Recieving that first badge.

When Youth members receive their first Sash it is important to them.  Then when they receive the first badges there is a positve wow factor.  Everyone present feels like they too are getting their first badges all over again.

In Novemebr  2009 two members received their sashes.  Also the badges that had been achieved to that date.  Besides the Patrol Badge some were special badges, while others were Explore and Challenge badges.

These badges were awarded today:
Patrol Badge: Koala

Special Badges: 100 years of Guiding badge.
     
Explore: Friendship, Guiding, Outdoors, Science and Technology, The Arts, Guiding. There are skill more to come by the end of the year.

Challenge: Food.

These youth members are so close to finishing other badges that they will be surprised early next year when they realise how close they were to receiving them.

 

For now though the challenge is to have these ones sewn on before we return next year[ January 20th 2010]. Now they are learning how to sew them on. Then they have finished the challenges towards their Create Hands Badge!!  I am sure that they will share and commiserate with learning to  hand sew with other people. Glad the badges are safety pinned in place.

The more we get together

The more we get together is a song that was sung in 2005 at a camp fire. very soon after wards as part of the Achieve : Leadership part 2 this song was one of a few taught over a a month at Guides in preparation for a short campfire.

The more we get together, together, together,
The more we get together the happier we’ll be.
For your friends are my friends,
And my friends are your friends,
The more we get together the happier we’ll be.


The more we get together, together, together,
The more we get together the happier we’ll be.
For you know that I know,
And I know that you know,
The more we get together the happier we’ll be.



Campfire
6th August 2005,
Baw Baw Region sleeping under the Stars.

Keeting fit while being a Guide.

Sports Guides have played as well as attending Guides :

Netball, Basket ball, Tennis, Soccer, Skate Boarding, Bike Riding, Horse riding, Show Jumping, Sailing, Canoeing, Running, Athletics, Karate,Tai Chi, Swimming, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Belly dancing, ....

Learning to skip.

One meeting we all challenged Susan to skip. Yes she can go forward, backwards (not to well though) and even can loop it. She has to keep stopping though.

Promise Nov 10th 2010.

Today made everyone's day. Nov 10 2010 saw one youth member making her Guide Promise.  Two members received their sashes.  Also the badges that had been achieved.  Some were special badges and others were explore and challenge badges.

These badges were awarded today:
Patrol Badge: Koala

Special Badges:100 years of Guiding badge.
   
Explore: Friendship, Guiding, Outdoors, Science and Technology, The Arts, Guiding. There are skill more to come by the end of the year.

Challenge: Food.


Now they are learning how to sew them on.  Glad they are safety pinned  in place.

Stuck in as boat with choc biscuits and our Unit flag.

It was just too hot to do much. Having to run Guides inside was a horrible thought.  So the Guides found an area of shade under a big tree... in the dingy. As a get to know one another exercise they played in and around the dingy.  Cordial and chocolate biscuits were supplied and they went fast.  [In between the talking that is.]

Then out came the flags.  The first was the old Unit flag for when the Hazelwood Guides meet. Designed by the Guides.  Various Guides, parents and leaders created the flag. Probably why the colours are a pink background with light blue wide ribbon obtuse angles stripes and bright pink and lime green 4 to 5 cm circles sewn on both sides.

  These current Guides chose to recycle the flag and use it at all meetings were their ages were. it also meant that they did not have to make one too.  The empty  Flag pole from the Morwell Guide District,  which were donated to the Hazelwood and Churchill Guide District that week, were recycled too.  Now they hold this flag. Okay with that.

 Since the Guides are receptive to learning about flags, and the decision was theres various flag learning objectives struck  Strategies for learning and using this flag were implemented.  The Guides were also interested in learning about other flags, the protocol, ceremonies, care of flags, and of course what do you do with them?