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Orion Troop attended its first jamboree last week, held at Thorpe le Soken in sunny Essex. We joined some 10,000 other young people from a wide range of units, including cubs, scouts, explorers, brownies, guides and rangers and of course, many attended from overseas.

The jamboree was hosted on farmland which had been divided up into sub-camps. We were on the Red Panda subcamp, denoted by our red scarf and badge.

 

 

 

Scouts were involved in a wide range of activities including:

• It's a Knockout!
• Water Activities
• Challenge Activities
• Incident Challenge
• Eco Experience

...and lots more besides.

Here are just a few photographs showing what the Scouts got upto over the week.

More information can be found on the Essex International Jamboree website.

11,000 Scouts, Guides and Leaders at the end of an amazing week-long International camp.

Scouts at 3rd Billericay learnt how to light fires using nothing more than cotton wool and a flint and steel. Scouts prepared jacket potatoes, chicken drumsticks, sausages, fish, baked apples, and chocolate bananas for cooking on the fire. If you think that sounds delicious, it really was!

One of the highlights of the scouting calendar is the construction of pioneering project. This year we made a climbing frame with tyres for clambering across. This could only be achieved with the pioneering skills developed over the past few weeks. A range of knots and lashings held the two A frames together.

A quick walk down the High Street from the car-park to Sun Corner, then everyone on the grass for a sing song, quick chat, National Anthem, then the parade of Cubs' Dragons and Scouts' Knights on Horses'.
  3rd Billericay didn't do well on the parade of the Knights' but once the actual jousting started their rigid lance and quick feet came into it's own and with a might score of 10 hoops they proudly won the 2008 St George's Day Parade Jousting Show - 3 cheers for 3rd.   Each of the 4 horse-boys won a 'rat' for their efforts.   Sorry to report the Knight lost his head in the excitement, the horse went lame on the wet ground and had to be put down behind the bins of the car-park - happily no horse-boys were hurt, took a fall or were un-saddled during the day.   Fun had by all.   Ian Brittan     Photographs

     

 

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Almost complete. The boys turned up on a sunny Saturday afternoon to put the finishing touches to the horse. They loved spray painting - it was almost as if they'd done it before some place else.. !?

Read about the winning success of the St George's Day Jousting Competition.

Besides making a plywood cut out of a jousting horse for St George's Day, we also made ANZAC biscuits. ANZAC day remembers those in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp who fought in the 1st World War.