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A1 DOWNLOADS : A1 CUBS SWIMMING CARNIVAL 2014 Scouts District Swimming Carnival 2014
We have paid for exclusive use of the pools from 7 to 10pm, Please DO NOT enter the pool before 7pm. The more members that turn up the points we get!!!!!
Spectators (who are encouraged to come and cheer on their Scouts, Cubs or Joeys, will pay $5.00 entry . Note that the charge for Cubs is $8 and for Joeys is $6.
We will meet in the car park for registration from 6pm, before the Founders Day Ceremony.
Entry fees for scouts and spectators are to be paid to Philomena (Stitch) 1st Murray Farm SL& registration team.
Founders Day Ceremony will be above the car park at 6:30pm. Please wear Full Scout Uniform for the ceremony. we will proceed to the pool at the conclusion of the ceremony.
The activity will include individual age based freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke races and an open freestyle relay.
Your age group is the age you turn in 2014.
There will be the novelty races, Tube tow relay, a baton retrieval relay(duck diving relay) and two li-lo races.
Each patrol will need to bring the appropriate gear, 1 inflated inner tube, 2 ropes (25-30m length), 4 batons that sink per patrol and one
li-lo per patrol.(thick mattresses have not been successful in previous years)
The 1st Ermington & 1st Winston Hills Joeys are going on a Buddy adventure, travelling downstream to explore Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour’s largest island which in it’s varied past was a convict prison, reform & industrial schools, Shipbuilding & naval dockyard.
Parents and families are welcome to come along. Please fill in an A1 form for each person attending.
Meeting at Rydalmere Ferry wharf, John Street Rydalmere at 8.30am. We will be catching the 9am ferry to Darling Harbour then changing ferries to head out to Cockatoo Island (arriving 10.13am) to explore the convict barracks and shipbuilding and naval dockyards, stopping along the way for morning tea, activities and lunch.
We will be departing the island at 1.13pm travelling upriver arriving at Rydalmere Wharf at 2pm.
The cost involved for the day is the fare for the ferry which is $2.50 per person, payable to the Ferry Master onboard.
Please bring in a small day pack:
- Water bottle
- a packed lunch and snack for morning tea (no nut products).
- warm Jacket (it might get chilly on the water)
- Some money to buy an ice block/ ice-cream (optional)
Uniform and closed-in shoes.
Please remember to wear a hat and sunscreen.