Southland
Fish and Chip and Photo night
On Thursday we went to Brownies. We played line tag - it's like tag, but you have to stay on the lines. Then we played the chocolate game, when you have a plate of chocolate in the middle of a circle. You need to roll a dice, and if you roll a 6 you go into the middle and get dressed up. We had to get dressed in a scarf and hat! Then you cut up the chocolate with a knife and fork, and try to eat as much chocolate as you can before someone else rolls a 6. After all that we had FISH & CHIPS. Lots of people had doughnuts and chips, but some had a hot dog and chips and some had fish & chips. When we were finished our fish & chips my dad took photos of us - 2 single photos of each girl, and a few big group photos too. Then some girl’s parents arrived. We got into our Sixer groups. The Sixer was at the front, and the Seconder was at the back. We put ourselves into a horseshoe shape. Some girls were getting enrolled, and one got a sash. When they got enrolled, they got a badge. Once we were done we stayed in our horseshoe shape, and Leann gave us MORE BADGES! Then it was time to go home.
By Summer Harper, aged 8 for Challenge 9 badge
Grasmere Brownies, Invercargill
Ride it
Windsor Guide unit went horse riding at Kaikura riding stables in Otatara.
Not to be out done the Windsor Tuesday Brownies did the Ridable Patch in Queens Park
Kowhai District - Living Streams Project
The Kowhai District and Environment Southland have joined together in a three year project to establish a small vegetated area around the Waihopai Stream at the Dacre Community Centre. We will be going out every six months to plant and care for the plants for the next three years.
Our first visit was Sunday March 17 and we made this a family day. As well as planting 80 plants we had some wonderful educational activities. We finished with a BBQ just as it started to rain - but we laughed as the plants badly needed the water.
Guide Camper and Camp Cook badges
This year we decided to do things a little differently - we held a training weekend for girls and their leaders.
They learnt how to cook by turfing and using gas cookers
They also pitched tents, a cubicle and learnt other skills needed for the badges.
Nice job girls - lovely straight line of tents.
And why does it take so many people to put up a cubicle - it's brand new and doesn't come with proper instructions!
Southland region celebrates World Thinking Day
On a lovely sunny Southland summer's day Girls and Leaders gathered at Dolamore Park for some fun and activities.
Term 4 2012
What a busy term - below are some of the things we have been up to but we still have a lot more event reports and photos to finalise like a Teddy Pippinic, Awards lists, Invercargill Santa Parade so call back again soon if your event is not here yet.
Sheryl
Invercargill Santa Parade
Above - all ready to go
Below - 3/4 of route completed and still in good voice
Above photo courtesy of The Southland Times
Awards 2012
A message from Suzanne van der Meys our Regional Co-Ordinator
"Welcome to this awards presentation, a celebration of the girls achievements over the past year.
These awards are an acknowledgement of the hard work and effort the girls, leaders and parents put in to guiding.
There are three main levels of achievement -
Brownies start with their Challenge 9 completing nine clauses at the unit and a further nine at home.
Guides< complete their Aotearoa Award, after many other patches and badges have been undertaken.
Rangers work on numerous levels culminating in their Queens Guide award, the highest guiding award.
The rangers have to challenge themselves, put themselves outside their comfort zone, this may be something they have never done before, something that is so different from the norm, but I am sure something they will never forget, or regret.
The girls really do extend themselves, and I am sure none would be gaining an award today if it wasn’t for the leaders, parents and the commitment the girls display.
Parents you should be very pleased and proud with yourselves and your daughters."
Queens Guide Award Recipients 2012
Photo courtesy of Southland Express
Left to Right: Penny Ronald (Riverton Rangers), Hollie Guyton (Riverton Rangers), Grace Baldwin (Riverton Rangers), Jessica Gollan (Riversdale Rangers), Stephanie King (Kowhai Rangers
Brownie Revels - Earth, Wind, Fire and Water
Brownie Revels was held at the weekend at Otautau school. Revels is a fun day for Brownies from all over Southland. Unfortunately the weather wasn't very kind, but we were able to be under the verandas during the hail and snow storms! Because of the weather we didn't have a huge turnout but the 16 girls there had a lot of fun exploring Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. They cooked pikelets on 'buddy burners' (tin can stoves), roasted marshmallows, shot out candle flames with water bottles, made wind chimes, kites, paper planes and 'God's eyes, made walnut boats, paper boats, margarine pot boats and blew bubbles, found treasure in a bucket of mud, made soap and painted earth pictures, and made stone creatures - a busy day!
