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Cubs

Yesterday evening was Aaron’s first proper Cubs session. He looked very smart in his new cubs uniform and proper walking shoes, and said he had a good time, although they didn’t do too much during the 1st session, which was probably good as most of the children were tired from the first day of school!

For the past half term, Aaron has been attending Cubs on a Wednesday evening from 6:30pm to 8pm to get introduced to it. He has been enjoying it as Sarah and Sarah are running that as well. He will be starting Cubs properly in September.

So, last Friday was his last Beavers session where he ‘swam up’ to Cubs officially. The parents of the Beavers ‘swimming up’ were asked to stay to watch a little ceremony where the Beaver got given their new Cubs jumper officially and also received a certificate and badge. We had got Aaron his new Cubs uniform a week or two ago, ready for this session. Aaron was quite nervous stood at the front and struggled to take his jumper off! haha He had to shake Sarah and Sarah’s hands, and also the head Beaver (Eric) who congratulated him on doing so well. It was quite sad really as Aaron had been at Beavers for 2 years! But at least he is now joining most of his friends in Cubs as a lot of them are slightly older than him so ‘swam up’ the previous school term. Aaron has learnt a lot at Beavers though and loves going, so Cubs will be awesome for him as well!

For the rest of his final Beavers session, they played indoor water games until near the end when the torrential wind and rain outside eased, so they went out and had water fights outside! At least we get our Friday evenings back now…..until Coby starts in 2020!

Aaron has now got his 200m swimming certificate though he didn’t want to take it into School to be presented with it during assembly. He is doing very well swimming and is getting more and more confident! Hopefully he can crack on and complete stage 5 quickly and get on into stage 6! 😉

After Coby’s birthday party at Jump, Aaron had Beavers and it was a visit to Crownhill Fire Station. We had to miss the start of the session due to Coby’s party, but were allowed to stop in afterwards. 

It was very good and the Beavers were allowed to have a close up look of the Fire Engine and were shown what to do if you got caught alight, and various other things. Towards the end, they were all about to have a go on the fire hose but, typically, just before it was Aaron’s turn, the fire bell rang to say there was a real fire, so they had to pack up quickly and speed off! So Aaron missed out on that but they had to go and potentially put a real fire out, so you can’t blame them. 

It was a good session though and Aaron, and the other Beavers, enjoyed it there! Coby was allowed to go in with Kelly as well, so he had a bit of fun as well! 😉

Aaron has changed football training to Thursdays now with Marjons.  It had got to a point where there weren’t enough children turning up to the West Pro training on a Tuesday so they cancelled that. So Aaron has been at 6pm-7pm at Marjons since the start of this term although he hasn’t been the last couple of weeks.  He only really wants to go if his friend Reuben P goes so he isn’t really that committed. We have been told that this training will lead to a team as well, which he does say he wants to do. Aaron is just being Aaron (haha) so we will see if he changes his mind after the May half term and start going again.