Scouts Canada Documentation
New as a Cub leader? Check out Cub Leader Orientation for a good overview of the Cub program, a typical meeting structure and the kinds of things we do as cub Leaders. (It's short and well worth the read.)
Need to know a bit more? Get some training! Check out BASIC PROGRAM PLANNING AND DELIVERY - Specific Learning Objectives for Cub Leaders to see what is covered in the first training session for new Cub Leaders. "Old Leaders" would also do well to review this 8 page document, or perhaps the checklist to see how you are doing.
A convenient check list of program elements is given in the Wolf Cub Quality Program Standards, which states:
- As adult volunteers, we have made a commitment to deliver a quality program to our members. Scouts Canada is pleased to provide volunteers with this checklist to ensure the program that is being delivered meets quality standards.
This site was created to help planning Badge Oriented Program Delivery, which program delivery with the goals of having Cubs earn two stars (and some associated badges and awards) in each of participation. Give it a try, it both keeps you on track and give the Cubs a sense of success and achievement!
There is also the Scouts Canada Program Builder Online to help put together individual meeting plans.
Don't forget to include your Kim in your planning sessions, if you have one. See Page 15 of the The Kim Book. Involving your Pack Keeo to plan linking activities with Beavers is also a great idea.
Need some templates here for meeting structure, etc.
Please note that this is a pilot site intended to help Scouters leading programs within Scouts Canada and is not officially endorsed or maintained by Scouts Canada.
Add an entry for Keeo's as a role for a cub in a pack/colony. We invest our Keeo at the same time as the Sixers, seconds and all new cubs.
The Keeo is part of the leadership team that is the liason between Cubs and Beavers. He/she is an older Cub that attends planning sessions, and participates in colony meetings. If the Beaver leaders agree they can help with games and show Cub skills.
In the story Friends of the Forest, Keeo is the biggest beaver in the pond. One day during a storm, he is struck by a bolt of lightning which turns him into a silver beaver. He finds he is able to talk in human language and the other beavers decide it is up to Keeo to talk to their human friends on behalf of all beavers.
In the colony, Keeo wears his Cub uniform with a silver scarf that has on its back the Keeo crest, the symbol of his connection with the beaver program.
You got it Jim! Keeo
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