15th Cheltenham (SHURDINGTON) Scout Group

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Here you will find several Forms, Challenges, Fact Sheets and Instructive Documents which may be of interest to Scouts, Leaders and lay people alike. Flyers and forms relevant to an activity currently on our programme are also gathered here, rather than spread about the Website. If you have any difficulty please tell us - scouts @ shurdington.org (take off the spaces)

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SHURDINGTON SCOUT GROUP

General Items:

• Adult Appointment - The official form for Adult Appointment for a Leadership post.
• Adult Training (Scouting) - The new scheme 2004 explained.
• CRB Forms - Criminal Records Bureau - A Sample Form; how to fill one in.
• Child Protection - Print the Young People First Yellow Card - and keep it always with you in your wallet.
• DR ABC  - The 1st Aid Procedure explained.
• First Aid Kits - List of general recommended contents.
• Group Application Form - Holds much important information about prospective members.
• PROGRAMME IDEAS - 32 pages of hundreds of programme ideas for indoors or outdoors
• Shurdington Maps - Route maps to Shurdington for prospective visitors.
• Scouts Own - A few ideas - more welcome - e-mail to scouts @ shurdington dot org (in the normal manner!)
• THE DUMP - A great resource for any Scouting need by Scouts Canada. EXPLORE IT NOW FOR ANYTHING YOU NEED.
• TRAILER Lights - Wiring Colour diagram for 12Volt car trailer lighting circuit.

Camping & Tents - Forms

• Form NAN - Nights Away Notification for your DC. Important this form is filled in for every overnight event.
• Nights Away - Requirements and competences you will need.
• Camp/Holiday Info/Parental Consent - To hand out as booking form for a Scout Camp or Pack Holiday.
• HEALTH FORM pdf - Form to be filled in  by parents for every overnight camp or activity. Doc Form
• DC Notification - DC needs to know if you are having an activity outside your normal HQ.
• Camping Equipment - A Basic list of equipment to take on camp - Lest you forget!
• Camping in Greenfield Sites - Green field with no toilets, no shower block, no alternative accommodation. Real Camping!!
• Home Contact - Form with instructions to be handed to your Home Contact on nights away
• Marquee instructions - How to put one up properly and quickly.
• Mess Tent instructions - How to put up a metal frame mess tent.
• Personal Kit List - Suggested personal kit to take on camp.
• What to do on Camp - Hundreds of things to keep a Scout occupied.

Navigation, Hiking, Map & Compass

• Compass Rose - A full compass Rose with 128 Compass Points
• Contour Lines - What are they? - and how to work them out to get picture of your landscape.
• G.P.S. Basic Facts - Global Positioning System - Very useful, and very accurate position finding gadgets.
• G.P.S. versus the humble COMPASS - a few points to ponder.
• ISLAND MAPS - An instructive mapping game, ideal for learning Compass Points and also Map Symbols - 1:5000 map
• Hiking - Do it safely and enjoy the experience.
• Latitude & Longitude - What are they and how are they used. A G.P.S. necessity.
• Magnetic Compass - secrets revealed.
• Magnetic / Grid / True NORTH - The difference explained.
• Map Reading - Learn about 6-Figure Map References (MS Word doc format)
• Map & Compass - Taking the sweat and mystery out of Map and Compass work, incl Naismith's Law.
• Mapping - Takes the mystery out of 'reading' a map, and not getting lost ever again.
• Ordnance Survey National GRID - the numbered squares on the map. So what do the letters SO (Cheltenham area), TL (London area) etc mean? Quoting Map reference 216918 is not enough - it could be anywhere in UK - the two letters tell you which 100 Kilometre Grid Square you are in and which map to use.
• Pack a Rucksack - Never find anything in your rucksack? Pack it systematically and you will.
• Route Planning - Now you know how to hike, plan the route safely
   

  How to use a Compass - https://www.outdoorsgenerations.com/how-to-use-a-compass/

  • Now test your COMPASS SKILLS on-line.....Click here

Scouting Fact sheets (all .PDF files) Learn about this and that - and some more...

