What Rosanna Cubs got up to during 2011! Date Day Activity Details Leader Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 1, 2011 - Program 8/2/11 Tue Games Night Wow, it's Twenty-Eleven already, so we kicked off the New Year with a fun night. Chil 15/2/11 Tue BBQ & Yabbying It was time for our annual BBQ and Yabby Catching with the Scouts - tons of yabbies! Bagheera 20/2/11 Sun Founders Day - Bike Hike It would be the 154th Birthday of Baden-Powell, our founder. We rode from Heidelberg to Wilson Reserve in East Ivanhoe - for lunch and some (muddy) fun! - 22/2/11 Tue Boomerang Test 8 - Fitness How fit are our Cubs? This tested them out - with pretty good results! Rama 27/2/11 Sun Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - at the District Hall - 1/3/11 Tue Boomerang Test 11 - The Natural Environment We love being outside... so how do we look after it? Chil 8/3/11 Tue Wide Games Lets get outside and play some games that need *plenty* of space Rama 15/3/11 Tue Senses How many senses are there? And how well do you use them? Some Cubs had some weird experiences! Chil 22/3/11 Tue Boomerang Test 4 - Outdoor Scouting - Fires and Cooking We had campfires and ate damper, sausages and vegies...after we cooked our food! Bagheera 25-27/3/11 Fri-Sun Gold Camp II! Older Cubs had all sorts of fun, with tents, cooking, learning how to earn the Grey Wolf, earning a Bushcraft Badge and trying some Scout stuff- Rosanna joined Cubs and Leaders from 1st Bendigo, 1st Keilor Village, 1st Taylors Lakes, 1st Eltham (Gellibrand), 1st Ivanhoe, 2nd Werribee, 1st Hoppers Crossing (2 Packs) and 1st Iramoo Akela 27/3/11 Sun Banyule Festival "Arty Farty Fest" Grand Parade Cubs marched in the Street Parade and then joined in the festival at Sills Bend. - 29/3/11 Tue Handcrafts Hmmm, what do you think we made? How about bird food to hang up! Akela 30/3/11 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - at 1st West Heidelberg - 5/4/11 Tue Aliens We dressed up as our favourite aliens as we went out of this world Akela 9/4/11 - 26/4/11   School Holidays Well, that's Term 1 done. Time for a break, the Easter Bunny and on to Term 2 (plus Anzac Day). - Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 2, 2011 - Program 25/4/11 Mon Anzac Day We attended the Dawn Service (a very early start!), then took part in the Anzac Day March in Greensborough - 26/4/11 Tue Anzac Day Holiday A public Holiday for Anzac Day, - NO CUBS!   3/5/11 Tue Father and Cub Night Mothers Day Mothers Day was coming up - We brought the Dads in for some fun and to help do something for our Mums Bagheera 10/5/11 Tue Boomerang Test 1 - Health and First Aid Learning how to look after yourself.... and help others when things go wrong. Chil 17/5/11 Tue Heritage Night Northcote RSL We learned more about our Service men and women and saw tons of interesting stuff Rama 24/5/11 Tue Boomerang Test 2 - Safety Hmmm... what can we do to stop things going wrong and have fun? Chil 25/5/11 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - 29/5/11 Sun Flight Day Up, Up and Away! Cubs and Scouts went flying with the Scout Air Wing Bagheera / Akela 31/5/11 Tue Space Badge Joint Night - Macleod Cubs visiting Last Term Aliens visited Earth. Now, we thought we'd ask Macleod Cubs to join us as we headed into outer space and earned our Space Badge! Akela 4-5/6/11 Sat-Sun First Aid Camp A chance for older Cubs to learn and earn their Level 2 First Aid Badge - everyone from our Pack passed! - 7/6/11 Tue Boomerang Test 5 - Our Cub Scout Traditions We had some fun with Scouting History... and the Jungle! Chil 12/6/11 Sun Mudbash Open Day We visited the Rovers at Mudbash - they raced cars through lots of mud - we saw that, plus tons of other activities too - 14/6/11 Tue World Scout Environment Badge Part 1 A brand new badge that will take us a while with plenty to do - so it was time to get started Rama 21/6/11 Tue Possum Prowl We went to a wildlife sanctuary to go out in the dark and see what we could see - possums, bats, sugar gliders, owls and more. Akela 22/6/11 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - 25-26/6/11 Sat-Sun Gang Show, BBQ and Sleepover Cubs and Scouts visited Gang Show, had a family BBQ and then a Cubs-only Sleepover at the Hall with 1st Bendigo Cubs. Huge! - 28/6/11 Tue Jungle Cubs is all about the Jungle, so we went deep and found all sorts of Jungle creatures Akela 2/7/11 - 17/7/11   School Holidays Whaddya know? Half the year gone. The Holidays took no time and then