Membership Award

Name:

_______________________________

Date of Investiture: _______________________________

The Membership Award

Welcome to our Colony. We hope that you have lots of fun and make lots of new friends. Before you can make your Beaver Scout Promise, and wear your scarf, there are a few things that you will need to do. Ask a leader to sign each section once it is complete and when everything is signed off, you will be ready to make your promise.

Requirement

Leader signature

Date achieved

Get to know other members and leaders in the Colony

Find out about ceremonies and traditions in the Colony.

Find out about activities you can do in the Colony

Show that you understand the Beaver Scout Promise.

Show that you know the Scout Motto, sign and handshake.

learn what to do at your Investiture

Find out the meanings of the badges you will receive.

Show that you know about the family of Scouts, worldwide Scouting and the history of Scouting.

Know and sign the Code of Conduct

Become a Beaver Scout by making the Promise.

THE MEMBERSHIP AWARD - GETTING TO KNOW YOUR COLONY

You will learn about the Beaver Scout Colony by attending Colony meetings for at least four weeks. During this time you will get to know your leaders.

The name of my Colony Leader is:

___________________________________________

The names of other leaders are:

___________________________________________

___________________________________________

My Lodge is coloured

______________________________________

The names of other Beavers in my Lodge are:

____________________________________

____________________________________

____________________________________

COLOUR OUR NECKER

CEREMONIES AND TRADITIONS

Your Colony will have some traditions and ceremonies. Some will be used by all Colonies. Others are special to your group.

The Scout Salute is made with the right hand. It is used during the opening ceremony on Colony night and also at other special times – such as when you are presented with a badge. 

The three fingers that you hold up should remind you of your promise to:

· Do your best

· Kind and helpful

· Love God

When you make your promise during your investiture you make a special kind of salute called the Scout Sign. It is the same as the salute except that you hold your hand at shoulder height instead of putting it up to you head.

You also make the Scout Sign whenever you are renewing your promise, for example at a parade on when another Beaver Scout is invested.

The tradition was started by Lord Robert Baden-Powell. When he was a soldier in Africa, he saw lots of tribal chiefs who carried spears and shields. He noticed that it was a sign of great trust to offer your left hand when shaking hands. This was because you had to put down your shield, and leave the other person holding their spear.

Heritage

Scouting was founded in 1907 by Robert Baden Powell.

There are currently between 28,000,000 – 40,000,000 boys and girls in Scouting today.

The Beaver Scouts section was started on the 1st April 1986 the Beaver Scout Motto is

“Be prepared”

THE CHANT

One Beaver Scout ceremony that you will see every week is the Beaver opening and chant. This is a special greeting that the Colony gives to each other at the start of the Colony meeting.

You will be shown how to take part in this when you join the Colony.

When Leader calls “River Banks”

· Form lines behind your Lodge Leader

· Leaders will tell you what we are doing and what is expected of you

When Leaders says “Build a Dam”

· Stand in a circle (Holding hands)

· Sing together

· “We are Beavers”

· “Watch us grow”

· “1 2 3 and off we go”

At the end of the meeting we make our Promise before we go home usually after our Campfire Songs.

THE BEAVERS SCOUT PROMISE AND LAW

THE BEAVER SCOUT PROMISE

I promise that I will do my _________________

To be _______________ and _______________________,

And to love __________.

Our motto is:

B____

P________________

WHAT DOES THE PROMISE MEAN TO ME?

Write three examples of when you have done your best?

1._______________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________

Write three examples of when you have helped someone else?

1._______________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________

Write three examples of something good you have done without being asked?

1._______________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________

THE SCOUT HANDSHAKE, SALUTE AND HISTORY

Scouts shake hands with their left hand. What does this show?

______________________________________________________

The Scout salute is made with the right hand. The three middle fingers are kept straight and the thumb and small finger bend to touch each other. Draw the salute in the box below.

HISTORY OF SCOUTS

Rearrange these anagrams to get the answers:

1: Who created the Scouts?

RRTOBE DENAB LEWOLP

R _ _ _ _ _ B _ _ _ _ - P _ _ _ _ _

3: What year were Beavers started? 1986 1966 2006

4: What other sections are part of the Scouting Family?

SBCU SSTCOU SRREEOLPX KRENTWO

C_ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ N _ _ _ _ _ _

5: How many boys and girls are in Scouts today across the World?

Between 2,800 – 4,000

Between 28,000 – 40,000

Between 28,000,000 – 40,000,000

MY SCOUT BADGES

Every Scout makes a promise before receiving the World Membership Badge.

Draw this badge in the circle (hint look at the first page!).

All Scouts wear a District and County badge to show where they come from.

This is the district badge. This is the county badge.

THE WORLD SCOUT EMBLEM –

ITS MEANING

MY INVESTITURE

The Investiture is the special ceremony where you officially become a Beaver scout; you will be presented with your World Membership Badge of the scout movement. What happens at an investiture?

The ceremony is very simple. Each Colony has its own way of doing things, but it will go something along the lines of this.

· Your leader will ask you,

· Do you want to be a Beaver Scout”?

· When you say “Yes” your leader you will make the scout sign and saying your promise.

· When you have done this, your leader will ask you to turn and salute your Colony.

Ok, so now you’ve been Invested, you’ve got your Scarf, you’re wearing the Beaver uniform, and you been given a load of badges to put on your uniform, but where do they go?

Which Badge shall I do next?

This is our Mascot each week one Beaver will be chosen as Beaver of the week.

This will be good behaviour, joining in and being helpful.

Our Mascots name is

BUDDY

Please record any activities that they get up to in the diary that accompanies our mascot.

Parents can also upload photos to the 7th Larne Leaders and Parents Group.