as it had 4 drops of water falling on it every minute. We were all amazed to discover that it would only grow as high as the width of an hair strand in one year. There also learnt that the cave had been a home to lots of different animals and humans. After the time in the caves the beavers looked for treasure in some sand, had lunch, went for a walk on a nature trial. It would not be a good vist to Torquay without spending a bit of time on the beach.


	Beavers looking for Treasure		All young poeple have fun in the sand		Beavers turn the corner to find another hill to climb on the nature walk


	Some of the beavers decide to continue looking for Treasure while others play football and cricket		Beavers haveing fun making asome castles

At the end of June the beavers went to Wembury Beach. The Beaver Scout Motto is Fun and Friends, There spent a lot of time with their fiends having lots of fun playing cricket, building sand castles for a competion and eating burgers and hot dogs cooked on a BBQ.


	Beavers playing Cricket with a younger leader (Explore Scouts between 15 and 18 years old) keeping an eye on them to make sure that fair play won the day.		Beavers digging in the sand, I don't think they got to Australia, but they dug a big hole.		A Beaver bulding his sand castle. All the sand castles were good and no one could decide on a winner.

On the 1st July the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Plymouth visited the group. While they were at the school they presented the Beavers with some badges that their had been working towards. The badges were hiking stage 1 and cycle badge. Once all the presentations were made the Beavers had a BBq and played some games with a parachute. The Lord Mayor and lady Mayoress joined in with the fun.

Last Year The Beavers have Done:

Please note that some Beavers are not allowed to have photo's on the website.

To mark the 100 years of Scouting the Beavers joined the Cubs and Scouts at Huishwoods Scout campsite for a day visit. It was a long day for young people between 6 & 8 years of age. The Beavers left Plympton at 09:00 and didn't return from the campsite until 21:00 tired but happy. They had joined in the days activities and taken part in Archery, Shooting, Climbing finishing the day with a BBQ, skits and some songs around the fire.

All the Beavers had the chance to try the climbing, some chose not to, but helped with the ropes at the bottom of the wall. The Beavers that did climb had fun with a few making it to the top.

One of the Scouts helping lead one of the songs at the camp fire. The beavers really enjoyed taking part and all are looking forward to becoming Cubs.

One of the Scouts getting the help from one of the Beavers with a skit, The result was everyone in laughter.