Posted in Planning, Scouts, inspirational on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I heard an interesting interview on the evening current affairs show, where the importance of music and arts in the curriculum was mentioned;
put the music back into primary schools
PM – Tuesday, 22 July , 2008 18:39:00
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SIMON LAUDER: The director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute, Professor Barry McGaw, is overseeing the development [...]
Posted in resources, tagged survival on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
National Geographic has a series of survival guide videos up on their web site. I’m not sure how often you’ll have to deal with shark attacks or anaconda bites but they’re worth watching all the same.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Be Prepared
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. – Robert Baden-Powell
The challenge:
Build a practical survival kit in a tin small enough to take on activities with you.
What do you put in? What do you leave out?
Mini survival kits are survival kits which consist of [...]
Posted in 2008, resources, tagged Infobook, Infobook 2008 on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Info Book 2008
Info Book 2008 – Leader Informations & Resource Manual 2008 Edition. Available on-line from VicScouts.
Posted in 2008, Activity, Planning on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SCOUT STREET PARTY
Saturday 2 August 2008
St Kilda Road Melbourne
One hundred years ago in 1908, Scouting started in Australia. Since then, millions of young men, women, boys and girls have been through Scouting movement in Australia. To celebrate our 100th Birthday, we are throwing a party! – Scouts (VIC)
Scout Street Party Notice [PDF]
Bring along your [...]
Posted in 2008, Activity, Cubs, Planning, tagged National Tree Day on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Planet Ark’s National Tree Planting Day
Sunday, 27 July 2008 10:00am to 1:00pm
National Tree Day is Australia’s biggest community tree-planting event. Since Tree Day started in 1996 more than 1.5 million volunteers have planted over 11.5 million native trees and shrubs!
Join us again this year on National Tree Day – Sunday, 27 July 2008 and [...]
Posted in Badge, tagged Neighbourhood Watch badge, NHW badge on July 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Cubs badge crime prevention honour [1]
Release date: Wed 2 July 2008
Last updated: Wed 2 July 2008
Victoria Police recognised future crime preventers this week when one of the first cub packs in Australia was awarded the first Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) badge.
An initiative of Scouts Australia, Neighbourhood Watch and Victoria Police, the NHW badge has been designed [...]
