29th Dublin Blackrock Scouts

The Explorer Section

Explorer Blog

At the moment this section caters for children from 10 – 12 years of age or who are in 4th to 6th class. We meet on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 8.00 to 9.15. During our weekly meetings we play games and we do a variety of different Scouting activities.

Apart from our weekly meetings we also do lots of different activities at the weekends. We also try to do one long camp during the summer each year as well this is called annual camp.

So that is who we are and what we do, if you are interested in joining up please go to our contacts page At the moment there are no spaces left in Tuesday night Explorers but please check back regularly as this could change.

Tuesday Explorers

Hi my name is Emma and I am currently one of the Tuesday night Explorer Leaders. We get up to lots of fun stuff on Tuesday nights. Our 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. For patrol work we work in small groups or patrols and at the moment we have three patrols; the Caterpillars, the Penguins and the Pandas. Each patrol has a patrol leader, this is a scout who is in charge of that patrol. The patrol leaders or PL’s meet up once a month to discuss the programme, they tell the leaders what sort of things they want to do in the weekly meetings and what sort of activities they want to plan.

Outside our weekly meetings we also do lots of other things. For this year we plan to go camping, hiking, hostelling, rock climbing, swimming, orienteering and much much more. Then once a year we also go on a longer camp which is called annual camp. This camp usually last about five days and is always a lot of fun. On annual camp we try to do a few different activities, and the scouts also get a chance to try out all of the skills that they have learnt during the year. This year for annual camp we are going to go to Fota campsite in County Cork, we can’t wait!

Here are a few helpful documents that we use alot:

Overnight equipment list
FOTA 2010 Parents Pack
Tue Upcoming Activities 24 May

Wednesday Explorers

My name is Aoife and I am one of the leaders in Wednesday Explorers. The other two leaders are Paul and Will. We cover a variety of different things in our weekly meetings including first aid, pioneering, communication, backwoods and orienteering. We do our weekly work in groups called Patrols. We have 4 patrols at the moment and each patol has a patrol leader in charge. The patrol leader is one of the scouts who would generally be older than the others and have more experience. They would help to teach the less experienced or new scouts the skills to do our activities. There is also an assistant patrol leader who helps the patrol leader and takes over from them if they are not there.

Some weekends we do activites ranging from hikes to hostel weekends or camping. The scouts use these activities to apply the skills they learn in the weekly meetings. We also participate in activities with other scouts in our county. To finish the year we go on a camp for a few days called annual camp. This would normally be further away than weekend activities and this year we are going to Tollymore Forest park in Newcastle Co.Down. We will be doing a lot of fun activities up there and are all looking forward to it.

Explorer Calendar

Here is a calendar of what we have planned for our weekly meetings and what activities we will be doing, to find out more about a weekly meeting or an activity just click on it. *Tuesday activities are shown in orange and Wednesday activities in blue.