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Cyber First Course

9 March 2025

                                  

On Saturday Junior Cadets attended a Cyber First Trailblazers Course. This is a course that is delivered by the National Cyber Security Centre and is backed by the goverment. The course is designed to teach juniors CyberFirst activities and intended to inspire and encourage students from all backgrounds to consider a career in cyber security.

The first course covered,

  • Go Create – Learn the basics of how to customise a website and generate enthusiasm to contribute to the World Wide Web.
  • Digital Detective – Use digital forensics to identify the first person who has contracted a disease and learn how open source intelligence can lead to finding out more information about this person.
  • Creative Computing – Look into how creative design, arts and technology work together. Take a closer view on how the media industry and advertising combine these elements while having the chance in teams to create your own advert sequence using stop motion.

Technology Day with Southampton RAFC.

2 March 2025

                                  

 

 

                                  

Chichester Sea Cadets were invited along to the RAFC at Southampton in January. As the facilities allowed for more cadets to have this experience other units in the district were invited along as well. The day consisted of drone flying and drone programming, leadership skills, Electronic circuit building and programming and flight simulators. Some cadets used the Virtual Reality headsets to get the full in seat experinence.

Lt Cdr Collins Gains his 5th Bar

24 February 2025

Lt Cdr Collins has been awarded with his 5th Bar for his continued dedication to the Sea Cadets. The bar was presented by Cdr Grindell who was pleased to be making such a distingushed award.

Lt Cdr Collins is the Commanding Officer at the Chichester Unit and has also been the District Officer in his time with the Sea Cadets. He is a keen on his shooting and still matains his role as the Area Shooting Officer.

Golden Burgee Awarded

24 February 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In December 2024 the Chichester Harbour and Selsey Sea Cadets were presented with a Golden Burgee by Area Officer Cdr Grindell, on his first official engagement as Area Officer. The award was given for the units Growth and Development over the preceeding twelve months.

As part of the evening Cdr Grindell also presented promotions and module bdges to both Juniors and Cadets.

Chichester and Selsey Sea Cadets - Piping Competition February 2024

January and February Updates

There's been lots of fun over the past couple of months at Chichester and Selsey Sea Cadets!

  1. We've spent some time with our friends at the Bognor Regis unit enjoying Burns Night Supper and learning how to use the Boatswain's Pipe. 
  2. We then took part in Bognor Regis' Division night where our very own Lt Cdr Collins observed both the Senior and the Junior Cadets who showed great commitment to uniform standards.
  3. Lt Cdr Collins also presented one of our Juinor Cadets with his Air Rifle Weapons Handling Award which was earned after undertaking a structured programme whereby cadets are taught rifle handling skills and undertake range target shooting with an emphasis on safe and responsible use.
  4. We've also built rain gauges to be able to record the weather and rainfall, worked in teams to construct the highest tower possible using dry spaghetti and marshmallows and recapped our knots as part of our cadet's Seamanship skills.
  5. A combined team from Chichester, Littlehampton Sea Cadets and Cowes Sea Cadets units took part in the District Piping and Drill competition at HMS Sultan in Portsmouth. They performed to a great standard and represented their units brilliantly.
  6. The Juniors and Seniors received an outline of the activities they’ll partake in as part of this year's District Camp on the Isle of Wight including map reading and water skills.
  7. Most recently, the cadets learnt the NATO Phonetic Alphabet and were not only tasked with spelling their names using it but also played hangman using the Phonetic Alphabet to spell out ships and equipment.

We're looking forward to the next few months and hope that the lighter evenings allow more time for outside activites. 

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