For children aged 6-8 years
Beaver Team Leader: Kate
Beaver Team Members: Graeme and Rob
Young leaders: Ellis
Beaver Scouts are the second-youngest section of the Scouting Family. Their activities are based around making things, outdoor activities, singing, playing games, going out on visits, investigating nature, listening to stories, learning how to be safe and most importantly, making new friends.
Children join a Beaver Scout Colony for many reasons. It might be that they have heard great things from their friends about all the things the Colony gets up to every week. Or perhaps parents or carers are keen for them to join, or were even Scouts themselves when they were younger.
Beavers are usually aged between six and eight years old.
A group of Beaver Scouts is called a Colony, and each Colony can be split up into smaller groups called Lodges.
Beavers have a Promise and Motto.
The Scout Association has a programme which aims to promote the growth and development of children and young people.
The philosophy underpinning the programme is that every Beaver Scout should participate in a balanced programme over a period of time.
Providing your Beaver Scouts with a programme that is both balanced and exciting is one of the most rewarding challenges for our Beaver Scout Leadership Team.
What we offer to young people in the Beaver Scout section is a range of activities, events and experiences built around six programme zones.
You balance the programme in the same way you’d balance a diet, by simply ensuring that over a given period (a month or a term, for example), there is something from each zone in the programme.
Young people experience Scouting by regularly taking part in quality activities, drawn from each programme zone. Personal achievement can be recognised by earning awards and badges leading to Chief Scout’s Awards and, ultimately, the Queen’s Scout Award.
Visit Scouts.org.uk and click on Beavers to see detailed examples of the kind of activities that your child will be getting involved in, in order to achieve their badges.
If you’re interested in your son/daughter coming to Beavers, please head over to our Contacts page and complete our Waiting List form to add your child to our Waiting List.