Activity Programme
Summer 2023
Homework 1 – Personal Challenges before 12/06/2023
Please support your young person to try their best to complete TWO personal challenges. One challenge should be set by your young person and one challenge set by the Leaders (with support from parents and carers). This counts towards your young person achieving the My Personal Challenge Award.
Homework 2 – Find five facts before 12/06/2023
Please support your young person to find out five facts about their chosen topic and share these facts with their Lodge, Colony, or Leaders. Your young person could ask someone questions, look for facts in a book, or (with appropriate supervision) browse the web. Your young person can remember their facts, or create a poster, or send their facts by email. This counts towards your young person achieving their My Skills Challenge Award.
| Date | Activity | Description | Venue | Awards and Badges | More |
| 19 Apr | Games | Can you practise sharing, teaching, and leading by showing others how to play your favourite games? | School Hall | My Skills Challenge Award (1, 5) | |
| 26 Apr | Safety: Out and About | Whether you’re walking to school, visiting the park, or going on a great, big adventure it’s important to know how to stay safe. | School Hall |
My Adventure Challenge Award (4) My Skills Challenge Award (5, 8) My Teamwork Challenge Award (1) Safety Activity Badge (1, 2, 7) |
Pick a new place you visited recently to tell other Beavers about at the beginning of the meeting, |
| 03 May | Safety: At Home | Learn together about how to keep ourselves, our loved ones, and our homes safe. | School Hall | ||
| 10 May | Emergency Aid | Sometimes accidents happen, even when we are trying our best to stay safe. Learn together what we can do to help. | School Hall |
My Outdoors Challenge Award (3) |
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| 17 May | My Body and My Mind | Think about how we can take care of our bodies and minds, and how we can show other bodies and brains respect. | School Hall |
My Skills Challenge Award (2, 4, 5) |
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| 24 May | Moving Our Bodies | Work together to create an obstacle course and learn about why it is important to move our bodies. | School Hall |
My Adventure Challenge Award (2) My Skills Challenge Award (2, 5, 7) |
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| 31 May | Feeding Our Bodies | Learn about the special ingredients that help our bodies work and create your own yummy fruit salad. | School Hall |
My Skills Challenge Award (2, 3, 5) |
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| 7 Jun | Problem Solving Machines | Work as a team to invent a machine to help solve a real world problem. | School Hall |
My Skills Challenge Award (3, 5, 6, 7) |
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| 14 Jun | Mix and Match | Let’s reflect on some of the things we’ve learnt this term and finish off some badge activities | School Hall |
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| 17 Jun | Camp Visit | Visit the District Camp at Fordell Firs for the day and take part in some adventurous amd outdoor challenges | Fordell Firs |
My Adventure Challenge Award (1, 2) |
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| 21 Jun | Skills & Promise Ceremony | Learn some new skills and welcome our new Beaver Scouts to the worldwide family of Scouting. | School Hall | Bring your neckerchief | |
| 28 Jun | SUMMER HOLIDAY | No meeting |
Spring 2023
| Date | Activity | Description | Venue | Awards and Badges | More |
| 2 Apr | EASTER HOLIDAY | No meeting |
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| 05 Apr | EASTER HOLIDAY | No meeting |
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| 29 Mar | Springtime | Learn about the signs of Spring and some of the different celebrations that take place at this time of year. | School Hall |
Creative Activity Badge (2 & 3) |
Origami Box for Spring Basket – https://youtu.be/N8p_MIq4ngU |
| 22 Mar | Puppet Theatre | Craft the characters, imagine the story, and put on a show. | Nursery Garden | Creative Activity Badge (1, 2, & 4) | |
| 15 Mar | Animal Friends | Learn about how to take care of animal friends | School Hall | Animal Friend (1, 2, 3 & 4) | |
| 08 Mar | Investiture | Test our Scouting knowledge and invest our new Beaver friends | School Hall |
My Teamwork Challenge Award (1) Membership Award (1, 2 & 3) |
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| 01 Mar | Superhelpers | Think about our Promise, doing our best, and how we can help our communities | School Hall | ||
| 22 Feb | Challenge Update & Team Games | Share our Personal Challenge progress with the group and play team games together | School Hall | ||
| 15 Feb | HALF TERM HOLIDAY | No meeting | |||
| 08 Feb | Goals & Challenges | Kick off the My Personal Challenge Award by deciding what to work towards | School Hall | My Personal Challenge Award (1) | |
| 01 Feb | Storytelling & Charades | Share our Scottish comic strips with the whole group and tell tiny stories with actions by playing charades | School Hall | My Teamwork Challenge Award (1) | |
| 25 Jan | Storytelling & Scotland | Celebrate Burns Night and National Storytelling Week by having a go at creating a comic together | School Hall |
