The Scouting programme gives young people the opportunity to take part in a variety of activities to help them develop and achieve their full potential. During the course of a meeting term or session, or during a full year, young people should experience an exciting, enjoyable, high quality and balanced programme that covers a range of challenges, badges and activities relevant to their specific section.
Aim This module aims to provide you with the knowledge of what a high quality, balanced programme is and looks like for the section support. It will help you to understand how awards and badges help to achieve this. It will also give you tips on where to find ideas for planning a high quality programme and tips on reviewing the programme to ensure that it is challenging, relevant and rewarding for each young person in the section.
Objectives By the end of this module, you will be able to: ¦ identify the key elements of the younger section programmes, activity badges, challenge awards, requirements for completing top awards, and Staged Activity Badges ¦ explain how the awards and badges form a progressive Scheme from age 6 to 25 ¦ understand the concept and importance of having a balanced high quality programme and working towards the top awards ¦ understand and explain how Moving On Awards improve links between sections ¦ explain what makes us unique as an organisation ¦ review the programme using the quality programme checkers
