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A few weeks ago, Aaron was officially inducted as a Beaver. He now has all of his outfit and is enjoying it loads!

During his final Beaver meeting that he could attend before half term, the whole group had to go to the Plymouth College of Higher Education to do their Science Experiment badge. He absolutely loved it and helped out with several experiments. It was an extra long session of over 2 hours as well but it seemed to be really good and interesting. Aaron is certainly learning lots of new stuff from them! 😉

Last Friday at Beavers, Aaron spent the time our in the local woods poo hunting. The weather was wet and horrible so he went in his waterproofs, but he had a great time. He said that they found Badger and Fox poo and because of this, he got his Poo Detective badge! He was very proud! He also has Bobby The Beaver (the mascot) for the week whereby he has to take him places and take photos so he can put in a booklet. He was very happy he got Bobby as well! 😉

Poo Detective

Aaron has now joined Beavers! 

He has had a couple of free taster sessions and has loved every minute of them! We have just paid for the membership and almost bought him his uniform so he is now almost a fully fledged Beaver! 😉

He has already been involved in cooking sausages on a BBQ, building things and this week they will be going out into the woods to build camps and other outdoor things, so he can’t wait! He will also have activities taking place over weekends where they go off to the local Scout Leaders Hut and in the woods nearby and do circus skills, make bug hotels and make camps, etc. It sounds really good and Coby has already said he wants to go as well when he is older! haha

Several of his best friends go as well, so he knows enough people there to make him feel comfortable with going and it takes place just up the road at the Woolwell Scout Hut for an hour and a half, so is nice and close, even though it means we can’t relax on a Friday evening again until he gets home. Hopefully Aaron will keep it up though as it seems really good!

Aaron has now stopped going to the weekly football training. We have actually stopped going to Goals now and Ben is doing a properly run coaching session with the other Bickleigh Buddies at Marjons on a Thursday now. Aaron had the opportunity to play as well but didn’t want to really. Unfortunately, the boys that play are all in Ben’s year and he doesn’t really know any of them properly like he did with some others before. One of his friends did come along once, but didn’t like it either, so never came back again.  So Aaron, for now, has given up on the training, but we are going to try and get him to do something else instead with some of his friends, so watch this space! 😉

Two weeks ago, Aaron completed his Stage 2 swimming and now has a lovely certificate and badge to show for it! The following week, he moved straight up into Stage 3 and when Kelly checked last night (after swimming) he is nearly 50% complete in that level as well! Amazing really as Aaron was really quite struggling and didn’t like it at all, but he has suddenly adapted to swimming really well and is doing brilliant!

Stage 2 Swimming Certificate