Call the Cops! Personal Safety Badge

1^st Downham Market Guides were visited by Sargent Rowe, as part of their Personal Safety & Independent Living badges.

The session dealt with theft and ‘what if’ scenarios. The Guides were given photocopies of local people who had been arrested for theft and we discussed each case. It was an excellent session in which the girls all learnt a lot. The Guides were given various scenarios. Speak to your Guide and see if you get the answers right.

1.    It’s time to raise money for the Guides, You pick some wild blackberries from the hedgerow and make some delicious homemade jam which you sell at the Guides Christmas Fair. Are you guilty of theft of the wild hedgerow blackberries?

2.   You and your friend hatch a plan to steal money form the Guides Christmas Fair. You text your friend explaining the plan which is that one of you will keep watch whilst the other takes the money form the stall they are working on. Your friend text back saying “Brilliant LOL, I’m up for that. We will be rich”   A day before the fair you lose your phone and a police officer finds it in the street and discovers the texts between you and your friend. Is either of you guilty of theft though the fair is a day away and you have not stolen anting?

3.    You are walking through the park a notice a £5 note on the floor. There is nobody else in the park. You pick it up and put it in your pocket. Walking home you have to walk past the police station but you do not stop to hand it in at the front counter. Are you guilty of theft of the £5 note?

4.    You enter a supermarket and see you favourite music CD for sale. It costs £10 but you only have £6 on you. You walk over to the bargin CD display, peel off a label from a cheap CD that costs £5.99, and stick it over the £10 label on the CD you want. You walk to the check out and pay for your favourite music CD but at a cost of £5.99 which you think is much more reasonable. Have you stolen the CD?

Around the World with Guides

1^st Downham Market Guides had a really excellent International Evening. The evening was run and organised by the some of the older Guides, who are working towards their BP award.

The BP award is the Baden Powel Award and is the highest award which a Guide can achieve.

We all walked into the hall, which had been set up to represent numerous countries. On each table was food, activities, music, artefacts and information about Guiding from each of the countries. The Guides visited each table to learn about lots of different cultures.

It was a superb evening, with so much thought and planning given.   Well done girls:

Neve – Japan

Anna – Asia

Lauren - France

Rebecca – Egypt

Anna – USA

Issy – India

Katie – Spain

Mia – Malaysia

Camp Blankets

Camp blankets serve several purposes, the main one being to keep you warm around the campfire.  Lots of people 'wear' their camp blankets, although I simply wrap myself in mine!  Another equally important purpose is to sew badges onto.  If you've been a Rainbow, a Brownie and a Guide, your camp blanket becomes a record of all the things you've done and places you've visited.  Camp blankets tell a story about who you are and the experiences you've had - just ask Willow about her blanket if you want some good stories!  Here we are at Guides sewing on some of our newly earned badges...

And if you weren't a Rainbow or a Brownie, it doesn't matter!  It's never to late to start a camp blanket, so get sewing!

Chocolate Night!

We get many requests from our Guides to do the Chocolate Go For It, which aside from chocolate tasting requires the girls to think about where chocolate comes from and learn a little of it's history.  So with this in mind, our Young Leader, Dolphin, planned an evening of fun activities themed around chocolate and sweets.  To begin, we had two quizzes - one true or false and one more cryptic.  For example can you work out what sweets are being described here 'Toothless Drink'....that's right 'Wine Gums'.  The rest of the evening was spent having a Malteser relay and trying to get a Cadbury's Button from our heads into our mouths.  Enjoy these pictures below: