A Wild Night Out

We had a fantastic trip out to Strumpshaw RSPB tonight.
We thought we might have to cancel as the weather had been forecast very wet and windy but a hole in the clouds and warm south westerly winds made it an evening to remember.

We played the Bat & Moth game to find out how bats find their food, we looked at moths caught in a trap and used bat detectors to hear the sounds of bats.

Nocturnal animals use their senses differently and we learned how they hear, smell and see at night.
We tried to see the colour of a wax crayon and wrote what we thought it was in the dark, Akela thought his was red!

 

Thanks Lee & Eilish,

we had a wonderful visit to a very special place.

Cubs Air Activities day.

Cubs with a 1917 Sopwith Camel

propeller at 1st Norwich HQ

 This term we have been working for our Air Activities Badge, finding out about how planes fly, all about different types of aircraft and the logos of airlines

We completed the 

Air Activities Badge with a visit to the City of Norwich Aviation Museum on Saturday.

We arrived at 10.00am and after finding out how to be safe at the museum we split up into three groups to do our visit.

We were taken on a tour of the Nimrod which is a huge aircraft based on the first passenger jet airliner The Comet.

 It had a lot of advanced features, a device in the tail that could detect disturbance in the earths magnetic field caused when a submarine passed below it.

It could drop radio transmitters that would communicate the presence of ships back to the plane and it was used to drop life rafts to rescue aircrew whose planes crashed.

 

 It carried a huge searchlight in one wing for searching for ships or crashed aircraft and the engines were built right into the wings so it could never be properly upgraded with new engines.

 Then we went on a tour of the Vulcan bomber, a massive delta winged plane that used 4 tones of fuel on take off, only about 6 of us could get in at a time and the guide who showed it to us had really flown it as a co-pilot for about 50 hours so he knew what every thing was inside it!

 

 There were a lot of planes and pits of planes at the museum as well as information about the 100 Bomb Group that was based there during World War 2 

 We had a lovely picnic lunch as well

 And flew our planes too, that Robert got for us, thanks

 

It was a fabulous day out

Conkers!!

Cubs knocked Conkers last night at our annual knockout. They tied the Conkers on a string and began to play.
The rules we use are quite simple, after choosing who gets first 'hit' that player continues to hit until the first miss. Then the other player is the 'hitter' again until a miss. If the Conkers become tangled the first player to call 'tangles' or 'tangle twos' is the next to take a hit. Winning is by breaking a Conker off a string or the knot failing to hold it or the opponent letting go and the Conker landing on the floor. If a contest goes on too long we have a system like the Penalty shoot out in a football cup game. Each player attempts 10 hits and the one who has the most actual hits is declared the winner.