We're Back!
Sep. 24th, 2021 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitAnd in person!
We started back last week and mostly played games and introduced them to some of the basics of a physical Brownie meeting. A number had joined during our zoom meetings, and even the others needed reminding, since we hadn't met in person for 18 months. We had 18 girls, including one who had joined but hadn't been on zoom.
We put them into their new sixes (moles, badgers and rabbits) and sorted Sixers and Seconders.
And then the Guides finally got their act together and invited five of our older Brownies to join Guides, so this week we revamped the sixes and appointed a new Sixer and a couple of new Seconders. We had made the decision to temporarily drop our numbers from 24 to 18 to give us all a chance to regroup, and with the mass departure we are now below our minimum and ready to start taking in new girls (our waiting list currently stands at 27, and it's temporarily closed.)
This week we continued with our Take Action theme as environmental detectives, looking at things which are good and bad for the environment and then going for a short walk round the field to see what we could spot.
When we had our planning meeting before the start of term, I said I would like to step back at some point. I've been leading Guides and Brownies for 17 years now and feel my enthusiasm starting to drop. I wouldn't suddenly drop out, but I'm hoping that during this year they will find a new leader who fits into our unit and will take my place. One of the things I am finding harder is the need to work to get the girls engaged with what we're doing - I understand they see Brownies as a fun outlet after school, but if we are trying to run a programme then I want to use my energy for that, rather than constantly getting their attention.
We started back last week and mostly played games and introduced them to some of the basics of a physical Brownie meeting. A number had joined during our zoom meetings, and even the others needed reminding, since we hadn't met in person for 18 months. We had 18 girls, including one who had joined but hadn't been on zoom.
We put them into their new sixes (moles, badgers and rabbits) and sorted Sixers and Seconders.
And then the Guides finally got their act together and invited five of our older Brownies to join Guides, so this week we revamped the sixes and appointed a new Sixer and a couple of new Seconders. We had made the decision to temporarily drop our numbers from 24 to 18 to give us all a chance to regroup, and with the mass departure we are now below our minimum and ready to start taking in new girls (our waiting list currently stands at 27, and it's temporarily closed.)
This week we continued with our Take Action theme as environmental detectives, looking at things which are good and bad for the environment and then going for a short walk round the field to see what we could spot.
When we had our planning meeting before the start of term, I said I would like to step back at some point. I've been leading Guides and Brownies for 17 years now and feel my enthusiasm starting to drop. I wouldn't suddenly drop out, but I'm hoping that during this year they will find a new leader who fits into our unit and will take my place. One of the things I am finding harder is the need to work to get the girls engaged with what we're doing - I understand they see Brownies as a fun outlet after school, but if we are trying to run a programme then I want to use my energy for that, rather than constantly getting their attention.
