A Guide for new Members and their Parents
of the
1st Theale and Calcot Tiger Moth Cub Pack
Our members are aged between 8 and 10½, and they take part in an active, exciting, fun, and adventurous programme of activities that we work towards to attaining the Chief Scouts Silver Award.
The Cubs are placed in Sixes and work together as a team on several activities.
Older members, aged 9½+, can get invited to a Scout orientation camp which lets them see what to expect when they move on to Scouts.
Uniform
The Pack uniform consists of:-
Dark green sweatshirt
A red neckerchief with woggle - to be supplied when invested
Activity trousers (navy blue - optional)
Dark green polo short sleeved polo shirt (optional)
Uniform can be bought from one of the local Scout Shops.
Camps and Pack holidays
Ask any Cub Scout what they like best about being a Cub and most of them will reply camping or Pack holidays. Most youngsters love being out of doors and the camps and Pack holidays are very special - certainly very different from school trips! It's a chance to try some special activities that cannot be done at regular Pack meetings.
Your youngster may have the opportunity to either camp in tents or sleep indoors on a Pack holiday. The Cub Scout Pack may go away overnight, for the weekend or even for a few days or week in the School holidays. The Cub Scouts may go away with their own Pack or they may have a chance to join in a much larger camp mixing with other Packs from the local District and making a few new friends. The leaders are specially trained before they are allowed to take youngsters away on a camp or Pack holiday. They take on the responsibility to look after the Cubs as if they were their own large family of youngsters.
The Leaders will often need to take along extra adult help to assist with catering or equipment. This extra help may be Scouts, Venture Scouts, Instructors (for special activities) or parents/guardians to help with general supervision.
Money Matters
Making Payments
We would be grateful if any payments, whether they be by cash or cheque, are placed in a sealed envelope with details of what the payment is for, and who it is from, on the front of the envelope.
Cheques should be made payable to 1st Theale & Calcot Scout Group
Subs
Subs are collected each term, and are currently at £35.00 per term (which is around £2.50p per week.)
This money covers:-
· Annual fees to District, County and National bodies for insurance and leader training. Unfortunately, the group don't get to see a penny of this money.
· A small amount of the subs are kept by the group to cover running costs such as hall hire and the purchasing of equipment.
· Badges.
· Equipment needed for Pack meetings.
Leader Contacts
If you have any problems or queries, please don't hesitate in contacting any of the leaders. You can find there details on the current programme. We are there to help you and your child.
Also, if you are interested in helping out with the Pack, or doing something else to help with the Group, please contact us. There are no payments for being a leader or helper, but what you get out of it is much better than that - seeing the children having fun and enjoying themselves.
The Scout Group is supported by the Group Executive Committee. The role of the committee is to organise fundraising events to maintain the Group and to purchase new equipment. If you can spare a little bit of time - a couple of hours one evening a month for a meeting, plus a few extra hours to help at events - please make yourselves known to one of the leaders.
Health & Contact Information
We do have personal information forms that we require to be filled in. These will give us all the information required should there be any need to contact parents or for medical purposes.
The forms list contact information and medical information. You will be given the relevent forms when your child starts at cubs.
Please return these forms to a Leader as soon as possible.
Due to data protection NO details are shared with third parties.
We will also need permission to take them out on trips and to take photographs of them on scouting activities.
The Cub Promise and Law
The Cub Scout Promise
I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and to the Queen
To help other people
And to keep the Cub Scout Law
The Cub Scout Law
Cub Scouts always do their best
think of others before themselves
and do a good turn every day.
The Original Jungle Book Story
It was a warm summer night then Tabaqui, the Jackal - the mean, sly mischief maker - crept to the cave of Mother and Father Wolf. "Shere Khan, the tiger, has moved his hunting grounds. He will hunt amongst these hills." he told them.
Father Wolf was upset, because Shere Khan killed cattle and angered the villagers, bringing trouble into the jungle.
As they listened, they heard the angry snarling whine of the evil tiger.
"He is hunting man!" said Mother Wolf. "Listen - something is coming!" Father Wolf crouched, and then halted just before he leapt. "Man!" he snapped, "It's a man cub - look!" His jaws closed very carefully over the little boys back and he carried him into the cave and placed him amongst the over cubs - the wolf cubs.
Then, a dark shadow crossed the doorway. "The man cub is mine, give him to me!" roared Shere Khan. But Mother and Father Wolf were not going to be bossed around by somebody not from the wolf pack, so Shere Khan crept away.
"I will call the little one 'Mowgli', the frog," said Rashka, the Mother Wolf, "because his skin is smooth and without skin like a frog."
So Mowgli stayed with Rashka and Father Wolf and their own four cubs. When they were old enough to run a little, they set off on the night of the full moon, through the jungle to the Council Circle, where the wolves looked over the young cubs so they would know them if they met in the jungle.
Then Shere Khan roared from the trees: "What have the Free People to do with a man cub in the pack?"
Akela, the leader of the pack, reminded the wolves that if there was an argument about a cub, two people would have to speak for him. So Baloo, the Brown Bear, stood up and said "I will speak for the man cub."
Then, a black shadow dropped from the trees. It was the mighty hunter Bagheera, the panther. "I have a newly killed bull to give you to save the cub's life," he said.
And that is how Mowgli was accepted as a member of the Pack, at the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word. Mowgli then learned the laws of the jungle from old Baloo, and how to creep, stalk and hunt from Bagheera.
A lot of the ceremonies and names of Leaders in Cub Scouting are taken from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. You may like to read the book or watch the Walt Disney cartoon film of the story to help you get to know the story and the characters.
