Scouts
Scouts
A very popular activity that will allow you to develop a passion for the outdoors and to develop skills such as survival skills, camping, cooking, rock climbing, sailing and First Aid. The Scout group also offers at least two trips per year, with one focused on an overseas expedition. Scouts can help students in Grade 9 and 10 achieve their NYAA Bronze and Silver Awards as it counts as a Skill. The overseas Scout Camp also counts for the NYAA Bronze and Silver Award Adventurous Journey. Scouts also contains a mixture of Creative, Active and Service based activities. Students signing up for Scouts are expected to stay in Scouts for the full year.
CAS Strands: Creativity, Activity and Service
No one week in scouts is the same and as a result you will engage with all three CAS strands throughout your commitment to Scouts.
For example in a one week period you could engage with cooking (creativity), Kayaking (activity) and A beach clean up (service).
Lasallian Principles:
Scouts offers students the opportunity to develop and understand the Lasallian core principals of respect for all persons, the importance of fostering an inclusive community as well as the chance to develop leadership and life skills. Scouts achieve these skills through a variety of activities such as pioneering and backward cooking.
Student Testimonials: Scouts, because we get to go on outdoor activities such as Prawn fishing, archery tag, learning survival tips, backward cooking and lots of other skills. Through these activities you can earn yourselves badges to show your proficiency in that activity. Due to covid restrictions we have not been able to do certain activities, but will be made up for some pioneering activities such as learning to tie knots to build a teepee sturdy and strong enough to hold at least 5 people, or making a catapult to launch sponges.
Overall scouting covers the Service, Physical Activities and Creativity factors for various sessions, it can help towards both CAS and NYAA objectives.
We are short on members as people thought that the Covid restrictions would limit us to only on campus activities, however this year we have overcome that and are hoping to do more outdoor activities and expeditions.