There’s such a great symmetry in the fact that we enjoyed a Vietnamese lion dance for Founders Day this year and were delighted to hear from a former Vietnamese Joey Scout, who has relocated to Canada. Our worldwide movement enjoys…
Exploring at the Australian Native Garden
Did you know there is an Australian Native Garden in Royal Park? Or a cairn to mark the point that Bourke and Wills left for their quest to cross the country from south to north? Well our Joeys do. We…
Founders’ Day 2015
Founders’ Day was marked with a great adventure in Melbourne CBD – Big Day Scout! Starting the day running from Federation Square on a city Wide Game with a Street Art twist, the whole group were following clues and finding…
A great day at the Zoo
5th Brunswick Joey Scouts had a fantastic time at Scouts Victoria’s biennial Zoo Day. Armed with our activity books and new Zoo Day badges, we visited the seals at Wild Seas, did the monkey loop, plus experienced butterflies landing on…
Adventures with Flying Fox
Flying Fox is our Joey Scout mob mascot and Joey Scouts who show caring and sharing behaviours are nominated by other Joey Scouts to have flying fox for the week. Flying fox gets to have great adventures! Flying fox at…
Tycho to the Moon
We had a great outing to Scienceworks to see “Tycho to the Moon” at the Planetarium which was part of our Space Adventure Challenge program. After the show we had a play, went to the Nitty Gritty Super city, and…
Ahoy mateys!
There were plenty of Pirates but not as much sleeping at the recent District Joey Scout Pirate Sleepover, hosted by Oak Park. The kids played games then made treasure chests, purses for their pirate loot and made their own treasure…
Group Awards
At the recent district ARAP, 5th Brunswick group received the the following awards: – Chief Commissioners Award for 31.25% growth – Quality Scouting Award for 83% retention (as a measure of quality of our programs) We had the largest growth and…