Prue - Outdoor team
Camp Cook Badge Assessment 2012
Another horrible day for a badge assessment but that didn't put off our largest group of girls in years - well done to all 13 of them who braved the hail/sleet/snow showers along with the welcome sun.
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Megan Bell |
Windsor |
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Amelia Cameron |
Riverton |
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Mollie Easson |
Riverton |
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Keeley Gutsell |
Tuatapere |
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Maddi Hampton |
Tuatapere |
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Kelly-Anne Hopper |
Windsor |
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Emily Joyce |
Windsor |
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Rebecca Key |
Windsor |
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Brooke Lawry |
Riverton |
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Nicole Mariu |
Glenrose |
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Mina Pascual |
Riverton |
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Jaimee Watson |
Riverton |
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Jessica Yeo |
Windsor |
Mataura River District Marae visit
On Monday the 12 November Riversdale Guides and Brownies combined with the Gore Guides, Brownies and Pippins to visit the Marae in Mataura. For some of our girls it was their first visit to a Marae. The group was called onto the Marae and the ladies there did a wonderful job of explaining why they were doing certain things. We all sang songs with actions and got a brief history of the Marae and its purpose. Before the girls got to restless we broke into groups to try some flax flower making, they really enjoyed this with most girls making 2 or 3 flowers, this was followed by an late afternoon tea and all to soon it was time to head home. The girls that attended achieved there Maoritanga Badge and enjoyed learning to make flowers and a little about the local Mataura Marae. A big thanks to Lindsie for organising this and the ladies from Mataura who took the time to spent the afternoon with us.
Challenge 9 camp - Budding Publisher
Write a Poem about Brownies. You can have just one word or a short sentence. These are going to becombined into one poem.
| B | rilliant, BEST, butterflies, be happy, Beautiful, BFF |
| R | emembering, respect, read, racing, rewarding, right, responsibilities |
| O | ut & about, outside/outdoors, ownership, organised, others (thinking of, working with) |
| W | in, we (in sixes), wind, writing, where, winning, witty |
| N | aughty, new (experiences, friends), no-one left out, nice, NZ |
| I | nformation, interesting, intelligent, including, IT, inspiration, ideas |
| E | xcellent, elephants, encourage, exciting |
| S | pecial, sleepovers, sports, sweet, SUPER, sharing, spotlight (game for girls, shop for leaders) |
Te Anau Pippins and Brownies 'can drive'
Te Anau Pippins and Brownies made posters and delivered them to shops one week, then collected cans outside the supermarkets the following week.
We had a small article in the local paper advertising our ‘Can Drive’ and girls also earned cans from home by doing extra jobs for mum or dad. This was a good way to be seen in the community and we delivered most of a supermarket trolley load of cans and non-perishables to the local food bank at the end of the time.
We delivered this on foot as the food bank co-ordinator lives less than a block away from the supermarket.
It should not take a national initiative to get us into gear to do some community action but it was a good way to start, as most of the girls had not done something like this before and they discovered that they enjoyed helping others and being seen to be helping. We will probably repeat it next year, but collect cans over a longer time, possibly having collection boxes in the supermarkets. Another plus for the girls is some of them completed the first part of 8Up.
Takahe District
First Aid for Guides and Rangers
What an amazing turn out for this, there were 18 Guides completing their 1st Aid badge and seven Rangers completing their 1st Aid clauses of their leader certificate.
Melissa the instructor, held the girls interest for the day, assigning tasks to the girls to do in groups, bandaging,slings, CPR, recovery positions and more.
There was heaps of laughter so I imagine from that, that the girls had a ball.
Thank you to Carla, Kathryn and Suzanne for being on hand to support the girls and Melissa.
Ranger Rev Up 2012
7 Rangers and 3 Leaders had a very successful sleep over before going to the 1st Aid Course.
The theme was "P" with everyone dressing up from a Priate to a Painter with a lot of PJ's.
Pumpkin Soup was the first course before the girls left to go out and about to take photos of all "P" items they could find then onto the Pizza Palour for the main course then back to the Pippin Room to have Pavlova and Punch for dessert.
Shoot for the stars
Riversdale Rangers have been working towards their 'Shoot for the Stars' Leisure interest certificate which they have written themselves. The clasues that they have been partaking is have been:
- Visit a Maimai/ duck pond
- Use a catapult to shoot some tin cans
- Use a slug gun or attend a smallbore rifle shooting club
- Know the safety rules for guns and how to get your gun license by visiting the Police Station
- Have a go at Clay bird shooting
- Find a Shooting star
- Hunt/ Stalk a NZ pest animal (e.g. deer, rabbit, possum)
- Visit paintball/ Lazerstrike
- Have a go at Archery
- Have a photo shoot of one of the activities that you do.
Here are some photos of us undertaking the certificate.
It has been a challenging certificate for all of the girls (and their leader!) esepcially to pick up a gun and actually shoot it. Lots of fun has been had though and we've learnt a lot about gun licensing in New Zealand and the rights and repsponsibilties of license holders in New Zealand. It was a timely certificate after the death of a local person through careless use of a friearm and has created great discussion between us.
Riversdale Rangers.
Te Anau Brownie Camp - June 2012
Lots of Cooking - Smores, banana splits (rainbow style with M&Ms), sausages, and more marshmallows! These girls did not go hungry!
With a swing to put the leader's blood pressure up!! But most of the girls had been on it before with family.
Prue Fraser
Leader
Queens Diamond Jubilee Beacons
4 June 2012.
Scouts, Guides and Boy Brigade members along with the public met at the Riverton Soundshell for the lighting of the first beacon.
More will be lit across the country and Commonwealth to celebrate this fantastic occasion.
It was a very chilly night but so awesome to see Brownies and Guides from Riverton make the effort.
Following the National Anthem and an opening prayer, the beacon was lit, with a Brownie, Kuia Asher being part of the party to do this.
A camp fire followed, then God save the Queen and a closing prayer.
Suzanne
Ranger Outdoor Leadership certificates.
Congratulations to Riverton Rangers Penny, Grace & Hollie on completing their camps. We are sure the Pippins with Holiie, Brownies with Grace & Guides with Penny had a great time.
The Outdoor team.
Lest we forget
The 25th of April dawned fine and warm which encouraged over 160 girls and 30 leaders to particiate in Anzac day parades and services through out the region.
Toe Toes Guides lay wreaths at the memorial in Tokanui.
Pippins, Brownies, Guides, Rangers and Leaders at the Invercargill Cemetery service. This service is conducted jointly by the RSA and GirlGuiding Southland. Prior to the service the girls place poppies on the service personnel graves.
Thinking Day 2012
Southland region joined together at Riverton Racecourse to enjoy Thinking Day activities.
‘Tis the season to go camping
Many of our districts have been away for a weekend camp during term 1. Kowhai district started it off with a camp at Riverton Racecourse with “Around the World in 40 hours” as their theme. Next Riverton Ranger, Penny Ronald, took the Aparima district guides on a “Survival” camp for her Ranger Outdoor Leadership Certificate. The next weekend it was Mataura River District heading off to the Mavora Lakes for a fun filled weekend. Lastly it was the turn of ToeToes district to head away.
For those districts who didn’t go camping there was lots of time spent outdoors enjoying the fantastic summer weather we’ve had.
Takahe district have been swimming,
berry picking (and eating!!)
and walked to Shallow Bay
Relay for Life
A big thanks to all those who braved walking in the rain for the Cancer Society's Relay for Life. As a regional we raised over $700 which is a great effort.
Suzanne
Campers Badge Assessment 2012
What a horrible day yet again for camper badge assessment. Well done to all the girls & helpers (and assessors) for giving it a go in the rain.
Congratulations to:
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Megan Bell |
Windsor |
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Sally Hitchcock |
Glenrose |
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Emily Joyce |
Windsor |
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Rebecca Key |
Windsor |
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Eden Van Leeuwen |
Windsor |
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Julie-Anne Williams |
Riversdale |
Great Publicity for GirlGuiding Southland
Spotted at the Riverton Primary School pet day by Suzanne.
The lamb in question belongs to a local Brownie, Olivia, but she could not be found for comment.
Great PR Olivia!
What has Southland been up to in 2012?
Why not tell us what you have been doing in your unit so far this year?
I know you have been out camping, doing Community Service and generally having a lot of GirlGuiding Adventures - lets show everyone what we have been doing!
Forward any stories or photos on to your Leader, District Co-ordinator, Regional Co-ordinator or the Southern Zone Office so they can be published here.
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