East Ryde Joey Scout Program

 

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

 

Time	Activity Description	Equipment Required:
	Coming in activity	Sketching pencils and paper also l/r hand
6.00	Opening parade	Flags – make sure L/R hand is understood!
6.05	Ambidextrous relay	Nothing
6.10	N.S.E.W. original	Nothing
6.15	Cavalry/infantry	Nothing
6.20	Who was BP?	BP notes, last letter, pen for butterfly map - Mats
6.30	Duck duck goose - BP style	Nothing  B, B, B, P (salute, l-hand shake, run!)
6.35	Kim’s game	Selection of scout items
6.40	Obstacle course	Stuff!
6.50	BP Active story	Story
6.55	Finding BP	BP letters
7.00	Closing parade	Flags
spare	Message relay game	None
	Law and promise games	Jigsaws, pop sticks….

 

 

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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:

 

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

 

Ambidextrous Relay

Two teams start one end of the hall, hop on one leg down to the end and hop on the other back up the hall.  Tag the next in your team….

 

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!!

 

Cavalry and Infantry (or advance and retreat)

Two teams one either end of the hall.. One is cavalry, one infantry (we can swap later).  Leader calls cavalry 1 step forward (or what ever) infantry 3 steps forward, they can pass each other. Then at some point call cavalry charge.  Infantry have to run back to their end of the hall where they started and the cavalry chase them.  Any caught become cavalry and we start again swapping sides.

 

Who was BP, sit for a bit of history

 

BP’s duck duck goose.

Form a circle.  One Joey starts B B B B B   P etc. until someone is picked.  They then have to stand up, salute with the right hand, shake with the left and then run in opposite directions until one reaches the safety of the space in the circle.  The next one then goes – B B B B B.......  Point it to get Joeys to STOP, salute properly, shake with the left hand and THEN run.

 

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!

 

Obstacle Course - Relate to B.P.’s army training.  Men need to be fit and agile.

 

BP active story – story with Joey help!

 

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.

 

Spare

Message Relay

Divide into two teams.  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!!

 

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 157 years old on Saturday!

 

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

 

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.

 

 

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 Browsea Island where he introduced them to lots of skills such as stalking, camping, cooking, knot tying, tracking, 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.