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Games and Activities
Mar. 11th, 2022 04:05 pmNo Brownies last week, as I was the only available leader, and I can't run the unit on my own.
This week Doodles was back, so she and I were present. She ran the activities - I'm definitely taking a step back, but am happy to help and enable the meeting to go ahead with my presence. It began with reminding the Brownies once again about the rules for the meeting - nothing onerous: listening and not talking while the leaders are explaining things, no screaming.
There's definitely still a loss of social skills as an effect of covid, which causes problems when the Brownie programme assumes a certain level of such skills. There's a lot of working together in small groups, which the girls generally learn as they join Brownies, so disruption is much less, whereas we have two years who have little experience of this. Another reason why I shall be leaving - yes, I know there's a role for Brownies in re-educating the girls, I just don't want to be doing it.
Another effect is the continued loss Girlguiding has had of leaders, which will hit our unit come the summer. Peacock is having a baby at the end of June, and I leave at the end of the summer, which means there will only be two leaders for the unit, although Peacock plans on returning in the autumn. It's as well that I named a leaving date, rather than 'when you get a replacement' because I doubt I'd have ever left.
Anyway, this week we began with an activity for International Women's Day which looked at whether the Brownies believed certain jobs were for men or women. Their expectations were higher than might have been feared, although nurses were still predominantly female (which does reflect actual life, I agree) and, rather suprisingly, shop assistants were male.
After which there were activities looking at the properties of various balls (football, tennis ball, rugby ball etc), which was designed to show different balls are suitable for different activities.
And we finished with awarding a couple of interest badges which the Brownies had worked for during the half term break: one Baking and one Performing.
This week Doodles was back, so she and I were present. She ran the activities - I'm definitely taking a step back, but am happy to help and enable the meeting to go ahead with my presence. It began with reminding the Brownies once again about the rules for the meeting - nothing onerous: listening and not talking while the leaders are explaining things, no screaming.
There's definitely still a loss of social skills as an effect of covid, which causes problems when the Brownie programme assumes a certain level of such skills. There's a lot of working together in small groups, which the girls generally learn as they join Brownies, so disruption is much less, whereas we have two years who have little experience of this. Another reason why I shall be leaving - yes, I know there's a role for Brownies in re-educating the girls, I just don't want to be doing it.
Another effect is the continued loss Girlguiding has had of leaders, which will hit our unit come the summer. Peacock is having a baby at the end of June, and I leave at the end of the summer, which means there will only be two leaders for the unit, although Peacock plans on returning in the autumn. It's as well that I named a leaving date, rather than 'when you get a replacement' because I doubt I'd have ever left.
Anyway, this week we began with an activity for International Women's Day which looked at whether the Brownies believed certain jobs were for men or women. Their expectations were higher than might have been feared, although nurses were still predominantly female (which does reflect actual life, I agree) and, rather suprisingly, shop assistants were male.
After which there were activities looking at the properties of various balls (football, tennis ball, rugby ball etc), which was designed to show different balls are suitable for different activities.
And we finished with awarding a couple of interest badges which the Brownies had worked for during the half term break: one Baking and one Performing.
