troop meeting
Since the Scout Aspirants of your Unit are required to attend with the four Unit meeting in order to fulfill the Pravesh requirement, encourage each one of them to be regular in attending the meetings.
model troop meeting for scout (75 min.)
- Patrol corner visit : 5 Min.
- Flag Ceremony : 10 Min.
- Special Objective Inspection : 5 Min.
- Vigorous Game : 10 Min.
- Patrol Corner Project
Patrol Second and Learning
to Patrol Leader : 15 Min.
- Song : 3 Min.
- Test Game : 10 Min.
- Yell : 2 Min.
- Scout Master's Yarn : 5 Min.
- Good Turn : 5 Min.
- Flag Lowering : 5 Min.
marking of horse shoe
- Select the Site.
- Fix position 'O' for Flag mast.
- Draw East/West, North/South line of 'O'.
- On the West line mark 'A' two paces from 'O'.
- On East line fix one peg at 'B' two pages away from 'O' and one peg at 'C' Six paces away from 'A'.
- Take rope twice AC and make a loop such that it holds both the pegs B & C in the loop.
- With a marker in the loop at 'X' on the North ine draw arc on the Eastern side keeping the Rope (loop) fully stretched. Step at 'Y' on south line.
- Draw another line PQ parallel to XY three paces away on the Western side this line is for Adult Leader etc.
- Fix flag mast at 'O' (about 16 to 22 feet).
- Remove the pegs and arise the North/South and East/West line.
- The first and last person in the horse shoe stand 2 paces away from north line.
- All toes touch the line of the horse shoe.
- Flag at Mast head.
Investiture of Scout
Investiture ceremony
A short simple and solemn ceremony within the troop that makes a boy a Scout. The boy makes Scout promise in the presence of Scouts and the scout master of the troop and becomes one of them. The Scout master arranges for the ceremony when the recruit fulfills the condition set in APRO. It is the prerogative of the Scoutmaster to conduct the ceremony himself and should not surrender this responsibility to others who may be even so highly placed. Parents of the recruit may be invited. One ceremony for one recruit produces good effect. The ceremony is not done on a mass scale. Group leader will be there as head of the family.
Preparation:
All members in uniform. Troop is formed in a horseshoe. Scoutmaster faces the horseshoe, left of the flag. Assistant Scoutmaster stands behind the S.M., Group leader other Scouters and invitees stand in line left to ASM. Troop leader/ASM with Scout flag stands on SM’s left to one side, facing the flag in formation. Recruit wearing Scout shirt, pant, belt, shoes and socks stands close to the right of his patrol second.
Procedure:
Scoutmaster briefly describes significance of the occasion. Then he calls on Patrol leader to bring out recruit to be invested. P.L. brings recruit to within two paces of S.M., salutes, introduces the recruit, then takes a step back.
CEREMONY
S.M: “Do you know what your honour means?”
Recruit: “ Yes sir, I Do”
S.M: Can I trust you, on your honour, to do your best, to do your duty to God and The Country, to help Other people and to obey the Scout law?
Recruit: “yes Sir”
The TL/ASM then moves up and holds the Troop Flag between the SM and the recruit,SM: “Troop, Alert, Scout Sign.”All invested and the circuit do soS.M: “place your left hand on the flag “The S.M and the recruit do so.S.M: Repeat after me….
“On my honour I promise that I will do my best to do my duty to God, and my Country, to help other people and to obey the Scout Law.”
The Scout Master delivers the promise slowly in a way that the recruit follows well. At the end of promise S.M and recruit let go the flag. Troop leader/ASM raises the flag. All come down from Scout sign with the S.M and stand alert.S.M then shakes new scout by left hand and says: “I trust you, on your honour to keep the promise You are now a Scout in the World Wide Brotherhood of scouts”Note: if the boy has got invested previously, the words should be… “ you are now a member of the World Wide Brotherhood of Scouts”S.M: Troop…. Stand at ease S.M then hands the recruit his membership badge with brief explanation of their meaning. Scout quietly displaces them in to his pocket.
Group leader then comes forward to welcome the new Scout. If the occasion demands he also places the group scarf around the neck of the scout and fixes it with a woggle ASM then hands the new scout his beret cap, investiture card and welcomes him.
SM: “About turn – Salute the troop “
New scout salutes.
SM: “Troop Salute.” Troop salutes.SM: “As you were”. They obey the command.
SM: “To your patrol quick march”The new scout marches behind the patrol leader to their patrol. Patrol leader makes the new scout stand to the right side of the patrol second and goes back to his position.
A short simple and solemn ceremony within the troop that makes a boy a Scout. The boy makes Scout promise in the presence of Scouts and the scout master of the troop and becomes one of them. The Scout master arranges for the ceremony when the recruit fulfills the condition set in APRO. It is the prerogative of the Scoutmaster to conduct the ceremony himself and should not surrender this responsibility to others who may be even so highly placed. Parents of the recruit may be invited. One ceremony for one recruit produces good effect. The ceremony is not done on a mass scale. Group leader will be there as head of the family.
Preparation:
All members in uniform. Troop is formed in a horseshoe. Scoutmaster faces the horseshoe, left of the flag. Assistant Scoutmaster stands behind the S.M., Group leader other Scouters and invitees stand in line left to ASM. Troop leader/ASM with Scout flag stands on SM’s left to one side, facing the flag in formation. Recruit wearing Scout shirt, pant, belt, shoes and socks stands close to the right of his patrol second.
Procedure:
Scoutmaster briefly describes significance of the occasion. Then he calls on Patrol leader to bring out recruit to be invested. P.L. brings recruit to within two paces of S.M., salutes, introduces the recruit, then takes a step back.
CEREMONY
S.M: “Do you know what your honour means?”
Recruit: “ Yes sir, I Do”
S.M: Can I trust you, on your honour, to do your best, to do your duty to God and The Country, to help Other people and to obey the Scout law?
Recruit: “yes Sir”
The TL/ASM then moves up and holds the Troop Flag between the SM and the recruit,SM: “Troop, Alert, Scout Sign.”All invested and the circuit do soS.M: “place your left hand on the flag “The S.M and the recruit do so.S.M: Repeat after me….
“On my honour I promise that I will do my best to do my duty to God, and my Country, to help other people and to obey the Scout Law.”
The Scout Master delivers the promise slowly in a way that the recruit follows well. At the end of promise S.M and recruit let go the flag. Troop leader/ASM raises the flag. All come down from Scout sign with the S.M and stand alert.S.M then shakes new scout by left hand and says: “I trust you, on your honour to keep the promise You are now a Scout in the World Wide Brotherhood of scouts”Note: if the boy has got invested previously, the words should be… “ you are now a member of the World Wide Brotherhood of Scouts”S.M: Troop…. Stand at ease S.M then hands the recruit his membership badge with brief explanation of their meaning. Scout quietly displaces them in to his pocket.
Group leader then comes forward to welcome the new Scout. If the occasion demands he also places the group scarf around the neck of the scout and fixes it with a woggle ASM then hands the new scout his beret cap, investiture card and welcomes him.
SM: “About turn – Salute the troop “
New scout salutes.
SM: “Troop Salute.” Troop salutes.SM: “As you were”. They obey the command.
SM: “To your patrol quick march”The new scout marches behind the patrol leader to their patrol. Patrol leader makes the new scout stand to the right side of the patrol second and goes back to his position.