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Woodpeckers at LIVE 07 In The O2 Arena, London
As one of the Challenge 100 Top 100 Patrols, the Woodpeckers were invited to take part in the "Live 07" shows to celebrate the centenary of Scouting, at the O2 Arena in London.

We drove down on Friday night and slept on the floor of a Scout HQ.  At least we did not have to leave at 5 a.m. like the Salisbury Scouts!  The O2 looked amazing just like a bald hedgehog and it was so huge and gigantic.  Despite a rehearsal we had a lot of waiting around in the dressing rooms.  We had plenty to eat, not sure that it qualified for the healthy eating badge.

Meanwhile family members were travelling to London by train and looking at all the Scouting entertainments and displays at the O2.

Some of our parents were sat right up high, so they had a real bird's eye view.

After doing our giant jigsaw as members of the blue team, we changed into uniform for the finale.  We were given flashing lights to attach to our woggles for the song One Vision.  There we were in a 3000 member choir singing and dancing in front of 15,000 people.

See clips from the show posted on You Tube by other Scouts:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVoKeTV_7q0
After the afternoon show our parents rang us to say how good it was.  We changed into our green shirts for the evening performance and went into the arena where the huge cast had tea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIazzquwuhw

 
The evening performance was even more amazing, especially the finale.  Then it was out into the night, the O2 Arena's dome looked phenomenal lit up at night.  The Scouts from Warrington who shared the hall with us also had a great time.  It did not take long to get to sleep.  

Sunday was nearly a disaster as we arrived at Brent Cross Shopping Centre at 11 am and saw all of these amazing shops which did not open until noon.  But we had a look to see what was there, then went into McDonalds for a snack. 

The shops opened and we spent two glorious hours shopping.  We dumped our Leader in a booked shop as we didn't want him cramping our style as men don't know how to shop!!  We bought each other small presents, they were great.

 

Woodpeckers Fly To 2nd Place Out Of 3,500 National Patrols
To celebrate the Centenary of Scouting there was a national competition for all Scout Patrols during January.  Our 3 Patrols were amongst the 3,500 Patrols taking part and all 3 did very well taking part with lots of enthusiasm and skill.  The average national score was 51 points and our Patrols all exceeded this with scores of:-
Eagles 68 Kestrels 59 Woodpeckers 91
The phenomenal score by the Woodpeckers, our youngest Patrol, has sent them flying high in the national charts in joint 23rd place behind the Panthers of the 2nd Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, Kent who top scored 102.  The Woodpeckers are the only Leicestershire Patrol in the top 100.
The Woodpeckers completed all 100 challenges in 100 days for the second phase of the competition and gained joint second place, a truly phenomenal result that required a huge amount of effort and persistence.
Challenge 100 web site www.challenge100.org.uk/
 

Woodpeckers In Action
Woodpeckers have a go at everything - capsizing sailing dinghies, theme parks, cooking pancakes, bucking bronco, glass etching.

1 Shoot 100 arrows 2 Eat 100 baked beans with cocktail sticks 4 Bat to ball - continuous cricket 5 Bean bag ballista - fire bean bags 100 metres

6 Bottles cans newspapers recycled 7 Buns baked 9 Buttons sewn 10 Cars washed
13 Dance steps in a public performance 14 Dominos toppled 15 Drinks served to the public 16 Drop scones baked
18 Feet pushing a pea with the nose 19 Food labels collected 29 Kims game with 100 items 30 Knots tied (10 knots 10 times)
31 Laps raced with slot cars 32 Leap frogs 35 Egg and spoon race for 100m 38 Metres swimming
39 Metres abseiled 44 Minutes with the Cubs on global issues 46 Model making a car to self propel 100m 49 100 nights camped
49 100 nights camped 50 Notes of music played to the Troop 57 Pictures in a Scouting collage 59 Pioneering - crane to lift 100 grams
60 Postage stamps collected 61 Prussiking up 100 cm of rope 66 Rap with 100 words listen 68 Rope making 100 cm
71 Sedan chair ride for 100m 72 Seeds grown 76 Skateboard 100m 79 Smiles captured on camera
84 String trail for 100m 85 Survival exercise 85 Survival exercise 90 Time capsule
90 Time capsule 91 Trees planted 91 Trees planted 93 Vexilology - flags collected

List of 100 Challenges

  

 
98 Words in stories read to the Beavers      
 
We completed all 100 challenges it was very tough e.g. number 16 baking 100 drop scones each.  We had a lot of fun doing it.

 

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