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Meerkats meet every Friday 4:30pm - 5:45pm. Aims to provide an area for young children (5-7years).

21/03/2026

2025-03-13
Bug Hunter 🐛 🪲

Today we went Bug Hunting!!
We went through a spider web!
Learnt about spiders and insects and then preventing mozzies bites.

16/03/2026

2025-02-27
20000 leagues under the sea

This week was all about the sea 🌊 and swimming 🏊‍♂️
- We read The Snail and The Whale by Julia Donaldson
- Did a Kim's memory game with swimming and sea stuff
- Discussed what we would take to the beach
- Learnt how to pack a bag
- Ended off with ice lollies (perfect for a hot afternoon)

15/03/2026

2025-02-20
Making memories

We had another meerkat burrow up today so decided to have some memory making activities.
- Playing pirates with our parents and pool noodles
- Making a leaf rubbing bookmarks
- Icing (and eating) biscuits
- Building a puzzle altogether

Good times, good memories.

14/03/2026

2026-02-13
Friendship day

Today we celebrated Friendship day by learning about friends and making crafts for others.
- Read a story about making friends and how to be a friend
- Made cards for friends
- Plaited the end on a book mark

26/02/2026

2025-02-06
Sharing a meal

Today was a special day. We handed 2 Gold Stars (top award in meerkats) and had 2 burrowing up ceremonies (when a meerkat moves up to cubs). With this in mind we decided that the meerkats should share a meal together. To do this:
- we learnt about healthy food and balanced meals
- we learnt how to knead dough
- enjoyed our bread and syrup with friends 🧡

25/02/2026

2025-01-23
National Challenge: Be Water Safe

Today we completed the on .
- we learnt about (and practised) protecting our selves at when swimming with Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek.
- we read a Curious George at the pool story
- did a fun safe/not safe activity
- learnt about hazards in water with some pretend dam water.

22/02/2026

Highlights from BP Sunday.
Teaching about where it's safe to swim, meerkats cite dangers such as:
- crocodiles
- sharks
- tsunamis
- waterfalls
Life's tough in Africa 😅

16/02/2026

2026-01-16
Amazing Nature

Today we learnt about nature🌱🌿🐴🦁
- Parts of a plant
- Being a pollinators and learning the importance of bees
- Venn diagrams of herbivores, omnivorves and carnivores
- Making a fruit salad from the wonders of nature

28/01/2026

And we're back!!
Looking forward to a great 2026!

25/11/2025

2025-11-07
Jozi my Jozi

Today we learnt about the history of Joburg as part of our .
We heard stories about the discovery of gold ✨️ and then how Joburg stood tall during years where people were treated unfairly.
We made towers like the sky scrapers in Jozi 🏢
Finished off our bookmarks by plaiting the ends.

24/11/2025

2025-10-31
Interesting things @ Saints

We had a interesting walk around St Stithians looking at all the beautiful statues.
We found animals, sword in stones, make leaf rubbing bookmarks and rounded it off seeing beautiful stained glass windows.

Address

82 Peter Place
Sandton

Opening Hours

16:30 - 21:30

Website

http://www.1stpeterplacescouts.co.za/

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