• Accident Reporting - Hope it never becomes necessary, but here it is.
• Axe & Saw - how to use them safely.
• Axe - Picture with useful information, to download.
• BADEN-POWELL - "History of Scouting" - 12 page A5 booklet with pictures for colouring.
• Basic Cooking - all you need not to starve on camp.
• Beaver - Information on the life of the animal.
• Behaviour in the Troop - essential information.
• Campsite Layout - dos and don'ts.
• Camp Toilets - with hygiene in mind!
• Certificates - Knife & Axe - Lamps & Stoves (To be given out to Scouts with due care).
• Estimation - The art of estimating distances, widths and heights without measuring devises. (Word doc)
• Fire lighting - simple when you know how.
• First Aid Basics - DrABC and other essential knowledge for everyone. You may be able to save a life.
• First Aid - a fact sheet from Scoutbase.
• Home Contact - Going anywhere? You definitely need one of these. Vital.
• Knots - Simple Start - No one can do without some knotting experience.
• Knots - some unusual but useful ones.
• Knots - 42 very useful knots to whet your appetite
• Lamps - A guide to safe working with paraffin/gas/petrol lamps.
• Lamps & Cookers - GAS or DUAL FUEL - General information / mantles / types / safety.
• Lashings - The basic pioneering lashings which make Scouting so much more fun!
• Nights Away 'form NA' - Going away overnight? You need one of these!
• Pioneering & A-Frame Racing - Learn about lashings and have some fun racing your Sheer Legs!
• Pre Event Checklist - 8 pages of items to check for a safe event!
• P/L Training - Every good Troop needs Patrol Leaders - Train them well and they will be an asset.
• Risk Assessment - A guide to this 'modern' requirement to keep you out of court!!!
• Scout Ceremonies - Just a basic few ceremonies for that serious 5 minutes.
• Tent Pitching - Simple when you know how; teamwork is important.
• Types of Tents - First there was the Bell Tent, then the Storm Haven, now a myriad varieties.

The Art of Making FIRE without Matches Several .pdf Pages

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Scout Craft, Games, Programme Ideas and lots more.

• Aerial Runway Code - To be studied thoroughly before attempting to build a Runway.
• Axemanship - Safety, care of etc - a useful 3-page document.
• Back to Basics - Supplement from Scouting Magazine
• Backwoods cooking - A 59 page booklet from Scout Association courtesy of Graham Williams 12th Andoversford. 33mb in pdf format
• Ballista - Scoutbase design and description of a Roman style ballista. see also Drawing
• Basic Knots - A4 sheets with drawings of the basic knots everyone should practice
• Basic Knots - Same as above but A5 size (smaller)
• Beaver Scout Games (Pt 1,2,3) - A great resource for Beavers or any Section really, from Scouts Canada. Courtesy of their webmaster.
• BUDDY BURNER - An excellent safe and simple fuel source.
• BURNING PROPERTIES OF ENGLISH TREES - A useful guide to which tree produces the kind of fire you need.
• CAMPFIRE SONGS - A collection of popular songs, repeat-after-me, and action.
• Catapult - Building a fun ballista - a Pioneering Project.
• CHANCE CARDS - An instructive game from Building Peace Together. Published by the Scout Movement.
• CODES - Pig Pen Code - example of writing codes. Pig Pen can be written in several ways. This is just one example.
• COMMUNICATING - MORSE CODE / BRAILLE / SIGN LANGUAGE / SEMAPHORE (1/2 meg pdf file)
• EASTER FESTIVITIES - An excellent set of programme ideas for this time of year - from Palm Sunday to Good Friday and Easter, cross making and so forth.
• EYE SPLICE - The Art of Splicing an Eye in Rope.
• HALLOWEEN - Mr Bones SKELETON Relay race. (Download Skeleton Template) - Good to show this VIDEO before the game!
• KELLY KETTLE - A marvelous new gadget for boiling water or cooking, using easy base lighting method. See the Video
• KNOT BOOK for SCOUTS - Courtesy of The Dump, Scoutscan
• KUBB - A fascinating game from Sweden - Indoor or Outdoor - RULES
• The FISHING GAME - A game of skill and a challenge.
• LASHINGS - The primary most used lashings.
• LASHINGS - The main types pictorially explained Step by Step. Excellent resource.
• OS Map - Features - Recognising the main features on an OS Map.
• Pioneering - Important Basic Knowledge - Knots, Splicing, Lashings, Whipping, Anchorages and more. - Diagrams and Explanations
• Pioneers & Pioneering - Why 'pioneering' ?
• Pioneering Badge Book - A comprehensive guide to Pioneering knowledge. MS Word.
• Pioneering - A   fact sheet about pioneering projects.
• Pioneering - A few Thoughts to Ponder
• Pioneering Projects - A   comprehensive Booklet about pioneering projects with drawings (1.9MB). 
• ROPE - What is it? - What's it made from? - How is it made?
• ROPE, THE STORY - Its History and some hints - and a short story.
• Which knot, Which Rope - Poster - Other things you can do with rope.
• The ART of COMMUNICATING - Several methods since cave writing.
• TRADING POST, A Great Game - The Game Rules  
• TRADING POST, A Great Game - Buying/Selling List
• TRADITIONAL GAMES - To pass on to your children "Lest We Forget"
• TREE LEAF GUIDE - British Trees - Tick the ones you have seen or come across.
• NARROW BOATS - A general guide towards the Power Coxswain badge
• Tree Recognition - A simple pictorial route on how to recognise the popular British trees.
• Rifle Shooting/Archery/Photography Consent - To be filled in and signed annually for events of this nature.
• Rifle Shooting - Safety Tips & Instructions for the Range Master to instruct shooters. - RIFLE PARTS
• Rifle Shooting - How to Aim - RIGHT - WRONG
• Tracking Signs - Pictorial list of tracking signs for Beavers/Cubs/Scouts.
• The UNION FLAG - How it is made up of the three flags England/Scotland/Ireland.
• The Scout & His Axe - john Thurman's original 16 page very useful and thorough book.
• Wood - The burning properties of wood. A useful list with description.
• Plaiting - How to make a leather plaited woggle.
• Orienteering - The general principles of the game of Orienteering.
• Whipping a rope - Three ways of whipping the end of a rope - Simple, West Country & Sail Maker's Whipping.

