End of 2018 Activities and Upcoming Camp

Wed Dec 5 - Christmas Party

This will be our last regular meeting.  There will be a stealing Santa gift exchange for troop. Those who wish to participate can bring a used toy in good condition or buy something for $5.00 or less at the dollar store.  We will also have a movie and some snacks.

Wed Dec 12 - Planning Meeting

This is for adult leaders, patrol leaders and assistant patrol leaders. You will be helping to plan the winter and spring activities

Wed Dec 19 - Heritage Village Foodbank Drive

This is an event for scouting families. Beavers, Cubs or Scouts, wear your uniforms and bring a food bank donation to the Burnaby leaders at Heritage Village and get free hot chocolate. The village has a fun scavenger hunt that you can partake in. Burnaby 1st Centre Lake group is organizing this.

Stave Lake Camp - Jan 18-20, 2019

This camp will be held in a lodge, however we will use the outdoors to do winter camping activities, so bring warm winter clothes and rain gear.  

Meet at Willingdon Church at 5:00 pm Friday, returning 3:00 pm Sunday. Registration deadline is January 9th, 2019.  We have no limitation on how many can attend.  I'm providing both a PDF and Excel form as some have requested the latter.

Stave Lake Camp Registration Form - PDF Form

Stave Lake Camp Registration Form - Excel Form

November and December 2018 Activities

No Scouts on Wednesday October 31st

This will be a night off for our scouts and beavers.

Wed Nov 7 - Prep for Remembrance Day

On Wed Nov 7th we will be preparing for Remembrance day and practicing colour party duties.

Sun Nov 11 - Remembrance Day

Willingdon Scouts have done the Remembrance Day ceremony at George Derby Veterans Hospital for many years. Some years ago, they rebuilt the facility and made it larger. At that time they were approached by the military who suggested that they would provide a colour party for future Remembrance Day programs, but the organization declined, choosing rather to reserve that honour for our scouts!

We are looking for a good turnout for this event, and will need to confirm who can be our colour guard for the event.  Please let us know at our next meeting, Wed Nov 7, if you can attend the ceremony.  The ceremony starts 11:00, but we will need to be there earlier. Exact times will be shared soon. No registration form required.  This event qualifies you for investiture.

Wed Nov 14 - Operation Escape and Evade

This is a Burnaby Area event.  For this event we are NOT meeting at Willingdon, but expect you to be dropped off at the start location and picked up at the end location.

Different Start Time: 6:30 pm

Start Location:  Gilmore Community ElementarySchool (north side parking lot) 

End Location: Capital Hill Elementary School (parking lot accessed off Hastings street)

Cost:  FREE!

You will need to fill in this registration form and return it no later than our next meeting, Wed Nov 7.

This is an urban hike. Dress for the weather and bring a flashlight.  This event qualifies you for investiture.

Sat Nov 17 - Day Hike, Cooking Over Fire

Drop off at 9:00 am, pick up at 3:00 pm at Willingdon.  At this event, we will need to hike in everything we need to build a fire, and cook our lunch over it.  Firewood, hot dogs, buns and condiments will be provided.

Dress for the weather - we go rain or shine.  Bring any tinder or kindling that you may have. We will provide wood for each patrol.  Bring a day pack so you can help carry in our gear and food. Bring a filled water bottle. If you need more than one bring an extra.

You must fill in this registration form and it must be handed in with the $5.00 fee by Wed Nov 14th (Operation Escape and Evade night).

If you have not already filled one in, you must also fill in a physical fitness form and turn it in. If you have already filled one in, you won't need to do it again this year.

Wed Nov 28 - Camp Fires and PJ Briefing

Wed Nov 28 we will be building camp fires in a fire bowl.  At 8:45 we will have a briefing for parents who are interested in sending their scout to PJ 2019 at Camp Barnard.  The Link below is to the Scouts Canada FAQ:
https://www.pacificjamboree.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PJ19-Participants-FAQs-FINAL-Nov-2018.pdf
This PDF is designed for the troop scouter, but we will provide additional information.

This is the link to our group's PJ information handout:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Cf8kDw2LpSFT3WnB_23owdWIoNPPBels

Wed Dec 5 - Christmas Party

This will be our last regular meeting.  There will be a stealing Santa gift exchange for troop. Those who wish to participate can bring a used toy in good condition or buy something for $5.00 or less at the dollar store.  We will also have a movie and some snacks.

