Scout Leadership Course Session Activity Notes

Session activity

Scout Award Scheme: Putting together the award scheme

Time to allocate for this activity

30 minutes

Resources required

Game board and pieces.

Activity Notes

This short activity is designed to encourage Scouts to build and demonstrate their knowledge of the Scout Award Scheme.

The task (15 mins)

This is a quick paced game of chance played by individuals or competing Patrols, that leads to one Patrol (or Patrol member) reaching the Australian Scout Medalion and winning the game.

This is a board game with a special dice. As for a standard board game, the players take turns in throwing the dice and responding to the result.

In this case, the six sides of the dice are "Proficiency badge", "Target badge", "Scoutcraft bagde", "Patrol Activity", "Special Award" and "Elective".

Scoutcraft Badge - everyone must throw this before they can start the game. They receive a Scoutcraft badge.
Target badge - The player can choose a Citizenship or Campcraft target badge at the level they are trying to achieve. They must gain 2 of these for each of the Pioneer, Explorer and Adventurer levels.
Proficiency Badge - The player can choose any of the Proficiency Badges available. They must earn two for every level they pass through - Pioneer, Explorer and Adventurer - before earning the main award.
Patrol Activity - The player must throw three of these - one for each of the Pioneer, Explorer and Adventurer levels to gain the main award.
Elective - The player can select one of the six Elective Target badges available for each level they are working towards - Pioneer, Explorer and Adventurer. They need one in each level to progress.
Special Award - The player can choose to do Leadership Course, a Leadership Activity or a Special Award such as the Life Saver, Landcare or World Conservation that will be classed as a Proficiency Badge should they need one. They will need the Leadership Course AND Leadership Activity to proceed to the Australian Scout Medalion.

The game plays with players collecting all of the required badges to gain their Australian Scout Medalion. First player to reach the goal wins - or the highest level player if time runs out.

A game board to collect the awards is provided.