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Topic: Cadet Week Themes..

Posted By: radixon
Subject: Cadet Week Themes..
Date Posted: 07 May 09 at 5:56pm

Its soon going to be that time again, I need ideas of themes to run throughout the week. We normally have a fancy dress too.

Last two years we did:
pirates
Under the sea

Anyone got other ideas, please share, however terrible you think they may be.

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Posted By: ChrisJ
Date Posted: 07 May 09 at 6:43pm

Trains: driver / guard / ticket person

Modern Navy: Captain, Watch Keeper, Able Seamen

Older Navy: Captain, Mate, Bosun, Unable seamen

Cars: Formula 1 and The Stig

Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 07 May 09 at 7:13pm

Cheers ChrisJ
We had the "battle of Trafalgar" that was a good year, so might go along the Navy theme as a suggestion to the comittee.

Anyother water based themes?, not easy I know!

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Posted By: chrisclark123
Date Posted: 08 May 09 at 9:12am

What we started to do, at the blackwater was to just use the first letter of the cadet commodores name as the theme. This seemed to work very well, and mostly get a different letter each year.

Cheers
Chris

Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 08 May 09 at 10:10am

X mean, Fantastic Four, marvel superheroes eg Spiderman. Catwoman, Batman etc. Then you can have heroes and villains.

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Posted By: MerlinMags
Date Posted: 08 May 09 at 10:26am

Go for "sailing gear of the 1950s" so everyone can wear shorts, wool sweaters that weigh a ton when they get wet, and cumbersome orange kapok lifejackets.

Or maybe not.

A themes I have seen work well is "Book characters", which could be switched to film or TV characters as well I suppose. Or is that too broad?

Go simple - just say "crazy hats".

Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 08 May 09 at 11:31am

It may have been just me, but way back when i was a nipper I thought themes and there ilk were, to coin modern venacular, a bit lame!

Had you considered asking the little....ahem.....darlings what they want?

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Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 08 May 09 at 11:38am

My experience is that they love having an extra side to what they're learning. I do like the space ships idea - might persuade them to look after their boats a bit better too.

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the same, but different...

Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 08 May 09 at 2:47pm

Space ships (pimp) graphics and water pistols!

Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 08 May 09 at 3:02pm

Cheers guys like the ideas.
I'll ask the kids at the weekend to see what they would like.

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Posted By: Gladys
Date Posted: 18 May 09 at 5:51pm

2 ideas that wen't down great in all 60 cadets at brightlingsea:

Younger cadets: (get permission from harbour master first)

Place plastic animals on various bouys and have a treasure hunt, to this day theres still a main channel marker with a 7 year old rubber cow wired to it.

Older Cadets:

Use tennis balls as projectiles and have games of tag aiming at each others sails, great fun but can tend to lead to some falling in.

I know they aren't particulary sailing education but they do provide some great fun.

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