Scouts NSW Rally – Aug 2010

1st Caringbah Scouts have just returned from NSW State Rally which is regarded as the biggest NSW competition leadership and initiative camp of the year, and we are delighted to say that 1st Caringbah Scouts made history by coming 1st,2nd and 3rd (from over 750 scout entrants and 150 teams) plus Jess Juretic became the first PL to lead a patrol to 3 consecutive team wins. And to top it all off Jess also took out the Best Patrol Leader (PL) of the State Rally.
We are very very proud that every single 1st Caringbah scout did their best and set out to have lots of FUN.
The patrol results for State Level were:
1st Place – Speedy Turtles – Jess (PL), Aaron (APL), Bridget, Kai, Oscar P
2nd Place – Kanga Nangas – Vivien (PL), Darcie (APL), Bethany, Emerson, Nick C
3rd Place – Team Tomato – Duncan (PL), Jake (APL), Maddie, Hayden, Caitlin
22nd Place – Cool Bananas – Cam B (PL), Thomas (APL), Megan, Laura, Ronan, Perry.
35th Place – Leaping Leopards – Kara (PL), Ellie (APL), Emilie, Oscar S.
Bravo and well done. All teams used the method taught by Baggy very well when we saw them on our activity. It goes to show that “being prepared” with a well thought out plan combined with some hard work and fun certainly works. The leaders are so very proud of all of the scouts we have at 1st Caringbah.
We also want to thank all the 1st Caringbah Leaders and Venturers that have worked with all the scouts over the last few weeks to polish their skills and also man the activities on our activity centre.
Salty (Ian Hall), Bluey (Jeff Stack), Kolo (Lynne Shepherd), Baggy (Jason Juretic), Nathan Leivesley, Chris Beauchamp, Matt Brown, Mitch Kemmis; a big Bravo for all your efforts this weekend with running the activity – it was great fun!!
We would like to also recognise a few other achievements, namely Oscar Sinclair, Oscar Peterson and Hayden Ward who joined in this camp even before they were invested. Your PL’s spoke very highly of you three – WELL DONE. Also Kara is our youngest PL and sadly she had to step out on the Sunday (much to her frustration) – we saw her perform exceptionally well on our activity using the leadership methodology (SMEAC) we taught her extremely well. Ellie Crowther stepped up to acting APL for this camp and then PL on the Sunday when Kara headed off – she too went great guns, keep it up.
Lastly a very special mention needs to be made to Baggy (Jason Juretic) who has personally put in huge amount of time and coaching with the PL’s and APL’s. This was his final scouting event that attended as a Scout Leader and we will farewell him and a number of Venturers next Thursday. Thanks heaps Baggy for all your efforts with the scout section over the years.
Kooka
PS we appeal to parents and scouts to send any good rally pics in that you may have taken, Baggy was not the Rally photographer this year so we are short on action photos.