Wed Dec 12 - Planning Meeting

This is for adult leaders, patrol leaders and assistant patrol leaders. You will be helping to plan the winter and spring activities

Wed Dec 19 - Heritage Village Foodbank Drive

This is an event for scouting families. Beavers, Cubs or Scouts, wear your uniforms and bring a food bank donation to the Burnaby leaders at Heritage Village and get free hot chocolate. The village has a fun scavenger hunt that you can partake in. Burnaby 1st Centre Lake group is organizing this.

Fall 2018

Upcoming Activities and Events

Wed Sep 26, 2018 - Meet the Leaders and Popcorn Kickoff 

This is an event for all sections and we strongly urge all parents to attend this with their youth.  Parents please attend. Scouts, if you are reading this, and not your parents, get them to read this!

Bike Ramble - Saturday October 6th

See the "Forms and Registrations" page for details and the registration form. Remember we cannot fully register you if we do not have your Physical Fitness form (on the same page.)

Pioneer Camp - Fri-Sun October 19th-21st

We are working with Burnaby Area on a Pioneer Camp, set for October 19-21.
REGISTRATIONS DUE Wed, Oct 3rd - you must also turn in a filled out Physical Fitness form.
Drop off at the church at 5:00 pm sharp - bring a filled water bottle - pick up on Sunday at the church at 3:00 pm.

Stay tuned for more

We will be putting a new post up here shortly with information about some fun upcoming events that we are planning. Stay tuned for more...

Welcome to Burnaby 4SW Scouts

In this post, we will include the following information:

• Physical Fitness Forms
• How to get Invested
• Patrols and Patrol Leadership
• Patrol duties
• Upcoming activities and events

Physical Fitness Forms

Before you can go on any off-site events with us, we need you to fill out this form and bring it to us. Yes, it says Non-members, but it captures the information we need, so still fill it out.  Please note, that you MUST give us an emergency number that is NOT THE SAME as your regular phone number. In fact it must be for another person. We will always try to contact you first. The emergency number is for if we cannot get hold of you.

How to Get Invested

In order to get invested, you need to do three things:

1. You need to know a bit about our founder, Baden Powel.  Follow this link for information about him. You should know his name and why we call him our founder. Maybe his final rank in the British Army.
2. You need to know the Scout Promise, Law, Motto and Slogan. Follow the link to see them.
3. You need to attend at least one event outside of a scout meeting.

Patrols and Patrol Leadership

In scouting, we organize our scouts into groups of roughly 5-7, with a patrol leader (PL) and assistant patrol leader (APL).  These two are usually 2nd year or older scouts, but in our case with 4 patrols and only 7 returning scouts, we'll have to promote 1 1st year scout to APL.

If the APL is not present, the PL may promote another scout from his patrol to assist him for that night (or activity).  If the PL is not present, the APL takes his duties and may promote another scout from his patrol to assist him.

We will be posting a link to the troop list, along with patrol assignments, once all patrols have had a chance to choose a name for their patrol.

Patrol Duties

Your patrol will be like your family in scouting.  You will do many activities as a patrol.  When preparing a camp menu or camp list, or preparing for other activities, you will often do this as a patrol.

A schedule will be distributed that shows what our plans are for each night, and assigns a patrol to be duty patrol. If the PL knows that he (or his APL) will be absent, he can switch nights with another patrol and notify the scoutmaster.

We will occasionally gather the troop leadership (including adult leaders, PLs and APLs) to do some event planning based on ideas brainstormed by the rest of troop.

The PL or his APL will collect dues, take initial attendance and check inspection.

The Duty Patrol is responsible for the following:

• If no one has done so when they arrive, get the flags and set them up
• Duty Patrol will do the flag break and flag lowering ceremonies
• Duty Patrol picks two or three songs they'd like to do for campfire time
• If it's not a common campfire song, make sure that scoutmaster knows it, has time to learn it, or be prepared to lead it yourself
• Duty Patrol picks and organizes a game that they would like to play during gym time
• Duty Patrol may notify scoutmaster that they are bringing a devotional. If they do not notify scoutmaster by the weekend before, one of the scout leaders will bring the devotional