100 Years of Girl Guiding
To see more general information and ideas, check out the centenary website.
www.girlguiding100years.org.uk/....... and help us decide what things Mitcheldean Brownies should do to celebrate!
You might be asking why we are starting the celebartions on 5th September this year when Guiding started 1910?
In 1909, Lord Baden-Powell announced that he would be in Crystal Palace Park on Saturday 4 September. Any Scout who wished to join him was invited to do so.
Girls arrived and told him they were Girl Scouts which gave him the idea to ask his sister Agnes Baden Powell to help him start up the organisation we now know as
Girl Guiding.
Join in the Centenary Celebrations
The most recent one was a Gloucestershire County organised event for Brownies, here in the Forest of Dean. A big "Thank You" to Ali M and Jess B for all your hard work.
Mask Making
On a Sunny Day
They'll be more points to add to our Adventure 100 challenge for those who attended - "Look up High".
On the Teddy Bear Trail
Up to the Giant Chair
The View from the Top
We also held a 1950s evening, the girls dressed up in style, we played and danced to '50s music, did a '50s picture quiz and ate
hotdogs and milkshakes.
Last week we started making the pages for our Wacky 100, Jokes book and each girl performed one of her jokes to the rest of the group.
That was fun girls, wasn't it? Sorry parents, we ran quite a bit late.
27th February 2010 Division Event: Thinking Day celebrations for Forest North Division took place at Dene Magna School in Mitcheldean. Rainbows,
Brownies, Guides and Senior Sections joined in with craft activities from around the world - Australia, America, Brazil, Ireland to name but a few of the countries
represented. Then after lunch the Djabot Drummers entertained us and everyone got to join in with the BEAT. certainly showing 'One World One Beat' at its most
enthusiastic.
24th April 2010 County Event: Brownie Revels - Golden & Gorgeous, at Beechenhurst in the Forest of Dean. Nearly six hundren Brownies from all over
Gloucestershire converged on Beechenhurst on a very sunny and very hot Saturday morning. The day was Golden and they were Gorgeous and sparkly. Ali M had masterminded
a wealth of activities for us. Paracute games, a belly dancer, skittles, rounders and craft activities such as a promise ribbon, mask making and egg painting.
Then after lunch we embarked on a Teddy Bear trail set up by our own Forest North commissioners (and I suspect a few Young Leaders) and we made our way along the footpath
searching for Teddies to match those on our bingo-type cards. Our highest point (definitely an "Up High" moment) was the sculpture known as "The Giant's Chair" where we
took a picture of us all together and the view from there. We could see a snake-like trail of the Brownies ahead of us winding back down the path. Then ot was time for
the heats of the egg and spoon race. Rebekah S won the Forest North heat but unfortunately dropped her egg during the final. After this we headed for some shade and
sang some old favourite camp-fire songs until it was time to head for home.
22nd May 2010 Division Event: Our next event is 'Brownies Take Over the Tracks' - Dean Forest Railway.
July 2010 County Event: All sections camp fire at Deer Park, Cowley, Glos.
October 2010 County Event: All sections Centenary Finale 20:10 20:10 2010 evening event in Cheltenham finishing with all members renewing their
Guiding Promise at 2010 hours along with many other girls and leaders around the UK.
There are other District, Division, County, Region and Country events that we will be able to join in with during the course of the year and more details will follow.
But, if there is something special you'd like us to join in with, then let Trisha know so we can have a cool, crazy, sensational centenary.
Newspaper reports
16th August 100 Years of Girl Guides Sunday August 16, BBC 4, 9pm
5/6th September 2009 saw the start of a year long celebration of
100 years of Girl Guiding.
Since girls first arrived at the Scouts' first rally at Crystal Palace insisting that they wanted 'something for the girls'.
