East Ryde Joey Scout Program

 

Date:	Leader:
Theme: Founders Day	Meeting Type:    Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Equipment Required:
	Coming in activity	Sketching pencils or colouring in butterfly make sure L/R hand is understood
6.00	Opening parade	Flags – explain Founders day
6.10	N.S.E.W. original	Nothing
6.15	Finding BP	Letters
6.20	Keep your rubbish!	Story - Balloons, chalk line
6.25	Who was BP?	BP notes, last letter, pen for butterfly map - Mats
6.35	Message Relay	Pass on a simple message “Joey Scouts”
6.40	Throwing stones	Story – tables, boxes, newspaper balls
6.45	BP Active story	Story
6.50	Kim’s game	Selection of scout items
7.00	Closing parade	Flags
spare	Law and promise games	Jigsaws, pop sticks….

 

LEADERS AVAILABLE:
PARENT HELPERS:
BIRTHDAYS:
MATILDA:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

 Bless all joeys everywhere,

Help them remember their promise to share.

Guide them all safely home today

And watch over them while they work and play.

 Amen

 

 Games/Craft Information:

 

Who is BP and what is Founders Day

 

Sketching

 

BP was an excellent artist and sketched many things as he travelled around – can you sketch a something, a face, a flower, a car. Just a few lines of pencil no colouring in!!  Try your left hand!  BP was ambidextrous that means he could write and draw very well with both hands.

 

NSEW – the original version. 

 

Show Joeys the compass points painted on the floor.  Can they work out which is North by thinking about the area they live in, does anyone live in North Ryde (which way is that) anyone near East Ryde shops (which way is that) and so identify the compass points – then play the game!!

 

Finding BP

 

Two teams – two sets of letters spelling Baden Powell hidden around the hall. One member of each team must go and find THE NEXT letter in the word to spell Baden Powell first.

 

 

Keep your rubbish!

 

BP lived in a town where there was a very proper private boy’s school. The working class boys wanted to get them into trouble for having a messy playground, so they threw rubbish over the walls into the playground, and the school boys would throw them back. They did not want their teachers to find that they had allowed their playground to get messy.

 

Divide into two teams either side of a chalk line.  Give each team a number of balloons.  They must try and keep all the balloons out of their side and bat them over to the other side of the wall.

 

Who was BP, sit for a bit of history and butterfly story – BRIEF! history of BP

 

 Message Relay

 

The joeys sit in a circle.  A message is whispered to the first Joey.  The first Joey passes the message to the next Joey and on to the next and so on until the message reaches back at the start.  Was it correct? Simple game to improve listening skills!!  Keep it simple ‘Joey Scouts”

 

 

Throwing Stones

 

BP went to school named “Charterhouse” and while he was there the boys from his school used to get into fights with the boys from the towns. Instead of punishing the school boys for getting into a fight, the Principal encouraged the boys to fight fairly, and have fun, playing army games.

 

Divide into two teams. Set up two tables, boxes and give each team a box of newspaper balls.

 Aim into the BOX not the other Joeys!!

 

 

BP active story – story with Joey help!

 

Kim’s game is an original BP special taken from the Rudyard Kipling book “Kim”

 

Joeys sit in a circle around a tray of items.  The items are covered and the Joeys have to try and tell the leader one item on the tray.  It is a team game at this age!

 

Spare

 Promise and Law – jig saw and pop sticks

 

BP Story

 

Who was BP?

 Does anyone know who started scouting over 100 years ago?

 His names was Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell later Lord Baden-Powell and he was born Feb. 22, 1857.  He would have been 158 years old on Sunday.

 BP was a very well known English soldier who after learning lots of skills in the army “started” or founded Scouting in England, he worked tirelessly to support the world Scout movement until his death in 1941.

   He spent a lot of time in India and Africa and while in Africa took part in a very famous battle in a place called Mafeking which you will learn more about in cubs.

 He was very clever and very brave and would pretend to be a butterfly collector and travelled around the countryside “spying” and remembering where the enemy camps were.

 

Butterfly Map

 He would draw their positions and locations on pictures of butterflies and if the enemy found the pictures, they would just think it was a butterfly.

