#ScoutingUK

Most weeks I’m fair certain what we’re doing.
Tonight was pencilled in in January, and planned for extensively about a month ago, however my leader that wanted to run it was away on a training course so we pulled the idea for the summer term.

I was going to do lamps and stoves, but one of the other leaders didn’t like that idea.
There was mention of a campfire?
But we didn’t commit to anything.

So I checked OSM before leaving the house and realised we still didn’t have a plan, it was too wet for a fire, and for the first hour it was just myself and one other leader.

We have a camp coming up so I asked each patrol to plan some activities to run in the free time I’ve given them. We then voted on what activities we wanted to do on camp.

Next we go up and played a game of jump over the rope. You may recall I made a monkeys fist on the end of a length or rope so I can swing it around in a circle at feet level and the Scouts have to jump over it. It tires them out, and they love it

After a short break I got them sitting in a circle. I posed the question “tell me a story about a polar bear coming for dinner”, but each Scout could only contribute one word and we can go round and round. They enjoyed this and came up with an interesting story.
Next I asked the to do the same but tell me about ingredients for a cake, so they did.
Then I asked how to make a cock-a-leekie soup - they had no idea and gave me a bunch of interesting items.

I told them that during the three rounds that they had each taken their lived experiences and knowledges, and what had already been said to give me an answer.
I then asked how many of them had used AI chatbots - and belatedly introduced them to “Scout GPT”, stating that they had roughly performed what an AI chatbot does.

We rounded off the evening with a couple of rounds of Werwolves.