All about Kea Scouts
For the Mums, Dads and Caregivers
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The Ideals and Principles of Kea Scouts Kea Scouts work toward the same ideals as the other Scouting programmes which seek to help children develop into better citizens in our community. The Kea Promise..."I will try to share my fun and help others", is the centre of the Kea programme. |
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If youngsters learn to live and share, they will carry out these beliefs in life and be on their way to making this world a better place. Keas is fun and exciting. Children learn to share through cooperation and team effort. They learn to share through giving of themselves and what they have - they identify with their Leaders and follow their example. Keas live with nature, create and learn, discover, grow, build, and explore. The spiritual element is a continuous thread of the programme with its major emphasis being sharing. |
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Parental Involvement Parents are always welcome at our meetings to see what their children are doing and to become involved with the activities on that evening. We also offer the use of the Clevedon Scout Den, where parents who wish to stay (rather than make a return trip to collect their son or daughter especially if they have travelled some distance), can sit and chat with other parents and make tea or coffee for themselves. This is particularly important where the parents may have younger children with them so that they feel they are able to socialise with other parents without inhibiting the Kea programme. |
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When children join Kea Scouts, their parents can help them learn the Promise. It is important that the parents and any extended family attend the meeting when their children are presented with their Group Scarf and take their Kea Promise. Keas need to feel that what they do is important to the people they love. They will get great delight in having their parents drop in at the Kea Club meetings from time to time. Parents may also take part as members of the Group Committee who look after the administration of the Group or as parent helpers on the parent roster. |
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Kea Leaders Kea Leaders are men and women 17 years of age and older. They are ordinary people found in every community and work together as a team, sharing with the Keas and one another. |
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New Kea Leaders are introduced to the Kea Scout programme slowly, and experienced Leaders are always available to help. Parents are invited to become involved as Kea Leaders or as Parent Helpers. |
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PAL's (Programme Activity Leaders) Programme Activity Leaders are Venturers or Scouts from within Scouting that are wanting to offer service to Scouting and to the Community. |
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They have reached a level of responsibility within their own section and are able to take on the role of "helper" to the Kea Club or Cub Pack. They are often potential adult leaders and will be offering their already attained organisational skills from within Scouting to other sections of the Group whilst in training to take on that Leadership role once they have completed their own Scouting as Youth Members of the Association. |
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Flying to Clubs Kea Scouts is a programme intended to meet the needs of young children. Individual achievement and competition are not part of this programme. Keas are introduced to the organised programming and thus will be better able to take part in the Cub Scout programme when they progress to Cub Scouts at age 8. |
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Shortly before they are 8 years of age, the Kea Leaders and Cub Leaders will start to work with the Kea Scout to involve them in the Cub Programme at several of its meetings. They will learn a few things about the history of Scouting, it's Founder Baden-Powell, the Cub Law, the Cub Promise, and read the story of Mowgli's entry to the Wolf Cub Pack. Cub Scouts was originally conceived around the Jungle Story by Rudyard Kipling and therefore the story of Mowgli makes a Kea's own entry to the Cub Pack easier to understand. The Cub 8 programme is designed with a simple workbook so that Keas ready to go to Cubs can work both individually, and with their Leaders on the linking Cub Badge which will be the first achievement award that a Cub earns. |
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