The Program Essentials Factsheet has been updated to provide additional clarification and clarity regarding aspects that have been of recent confusion.
Explicitly, this now provides guidelines regarding how participates, assists and leads might apply at overnight experiences, with other sections, and at major events.
Find the updated guide here:
| Page: | Achievement Pathways |
| Tab: | Program Essentials |
| Direct Link: | Program Essentials Factsheet |
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 |
When it comes time to reflect on the completion of a Milestone, it can be a bit tricky to know how to do this. We have some resources available to help Scouts with their reflection.
For each section you will find a resource that links the six SPICES areas and their I-Statements, with some questions you could use to encourage Scouts to think about their personal progression.
Although they all have been updated with current Scouts Australia branding, the content remains essentially the same, so if you already use these there is no need to download them again.
To help Scouts and Leaders understand more about assisting and leading for each Milestone level a series of resources have been created outlining a range of different scenarios for each age sections.
There is a document for each age section, and they can be found on the Achievement Pathways page, under the Program Essentials tab.
All age sections, except Scouts, have now been updated with some clarifications and new Scouts Australia branding. We’ll get the Scout section one out soon!
Version 3 of the Challenge Areas Fact Sheet has just been released on to the Scouts Australia Program Resources site (pr.scouts.com.au).
This edition tidies up some of the consistency of language in the program, and importantly, clarifies the intent of Challenge Areas and how to use them in your Unit and Patrol’s program cycles.
You can find this fact sheet on the Weekly Program page, under the Challenge Areas tab.
Finally released is the new uniform diagram showing the layout of badges on youth members’ uniforms. This replaces all other versions, although there is plenty of time to transition. You can find the new diagram under the Group Support tab on the Other Resources page.
Direct download from this link.
In order to better organise badges in a logical way, to enhance the visual appeal of the uniform celebrating the individual achievements of each Scout, and to better align space on the uniform shirt for youth members of all ages, we undertook a review of the entire uniform layout and badge designs, based on the program’s symbolic framework of one program, one journey.
There was also a very strong desire from the Scouting community to enable all peak awards a Scout has achieved, to be worn on the uniform at once. This also created a need for a redesign of the overall badge design and uniform layout.
This new layout can be implemented over the following three years or so. It would make sense to allow Scouts to start using it once they have progressed to the next section, or earlier if they prefer. New members should go straight to this layout. In other words, there is no need for Scouts to change the layout that they currently have on their uniform until they move to the next section.
Along with the new layout are redesigns of the Additional Award badges, the Unit Leader badge, the Patrol Leader and Assistant Patrol Leader scarf slides (patrol member role identifiers), and the patrol identity scarf slider. New designs are now becoming available for purchase from the national Scout Shop, or from your Branch’s supplier.
You will notice that the uniform layout is organised into three themed panels:
The National Operations Committee approved the new layout and badge designs earlier this year.
We have now made available downloadable program icons for you to use in your programs, promotions, and celebrations.
There are icons for:
Please use them as provided, without altering them. Thanks.
You can find the icons for download in the Other Resources page, under the Program Icons tab.
To support Scouts to plan their journey through the Achievement Pathways, a copy of the Mountain Diagrams are now available for download, for each age section.
The diagrams can be found in the Achievement Pathways section of the PR website, under the Peak Award tab.
The S2P Converter, for guiding your conversions from the old award scheme badges to the new Achievement Pathways, has been updated to version 3.4.
This update corrects some of the conversions and how they are written. You can see a complete list in the change log.
You can access the converter at s2p.scouts.com.au
Three new training videos have been added for Pioneer Tracker. They cover the following topics:
You can find these videos in the Other Resources section, under the Pioneer Tracker tab.
Enjoy!