Girton Brownies all took their own soft toy puppies to Brownies on 1^st July to meet Lego.  Lego is a hearing dog for the deaf and came along to the meeting with his owner, Louise, and her daughter Lola. The Brownies had a party and made Puppy masks, Bone name tags, played Paw-print games, and ate dog-shaped biscuits and jelly bone sweets.  In fact everything they did had a puppy dog theme to it. 

“Send a girl to school and watch her change the world”.  Oakington Brownies were very sad and upset to learn that in Africa many girls don’t get the chance to go to school.

The CAMFED  project works to raise awareness and funds for girls education in Africa and the Oakington girls learned about Abigail.  When her parents died,  her grandmother took her in, but could not afford to send her to school.  With help from Camfed she has now completed her secondary school and is top of her class in business school.  The Brownies held a tea party to raise money for this project.  They were very pleased to raise over £100.  This would pay for at least 3 months of Abigails education, or for 7 girls to go to secondary school for 1 month.  As well as raising money, the Brownies worked on their hostess badge and, as you will see from the photos, had lots of fun.

“Dear Miss Smith, I am pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School”. 16 members of 2^nd Histon Brownies were soon packing and ready to start their weekend at Hogwarts School, otherwise known as Abbots Ripton Lodge, near Huntingdon.

On arrival at the school they were Sorted into different houses and were relieved to find that only the leaders were in Slytherin House. During the weekend, they took part in craft activities such as making bats and broomsticks and decorating candle holders, made smoothie potions, visited Hogsmeade village (and the Cinema), held a Quidditch tournament and also helped the house elves with their chores. The Brownies, aged 7 – 10 years, also enjoyed spending time together in their House groups and singing very loudly around the camp fire. Rumour has it that there was a secret midnight feast, but Professor McGonigall is quite sure that that all the girls were tucked up in bed by 10.30pm each night. By the end of the weekend every Brownie had received a Golden Snitch Award for personal achievements such as; being the first to get to sleep on Saturday night, being brave in injury, being the best at tidying up, and help in the kitchen.

Here are some pictures from our weekend. Mouse over for captions.

2nd Histon Brownies would….. 

• … help the environment.
• … save the animals.
• … pick up all the rubbish.
• … stop people from cutting down trees.
• … make everyone walk to school.
• … stop people from polluting the world.
• … be made out of chocolate.

The 2nd Histon Brownies have been learning about climate change and the problems of plastic rubbish polluting the sea with the WWF FUND Project.  We made mosaic pictures from plastic packaging to highlight the dangers to turtles and albatrosses when they eat this rubbish mistaking it for jelly fish.  You might have seen our pictures at the Village Greening Launch and we hope to display them at the Histon Baptist Church soon.

We also enjoyed a fabulous plastic bag fashion evening, had a visit from the local HICCA group and learnt about polar bears in the Arctic.  Next term we will be starting a new project so look out for our news.