Providing a balanced programme

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Providing a balanced programme

• Module 12

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Objectives

• By the end of the course you will be able to
• Explain how the balanced programme meets the
  Scout Associations educational objectives
• Describe how the Programme Zones, Methods and
  Underlying Ways of Working help ensure the
  creation of a balanced programme.
• Plan a balanced programme
• Use a wide variety of sources, methods and themes
  to generate exciting and relevant programme ideas
• Involve young people in planning through the use
  of Sectional, District and County forums,
  conferences and committees
• Use the Self Review process to support and
  enhance programme planning

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Why do young people need developing?
interdependent
Age
Independent
Dependent
Development
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Scouting is Complimentary

• Scouting aims to compliment school and home by
  training in
• The Body
• The mind
• Faith and beliefs
• Relationships
• The community
• Their surroundings

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We use a balanced programme
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Personal Development

• The Body
• The mind
• Faith and beliefs
• Relationships
• The community
• Their surroundings

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The Body
To live as healthily as they can and enable
others to do so as well.
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The Mind
To continue to solve problems, grow throughout
life, express themselves creatively and develop
their gifts and talents
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Faith Beliefs
To grow in relationship with their god,
articulate and express their faith, to live out
Scouting values and to respect the beliefs of
others
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Relationships
To relate to and work with many other
individuals, each with their own feelings, gender
and culture and to develop mature friendships.
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The Community
To relate to and work with many other
individuals, each with their own feelings, gender
and culture and to develop mature friendships.
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Their Surroundings
To respect the environment and live responsibly
in it.
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What we do zones
The way we do it Methods
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Zones
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Methods

• Activities outdoors
• Games
• Design and creativity
• Visits and visitors
• Service
• Technology and new skills
• Team-building activities
• Activities with others
• Themes
• Prayer, worship and reflection

• Games
• Make things
• Singing, stories, drama
• Visits and visitors
• Outdoors
• Activities with others
• Help other people
• Themes
• Prayer, worship and reflection
• Team challenges
• Try new things

• Help others
• Play games
• Explore their world
• Undertake prayer and worship
• Listen to stories
• Follow themes
• Go on visits
• Make things
• Meet new people
• Act, sing and make music
• Chat
• Go outdoors

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Underlying ways of working
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Balanced Programme Football?
Sharing Group Work Leadership Ball
Skills Physical Fitness Mental Fitness Creative
Expression??
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A Balanced Programme is

• Relevant
• Progressive
• Meaningful

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Where do you find one?

• By visiting another section in another group.
  Have you tried.?

• Lots of activities
• Theyre enjoying themselves
• Working together delivers commitment
• Take turns providing leadership
• Older scouts are expected to take on
  responsibility.

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Getting the Balance
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Making it Happen
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www.scoutbase.org.uk
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www.scoutbase.org.uk
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www.scoutbase.org.uk
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www.scouts.org.uk
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Planning

• The beauty of not doing any planning at all is
  that failure comes as a complete surprise

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Plans

• Long term
• year
• Key dates / events
• Mid term
• Term
• Programme zones, visits
• Short term
• Meeting activities, methods
• Meeting
• Detailed plan

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Planning for Scouting

• Long term plans
• Annual overview
• Fixed dates, terms, holidays, events.
• Wide involvement
• District / County / Group
• (Example)

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Planning for Scouting

• Medium Term Plans
• 12 Weeks or so.
• Adds detail
• Who, exactly what
• Make bookings
• Sanity Check.
• Examples
• Communicate

• Short Term Plans
• Specific Detail

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Try it out

• Use the medium term plan to produce a meeting
  plan for one week.
• Swap use the checker to review your programme.

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Branding

• How we package the programme is vital to its
  success.
• A walk in the woods has limited appeal.
• A wildlife safarimeans so much more.

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Next week we are going on a Nature Walk. Bring
a change of shoes.
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Leaf rubbing next week with Crayons
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A hike to test your map-reading skills
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We are going to dress up in bin bags for fun.
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The Big Task

• Using Essentials choose a programme zone for your
  section.
• Prepare a medium/short term plan for 2 months
  (planning the activities for 8 meeting nights)
• Brand your ideas

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Self review

• Terms / years programme
• What went well
• What could have been better and how
• How balanced were the
• Programme zones
• Methods

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Top Tips

• Balanced, branded, exciting programmes provide
  better scouting for more young people. FACT.
• Invest in programme. It costs money.
• Publish your programmes to everyone including
  parents.
• Visit others and swap ideas.
• Use district and county teams for support.

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Hurdles

• No leaders.
• No Transport.
• No Money
• Old material thats been used over and over.
• Dinosaurs and the Scouting Mafia

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Recognising Achievement

• The Balanced Programme is all about joining in,
  or participating.
• There is much less emphasis on passing tests, and
  a much greater emphasis on encouraging young
  people to learn from taking part.

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The Badge and Award Scheme

• 7 Types of Award
• Challenges are Participation not standards based.
• Activity are standards based.
• Staged badges span ages and sections.
• Overview and finding out.