Your Cub Leader is called 'Akela', and other leaders from the pack will each have their own names from the Jungle Book. Why not ask them to find out what they are called.
of the
1st Theale and Calcot Tiger Moth Cub Pack
Our members are aged between 8 and 10½, and they take part in an active, exciting, fun, and adventurous programme of activities that we work towards to attaining the Chief Scouts Silver Award.
The Cubs are placed in Sixes and work together as a team on several activities.
Older members, aged 9½+, can get invited to a Scout orientation camp which lets them see what to expect when they move on to Scouts.
Uniform
The Pack uniform consists of:-
Dark green sweatshirt
A red neckerchief with woggle - to be supplied when invested
Activity trousers (navy blue - optional)
Dark green polo short sleeved polo shirt (optional)
Uniform can be bought from one of the local Scout Shops.
Camps and Pack holidays
Ask any Cub Scout what they like best about being a Cub and most of them will reply camping or Pack holidays. Most youngsters love being out of doors and the camps and Pack holidays are very special - certainly very different from school trips! It's a chance to try some special activities that cannot be done at regular Pack meetings.
Your youngster may have the opportunity to either camp in tents or sleep indoors on a Pack holiday. The Cub Scout Pack may go away overnight, for the weekend or even for a few days or week in the School holidays. The Cub Scouts may go away with their own Pack or they may have a chance to join in a much larger camp mixing with other Packs from the local District and making a few new friends. The leaders are specially trained before they are allowed to take youngsters away on a camp or Pack holiday. They take on the responsibility to look after the Cubs as if they were their own large family of youngsters.
The Leaders will often need to take along extra adult help to assist with catering or equipment. This extra help may be Scouts, Venture Scouts, Instructors (for special activities) or parents/guardians to help with general supervision.
Money Matters
Making Payments
We would be grateful if any payments, whether they be by cash or cheque, are placed in a sealed envelope with details of what the payment is for, and who it is from, on the front of the envelope.
Cheques should be made payable to 1st Theale & Calcot Scout Group
Subs
Subs are collected each term, and are currently at £35.00 per term (which is around £2.50p per week.)
This money covers:-
· Annual fees to District, County and National bodies for insurance and leader training. Unfortunately, the group don't get to see a penny of this money.
· A small amount of the subs are kept by the group to cover running costs such as hall hire and the purchasing of equipment.
· Badges.
· Equipment needed for Pack meetings.
Leader Contacts
If you have any problems or queries, please don't hesitate in contacting any of the leaders. You can find there details on the current programme. We are there to help you and your child.
Also, if you are interested in helping out with the Pack, or doing something else to help with the Group, please contact us. There are no payments for being a leader or helper, but what you get out of it is much better than that - seeing the children having fun and enjoying themselves.
The Scout Group is supported by the Group Executive Committee. The role of the committee is to organise fundraising events to maintain the Group and to purchase new equipment. If you can spare a little bit of time - a couple of hours one evening a month for a meeting, plus a few extra hours to help at events - please make yourselves known to one of the leaders.
Health & Contact Information
We do have personal information forms that we require to be filled in. These will give us all the information required should there be any need to contact parents or for medical purposes.
The forms list contact information and medical information. You will be given the relevent forms when your child starts at cubs.
Please return these forms to a Leader as soon as possible.
Due to data protection NO details are shared with third parties.
We will also need permission to take them out on trips and to take photographs of them on scouting activities.
The Cub Promise and Law
The Cub Scout Promise
I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and to the Queen
To help other people
And to keep the Cub Scout Law
The Cub Scout Law
Cub Scouts always do their best
think of others before themselves
and do a good turn every day.
The Original Jungle Book Story
It was a warm summer night then Tabaqui, the Jackal - the mean, sly mischief maker - crept to the cave of Mother and Father Wolf. "Shere Khan, the tiger, has moved his hunting grounds. He will hunt amongst these hills." he told them.
Father Wolf was upset, because Shere Khan killed cattle and angered the villagers, bringing trouble into the jungle.
As they listened, they heard the angry snarling whine of the evil tiger.
"He is hunting man!" said Mother Wolf. "Listen - something is coming!" Father Wolf crouched, and then halted just before he leapt. "Man!" he snapped, "It's a man cub - look!" His jaws closed very carefully over the little boys back and he carried him into the cave and placed him amongst the over cubs - the wolf cubs.
Then, a dark shadow crossed the doorway. "The man cub is mine, give him to me!" roared Shere Khan. But Mother and Father Wolf were not going to be bossed around by somebody not from the wolf pack, so Shere Khan crept away.
"I will call the little one 'Mowgli', the frog," said Rashka, the Mother Wolf, "because his skin is smooth and without skin like a frog."
So Mowgli stayed with Rashka and Father Wolf and their own four cubs. When they were old enough to run a little, they set off on the night of the full moon, through the jungle to the Council Circle, where the wolves looked over the young cubs so they would know them if they met in the jungle.
Then Shere Khan roared from the trees: "What have the Free People to do with a man cub in the pack?"
Akela, the leader of the pack, reminded the wolves that if there was an argument about a cub, two people would have to speak for him. So Baloo, the Brown Bear, stood up and said "I will speak for the man cub."
Then, a black shadow dropped from the trees. It was the mighty hunter Bagheera, the panther. "I have a newly killed bull to give you to save the cub's life," he said.
And that is how Mowgli was accepted as a member of the Pack, at the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word. Mowgli then learned the laws of the jungle from old Baloo, and how to creep, stalk and hunt from Bagheera.
A lot of the ceremonies and names of Leaders in Cub Scouting are taken from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. You may like to read the book or watch the Walt Disney cartoon film of the story to help you get to know the story and the characters.
Your Cub Leader is called 'Akela', and other leaders from the pack will each have their own names from the Jungle Book. Why not ask them to find out what they are called.