This is The day

This is the day,

This is the day

That the Lord hath made,

That the Lord hath made,

We will rejoice and be glad in it,

For this is the day that the Lord hath made

We will rejoice and be glad in it.

This is the day, this is the day,

That the Lord hath made.

Lend a Hand

Image by StarrGazr via Flickr

Lending a hand was the Motto for Brownie Guides. This being so we got the Brownies to trace around their own hand and then think of at least five things [ one per finger] that they could do to help some one over the  next week.

Gumnut Brownies learned to Care and Share, Brownie Guides were lending a Hand, Girl Guides Motto was to Be Prepared.  Ranger guides had the same Motto but their Guide Promise was extended in order that they take their Promise out into the Wider Community.  As you can see the Lend a Hand motto was preparing the Brownie Guides to join in with bigger and better service concepts and thus participate more in service planning that lead into positive  actions.

Games played by the Hazelwood and Churchill Guides

As time moves on I will be adding more games that have been played in the Hazelwood and Churchill Guide Units, used on camps, been trained with or learned through, activities and so on.  Comments and observations, or variations from the Guides themselves may at times find themselves included.   Feed back would be good.

Accident Nearby, A Wicked Stepmother and a Handsome Prince, Africa, A Participatory Game, Alphabet toss, Alphabetical Game, Anatomy Game, An A.N.Z.A.C. experience wide game, Architect and Builder game, Artifact Mixer Game, Australian Circle Game, Autograph Game,

Ball and Cup Game, Ball in Stocking game ,Ball on loose, Ball relay, Balloon basket ball, Balloon Bursting, Balloon Volley ball, Bag Circle,   Barn Yard bedlam, Beach Treasure , Bean Game, Beans game and song, Beast, Bird and Flower game, Blindfold Knotting game, Blind mans Bluff

Cap’n  Jenks, Car Headlines Game, Chain Tiggy , Chinese Dragon Game, Chocolate Game, Cinderalla Game,  Clapping Game ZA Marajaha, Crossing the ice, Crows and Cranes

Decoy Cricket, Disaster sceen

Eggs ans Spoon race, Elastics

Face Off, Fairy Godmothers mime, Farmyard Talk,  Fifty Cent Game, Find the Rabbit, Fish Tail, Fishing Game, Flood water  is rising,  Follow the instructions, Follow the Leader Campfire Game, Friendship Recipe,  Frisbee,  Fugitives Game, Full the bucket, Further Preparations for Turkey.

Ghost Busters, Grandpa Jingle, Guarding the Lighthouse, Guide Law Monopoly,  Guide Promise Game, Gumnut, Gumnut Guide,

Hare and Hounds, Highest to lowest,  Hopping Sticks, Hot Box

Iceblocking, Infiltration ,InPound, out of the Pond,Invisible knot game,

Jolly Miller

Kangaroo Skiparoo, Kick Ball, Kidnap game,  Kim’s game , Knots Game, Knots XXX

Land before time, Les Grelots, Loading up the water game, Lost Slipper

Memory name game, Musical Ball and Chocolate game, Musical Statues,

Octopus, Olave Baden-Powell Game, One Survival Game

Passing through the loop, Patrol fires, Phillipine rod skipping, Pick up sticks, Princess ‘P’ and Pirate ‘P’

Quick Pursuit, Quick sight Memory.

Rats and Mice,

Sardines game,  Scarecrow race, Seeing eye dog rally, Settling in at Gallipoli,   Skipping, Soccer, Smile Tag, Spaghetti Knots, Stand Up, Streets and alleys,

Tarzan in the Jungle, The Wicked Stepmother and the Handsome Prince, Tidal Wave, Thinking day Relay, Tick tac toc, Trust me game, Tug of War,

Waves on the beach, Waves Game, What flies,  What is a minute Game, What’s in the box, Whistle Rally,  Who will come into my Guide Ring?, Word Memory

Through out this site there are articles written about what we as guide leaders of over 20 years experience in Guiding have seen. Either as youth members ourselves, or what our daughters, their friends and other Guides have done or written from both a Leader of Youth or a District Leaders perspective.

Activities of the overnight stay [food and Four World Centers]

The overnight stay has a full program which tentatively includes the following.

