What do I get out of this?
Everything we do as a person is knowledge gained that can be used towards something else. These are called stepping stones or gaining of life skills.
Some things we set out to do (our goals) are directly put towards badges. Other things in the weekly program you helped organise may still go towards badges
but we may not be sure where they fit in. Talk to others around you (include the leaders as they may just know something too!!!) and find out where others have used these challenges. Activities, events and Service things are often being planned from the District and above level too. getting involved in these events again widens your views on what can and is achieved.
Show your badge books to your friends and family they may have ideas too. Your friends might even want to be invited to do something with you too.
Every time the challenges are used or done they take on more dimensions. We develop what we do. First by learning from someone else, making mistakes, redoing the challenge, improving on how things work, having the skill to use the equipment in a ‘funner’ way… or on why the thing did not work out.
Oranising ourselves, team members, the public and even our families and friends. Knowing what to take, the jobs and activities that go into making this an event to remember (and want to remember!) Talking and communicating with each other is a good skill to always improve on. Having a voice (advacacy) as well as using the governance skills gained where you and your friends can represent yourselves as individuals, or as a group/ team.
Working through the evaluations, then the pre-programing for the next time the challenge is run is a built on experience. Knowing how the thing is meant to work, the program and then what actually does happen to make it work.
Next level of gaining the skill is doing the job as a full member of the team or by yourself. This greatly depends on what the challenge is, 
the job is. Once you have the hang of this then your next challenge is to show someone else how and what to do. Let them have the fun of just doing something, being part of the team, making the mistakes, correcting them too, including them in the next adventure.
Gaining a skill, then showing others how to do this skill, learning another skill and repeating the basic process is part of skill gathering and may be even ‘maturing’ – not necessarily getting older either. Do we ever stop learning. I hope not. But as we progress in Guides there are different ways of wearing badges.
Lapel badges not often seen
In the beginning of anyone’s Guiding experiences the gaining of badges may happen quickly. Then they get a little harder. There is going to be gaps to fill in now on different badge requirements. So now you set out to fill in these gaps either by yourself, with family, friends, peers, other Guides (at Guides or not).
When badges are presented please remember that some Guides may have taken a long time to actually finish off a few which seem to be be given out at the same time. This is just how
things happen. The impression is false if one thinks that someone is a ‘better’ Guide, or better at Guides than someone else because of the badges on a sash or a shirt. This is not the case. Take into consideration how many years has that person been in Guides, is her family involved, does she include other activities into her Guiding awards? Does she choose not to wear her badges on her sash? Was there a problem where the sash or shirt was destroyed (accident, fire) or lost (when moving, or put down on a train, at a camp?) Simply is she not interested in awards, unable to afford the sash or badges? Or is she busy finalizing a handful of others but has not finished them yet? May be she just wants to do one at a time and do that one well.
Encouraged to be written by Clear Vision
what we have done with flags
Who ever thought that having a silly old flag flying was boring does not know what we do!
Things we have done and learned about flags
- Flags can be incorporated into games.
- Links of Unity,
- World Trefoil,
- World Guide Flag
- World Guide Song has our Guiding flag unfurling.
- Chosen the colour of different meeting times flags
- Churchill Guide Unit Flag (now the flag for the 5 to 8’s [Purple])
- Hazelwood Guide Unit Flag (now the flag for the 8 to the 13 Guides)
- Churchill Guide Unit Flag (now the flag for the 13 to 17 Guides [ mid blue with light purple trim])
- Raising the Flag,
- Protection of Flag.
- Why a flag.
- Carrying our Flag.
- Ceremonial flag preparations.
- Colour Party
- Giving instructions.
- Different games and challenges.
- Different ceremonies attended
- Melbourne Guide Parade through Elizabeth Street….for B.P and Queens Guide recipients.
- Australian Day Celebrations at Morwell and Churchill
- A.N.Z.A.C. Day celebrations at Morwell and Yinnar.
- Victory in the Pacific (VP) 50th Birthday Celebrations.
- The return of the Hazelwood Roll of Honour to the Hazelwood South Hall.
- Camp Flags.
- Parade
- Presentations.
- Chosing which of the Unit flags go to what one of the Guide Units.
- had the flags on display at campfires.
- Send coded messages.
- History of flags
- Flag designs
- Why this goes there.
- World Girl Guide and Girl Scout Flag.
- Australia Flag
- Victorian State Flag
- Aboriginal Flag
- Latrobe City Council Flag
- History of Flags
- Old World Girl Guide and Girl Scout Flags
- Old Australian Brownie ‘Flags’ of Chruchill Brownie Guide Unit
- How does having a Flag become a symbol of who we are and what we as Guides stand for.
All who are in the Hazelwood and Churchill Guide District want to share their experiences, fun, hope, disasters,laughter, activities, games and everything else they do with you.
So all the pages and posts on this blog are gradually being linked together for the over fifty years that this District has been in existence. That's a lot of generations. Welcome to the communications , stories, instructions and anything else that goes into these pages.
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