29th Dublin Blackrock Scouts

Trackers

The Blackrock Tracker Scouts takes children from 1st class to 3rd class. We have two sections one section meets on a Tuesday and the other on a Wednesday evening. Once a month the two sections take part in a weekend activity together. Tracker scouts is an introduction to the scouting way! The children enjoy games and activities based on the scouting programme.

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Explorers

At the moment this section caters for children from 10–12 years old or who are in 4th class to 6th. We meet on Tuesday evenings from 20.00 to 21.15. During our weekly meetings we play games and we do patrol work. Patrol work could include anything from how to pitch a tent to doing a treasure hunt to building a table from nothing but wooden poles and rope.

Apart from our weekly meetings we also do lots of different activities at the weekends. We go camping, hiking, hostelling, rock climbing, swimming, orienteering and much much more.

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Discoveries

At the moment this section caters for boys & girls from 13-15 years old or who are in 1st year to 3rd year. We meet on Thursday evenings. During our weekly meetings we play games and we do patrol work. Patrol work could include anything from how to pitch a tent, building a bivvywack and map & compass to plan out hikes & orienteering. For patrol work we work in small groups or patrols and at the moment we have four patrols; Fox, Cow, Sheep and Rabbit.

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Rovers

The Rovers are the eldest group of scouts, they are 16-21 year old. We do rock climbing, canoeing, hiking, first aid and emergencies, backwoods (survival skills), pioneering, orienteering, map and compass work, camping and hostelling, but we do all these activities to a greater extent than the younger groups. We have our meetings on Monday nights from 8pm to 10pm.

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