As we wrap up for 2020 we reflect back on a year with plenty of challenges. Our Guides have risen above it all and continued doing what they do best: having fun, learning and building friendships. We look forward to seeing everyone back for 2021!
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Our Annual Promise Ceremony saw many of our girls renew their Promise and commitment to Guiding. We were able to have a few of the older girls from our Lones unit join us for the event at the hut, while the younger Lone Guides had their own separate ceremony a few weeks later at the Showgrounds.
In November 2020, the Queensland State Commissioner came to visit Charleville. She brought with her the Queensland State Standard for our girls to view. The girls asked lots of questions about what the State Commissioner does and learned about the history of our State Standard.
Thanks to the Department of Sport and Recreation and Karen Carter, Guides Qld Grants Officer, the Charleville Girl Guides now have a range of equipment they can use for games and challenges at their hut. Equipment purchased included: Cooperative Kits, markers, skipping ropes, hoops, balls, stilts and scooter boards – equipment we haven’t had for a long time and will now allow our Guides to be active outside through planning and carrying out their own activities and challenges. The girls have already tested out some of the new equipment in our first session back at the hut.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Girl Guides are not allowed to meet face-to-face, but that didn't stop our Guides from continuing with the Australia Guide Program and developing girl-led and organised activities. During this session one of the Guides organised a game of snap for the others to play during a Zoom meeting. She researched Girl Guide symbols from around the world and made snap cards for each of the girls in her Patrol. She then organised for these to be delivered to the girls' houses so they could cut them out and have them ready for their meeting. She then paired the girls up and they used their webcams to show their cards and play snap together. BRAVO N.A.! Great Guiding in these unusual times.
During the current restrictions involved in COVID-19 our Girl Guides have continued to do their challenges, share their friends and have some fun. We have adjusted and moved online. Lovely to see our girls connecting and still smiling! We can't wait to get back to the hut for weekly meetings, but in the meantime we will be flexible. Special thanks to our local Lones leaders and Guides, who have been helping us out too!
Girl Guides from 1st Charleville (local girls) and 2nd Charleville Lones (spread across South West Qld and enrolled at Charleville School of Distanced Education), came together for the Annual Charleville District Promise Ceremony. This is an important time in a Girl Guides life when they either say the Promise for the first time and become official members of Girl Guides or renew their commitment by renewing their Promise and earing their yearly membership star. This year was made special with some mums (and a grandma) joining in their renewal of their Promises since they were Brownies and Guides in the past. The Promise is pivotal in all that we do at Girl Guides and gives us purpose and direction. This year's ceremony had a bubble theme highlighting how every Guide is an individual bubble on their own journey with ups and downs.
Charleville held its Annual Arts Festival last week and the Charleville Girl Guides were there!
Eight girls from the unit performed in the Group Entertainment section winning Gold for the camp songs they sung. There was also several medals and awards for our Guides who entered the Creative Writing sections - writing their stories at Guides over the last few weeks. Finally there were three medals for the girls who entered the Film Making section: 1st Charleville Junior Guides - Gold in the Primary Category 1st Charleville Senior Guides - Silver in the Secondary Category 2nd Charleville Lone Senior Guides - Gold in the Secondary Category Congratulations Girls!! Photo supplied by Optix Photographix When Charleville celebrated the annual Bilby Festival with a float parade, the 1st Charleville Girl Guides jumped at the opportunity to participate. They developed a float depicting camping outdoors and promoting saving the bilby.
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