East Ryde Joey Scout Program

 

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Theme:    Anzacs	Meeting Type:       Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Equipment Required:
	Coming in activity	Colouring in
5.45	Opening parade	Flags
5.50	Anzac cookies	ingredients
6.05	Sgt Majors coming	nothing
6.10	Pairs	nothing
6.15	Battle ground	balloons
6.20	Battle balls	Tables, cannon balls
6.25	Kim’s Game	Tray of items, tea cloth
6.30	Wacky Story Anzac cookies	Story words
	Story	Story…
6.45	Closing parade	Flags
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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:

 

Anzac cookies

 

Game: Sergeant-Major’s coming

Play this as usual captains coming, but with the following:

Actions:

• Whistle blow is incoming shell, Joeys to crouch down and cover heads;
• Sergeant-Major’s coming – stand and salute;
• Minefield – stand and freeze on spot;
• Ceasefire – stand quietly in the middle of the circle;
• Salute the flag – turn and salute the flag wherever they are;
• Line up – run to the circle and stand at alert.

 

Pairs

Joeys link arms as pairs with one spare joey, he/she joins a pair and the joey off the other end must leave the pair and find another…..

 

Battleground

Draw a chalk line across the hall.  Divide the joeys into 2 armies.  Place 10-12 balloons in the field and start.  After 1 minute (or 2) the team with the LEAST balloon on their side wins.

 

Battle Balls

Two tables – two teams.  Place the tables on their sides for the teams to hide behind.  Place a box in front of the table.  Each team has to throw their cannon balls at the BOX and see how many they can get in.

 

Kim’s Game

Tray of objects, let the Joeys see them and then cover them up.  The joeys must try and remember what was under the cloth!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Story:  interactive story, write words on slips of paper and give to Joeys (one joy #1, next #2 etc) so each joey has a choice of 2 words to add to the story.

Adventures Abroad

One of the most interesting places in the world to visit is 1. This place has everything! There are 2 mountains for 3, and lakes that are perfect for 4.

Just 5 years ago 6 were discovered in 1. Since then, people have been traveling from all over the world to see them. And no trip to 1 would be complete without a daytrip to see the great 7 in the country's largest forest.

The best time to travel to 1 is 8. At this time of the year, many people have seen 9 and 10 in the countryside. The weather is usually 11, so it is the perfect time to 12. Just remember to pack 13. You wouldn't want to be high in the mountains without them!

The people of 1 are very 14 and enjoy showing tourists their local 15. Remember to bring your 13, and you'll have a great time in 1. You might even bring the local tradition of 16 back home with you!

1	Congo	1	Tonga
2	slippy	2	Happy
3	knitting	3	Bending
4	Baking	4	Sniffing
5	345,678	5	678,923
6	Pencils	6	Door knobs
7	Tissue	7	Thong
8	Winter	8	Summer
9	Plates	9	Beds
10	Pegs	10	Carpets
11	slimy	11	purple
12	sneeze	12	dance
13	giraffes	13	crocodiles
14	smelly	14	Cross
15	bins	15	biscuits
16	hopping	16	washing

 

All about Anzac biscuits

 

They're as Australian as lamingtons and pumpkin scones, but how much do you really know about Anzac biscuits?

Most of us are probably aware that they date back to World War I, and were eaten by our troops on the shores of Gallipoli and the fields of Flanders, but check out these interesting Anzac biscuit facts:

• The original Anzac biscuit was known as an Anzac wafer or tile and, along with beef bully, was part of the rations given to our soldiers during World War I. They were included instead of bread because they had a much longer shelf-life.
• These biscuits were so hard they prompted a Lieutenant A L Dardel in 1915 to comment that "the man who can eat Gallipoli stodge (called bread) can eat anything... somebody will break his neck someday wandering round with his eyes shut and his teeth clenched on a biscuit trying to bite it through".
• Many soldiers ground these biscuits into a type of porridge to make them more palatable.
• The mothers, wives and girlfriends of Australian troops back home must've got wind of the terrible Anzac tiles and were reportedly concerned that their boys were not getting enough nutrients. Knowing that oats were a food of high nutritional value, these women used the recipe for Scottish oatcakes as a base and developed what we know of today as the Anzac biscuit.
• Before being named Anzac biscuits, these biscuits were said to have been called soldier's biscuits.
• Along with oats, the other ingredients - sugar, flour, coconut, butter, golden syrup and bi-carbonate of soda - were used because they would be able to withstand the long journey via ship that the biscuits had to make to reach the troops.
• Eggs, a common binding agent in biscuits, were purposely not used because of the high likelihood that they would spoil before they reached Gallipoli or the Western Front.
• In a study of the significance of Anzac biscuits they conclude that the biscuits not only remind us of a time in Australian history that was seen as pivotal, but they also "signify women's input to the war effort on the home front".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Anzac Story