 

He would also use young boys as “scouts” to go into the countryside to spy on the locations.  He taught them how to survive in the countryside and to spy on the enemy, how to sneak up on them, remember lots of information, tracks and signs which they would bring back to camp.  These skills we still teach in scouts.

 

When BP returned to England, he started with a small young of young men and held a special camp on Brownsea Island where he introduced them to lots of skills such as stalking, camping, cooking, knot tying, tracking and singing songs around the campfire.

 

Scouting is now in 160 countries all over the world and lots of young people enjoy activities, learn and practice skills that BP learned and used as a soldier.

 

Scouts all over the world celebrate BPs birthday on a special day called Founder’s Day on February 22^nd each year.

 

The Scout Handshake

 

Now when you meet another scout – we don’t salute (that’s for parade) but we shake hands – but with our left hand.  Which is your left hand?

 

Offering someone your hand is a gesture of friendship. But why do Joeys, Cubs, Scouts and Leaders shake with their LEFT hand instead of their right like everyone else?

 

The idea came from a legend Baden-Powell heard while he was in Africa.

 

Two neighbouring tribes were bitter enemies and always at war. Finally one of the Chiefs decided the fighting had to stop. So the next time they came together to fight, the Chief who wanted peace dropped his spear and his shield. He dropped his spear to show that he would not attack, and he dropped his shield to show that he was trusting his heart to the other Chief and said, “I come unarmed and hold out my left hand to you as a sign of friendship and trust. We are neighbours and should not live as enemies.  From now on, we wish to live in peace and we trust you to do the same and live in peace.”

 

When Baden-Powell started Scouts, he thought this showing of trust and friendship was just perfect to teach the Scouts, so he taught the Scouts how and why to shake hands with their left hands.

 

 

History of Scouting story

 

Divide group into three sections. Section 1 responds to “JOEYS”, Section 2 responds to “CUBS”, Section 3 responds to “SCOUTS/SCOUTING”, and the whole group responds to “BADEN-POWELL”, and “GAMES”

 

·         JOEYS:                           Hop Hop Hop

 ·         CUBS:                             1 2 3 Wolf

 ·         SCOUTS/ING:                Make the Scout Sign (three fingers up on right hand) say “Be Prepared!”

 ·         BADEN-POWELL:        Salute and say “He’s our Founder”.

 ·         GAMES:                          Hands straight up in the air and yell out “Hooray!!”

 

 The Story:

 
Lord BADEN-POWELL was born in England on February 22, 1857.  When BADEN-POWELL was a young boy he loved to sleep out in a tent with his four brothers on weekends. BADEN-POWELL and his brothers would climb trees; sail boats, and they loved to play GAMES.

 

When BADEN-POWELL was 19 years old, he joined the Army and went to South Africa and India. BADEN-POWELL was a great hero in South Africa. BADEN-POWELL saved the town of Mafeking from an attack, which lasted 217 days. BADEN-POWELL had so few soldiers with him that he used young men to help with first aid, carry messages and do other jobs. BADEN-POWELL was pleased to see that they could be relied on. To teach these young men about the countryside around them, BADEN-POWELL made up GAMES, which he put into a book.

 

Back in England, BADEN-POWELL discovered that many young people were playing the GAMES that he had written for his men. So BADEN-POWELL took some of them on a camp to Brownsea Island and wrote a book of their own for them, called SCOUTING for Boys.

 

Many boys wanted to join SCOUTS. Some were too young, so BADEN-POWELL started a new section for younger boys called Wolf CUBS – using ideas he got from The Jungle Book.

 

In Australia CUBS was the youngest SCOUT section until JOEYS, for boys and girls, was started in 1990. JOEYS is for 6-7 year olds. We have lots of fun at JOEYS. We play GAMES, do craft and cooking, and explore the great outdoors on nature rambles. JOEYS is the start of the SCOUTING adventure, and by the time JOEYS reach the age of 8 they link to CUBS – and continue their SCOUTING adventure.

 

Now on 22 February (Founder’s Day) each year we remember BADEN-POWELL and the work he did to bring SCOUTING to children all over the world.