Our best six points competition includes a monthly award to the six of the month. The monthly competition starts from a zero score at the start of each month but at the end of term we will add up all the monthly points to see who has been the best six over the term.

July competition
It's been a while since we've seen such a strong performance from our Reds but at the end of term there was nobody who could catch them.
Our best Cub was Jamie Smith with James Grantham-Edney a close second, just 5 points behind. Jamie was best Cub in January too. We'll be asking Megan to present him with his best Cub woggle at Summer Camp.

Summer term
Over the term as a whole the honours go to Blue six who won most of the monthly competitions. The end points were Blue 1813, Red 1456, Yellow 1427 and Green 1385.

Earning points
There are lots of ways to earn points.

• Be there when we call "pack pack pack" at 6.30 and you will get 10 points
• We start the evening with inspection where you will be marked out of 10
• Be the winner or the winning team in a game and your six will get points
• Earn an activity badge and we will give you 20 points
• Earn a challenge badge or your Silver Award and we will give you 30 points
• Become a sixer or second and we will give you 25 points
• Be the first six ready when asked and your team will get extra points
• Represent the group at an event and we will give you 15 points
• Earn a "joining in" year badge and we will give you 5 points

More about inspection
We will start most evenings with inspection. Each cub is marked out of ten points so what will we be looking for?

• You will be assessed to see how smart you look
• Is your scarf folded correctly with at least 3 "chevrons" pointing downwards?
• Are your badges are in the right place?
• Are your hands clean?

Losing points
Of course in addition to giving points we can also take them away. In particular, if your behaviour is bad enough for you to be sent into the corner you will lose 10 points.

Best six
You can see the latest points totals on the left of this page. Each month we will make an award to the best six and this will be displayed on the Cubs notice board and also on this page. We will also add up the points over the year so that we can make an award to the best six overall. Congratulations to blue six for being the best six at the end of 2008.

Personal points
Although all the points are added up to see which is the best six we also record the score against individuals. We now also announce our Cub of the month.

Why did we introduce a points competition?
We want to try and make the sixes work better as a team and so the points competition will give them a reason to pull together. We hope that it will also help improve behaviour as those who are behaving badly should be stopped by other members of the six to prevent them losing points. Other groups operate similar systems successfully.