This weeks meeting, lead by the notorious Grizzly Owen, covered many topics that the Scouts need to be clued up on for the completion of their International Activity Badge and their World Challenge Award.
We started the meeting learning about the origins of Scouting all around the world, from the first Brownsea Island Camp to the establishment of and all of our memberships’ to the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM).
The meeting gave the Scouts an introduction to what a World Scout Jamboree is through a video from WOSM themselves, showing our young people the amazing opportunities they could experience to meet Scouts’ from all around the world and engage in fantastic International friendships.
As well as the World Scout Jamboree, the scouts got an introduction to other international events such as the European Scout Jamboree and the World Scout Moot, for members of the movement aged 18-25.
We were then joined by our brilliant Explorers, Fiona and Nina, who talked to our Scouts about their own experiences in getting to go to the 24th World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, USA, 2019. They told us about the whole trip, the activities they were able to take part in, the highs, the lows and everything in between and I’m sure a great deal of our young people will be convinced they need to go to the next one.
We then had our knowledge tested with two of Big Al’s Big quizzes, one on the history of Scouting and the other on the Flags from around the world.
The evening finished with a discussion on what we wanted to do when were are back at last to Face-to-Face scouting and the creation of a flag for Longford Scout Group!
This new group flag will actually be created and produced and may be seen flying high at our next Camps!
