Flinders Park Scout Group
4 Alice Street, Findon
South Australia 5025
Phone: 8268 6151 (when hall attended)
Website: www.communitywebs.org/~FPSG
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Joey Scouts 6 - 8 years
Joeys were named after the baby kangaroos who learn skills from the other kangaroos before they venture out into the bush themselves. Joey section leaders have names of Australian animals. When you start at Joeys you will be given a yellow scarfe and be called a Minow which means "Golden Wattle". We have a story about a Joey which explains why we chose this colour and word. You can try out Joeys for four weeks before being invested and when you do you wear a Joey uniform shirt and scarfe and are given some badges to sew on the shirt. There are some other badges which you will have to earn along the way.
Some of the activities we do at Joey Scouts are:
Cooking - pancakes, damper, fried rice, iced biscuits, rocky road, hot dogs and Egyption Eyes;
Crafts - such as building a bird house, making a candle holder, making things with pegs, icecream sticks, cardboard boxes and recycled products, Christmas pine cones and tree decorations;
Stories - from aboriginal dreaming, Australian history, fiction and fantasy - we will read anything;
Dress up - as a person from another country and eat their food, learn their language and customs;
Basic first aid - such as bandaging a graze, getting adult help, looking for injuries, stoppng bleeding and putting someone in a coma position;
Basic scouting - such as tying a reef knot, fire safety, cooking at a camp fire, compass points and which way is North and learning about our neighbourhood;
Science experiments - such as how to get a boiled egg into a glass milk bottle, how to make snot, weather, air pressure, colours, making a morse code signaller and lots more cool things;
Sleepovers - at the hall, at another Joey Mobs hall or in tents at a camping area. Parents must accompany their Joey at these activities.
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Cub Scouts 8 - 11 years
Cub Scouts were started for younger boys by Lord Baden Powell after he started Scouts. Scouting is now open to both boys and girls and they wear a Cub uniform shirt, hat and scarfe. Cubs are named after the wolves in "The Jungle Book" written by Rudyard Kipling who was a friend of Lord Baden Powell. The Cub leaders have names of the animals who helped "Mowgli" the human boy brought up by the wolves. You can learn more about Mowgli and his adventures in the jungle at Cubs, and many of our activities help you learn how to look after yourselves, not necessarily in the jungle but in life.
Cub Scouts activities are centred around the Badge system set up to help you learn skills and gain knowledge of the world around you. The Boomerang system, consisting of the Bronze, Silver and Gold Boomerang badges, has many parts to it that will teach you about scouting: camping; cooking; knot tying; first aid; safety in the bush, home and water; people and their cultures; keeping fit and healthy; team work; and becoming an outgoing, confident Cub. The Cub Leaders will guide you through these badges over the three years you are with Cubs and make sure the learning is fun.
There is also an Achievement Badge system that has a large variety of badges at two levels to choose from. These badges are more personal interest badges and you can do the ones you like or find a challenge at the level you can handle. The Leaders may choose some of these badges to do with you at a camp or special activity or you can do them from home and bring the results along to show the Leaders. Most of the time you don't even know you are passing over badge work because it is so much fun and then it is a great surprise when you get a badge to put on your uniform.
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Scouts 11 - 15 years
Scouts are where you really put your life skills into practice. Scouts work in patrols with a patrol leader who is the most experienced Scout showing you the ropes. They have a Badge System which you can work through over the three years or so that you are in the section. You have to pass specific sections on Campcraft and Citizenship, and other skills such as Emergencies, First Aid and Mapping, then outings and other activities all add up to earn you a Red, Blue or Green cord. These skills are gained through section meetings once a week where you learn through games, patrols working together and fun training sessions. Then you go to camps and activities where these skills are put into practice.
Some of the fun things Scouts do are camps in the bush, hiking by foot, bike hikes, gliding and canoeing camps, knotting, mapping and compass work, first aid, cooking on a campfire and learning safety procedures. There are chances to help others in the community such as making wooden craft items, colecting cans of food, being sponsored in hiking or bike hikes to raise money for underprivileged people and helping out at citizenship ceremonies.
Scouts make lots of friends and have a good time as well as becoming good community citizens to be proud of. Come along and try Scouting.
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