As mentioned last week, we felt like being a little crafty tonight so we thought we would explore 2 different ways you can make some Woggles; the usually circular shaped item that holds our neckerchiefs together.
For the game, I thought I would point out that Alberto our resident SPL or Senior Patrol Leader took to the stand to organise the game and did a very good job too.
I want to give a little spotlight to this role and the way a Scout group is run since we don’t actually talk about it very much.
In most Scout Groups there usually is a hierarchy in how the troop is run. Most Scout groups look a little like this:
Scout Leader (Skip aka Peter)
Assistant Scout Leader (Bosun, Ben and soon to be Neil, Jim and myself)
Young Leader (Simi)
Senior Patrol Leader (Currently Alberto)
Patrol Leaders
Assistant Patrol Leaders
All the Scouts
This is something Schools don’t give Young People a chance to do a lot and that is lead. Here in Chieftains, when you turn over 14 there is a chance you get given the role of SPL. You don’t own a patrol specifically but you instead get to stand with the Leaders and expect to receive a similar amount of respect as we do. It’s a chance to get a taste of what a higher leadership role is like above the role of a PL. Obviously, we can’t give the role to everyone otherwise we would run out of PL’s but we would if we could!
And I want to reiterate that with every role we give out its not a superficial title, it’s a chance for the Scouts to build some of those essential leadership skills and we hope they take fully to their role with the Leaders assistance and guidance.
We had 2 kinds of woggle to make this evening.
The first was a good old fashioned wooden woggle made of the wood. The benefit of this kind of woggle is that it’s quite flexible on how you design it once you have the base cut out. Incisions, shapes or just tree bark you are free to shape it and change it with various knife skills.
Remember to go over some of the edges with sandpaper over half term!
The second was a paracord woggle. This involved tying and knotting paracord together to create a nice braided circle. You are limited into a few specific designs with this kind of woggle but you can get some funky variations on colour with the right kinds of woggle.
I will help anyone finish theirs after the half term or you can try to finish it yourself with the guide sheet we were using on Friday which you can find here!
Some funky examples from the worksheet 🙂
It’s Badge Time! We had a serious amount to give out this evening. Please help we in congratulating the following people:
- Alberto Corradine-Castaneda – Creative Challenge, Team Leader Challenge, Entertainer, Digital Citizen Lv 1, Raven Patrol Badge (Welcome!)
- C J Reeder – Creative Challenge, Cyclist, Entertainer, Physical Recreation
- Emily Moulsley – Creative Challenge, Personal Challenge, Entertainer
- Tegan Scott – Entertainer
- Lyla Melleney – Entertainer
- Evelyn Lockhart – Entertainer, Joining In Lv 5
- Anya Louise Thomas – Entertainer
- Joshua Wood – Entertainer, Hikes Lv 2, Nights Away Lv 20
- Seamus Tobin – Entertainer
- Gabriel Armstrong – Entertainer
- Jean-Marie Van Taak – Entertainer, Joining In Lv 4
- Finlay Macleod-Smith – Entertainer
- Evan Melleney – Entertainer
- Dexter Moulsley – Entertainer, Joining In Lv 3
- Isabelle Houghton – Entertainer, Nights Away Lv 10, Joining In Lv 3
- Aaron Devaney – Entertainer
- George Hurneyman – Entertainer
- Ayah Elsayed – Entertainer
- Thomas Pike – Entertainer
- Alex Clark – Entertainer
- Alex Reed – Entertainer, Digital Citizen Lv 1, Hike Lv 2, Nights Away Lv 5, Joining In Lv 1
- Billy Baker – Entertainer
- Kerstin Da Costa – Entertainer
- Arran Lister – Joining In Lv 6
Please tell me if I’ve missed anyone again, I might have lost track with the number of Entertainers I had to write.
That’s all for this term so there is no meeting this evening (19th October). We will be back after half term on the 2nd November where we will be hiking so bring suitable walking shoes.
See you in 2 weeks!
Ellis
