Introduction

This wide game is based around skills in the Fundamentals that have not been covered in other sessions during today.

There are five bases – you have 20 minutes per base.

Each base has a number of activities at each base at different levels, so that leaders can extend their knowledge/skills – please do them in the order they appear on the individual instruction sheets.

Each activity is worth a certain number of points. Please read the points instructions at each base carefully.

Please take with you:

Paper, pen, situpon.

Bases

Patrol System – team games

1. Paper clip chain

Your task is to see how many paper clips you can join into a long chain in two minutes. You have 30 seconds to decide your strategy, including how to keep time.

 Point score: the number of paper clips in the final chain.

If your patrol has an uneven number of people, one person can be the timekeeper.

2. Kim’s Game

Pass around objects from a cloth bag behind the back. When the last object has returned to its bag, write down as many objects as you can remember.

 Point score: average of your group’s score

3. Learn the Een Gonyama chant.

 Listen to the tape, and learn the Een Gonyama chant. Please rewind the tape when you have finished.

 Point Score: based on best rendition after the wide game

Patrol System – Points Earned

The Eengonyama Chant

In 1887 when Baden-Powell was on military service in South Africa, there were enemy tribes and there were friendly tribes and Baden-Powell had a way of making friends with most of the tribes. But there were certain tribes that couldn't be managed and in order to save the country Baden-Powell called in some of his friends among the friendly tribes, and they promised to come to his assistance.

And one day, on the day that they were scheduled to arrive, Baden-Powell heard from the great distance a peculiar sound. It sounded first like a dull roar, and then it sounded like the kind of church music he had heard coming out of organs at home. And as the sound came closer and closer, Baden-Powell saw a regiment of two thousand Zulus coming to his aid to help him stop the enemy tribes. They sang a special kind of chant, and that was what Baden-Powell had heard:

Baden-Powell brought the song home with him and included it in the first Scout handbook, SCOUTING FOR BOYS. But before he did this, he tried it out on British boys during the world's first Boy Scout camp at Brownsea.

He taught the boys to sing the Zulu chant and to join him in dance around the fire. But it was more than a dance because from time to time a boy would jump into the circle and while all the others were singing and stomping their staves, the boy in the center would stalk the big hippopotamus or the rhinoceros or the lion and finally kill the wild animal he was stalking.

http://www.pinetreeweb.com/brownsea.htm 10 Jul. 06

Scout War Dance

Scouts form up in one line with leader in front, each holding his staff in the right hand, and his left on the next man's shoulder.

Leader sings the Eengonyama song. Scouts sing chorus, and advance a few steps at a time, stamping in unison on the long notes.

At the second time of singing they step backwards.

At the third, they turn to the left, still holding each other's shoulders, and move round in a large circle, repeating the chorus until they have completed the circle.

They then form into a wide circle, into the center of which one steps forward and carries out a war dance, representing how he tracked and fought with one of his enemies. He goes through the whole fight in dumb show, until he finally kills his foe. The Scouts meantime sing the Eengonyama chorus and dance on their own ground. As soon as he finishes the fight, the leader starts the ‘Be Prepared’ chorus, which they repeat three times in honour of the Scout who has just danced.

The war dance of the young men of the Kikuyu tribe in Africa
 provided the inspiration for the Scout's "war dance".

Then they recommence the Eengonyama chorus, and another Scout steps into the ring, and describes in dumb show how he stalked and lolled a wild buffalo. While he does the creeping up and stalking of the animal, the Scouts all crouch and sing their chorus very softly, and as he gets close to the beast, they simultaneously spring up and dance and shout the chorus loudly. When he has slain the beast, the leader again gives the "Be Prepared" chorus in his honor, which is repeated three times, the Scouts banging their staffs on the ground at the same time as they stamp "Bom! bom!" At the end of the third repetition, "Bom! bom!" is given twice.

The circle then closes together, the Scouts turn to their left again, grasping shoulders with the left hand, and move off, singing the Eengonyama chorus, or, if it not desired to move away, they break up after the final "Bom! bom!"

The Eengonyama song should be sung in a spirited way, and not droned out dismally like a dirge.

Note to Instructors

Although the war dance and songs may seem at first sight to be gibberish—especially to those who have never had much to do with boys—yet there is a certain value underlying them as a corrective of self-consciousness.

From Scouting for Boys, Yarn 4.

Promise and Law – ceremonies

Pick one type of ceremony from those below, and create a ceremony for it.

Write the ceremony up on butcher’s paper.

Present it at the end of the wide game.

Ceremony types  

Please tick off the ceremony you have done, so that the patrols after you don’t do the same one.

Point score: Out of 10. Score to be determined by other patrols at presentation.