on to Term 3. - Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 3, 2011 - Program 19/7/11 Tue Games Night It was Term 3 - Time to have some fun! Chil 26/7/11 Tue Boomerang Test 7 - Promise and Law We make our promise when we join and we follow the Cub Laws - do we? Chil 31/7/11 Sun Region Cub Day A special day for the Cubs of Plenty Valley Region, at Camp Warringal - tons of activities and tons of fun. - 2/8/11 Tue Boomerang Test 12 - Self Expression How do you express yourself - acting, drawing, writing, music? We tried it out and made our own magazine. Rama 9/8/11 Tue Joint Night - Initiative Games Eaglemont Cubs visiting Eaglemont Cubs came to visit - lots of Cubs, plenty of fun doing Initiative Games - and seeing if Cubs could work together to win Akela 16/8/11 Tue Rosanna Scout Group ARAP - Annual Reports & Awards Presentation Night Our second ever Annual Reports & Awards Presentations night - 23/8/11 Tue Swimming Night LaTrobe Uni An early start (6:30) at LaTrobe Uni's Swimming Pool... Cubs earned their Level 1 or 2 Swimming Badge, then into the other pool for some fun Akela 24/8/11 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - 30/8/11 Tue Mother and Cub Night Fathers Day Fathers Day was coming up. Mums came alome along to have some fun and help organise something for Dad Rama 6/9/11 Tue Boomerang Test 3 - Ropes We all got tied up in knots Akela 13/9/11 Tue Air Ambulance / Police Air Wing Visit The Air Ambulance and Police Air Wing moved into a huge new facility - so we checked it out Akela 20/9/11 Tue Wolfwarts School of Wizardry For all our Witches and Wizards - it was time to dress up and show us their spelling Chil 24/9/11 - 9/10/11   School Holidays Ahhhh, time for a break! - Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 4, 2011 - Program 5/10/11 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - at Bundoora - 11/10/11 Tue Games Night We got the blood pumping for the new Term with some games Welcome to Rahn, our new Leader in training Akela 18/10/11 Tue Boomerang Test 6 - Symbols of Australia We learned a bit about good old Aus - and what our important symbols are Chil 21-23/10/11 Fri-Sun Pack Holiday - Wolfwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry Bay Park, Mt Martha All our Witches and Wizards were invited for a weekend of fun and challenges - and sleeping on the Wolfwarts train! We had TONS of fun! - 25/10/11 Tue Halloween Rama came from America where Halloween is huge! He organised a special night, so we got all our best Halloween gear and 'Trick or Treated - as well as ghost stories and a huge real carved pumpkin!' It was also goodbye to Chil, as she went to the US for 3 months - and had a ball! Rama 1/11/11 Tue C U P       D A Y A day off for the Melbourne Cup, - NO CUBS!   2/11/11 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - at Diamond Valley - 8/11/11 Tue Boomerang Test 4 - Outdoor Scouting Maps & Compass Maps, Compasses, Tracking... and luckily we didn't get lost! Rama 12/11/11 Sat Sixers Dinner A special night for the District's Sixers - at Montmorency   13/11/11 Sun Sailing Day 1 Docklands A sailing day organised for Banyule District, fitting in with a pre-organised Club Day. Attendance was as families and everyone had fun   15/11/11 Tue 5th Cub Olympiad Stockholm We travelled to Stockholm, to celebrate the 5th Cub Olympic Games - starting with the sparkling Olympic Torch Relay and then the competition began! Akela 22/11/11 Tue Penny Hike Spend a penny? With the help of a trusty coin, we got out to rediscover Rosanna and Heidelberg All 23/11/11 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - 27/11/11 Sun Sailing Day 2 Docklands Another opportunity for sailing - see above on 13/11.   29/11/11 Tue Baden Powell and the Jungle A bit of Jungle, and a bit of what Baden Powell used to get up to... which was a lot! We went to England, India and Africa. Akela 4/12/11 Sun Level 2 Cooking Badge Camp Warringal? Some of the Older Cubs of Banyule got together to cook stuff, eat some and take the rest home... and got a Badge!   6/12/11 Tue Group Christmas Breakup Rosanna Scout Group's 5th Christmas We celebrated as we approached our 5th Birthday in March - And Santa found us too.   22/12/11 - 2/2/12   School Holidays So ended 2011 - it's was a big year - Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and it's all to go rip roaring and ready to go on Tuesday, 7th Feb, 2012 It was best wishes to Chil for New Year in New York and a Good Luck in Venturers next year..