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What
is the Baden Powell Challenge?
It's the ultimate Girl Guiding challenge! To begin your ten challenges
you must have made your promise, achieved two interest badges and
hold your two year badge.
The
Challenge consists of ten clauses that must be completed within
twelve months; there are five topics to chose from and you must
do at least one clause from each.
The
different topics include:
Healthy
Lifestyle
Celebrating Diversity
World Issues
Skills And Relationships
Global Awareness
Challenge
Weekend
When you have completed all ten challenges you are invited to a
Baden-Powell Challenge Weekend. During the weekend you meet up with
other Guides who have also completed their ten clauses. Once you
have completed the weekend and have all your challenges signed off
you meet with your District Commissioner where you are presented
with a certificate and a pin badge. It is a great experience, giving
you the chance to meet new people and it gives you a new perspective
on guiding.
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| What
shall we write? |
Theme
Last
night we met eachother for the first time, and all eleven Guides
stayed at Woodcroft Guide Centre, based in Luton.
The
theme for our weekend is media. We have to design and produce a
web page, give a power point presentation and a produce a special
edition of 'Beds Buzz' which is a news letter aimed at the Guiding
community in Bedfordshire.
First
night
Our first night together was great - we all had to get into groups
of four and decided which part of the project we were going to participate
in. Then we had dinner which consisted of pasta and bolognaise with
a side salad and for pudding, we had a choice of chocolate cake
or syrup sponge with either squirty cream or custard and all of
that was very nice if we do say so ourselves!.
Out
and about
Today we visited Luton Town Football Club where we watched, supported,
whistled and chatted up the under 19’s squad (especially number
5!) then we went back to the centre for lunch.
During
our lunch Hilary from the local Keech Cottage Children’s Hospice
came to speak to us about the organisation and answer any questions
that we had.
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| Writing
for the web! |
After
lunch we made our way to the BBC Three Counties Radio Studios and
saw how the sports programmes are broadcast and how a web page for
the Beds Herts and Bucks website is produced - then with a little
help from Jan we wrote this piece for the web!
Tomorrow
we have to be up very early to give a presentation of our project
to an invited audience of our parents and Guide Leaders -then after
all the hard work we finally get to go home!
If
you would like to see what we have achieved this week feel free
to go to www.bedsguiding.org.uk
and have a look around.
| kirsty,
linslade |
Wednesday,
08-Oct-2003 21:15:34 BST |
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| yeah,
thanks for the tour, it was great, we're famous! |
| natalie,
leighton buzzard |
Tuesday,
07-Oct-2003 10:48:42 BST |
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| i'm
one of the guides - thank you three counties for taking the
time and effort to do something for us natalie xxx |
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