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Patrol Corners Patrol Corners are a short patrol meeting during your troop meetings or separately. The PL and APL lead these meetings. Typically these should take up about 15-20 mins. It can be helpful to have two types of Patrol Corners: 1. Plan/Review: these Corners focus on organising your programme. 2. Badgework: these look at assessing and awarding badges. Patrol Corners: Plan/Review At these meetings, members of the Patrol should review recent activities and generate ideas for future Patrol and Troop activities. The review should look at what worked well and what didn’t; and, this should then give you an idea of what you will do in the future. The patrol should use a selection of review and planning methods. The PL, and APL, will take these opinions and ideas to the Patrol Leaders’ Council (PLC) where they will make out the details of the programme cycle. Planning: Points to think about during idea generation: New activities should build on the success of the previous ones, but be different. Each Scout should make suggestions based on the progress they want to make in their Crean Awards and other badges. The PL and APL should get a general consensus so that the patrol has one or two main ideas everyone is happy with.

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Patrol Corners

Patrol Corners are a short patrol meeting during your troop meetings or separately. The PL and APL lead these meetings. Typically these should take up about 15-20 mins. It can be helpful to have two types of Patrol Corners: 1. Plan/Review: these Corners focus on organising your

programme. 2. Badgework: these look at assessing and awarding badges.

Patrol Corners: Plan/Review At these meetings, members of the Patrol should review recent activities and generate ideas for future Patrol and Troop activities. The review should look at what worked well and what didn’t; and, this should then give you an idea of what you will do in the future. The patrol should use a selection of review and planning methods. The PL, and APL, will take these opinions and ideas to the Patrol Leaders’ Council (PLC) where they will make out the details of the programme cycle. Planning: Points to think about during idea generation: • New activities should build on the success of the previous

ones, but be different. • Each Scout should make suggestions based on the progress

they want to make in their Crean Awards and other badges. • The PL and APL should get a general consensus so that the

patrol has one or two main ideas everyone is happy with.

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Patrol Corner Planning Tools • Spider Chart: Brainstorm using a theme, such as Zombie

Apocalypse, Communication, or Waterworld. As many ideas as possible are gathered; these can be refined after.

• Post-Its: Everyone has post-its and writes down ideas which are sorted according to type and theme.

• SPICES: Pick out different parts of the SPICES and come up with ideas based on them; for example, Working as a Team, Living the Scouting Spirit, or Community Involvement.

• Patrol Activity Planner: This simple planning sheet is a way for your patrol to organise your thoughts and make a concrete plan for activities. There is a sample and blank one for copying at the end of this documents, or go to: goo.gl/BvqEWB

• Chadburn: Use the Chadburn to generate patrol activities

Reviewing: Your review should look at what worked well and what didn’t; and, this should then inform what you will do in the next programme cycle. It is a practical evaluation.

Patrol Corners Review Tools • Rapid Fire Review: Scouts respond with the first thing that

comes to mind when prompted with an activity and category.

• 3 Options: Each scout should write one or two things down under the headings of “Clearly Worked”, “Could be Better” and “Let’s Drop It”.

• Discussion Questions: A quick chat about a programme cycle can help scouts review an activity and understand it in different ways.

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Patrol Corners – Badgework These meetings are about assessing progress in the Crean Awards and other badgework (Adventure Skills, Speical Interest Badges, etc). The PL and APL can go through different parts of the Crean Awards with each scout, look at the progress they are making, and guide them through the next part of their journey. This way PLs and APLs can keep track of what stage each scout is on in their journey.

Talking about recent activities, scouts can chat about their progress in the Crean Awards and Adventure Skills. PLs and APLs can remind younger scouts of what they have completed and discuss what they need to do next. The PLs/APLs will then bring this to next PLC, and when relevant they will award Scouts their badges.

Also, these meetings are an opportunity for the Scouts to complete specific parts of their Crean Awards. For example, scouts doing their Terra Nova Award could give a presentation on their interests, or those doing their Polar award could have a Promise and Law discussion.

Tracking Progress Tools • Journey Maps: In The Spirit of Adventure handbook, each

of the Crean Awards has its own map, which provides a symbolic way of tracking progress.

• Personal Journey Record Sheets: In your Patrol Corners, you can also simply use Personal Journey Record Sheets. This summary sheets allow the PL and APL to keep track of their patrols and help all the scouts progress in the Crean Awards. There is a sample and blank one for copying at the end of this documents, or go to: goo.gl/FehVJ3

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Programme Cycles: One of the best ways to run your troop programme is through ‘programme cycles’. Patrol corners are an important part of Programme Cycles. During each cycle, Scouts will decide and organise their own programme based on a series of adventures, working in their Patrols while being supported by the Scouters. Each programme cycle involves three phases: Plan, Do, Review During the planning phases Patrols (during Patrol Corners) and the Patrol Leaders’ Council decide on the activities that will be organised during the programme cycle. Then, the activities are run in patrols and in the troop. Afterwards, the Scouts during Patrol Corners and the PLC review the activities. These reviews help with the planning of the next programme cycle. During each cycle, Scouts evaluate their progress in their Crean Awards and other badges in their Patrol Corners.

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Starting Patrol Corners Getting Patrol Corners up and running in your troop can be done by building on the experiences and capabilities of the scouts and scouters.

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Setting Up a PLC 1. Patrols: The first step is for your troop to working patrols.

These means that activities and meetings are based around patrols. Each Patrol should have a PL and an APL, and each scout should have a specific role. Check out our resource on forming patrols and getting the patrol system running in your troop: goo.gl/9O0KiY

2. Short Patrol Corners: Have time during meetings for Patrol Corners. Each Patrol should gather and work on something practically like learning a new knot or how to take grid references. Get the everyone used to this over a few weeks.

3. Organises an activity: Next, during one of the Patrol Corners, the patrol should plan a simple activity. All the scouts should contribute, the PL and APL can work on the details with the Scouters. This can be a simple activity that is part of a troop activity, such as your Patrol building your bivvy shelter or doing a simple pioneering project. The week after the activity, they should quickly review it.

4. Run a (short) Programme Cycle: Building on the success of the activity, the Patrols should now help run a simple programme cycle, maybe involving two troop meetings and an activity. The meetings and activity should have a common theme. You should learn skills during the troop meetings that you will use during the activity.

5. Assesses progress in the Crean Awards: The PLs and APLs help the other scouts to look over how they advanced in on part of the Crean Awards by participating in the programme cycle.

6. Regular Patrol Corners: Continue to have regular meetings, each time building on your skills and organising programme.

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Sample Patrol Activity Planner This is a tool for your patrol to record your plans made in your Patrol Corner. In it you can make out your plan for the next Programme Cycles.

Patrol activities can be anything from a Patrol Corner during a weekly meeting to a lone Patrol Camp

The PL and APL will lead most activities, but other scouts will help and can lead if they have specific skills or to complete badgework

The PL or APL keeps this record and coordinates the Patrol programme during the Programme Cycle

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Personal Journey Record Sheets These sheets can be used in the Patrol Corners on Badgework to record progress in the Crean Awards. The PL and APL should look after the Record Sheets for the patrol members During a Patrol Corner, the patrol will talk about recent activities and see how they helped the scouts achieve a section of the award. If the PL/APL and scout are happy that the scout completed that requirement they mark the date on the sheet. At the PLC, the PLs/APLs asses their personal progress with each other and with the Scouters. Please note that these are intended to help asses progress in each scout’s personal journey, and should, therefore, not be put on the wall or shared with others.

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