As many as 158 Scout boys and girls students for Pratham and Dwitiya Sopan batch of Campion School Arera Colony, Bhopal along with seven instructors and vice-principal escorts attended six-day Scout & Guide Camp at Pachmarhi.
It was organized by the Bharat Scouts & Guides National Training Centre of Pachmarhi. Scouting & Guiding activities are the Integral Part of Campion School calendar.
The team is led by Campion School Vice Principal Fr Ajay Kumar Kerketta SJ, as a Scouter Incharge and Johnsy Koshy Sir as a Camp leader along with Sanjay Mishra, Vikas Saxena, Vibhore Tiwari, Christina Niley as a Instructor from Campion School of this Camp along with Nilesh Napit and Pankaj from Bharat Scouts & Guides Centre. Principal Fr Athnas lakra SJ, Superior Fr Christdhari Kujur SJ, Bursar Fr Ashok were also present for one day in this Scout Camp to motivate all of them.
In this five-day camp, many activities were performed including Making Tent-House, Patrol, First Aid, Health rules, BP’s Six exercises, Wood craft signs, Knots-reef knot, Sheet bend, Clove hitch, Sheep shank, Bowline, Fisherman, round turn two half hitches, Simple Drills, First-aid, Map sketches, stay in tents, shooting with Riffles and Pistles shooting, Horse riding, Rock climbing, Rappelling, Archery, Crossing Carious Obstacles and Hurdles, Trekking on various historic and beautiful places like Bee Fall / Apsara Vihar, Chauragarh/Mahadev, Pandav Caves, Jatashanker, Rajendra Giri, Handi Khow, Richh Garh, Dhoop Garh etc.
The main adventure activity was Obstacle crossing in which there were various activities like Chimney climbing, Russian wall, ladder climbing etc.