The Patol Roster

Overnight stays last for twenty four hours... no longer. On this overnight stay there were to be two Patrols. On this occasion the roster aligned with the main meals.  The Patrols swapped jobs after each main meal. 

When organising the Duty Roster two things were taken into consideration.

• there was a wide age range [7 to 14 year olds].
• Some had had several overnight stays - others had had none.

There were three main job categories.

• Occupational Health and Safety.
• Hostess
• Cook

Should one patrol finish their duties they had to go and help another patrol finish their duties as well  This carried on until all the duties were accomplished.  Then the next activity would begin.

Overnight stay has changed it's dates.

The planned overnight stay based on the theme 'FOOD' has changed it's dates. Now the days are Thursday to Friday of the second [possibly the first] week of the April School Holidays 2009.  To be confirmed by next week.

• The basic program has been sorted out. 
• The Patrol Duties teams are worked out. 
• Each Camp Patrol has colors and a name.
• The pre-camp work , overnight stay's activities and outcomes will benefit the Guides who attend the Ev Graham competition at the end of this year.
• Patrol Leadership skills and structure is being worked on.
• Basic camp craft skills will be shown and reinforced with practice over several of these overnight stays through out the year.
• Basic Patrol management and governance challenges are being shown, discussed and worked through.
• The basic cost of $20.00 each participant goes into a very full camp schedule.