In 1914, the cabled reports from Europe gave an Increasingly desperate forecast - Europe was teetering towards war in a conflict between an increasingly stronger and powerful German empire and the rival British, French and Russian alliance.

As Britain returned to work after the August Bank Holiday Monday, war was declared on Germany and the declaration involved the whole British Empire. Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Cook said: "If the Old Country is at war, so are we".

Australia was in the middle of an election campaign. The opposition leader Andrew Fisher promised Great Britain "our last man and our last shilling" in any conflict with Germany. And the Prime Minister responded. 'Our duty is quite clear - to gird up our loins and remember that we are Britons'.

There was almost jubilation at the outbreak of war. Most thought that the war would be all over by Christmas and men rushed to recruiting centres because they didn't want to miss the excitement and adventure.    

Canada offered 30,000 men, Australia pledged 20,000 and New Zealand already had compulsory military training. For the war In Europe, Australia raised a new army of volunteers - the Australian Imperial Force (the AIF). Recruiting began within days of the declaration of war.

Those who were too young raised their ages - and most were accepted.(See 'Boy Soldiers')
In little over a month, marches were held in the main capital cities hoping to encourage others to join them. They were called "six bob a day tourists" because their pay was considered high and many thought the war would soon be over - when Britain's navy and army would tackle the German enemy.

The convoy with the Australian Division assembled in late October, and they were then joined by the New Zealanders. They formed the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - the Anzacs - on their way Europe via the Suez canal But the Anzacs disembarked In Egypt where they encamped near the pyramids ready for action against Turkey which had joined Germany in the war.

The Russians who were fighting on Germany's eastern front, wanted the British and French to tackle the Turks to reduce pressure on Russia. The Anzacs Joined the British and French in a dreadful baptism of fire at Gallipoli. The British commanders anticipated that the Gallipoli peninsula would be "open to landing on very easy terms" and Turkey would have a force of only 40,000 to meet them.

Anzac Cove April 1915

On 25 April 1915, the Anzacs landed at a difficult and desolate spot on the Gallipoli peninsula and the Turks appeared to be ready for them. The Anzacs made little headway over a series of rocky heights covered with thorny scrub. At great cost the Anzacs, British and French made small advances, but Its force was wasting with casualties and sickness, while the Turks were able to reinforce their forces.

In August another offensive was made against the Turks, casualties were heavy, but it failed and a defeat was inevitable, The Gallipoli campaign was a debacle, Military censorship prevented the true story being told but a young Australian journalist, Keith Murdoch (father of Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch) smuggled the story about the scale of the Dardanelles disaster back to the Australian Prime Minister who sent it on to the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was no friend of the British military establishment. It led directly to the dismissal of the British commander, Sir Ian Hamilton who never again was to hold a senior military position.

The British Government ordered an evacuation. By day, the Anzacs kept up their attacks with more Anzacs observed to be landing - by night the force was withdrawn, broken only by sporadic rifle and gunfire. On 20 December 1915, the Anzac retreat was complete, unnoticed by the Turks who continued to bombard the Anzacs' empty trenches. On 9 January 1916, the Turks carried out their last offensive on Gallipoli, revealing only that the entire force had withdrawn without casualty. The evacuation was the Allies most successful operation in Gallipoli.

A British Royal Commission into Gallipoli concluded that from the outset the risk of failure outweighed Its chances of success. The British had contributed 468,000 in the battle for Gallipoli with 33.512 killed. 7,636 missing and 78,000 wounded.

The Anzacs lost 8,000 men in Gallipoli and a further 18,000 were wounded. The Anzacs went on to serve with distinction in Palestine and on the western front in France.
Australia had a population of five million - 330,000 served in the war, 59,000 were killed.
New Zealand with a population of one million lost 18,000 men out of 110,000 and had 55000 wounded. These New Zealand figures (62%) represent the highest percentage of all units from the Anglo-Saxon world.