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| 18 Jan | Chinese New Year | Learn about the celebration of the new lunar year and why it is important in Chinese culture. | School Hall |
My Teamwork Challenge Award (1) My World Challenge Award (4 & 7) International Activity Badge (1)
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| 11 Jan | Our Code | Welcome back, let’s play some games and take a look together at our Code of Conduct | School Hall | My Teamwork Challenge Award (4) | Our Code of Conduct |
Autumn 2022
| Date | Activity | Description | Venue | Awards and Badges | More |
| 14 Dec | Reflecting and Christmas Games | Think about what we enjoyed and learned in 2022. | School Hall | My World Challenge Award (4) | |
| 07 Dec | Badge Week | Let’s finish what we started and complete our Communicator and International Activity Badges | School Hall |
Communicator Activity Badge (1, 2 & 3) |
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| 30 Nov | St Andrews Day | Learn about the country we call home by taking part in a mini Highland Games. | School Hall | ||
| 23 Nov | Christmas Cards for Crisis | Craft cards to bring some festive cheer to the homeless community this Christmas | School Hall | ||
| 16 Nov | Community visitor | Meet a local police officer and learn about what they do and safety in our community. | School Hall | My World Challenge Award (1) | |
| 09 Nov | Builder Part 2 | This week we will get busy making our builds a reality. Remember to bring your chosen materials. | School Hall |
My Skills Challenge Award (3 & 6) My Teamwork Challenge Award (2) Builder Activity Badge (3 & 4) |
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| 02 Nov | Builder Part 1 | Become architects of your own creations. In this first part we will plan our builds. | School Hall |
My Skills Challenge Award (3 & 6) My Teamwork Challenge Award (2) Builder Activity Badge (1 & 2) |
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| 26 Oct | Promise | Reflect on the meaning of the Beaver Scout Promise and invest our new Beavers. | School Hall |
Membership Award (2 & 3) |
Beaver Scout Promise |
| 19 Oct | HALF TERM | No meeting | |||
| 12 Oct | India | Explore India and learn about food, culture, and language. | School Hall |
My World Challenge Award (4 & 7) International Activity Badge (2, 3, 4 & 5) |
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| 05 Oct | Campfire | Learn how to stay safe, practice fire skills, and toast marshmallows. | Nursery Garden |
My Adventure Challenge Award (2) My Outdoor Challenge Award (1c & 1d) |
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| 28 Sep | Talking in Code | Learn about the history of communicating at a distance and create and decode Morse messages | School Hall |
My Teamwork Challenge Award (2) Communicator Activity Badge (4 & 5) |
NATO Phonetic Spelling Alphabet and International Morse Code |
| 21 Sep | Diverse Families and Swim up | There are lots of different types of families, what does yours look like? | School Hall | My Skills Challenge Award (3) | All Kinds of Families Worksheet |
| 14 Sep | Diversity in nature | Create a rainbow with things we can find in nature. | School Hall and Playground |
My Adventure Challenge Award (2) |
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| 07 Sep | Tent Time | Work together to put up a tent and practise tying knots. | Inverleith Park |
My Adventure Challenge Award (2) My Outdoor Challenge Award (1 & 2) Camp Craft Activity Badge (1 & 4) |
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| 31 Aug | Beaver Basics | Learn about Promise, moving on, lodges and badges, and take part in Cool Wall Log Chew. | School Hall |
Membership Award (1 & 2) |
Cool Wall Log Chew Results |
| 24 Aug | Welcome | Settle in, get to know each other, and work together to complete a scavenger hunt. | School Hall |
Membership Award (1) |
Summer 2022
| Date | Activity | Description | Venue | Awards and Badges | More |
| 29 Jun | Experiment 2 | Create protection for a falling egg and guess how far the balloon will treavel as we complete our Experiment badge | School Hall | Experiment Activity Badge (1 & 2) | |
| 22 Jun | CANCELLED | ||||
| 15 Jun | CANCELLED | ||||
| 08 Jun | Team Games | Work and play together in Lodges | School Hall | My Teamwork Challenge Award (1 & 2) | |
| 01 Jun | Queen’s Jubilee and Experiment 1 | Celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of our Royal Patron Queen Elizabeth !! and learn about matter through a fun slime experiment | School Hall | Experiment Activity Badge (1 & 2) | |
| 25 May | Promise | Learn about Scouting history and World Scouting and make your Promise to become a Beaver | School Hall | Membership Award (2 & 3) | Beaver Scout Promise |
| 18 May | National Numeracy Day | Learn about numbers and money, saving and sharing, and solve a money puzzle to buy sweets | School Hall | Money Skills Activity Badge (1, 2, 3 & 4) | |
| 11 May | Log Chew: Beaver Rules | Take part in a Beaver Log Chew to think about how to be a good Beaver and what rules we will all agree to follow | School Hall | My Teamwork Challenge Award (4) | Code of Conduct |
| 04 May | Working Together | Work and play together as a team to complete a puzzle | School Hall |
My Teamwork Challenge Award (1 & 2) |
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| 27 Apr | Beaver Basics | Play games to learn about what it means to be a Beaver and the Beaver Promise | School Hall |
Membership Award (1 & 2) |