Outdoors – Fires & Compass

Fires

Outdoors – Fires – Points Earned

Fire Preparation Game

Box the Compass Game

Alternative (co-operative game):

Box the compass answer

A 32 point compass has as its (16) points the directions:

NORTH
  North northeast
  North east
  East northeast
EAST
  East southeast
  Southeast
  South southeast
SOUTH
  South southwest
  South west
  West southwest
WEST
  West northwest
  North west
  North northwest
  (then back to North)

Reciting this list is known as boxing the compass. It was considered to be one of the basic skills of an apprentice sailor to be able to recite these directions.

The smaller points such as that between North and NNE were known only in association with their larger neighbouring point. For instance:

The point between North and NNE was N by E.
The point between NNE and Northeast was NE by N.
The point between Northeast and ENE was NE by E.
The point between ENE and E was E by N.

This followed in like fashion around the compass.

The above section, including the image, comes from http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/staff/compcrd.htm, and is used here with permission.

Therefore the 32 points of the compass are:

http://www.gwpda.org/naval/boxco000.htm 4 Aug 06

3-Leg Compass Walks

Outdoors – Knotting

1. Knot tying

Tie the following knots and state their use:

2. Game

Patrol in a circle. One person is outside the circle with a rope. She goes around the circle, and drops the rope at someone’s feet, and calls for a knot. She must run around the circle to the starting place before the person can tie the knot correctly. If she beats the knotter, they change places.

3. Be Kind to Little People Week

– score one point for every correct knot, and two points for originality. May make one or all items in full size.

Outdoors – Knotting – Points Earned

Name each knot and explain its uses

Service

Two activities, maximum of ten minutes each:

1. First Aid Scenario

2. Measure Up

1. First Aid Scenario

You are driving along happily one day, when a motorcyclist passes you with a roar on the left. You shake your head as he proceeds to weave from side to side in the lane, as if he is either warming his tyres like they do at the beginning of a big motor race, or, more likely you think, as if he is in a hurry to get somewhere and the traffic is too slow.

You suddenly notice that the motorcycle and the car in front of it have slowed down – their brake lights are on. Although you can’t see its indicator (because the motorcyclist is in the way), you realize that the car ahead of the motorcycle is going to turn right into the driveway of a wedding reception place.

Then you see the motorcyclist attempt to pass the car – on its right – going directly into its path. You hold your breath, willing him to make it.

He doesn’t.

You see him hit the front right fender of the car, and go careering crazily across the road.

Thinking quickly, you look in the rear view mirror, ascertain that there is no one coming up on your inside lane, signal, and pull over to the side of the road. You jump out with your mobile phone, and, when there is a break in the traffic, race across the road to the footpath where the motorcyclist is lying neatly on his back with his feet crossed at the ankles. He is not moving.

List all the actions you will take.

When you have decided your actions, find the Points to Discuss sheet and answer the questions.

Point Score : one point per point on the answer sheet

Points to discuss:

1. When you get to him, the motorcyclist is awake and responding. He says his neck hurts but nothing else does.
2. The car driver is shaking and blaming herself, but is unhurt. She is employed at the wedding reception centre, and has turned up for work for a wedding that is about to start. What do you do for her?
3. The motorcyclist’s mother arrives, distraught. The ambulance is not yet there. What do you do?
4. What do you do when the ambulance arrives?
5. What do you do when the Police arrives?
6. The police asks you for a statement. What do you say?
7. The ambulance calls for a helicopter to take the motorcyclist to a spinal unit. What do you do when it has gone?
   

Checklist

Check for danger to yourself.

Check for danger to onlookers.

Check for danger to the motorcyclist (he is off the road and away from traffic).

Check the motorcyclist

Check the car driver

Go back to the motorcyclist, and do a physical check for injuries from head to toe. (You had to see which person needed help most – you did an initial check of the motorcyclist, then of the driver, and now the motorcyclist needs a better examination.) Keep reassuring him.

Call for help

Call for an ambulance.

Call for the police.

Monitor the casualties

When the mother arrives

When professional help arrives.

When the ambulance arrives, tell the paramedics what happened, and what you have observed with both the motorcyclist and the car driver.

Do whatever the paramedics ask you to do.

When the police arrives, tell them what happened and that you are a witness.

Give a statement to the police when requested.

2. Measure Up!

1. Fill in the measurement chart below for each person to take home.

My Measurements

NB. If you are using this with your girls, remind them that they are still growing, and will need to update their measurements periodically.

2. Discuss how knowing your own measurements can be of service.

3. As a Patrol, estimate the length of rope you see at this base (without using the tape measure!) Write your estimate on an index card and give it to the activity leader, Make sure you write your Patrol name on the card!