• Free time
• Wide Game
• Promise and Law.
• Promise ceremony
• Rac Wac.
• Tent skills.
• Packing in a rush.
• fire drill.
• Cooking
• Cleaning
• first aid
• Shopping.
• survival,
• face the fear of
• fossiking for information about The WAGGGS Four World Centers.
• Traditions
• Ceremony
• Guides Own
• Cleaning,
• Service
• Evaluation

Objectives of Overnight stay [food and Four World Centers]

• for each Guide involved with the pre-camp and the overnight experiences to get something personally special out of this overnight stay.
• to provide a range of pre-camp training is part of, and an extension too, the general weekly Guide Program.
• to encourage and strengthen team work and leadership potential factors within each of the Guide members.
• to accumulate a mass of skills as part of a ‘whole package’  which will be in action during the overnight stay.
• to widen to members understanding of the Promise and Law concept within the Australian Girl Guides Elements and Fundamentals.
• to reintroduce traditions of the Hazelwood and Churchill Guide District.
• to have a safe and happy camp full of positive experiences and memories.
• to solidity the knowledge that the Guides have gained by allowing opportunities to incorporate this knowledge and skills into action.to face and begin to overcome fears in a protected friendly environment.
• no to be in debt because of the overnight stay experiences.
• To offer as many Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guides as possible these experiences.
• to successfully use the evaluations as the basis of the next terms programing and overnight stay plans.
• to be family inclusive where possible.

When a Girl Guide chooses to make her Promise

Girl Guides Australia recognises that each member is an individual in her own right.  This recognition understands the importance of not forcing people to be hypocritical of themselves in, nor judgement of others, the beliefs, actions, thoughts, faiths or self beliefs that each is surrounded by or brought up in. Since the organisation of Girl Guides recognises this belief it is up to the Girl Guide members to put this belief into practice.

A major way is not to impose the making of the Promise on every one of the girls who want to become Girl Guides.  Making and keeping a promise is an individual thing.  The concepts, belief systems and therefore the understanding and implementation of what and how that Guide carries the Promise and therefore the Guide Laws into and through her life is for ever changing.  Maturing as is her understanding of what the Promise means to her.

At this point let it be known that through out the Guide programs the Promise and Laws are there many different ways.  In poster form, discourse, evaluations, posters on the wall, songs, games to name a few.  While one guide is working on her pre-promise work or to reaffirm her Promise other Guides who have made it will naturally be helping her along. Certain behaviors [ either positive or negative behaviors] will be referred to the words of both the Promise and the Laws.

When the Guide is ready to make her Promise then certain things come into play.  There are three basic steps that are used in the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl Guide District.

1. Pre-Promise work.
2. Making / reaffirmation of the Promise.
3. Then later collaborating with another Guide who is making /reaffirming her Promise.

How these are done is a joint effort of the Unit Leaders and Guides themselves. To the people who have either  made their Girl guide or similar Promise, or taken an outh, you may still remember that feeling of personal wonderment at what has then just taken place.  Guiding is old enough to have Great-Great- Grandmothers reaffirming their own Promise that they made when they were younger.  So the making of a Girl Guide Promise is not taken lightly.  Ceremonies and traditions are often included in this Promise making time.

Therefore the Girl Guide movement honours this personal achievement with two things.

1. The ability to wear the Promise Badge.
2. The Peak Achievements Awards within the Girl Guide movement are able to be worked upon now.

I congratulate any Guide who is prepared to shake her own boundaries, do the Pre-Promnise work, step forward to make her Promise and then take that promise out into her wider world, in turn helping other people along the way.  Mind you this will take time. Which is why making the Girl Guide is a promise that has no limitations, sets benchmarks, and creates/ opens the doors to many wonderful things in our world..

Begining the Olave Baden-Powell award.

Having made their Guide Promise members of the Gipps Guides are choosing to begin their journey through the Olave Baden-Powell Award.

These 18 to 29 year olds are challenging themselves to that both their Guiding Promise and their Guiding into the wider community.

Quite often bringing back to those around them different lessons and influences that they have experienced. Often not realising just how much influence on other peoples lives, thoughts and interests that being involved with activities, events and programs which appeal to them can have.    Part of the Olave Award progress is to present what you have done to your peers.   If you are working in any youth organisation/ work place as a Leader/ teacher or Adult Carer your experiences will transfer to others.  When an event/activity/ service is described, it’s successes, and flops along the way, the struggles/ surprises and things that go right all combine to challenge others in how different to do their chosen things.

Setting out to do something is often a challenge rewarded and supported by others already travelling or who have travelled along that path too.  There are many friends you meet and make within this Olave Program.  people you may have met at school, work, camps or round the block even.

Baw Baw Region Events calender

Thinking Day  Feb 22nd  2010 at Burnett park.

Baw Baw Region Camp  2010 9th to 11th April 2010

Campfire  19th June 2010

Flying the Flag / Renew promise  Sunday 10 am October 10th 2010

Ev Graham 2010  1 full weekend of November 2010.  for 10 to 14 yr olds

Brownie Revels  October  2010. for 6 to 11 yrs olds.