TEAM BUILDING - BRAIN TEASERS - CHALLENGES

• A COMPENDIUM (Book 1) - Team Games & Challenges
• A COMPENDIUM (Book 2) - Team Games & Challenges
• ALPHABET Team Game - Just a piece of large card or paper and some felt pens each team - a sit down exciting game.
• Beetle Drive Game Cards - Set of cards to print for the above compendium.
• RIVER CROSSING PROBLEM - The farmer, the goat, the fox and the cabbage!
• FOUR CHALLENGES Outdoor/Indoor - Keeps them going...
• HIPPO RACE - Or Giant Sack Race - Teams of 4 race in a giant sack (a Hippo Bag) - Great fun...
• CIRCLE HOOP CHALLENGE - Team holds hand in a circle and pass hoop down the line - WITH NO HANDS !
• DOWN MEMORY LANE - Mostly outdoors - Game to test and encourage remembering route through a minefield! 
• PIONEERING & A-FRAME RACING - Learn about lashings and have some fun racing your Sheer Legs! Encourages teamwork.
• NASA EXERCISE - You are stranded on the Moon heading for your recovery ship - what equipment do you take with you?
• A-FRAME RACING - Build an A-Frame (Sheer Legs) and race it down a course. Team of 5 needed each frame.
• STRING BURN CHALLENGE - Team fire lighting / 1st to burn the string!
• EIGHTS - A CARD GAME - A great card game for camp or wet nights. Quite hilarious.
• SHOVE HALF PENNY - Instructions for this game which can be played on a table.
• NUMBERS GAME - Place the 8 numbers in correct order - with ONE rule. Numbers must NOT be in consecutive order! - ANSWER
• PHONETIC ALPHABET - Just to impress...
• TARP CHALLENGE - Play 'football' with a tarpaulin full of holes - 2-team challenge lasting 10 minutes
• THE WATER PUZZLE - A puzzle from Die Hard 3
• TOWER OF HANOI - or Tyre Challenge - An interesting challenge for everyone. (4-ring solution)  -  (5-ring solution)
• TEAM RESCUE CHALLENGE - Simulate a rescue at sea for the whole Group - Indoors or Outdoors. Team game.
• THE CHINA SYNDROME - Remove a Fuel Rod from a dangerous Reactor before it blows us all up. Team game.
• PASS THROUGH PAPER - A4 sheet and a pair of scissors, and pass through the sheet - like magic. (Solution included).

If you have any items you wish to be able to contribute, just e-mail to - scouts @ shurdington.org - and I will do my best!

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