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Patrol Leaders Training Weekend

A group of prospective Patrol Leaders and Existing Patrol Leaders met up at Crawfordsburn this weekend for a packed weekend of classes and activities to develop their leadership and teambuilding skills. The weekend addressed a range of topics such as styles of leadership, dealing with challenging behaviour, communication, promoting scouting, risk assessments and program panning, by allowing the young people to try different activities and games such as the trading post, building a shelter, and the blind trail. It also provided an opportunity to get to know Scouts from across Northern Ireland such as Carryduff, Ballyclare, Ballymoney and Belfast .
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New Scouting Ambassador

Just to let you know that Julia Bradbury is the latest Scouting Ambassador. Visiting 13th Southall Scout Troop, where she met scouts and leaders, the outdoor adventurer and TV presenter said, ‘I always love seeing the enthusiasm of both the scouts themselves and the scout leaders and it has been inspirational to meet them.’
Please see the link for more information. http://www.scouts.org.uk/news/473/julia-bradbury-becomes-a-scouting-ambassador

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Patrol Leaders Training Day

The wet weather didn’t deter the PL’s & APL’s having fun on their recent leadership and team working training day.
The day was broken down into a series of sessions each designed to help the young people gain a better understanding of team working and leadership. The day started with a scavenger hunt followed by erecting a tent indoors – this might sound easy, but since the tent was new to all the young people, and a few of the pieces were missing, it proved to be challenging enough.

 
 
 
Other sessions during the morning included the tricky bomb disposal, the awkward leader, and building an egg parachute (which was dropped off a twelve foot wall!)  I’m glad to say that all the eggs survived, although a few were seriously injured.
After lunch of Pizza & Chips, the action went indoors with activities such as The Brain. The last session of the day was the Troop Leadership Forum (TLF): this is where the young people decide on how to run their patrols, help decide the programme as well as plan future activities. This session was aided by hot chocolate fudge cake and ice cream, always a good way to round off the day!

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Keep up to date

Looking for a way to keep up to date with Ballymoney Scout Group news?

There are several ways you can stay informed. They are (in no particular order):

1. Twitter

Our Twitter account is @BmoneyScouts. We tweet all our latest news posts, and we follow several Scouting related people – @ScoutsNI, @UKScouting (the UK Scouting Association) and Bear Grylls among others. Our Twitter feed is shown on the right hand side of the website or you can click the Twitter logo to take you to our Twitter profile.

2. Facebook

Our Facebook page is here. “Like” us to keep up to date with news and comments. Latest news posts will be displayed on the wall. There is a link to our Facebook profile on the right hand side of this page, or you can click the Facebook logo.

3. Email subscriptions

You can subscribe to email updates and receive an email if there has been a new post on the website that day. You will receive no more than one email per day – no new posts mean no emails so your inbox won’t be overwhelmed. There is a subscribe box to the right hand side below the Twitter and Facebook widgets.

4. Weekly online digest of news

Each weekend, a collection of articles relating to scouting is collected into the ‘Ballymoney Scout Group weekly’. This is an online newspaper comprising tweets, posts, feeds and news etc. about scouting locally and further afield. You can view the paper at this website, or by clicking the logo to the left. You can subscribe to the paper and get an email reminder when the latest edition is out.

5. RSS feed updates

For the more technically minded, you can subscribe to the RSS feed (find out more about RSS here). There are a variety of RSS readers that will allow you to receive the latest news posts without having to visit the site each time. RSS posts can be sometimes be received in your browser window, your email client or with an RSS reader plug-in or download. Have a look at Google+ for example. The link to the Ballymoney Scout Group RSS news feed is at the bottom of the page. Alternatively, click on the logo to the right.

Get in touch with us…

Of course, communication is a two way process so feel free to send us a Tweet or post comments on our Facebook page! Failing that, you can contact us via email or you can fill out the contact form on this website.