Overnight stay April 2010 evening activities

Evening activities planned from 7.30 first night overnight stay April 2010

•  Promises and reaffirmations with Bubbles 
• Rac Wac hike,

the emu bob

Where ever there are people there is rubbish.  So at the end of an activity, event, camp, or what ever the things left behind by the people must be removed and disposed of.

An emu bob has every person available holding a bag for rubbish that is found.  When the signal has been given every one walks around (hopefully in an orderly manner) picking up bits or rubbish. There usually is something really nice at the other end of this duty for special people. With all the bits bound to be found everyone is bobbing up and down like an Emu.  Hence this activity is called and Eu bob.

An extension of this activity is Clean up Australia Day that occurs on the first Sunday of March each year.  One of the founders and principle characters with Clean up Australia Day is a Guide.  Wonder where she learned and practiced for moving from Emu Bob into Clean Up Australia Day and now Clean up the World campaigne.

See a little bit of 'Rubbish' can take you a long way..

Program for Over night stay [Food and the four World Centers]

In the morning the older Guides patrol will be meeting at Churchill Shopping Center (Ritchies IGA) at 10am.  Sticking to the shopping list they are going food shopping for the over night stay. Having taken the Food to the Hazelwood South Hall they will then sort it out, pack it away and leave for home.

The overall program for the overnight stay.

1pm of day one.
Arrive at the Hazelwood South Hall.

• Medications and forms to be handed to the adult First Aider.
• Any sweets, cakes or brought in edibles are to be put in a bucket in the kitchen.  These items will be shared by all at a later time.  NOTE any other edibles that are hidden and in the positation will beopened and turfed out by that Guide. Not returned..
• 1.30pm 
• Raising of the Flag/s ceremony.
• Leaving packs and bags in one collection point area everyone works out where the camp areas will be inside the Hall are to be. 
• Everyone then sets up the tents, the bags etc get placed [but nit unpacked] into that patrols tent.
• The Cooks Patrol goes to the Kitchen receiving information and their patrol Duties Program from the Qm. The OH & S Patrol see the First Aider for their OH & S Patrol Duties.
• Other camp set ups will then occur.
• Cooks to make afternoon tea.
• 3pm  Afternoon tea.
• 3.30 pm Activities.
• Wide game this time consisits of small continus activities through out the overnight stay
• 6pm Dinner.
• 7.30 pm evening activities
• 9.30 Supper
• 10. bed

day two

• 7am Up
• 8am Breakfast
• 10am wide Game Activites.
• 12 lunch
• 1.pm Closing Ceremony
• Emu Bob

What is a Patrol Activity

Patrol activities help the Guides further develop within their peer group.  In order to actually 'do' an activity their must be several things happening at once.

Firstly their must be registered members of Guides participating.  Friends may attend sometimes.  (Up to three times then they must be a member to do any more visits to Guides programs and / or Patrol Activity visits - inclusive. The activity must be interesting, challenging and fun.  Something to be talked about and shared.

Having something special occurring keeps the friends interested in what you are doing.This way the friends will want to join in on the planning too.

Patrol activities are overseen by adults.

Patrol activities are not always held at Guides. These adventures can be to all sorts of interesting place, events, activities and services. Sometimes Patrol Activities can be something that is a small part of something else happening.  Like doing the food shopping before a come or cook out. Supporting a friend with a sport endevour, Going to the pictures together.  Going shopping anyway even hiking in the bush.

So you can see that to achieve a Patrol activity

• Management of any activity is a learned art.  
• Management of people has many different variables.
•  Time management is a different senaro altogether. 

Volunteers on camp

Hi there.

After 19+ years it was rather strange for me to see someone else in the same predicament I was as a mother of a young girl.

Yes I probably was as weary then as you are today. It was for this reason that when we moved down to this area and our oldest actually started camping through girl guides that I became involved as a parent on the camps that both daughters of our were attending.  A good and positive side to protecting our own young I felt then and still do now.  I thank you for your open feelings.

When you are ready there is a way around this predicament you find yourself in.  Yes I hated having the feeling of 'betwicx and between'. You know what I mean.

The simple way of satisfying all is choosing to staff on the camp activities.  Simply you fill out the Guide Centers Police Check and a seperate Working with children's check which takes several months.I notify Guide Center that you would like to volunteer.  The volunteer coordinator phones you and you confirm your restrictions on volunteering.

You then work as a team member for just that/those activities of which you have a voice in their design, implimentation etc.

Note: there are restrictions re males attending camp/overnight stays. Some parents have issues with the opposite sex being involved.

I actually found that I got a great amount of laughter, fun and rejuvination from the camp team volunteering I did.

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.

Not an over whelming response for overnight stay March 2010

March 19th 2010 there is planned an overnight stay.

Activities 

                 include making their Promise  for several Guides. Some craft from four World Center Counties.           Researched while at the Library on the 18th.[patrol activity] and while attending the Multi Cultural Festival Saturday 13th march 2010

Night activities, 

                 Making Bubbles on the reserve under lamp light,  Guides Own, 

Acomodation was inside.  In Tents.

Food            - from Four World Centers.
                             - Dinner setting reflecting the different Countries.
  

Camping is not just going there and setting up tent, mucking around and going home.  There is a lot of pre-planned and post-camp work that goes into activities like this.

Theme: Food overnight stay March 2010

Held at the Hazelwood [South] Hall starts at 5.30pm Friday 19th  to noon Saturday 20th March 2009.

NOTE THE DATES for this overnight stay HAVE NOW CHANGED.

Rely on family own transport or organise car pool.

Minimum of six registered Girl Guides. 

 Cost of $ 20.00 PER GUIDE PARTICIPANT is to be paid for by Friday 12th march 2010

No extra sweets, chips, biscuits, or other muchies to be taken down.  Believe me the partipants will be buzzy and full.

You will need warm cloths, include a change of socks [warm ones and a beanie] extra pants and bedding if accidents still occur.