This activity will encourage Pioneers and their Group Leaders to think about ways in which they all learn new skills from each other, skills acquired at Woodcraft and to have fun setting up a tv-style quiz!
What to do
Explain to the Pioneers that they are going to challenge the leaders today.
Create a number of small teams with about five or six players in each. Give each team time to think up some questions and challenges (turn a forward roll, pat your head and rub your tummy etc.). They should try to think of questions and challenges that other Pioneers might know or be able to do, but that leaders find hard.
Once each team has a number of challenges and questions, get them to nominate a compère. Set up a tv-style quiz show. The leaders will comprise one team and one of the small groups of Pioneers will comprise the other. The compère will read the questions that his/ her group made up. Obviously the Pioneer team cannot answer its own set of questions.
Rotate the Pioneer groups as each compère changes.
The groups can take it in turns to challenge the leaders. The winners of each quiz decide their ‘prize’! (perhaps they can choose a game, or ask for a shoulder massage, or have the losing team perform a silly song …)
Follow this up with a discussion about how people learn at Woodcraft:
- What skills have the Pioneers learnt at Woodcraft?
- What skills have the group leaders learnt at Woodcraft?
- Who have they learnt these skills from? Can they think of times when they have learnt from other young people?
- Are there times when they have taught skills to other young people?
- Do the skills they have learnt extend beyond the reach of Woodcraft?
It might be useful for group leaders to record people’s thoughts and ideas throughout these activities, especially:
• Why members like coming to group
• What members think could be better about the group; and
• How things might be improved.