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Our cadets showcased their skills this weekend in the Warwickshire District Drill and Piping competitions. The cadets' impeccable behaviour and dedicated efforts paid off, resulting in impressive achievements:

Unarmed Drill Team: Gold
Unarmed Best Drill Commander: Gold
Junior cadet individual piping: Silver
Junior cadet team piping: Silver
Cadet individual piping: Bronze
Cadet team piping: Bronze

All gold medal winners will now represent Warwickshire District in the South West Area level competition in three weeks. HMS Raleigh here we come! 

Urgh - This week the Junior Sea Cadets have been suitably gossed out learning about germs and good handwashing technique.  Several different experiments were completed which included some with paint, pepper and a UV light to show up the germs!  All of this is part of the Red Module of teh Junior Sea Cadet Trainig Programme.

Juniors also had a go at growing bacteria on bread  - they've just got to wait a bit to see the results!

 

Often our Sea Cadet Activities teach a range of skills and knowledge.  Last week Junior Sea Cadets from both groups designed and made model ships, boats, or submarines from clay. A great way to learn about the design and function of vessels.

This week the Juniors used their models to play battleships, using the strategy, memory and logic skills. 

 

This week our Royal Marine Cadets spent some time showing the Junior Sea Cadets some of the valuable skills they have learned in the Royal Marine Cadet (RMC) Training Programme. 

Unlike Sea Cadets, those interested in joining the Royal Marine Cadets have to wait until they are 13 years old.  Those who are younger can begin their cadet journey with Sea Cadets and transfer later.  This week RM Cadets explained navigation and Military Map Reading (MMR).  Sessions like this give our Junior Sea Cadets more of an insight into what its like to be a Royal Marine Cadet and we plan to do more in the future.

We might not be back parading at the unit since the Christmas break but cadets have already been representing TS Kingfisher at the District Football Competition held in Coventry.

Although we didn’t have enough cadets to make up a complete Redditch and Bromsgrove team for all of the competition categories, our cadets joined forces with cadets from other units and all managed to play. There were some great games and super results.  

Senior Boys – Silver Medal 
Junior Boys -  Bronze Medal (Penalty Shoot out – fabulous play and super goalkeeping) 

Senior Girls – Mixed Team fourth place 

Junior Boys – Mixed Team Bronze Medal 

The points accumulated by the Redditch & Bromsgrove representatives were significant with the unit achieving third place overall in the competition.  Well done to all who played!