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Jonathan's First Class Camp

  • Jonathan
  • Sep 27, 2015
  • 2 min read

Run by: Jonathan Hillier

Date:27-25 September.

Patrol:

Jonathan H

Andrew V

Sean v. O

Ethan E

Ryan E

Shane

Program:

Thurs.

18:00

Boat shed

Heat Pre-Made Macaroni,

Make Salad

Start Eating

19:00

Boat shed

Wide Game Training - Session 1

20:00

Field/ camp grounds

Wide Game commences

21:30

Boat Shed

Wide game ends

Make Coffee/Hot chocolate

Free time

22:00

Boat shed

Lights Out!

Everyone in bed.

Fri.

06:00

Boat Shed

Pl gets up puts hot chocolate on the stove, Makes Milie pap

06:30

Boat Shed

Everyone up, Eat breakfast

07:00

N/a

Travel to Glencairn “Gordons” camp Where we will be doing community

service for the day

18:00

Gordons Camp

Fist class camp officially will begin

Start fires for supper- P6

Cooking- P2;P3

Pitch Tent- P7;P4

Build Table- P1,P8

(Session 2)

19:30

Gordons Camp

Eat- All

20:30

Around Fire

Finish Eating (Paper plates-no washing)

Session 3- Teaching survival skills.

21:15

Make Coffee/Hot chocolate

Session 4-Teaching first aid

22:00

Lights out!

Sat

6:00

Pl gets up, starts making breakfast and coffee

6:30

Patrol gets up, eats.

7:00

Wash dishes,tidy tent

7:30

Patrol showers and brushes teeth

8:00

Soccer Game

8:30

Session 8- Pioneering training

9:30

Campsite developement

P3;P8;P7- Flagpole

P2;P4;P5 - Gateway

P1;P6- Prep Table

11:00

Session 4 continuation- First Aid testing and extra training

12:00

Session 3 continuation- testing

P2(Adventurer rank) fry lunch.

12:30

Eat

13:30

Session 6-Pathfinders- Mapping Adventurers- scale patrol campsite

14:15

Session 7 -Kim’s game, Plaster cast

15:00

Session 9 - Tracking story

15:30

Session 10-Woodcraft signs

16:00

Start Preparing supper-P2;P3;P4;P5

Build boundary, Camp couch, and other camp gadgets- P1;P6;P7;P8

18:00

Eat

19:00

Wash up, Build Campfire, Put on warm clothes. Prepare skits

20:00

Start campfire

21:30

Campfire ends, Make hot chocolate, Sit around fire

Sun.

6:00

Pl gets up makes breakfast and hot chocolate

6:30

Patrol gets up, eats.

7:00

Wash dishes,tidy tent

7:30

Patrol showers and brushes teeth

8:00

Soccer Game

8:30

Strike Camp

9:30

Pack car

10:00

Start friendship---- activity

17:00

Home time

We slept over for the first night at the Sea Scout base and I did my wide game.

The next morning we went drove through to Glencairn with our equipment but as the Warden had forgot about our arrangement we had trouble getting in. None the less eventually we got to campsite and could set up and start our community service.

ACTIVITIES

Session 1

Wide game prep

Session 2

Camp site layout

Arranging and planning were tents, camping gadgets, fire, gate way, boundaries, ECT are going to be built.

Equipment:

Session 1 document

Session 3

Backwoodsman

8. a) - e) Obtaining: food,shelter

Session 4

1st Aid

Training in:

5. a) - d) Hyperthermia, hypothermia, sunburn, sunstroke, dehydration

6. a) - g)Bleeding, fractures, sprains, cardiac arrest, burns, poison, choking,

+)Shock, dangers of a dirty wound, the potential HIV and hepatitis B risk and scene management

Equipment

Session 4 documents

Patch Up level 3 1st aid book

1st aid kit

Scout book

Session 5

Ground to air signals

Training in all ground to air signals

Equipment

Session 5 document

Strips of 1m cotton

Session 6

Mapping

Pathfinders-all mapping requirements

Adventure -scale drawing of a standing Patrol campsite

Equipment

Session 6 document

Full scrap pad

Pencils

Eraser

11 corks

11 needles

5 magnets

Compass

Map

Session 7

Kim’s game and plaster cast

Pathfinders will be doing a Kim’s game.

Adventure will be making a plaster cast.

Equipment

Session 7 documents

24 random items

Large cloth

Timer

Plaster cast

Bowl

Spoon

3 pages of cardboard

Session 8

Pioneering

The six basic knots and the fisherman's knot

Square, Diagonal, round and shear lashings

Sail makers, West Country and simple whipping.

Prussic knot, marlinspike, taut-line and rolling hitches.

Equipment

Session 8 document

All rope

Pioneers book

All staves

Whipping twine/string

Session 9

Tracking Story

Equipment

None

Session 10

Woodcraft Sign

Equipment

None


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