Rushcliffe Scout News

By Martin Bird - 3rd West Bridgford (Friary) ⚜   Great fun with this game last Thursday at scouts. https://skribbl.io/ Basically it’s online Pictionary. Can be played on phones, tablets or PCs. Worked to run in parallel with a zoom call, and splitting the scouts into zoom breakout rooms corresponding to those in each Skribbl game if more than 12 scouts there.

By Peter Hortor - AESL, 1st Kinoulton. managing escape room.docx escape room solution.pdf   Attached is the 'cheat sheet'. I recommend any leader thinking of running the session first reads this and then tries at least the first room of the game so they know what they are doing when explaining it. The game can be accessed via: https://www.saintmichaelsscouts.org.uk/virtual-games/ In terms of running as a group once the leader has understood the game, here is how I did it: 1. Set up an event on OSM with a deadline 1 day before so i could put the explorers into groups of 3. The message gave the zoom meeting link and made clear explorers could join from 7.30 to chat, but we would start the games at 7.45 sharp. 2. On the evening of the game, I followed the instructions from the link above to set up multiplayer games.This is very easy but the computer on which you set up the multiplayer games must not try to enter a game - it gets a game control page that can see...

By Adam Dearnley - District Media Manager. Whilst the Covid-19 readiness level is at red and weekly meetings are suspended, we have relaunched our Virtual Scout Group Activity / Badge Blog, available at  https://rushcliffevirtualscouts.blogspot.com/   we will be posting a weekly badge or activity for each section that you can do at home then email evidence to your leaders or bring it in when you start back. Beavers: Tuesday Cubs: Wednesday Scouts: Thursday

By 1st Keyworth. 1st Keyworth Scout Group would like to invite you to our Virkey Trot challenge. For over 30 years, in December, we have organised a half-marathon (the Turkey Trot) around the surrounding villages of Keyworth to raise funds for the group. Unsurprisingly this year we had to make the disappointing decision to cancel the race. In its place we will be staging a virtual half-marathon for runners. Alongside this we would like to challenge scout groups to their own virtual run.   For scouts and explorers this will be a half-marathon.   For beavers and cubs this will be 5K. Each respective race will take on a relay format; there is no restriction to the number of young people that can take part in the relay. The participation rules can be found detailed below.   To mark the Scout virtual Virkey trot challenge a badge will be available for those participants that that have registered and paid the appropriate fee. In parallel with the virtual race we are askin...