Category: Scouts
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Dec 28 2021
1st Claremont leader milestones in the 4th term
In the Scout Group Leader role, I get to visit all of our branches and work with the adult leaders who run the Meerkat, Cub and Scout programmes. We now have around 30 adult leaders in the group, and these volunteers are a critical part of the group’s growth and success. This term marks the …
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Dec 28 2021
Nina staffs annual camp
When I arrived at Hawequas on the Thursday I was expecting a hot five days of pioneering and burnt food. However I was not expecting to be woken up on the first night at 1am next to Alex’s tent with him inside being blown off the edge of our campsite! Despite 90 km/h winds, as …
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Dec 28 2021
Tim vzS on being a Patrol Leader on camp
Troop camp was fun. Due to COVID this was my 2nd troop camp ever so going into it I didn’t exactly know what was going to happen and I expected it to run similarly to a scout competition like Gordon’s but just maybe be less harsh. I was relatively right with my guess. Like Gordon’s …
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Dec 28 2021
Lost property from annual camp
There is inevitably lost property on annual camp. The tradition has evolved among the scouts that to retrieve the more significant lost property, you have to apologise to it. The apologies this year were worthy of Oscars with some fine performances from willing scouts. The eagerness with which these apologies were made and the fine …
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Dec 28 2021
40 years later…..
One summer’s afternoon about 5 years ago, I was standing in line at Starbucks in Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA. There are about 6 people ahead of me and the line is moving slowly. I’ve just had lunch, I’m tired and not paying attention. Anyway, I’m looking at the back of the head of the person in …
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How to run an activity
Why do we have to plan and report? Planning prevents poor performance Planning and reporting is how you run successful activities in scouts and how you improvise a successful one to be more successful or find out what went wrong with an unsuccessful one. The process of putting your plan and report on paper gives …
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