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 CHIEF SCOUT: VOYAGEUR OUTDOOR SKILLS Requirement #8 |
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CHIEF SCOUT AWARD PROGRAM RESOURCES
1st STITTSVILLE SCOUTS
Voyageur Outdoor Skills Requirement #8
Demonstrate the safe use of your troop equipment (e.g. knives, axes, saws, stoves and lanterns).
Welcome to the 1st Stittsville Scout Group Chief Scout program resource forum. Over the past few years our 1st Stittsville Scout sections have been developing program activities that are intended to address the requirements for the Chief Chief Scout Award.
The information presented in this forum are ideas that have been run by our Troop sections as well as ideas that have been collected from other scout groups within Canada.
The Chief Scout Award is the highest award that scout aged youth can earn across Canada and brings National Level recognition to the youth. This URL provides a small background to the Chief Scout Award http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Scout%27s_Award
Please feel free to download these program ideas for your own use.
If you have other program ideas for this requirement that you would like to share, please email scouterpyd@rogers.com and they will be published at this forum.
**NOTE**
Please note that 1st Stittsville Scout group has written its own guidelines for Scout Equipment. Follow this link http://www.stittsvillescouts.org/scouttalk/viewforum.php?f=15. It will take you to our "Scout Resource" web page. At this location you will find several postings for "Outdoor Skills Workshops". Select these links and you will be taken web pages which describe the Guidelines that I have written for how 1st Stittsville teaches its leaders and scout youth on how to earn the Scouts Canada Safety Permit pins. A bit of history here - Scouts Canada has no formal guidelines on how youth or leaders can earn these permits - it is content to sell them and make money - but does not offer guidelines, instead it relies on scout groups to find their own way.
As a result, I wrote up a set of guidelines 2 years ago, had them extensively reviewed by selected "outdoor skilled" scout leaders and trainers and then trialed each of the permits through 6 scout groups in Ottawa. What you see is a 'finalized' version of these permits that were setup for the 2010-2011 scout year. I have a few small udpates to make to the Hatchet/Axe permit guidelines based on feedback this year (feedback related to how to carry a hatchet/axe) and I will have it updated for the 2011-2012 scout year.
**PLEASE NOTE** there is quite a bit of interest in making these "formal" guidelines in our Scout district - but this has not happened yet. Therefore, please use these guidelines under the guise of "This is how 1st Stittsville Scouts" teaches their scout leaders/youth.
**PLEASE NOTE** The knife permit is far more detailed than the others - as it has many components. We found that this was necessary as we wanted parents to provide permission for their youth to learn how to use pocket knives and we wanted the youth to understand that they were giving the scout leaders permission to revoke their knife permit if they were not acting in a responsible manner.
**PLEASE NOTE**. We have received feedback from scout leaders stating that the guidelines are too long. I'm afraid that I cannot disagree with that statement, however I have refused to change the length of the guidelines because of the following
1. The guidelines were intended to teach scout leaders necessary safe techniques for how to use scout equipment.
2. Once scout leaders are trained, they can then apply what they have learned to teach the youth. This then allows the leaders to teach the youth in the following manner:
a) Leaders can teach safety with scout tools in a consistent manner (as suggested by the guidelines)
b) Leaders can interpret the guidelines as they see fit and teach the scout youth the important elements they feel is necessary for the youth to learn.
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