By popular demand, we now have available the five peak award logos for you to use in your programs and celebrations!
You can download a Zip of all five, or else you can download each individually as a PNG file.
Download the logos from here:
| Page: | Other Resources |
| Tab: | Program Icons |
Have you seen the new peak award merchandise? It’s now available at the Scout Shop! Check it out here.
The World Organization of the Scout Movement tells us that a Scouts’ Own is a gathering of Scouts. This can be in small or large groups. In smaller groups, Scouts are able to get involved, share their experiences, and see that spirituality is something that affects them and gives meaning and direction to their lives. In large groups Scouts can enjoy a collective experience, perhaps celebrating the shared values of Scouting and the impact this has on their lives.
A Scouts’ Own is an activity that helps us reflect on our connection with nature and the world around
us. We reflect on our place in the world and with our community. Scouts’ Owns are one way in which we can develop spirituality, however they are not religious services or observances.
Use this resources to help you create your own Scouts’ Own for your Unit, Patrol, or a larger gathering of Scouts. It has helpful hints about planning, doing, and reviewing your Scouts’ Own program, and includes information about how they can be incorporated into the Achievement Pathways.
| Page: | Weekly Program |
| Tab: | Programming |
| Direct Link: | Preparing A Scouts’ Own |
To conclude a program activity, event, or camp in Scouts | Terrain, there are a few steps involved so as to ensure this happens properly, and to correctly award participates, assists and leads in the Program Essentials Milestones. The organiser of this activity or any member of the Unit Council (including adult Leaders) are able to conclude these activities.
This resources explains how this can successfully be achieved.
| Page: | Scouts | Terrain |
| Tab: | User Guides |
| Direct Link: | How to conclude an activity |
There is now a dedicated page on pr.scouts.com.au for links to purchasable items on the national Scouts Australia Scout Shop (www.scoutshop.com.au).
There are direct links to things like:
Find this page on the main menu, or at pr.scouts.com.au/shop/
In our one program, one journey symbolic framework of the youth program, why are we using the word “units” to describe a formation of Scouts from any section, meeting together to actively participate in a diverse program?
Under today’s Scouts Australia program, we are all Scouts. We come together to be part of a common and familiar experience, that progresses as we grow and develop.
This resource explains the background to this particular language and why it is used in our youth program.
| Page: | Fundamentals |
| Tab: | Scout Method |
| Direct Link: | Symbolic Framework – Why Units |
There are some aspects that you will see in Scouting and the program that are essential to achieving the stated goals of Scouting. They are what makes our program unique as a global Movement of young people and adult volunteers. We call these the Fundamentals of Scouting.
We have refreshed some of the posters that promote the Fundamentals.. You might recognise many of these from The Adventure Begins resource kit of a few years ago. Now they have been refreshed using the the current Scouts Australia branding, with updated program language, and are now available on the Program Resources site.
Check these out and perhaps put them up in your hall!
A new resource has been developed to support Scouts, their youth and adult leaders, and parents, to guage when to begin their transition to the next age section.
These guides help you to explore the Educational Objectives of the age section when considering transition to the next section.
The items in the checklists are based on the SPICES I… Statements, as well as other indicators that individuals can use to determine readiness.
The checklist provides guidance as to when a young person is ready to change, and each dot point should involve a conversation with the Scout. However, this should not be the only thing used to inform the decision.
The Scout themselves, and their immediate circle of friends, family, and fellow Scouts know them the best and should be a part of the decision about when to begin transition.
Find these four new resources here:
| Page: | Achievement Pathways |
| Tab: | Reflection and Review |
| Direct Links: | Joey Scouts to Cub Scouts Cub Scouts to Scouts Scouts to Venturer Scouts Venturer Scout to Rover Scouts |
Now available for download is a resource that gives some examples of assists and leads in Challenge Areas for for the Scout section. This one now completes the set of assisting and leading examples for all five sections.
To help Scouts and Leaders understand more about assisting and leading for each Milestone level, this resource has been created outlining a range of different scenarios.
| Page: | Achievement Pathways |
| Tab: | Program Essentials (you can find the other sections here too) |
| Direct Link: | Examples of assisting and leading in the Scout section |
Good news for users of Apple devices (and some Windows PCs too).
For a long time it appeared that Apple devices – iPad, iPhone, even Macs – were quite often (but not always!) having troubles downloading PDFs from the Program Resources site. Figuring out why required a lot of debugging, testing, inquiring, error logging, analysing, and testing again. Eventually we got to the bottom of it and the fix required a change of underlying servers.
So, today (Monday 25th January 2021), we transferred the production pr.scouts.com.au environment to a new setup and it appears to have gone well.
Apple users: you should now be able to easily download any resource from pr.scouts.com.au!
Bonus: The site has gotten just a little bit faster too!
Thanks for your patience and the feedback on this problem. We hope it is now fully resolved.
Please, if you have feedback or you are experiencing any problems, please do use the Feedback form.
Thanks!
A new and updated Program Glossary of Terms is now available on pr.scouts.com.au
This resource helps you to understand the language of the youth program and is worth having on hand as a quick reference guide.
This update makes a number of improvements:
| Page: | Other Resources |
| Tab: | Scout Group |
| Direct Link: | Glossary of Terms |
