November has been a busy month for both of us. We have visited a cub section and 2 scouts’ sections to run You shape Award sessions. We both started our visits at 1st Olney Cub Pack where we did a session with them all about the new Youshape award. We got them to think about planning a session where they could teach another patrol a skill that they had but the other patrol didn’t have. This session went really well, and all the Young People were interested in the Youshape award. Our next visit was The Saints scout’s session in Bletchley, we got the scouts to plan a camp without any leaders present so the Scouts had to plan everything from the Risk assessments to the activities and everything in between. Each patrol had some really interesting camps and wanted to take it further and continue progressing through the Youshape Award. Our last visit of this month was to Furzton Scout Group. In this Youshape session we got them to think how they could Lead a session, how they could plan a session and how they could represent the section or their patrol. We then got them to think about issues in our world today and how we as scouts can do our bit to help to solve or reduce this problem. Once they had come up with their problem, we asked each patrol to plan a session for the new year based on teaching the other scouts about their problem and how to solve it. More information on the award can be found here:

https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/running-your-section/youth-shaped/youshape-award/

Over the next term and taking us up to Easter, myself and Euan will be looking to visit groups and run You Shape sessions with your young people.

Charlotte Spalding – District Youth Commissioner

Euan Jenkins – Purvis – Deputy District Youth Commissioner