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Description

A set of activities for scouts to identify and decide challenges for their personal challenge award.
This will be recorded in a booklet which they will bring back to Scouts as evidence of completion to earn this award.

Resources

Personal Challenge booklet for each scout.
Copy of Personal Challenge Instructions

Instructions

A set of activities for scouts to identify and decide challenges for the personal challenge award.

Resources
Personal Challenge Booklet (1 per Scout)
Example Poster showing all challenges (emailed to parents and placed on Noticeboard)

Aims
• Identify strongest skills and personal qualities.
• Decide on skills and personal qualities which you would like to be better at.
• Discuss with peers and adults how these areas can be developed
• Decide on 1 (or 2) personal challenges to complete.

Activity 1 (10 Mins) - Introduction
1. Gather the whole troop together in a circle. Discuss the Personal Challenge Award and any questions they have.
2. Tell scouts that it is important to always do your best and challenge yourself. In the future this means you’ll develop more skills, take part in more experiences and be better than you think at doing things.
3. Ask a Scout to read aloud the Scout Law.
• A Scout is to be trusted.
• A Scout is loyal.
• A Scout is friendly and considerate.
• A Scout belongs to the world-wide family of Scouts.
• A Scout has courage in all difficulties.
• A Scout makes good use of time and is careful of possessions and property.
• A Scout has self-respect and respect for others.
4. Ask Scouts to rate themselves out of 10 for how well they live by the Scout law. Ask if they have any initial challenges that they could set themselves based on the Scout law.
Possible answers: Don’t tell lies, tidy my room, do this washing up, don’t fight with my siblings etc.
Tell the group these are good ideas but we’ll be developing them further.
 
Activity 2 (10 Mins) – What am I Good At
1. Give each Scout their challenge booklet. Then read each of the following aloud.
• Cooking.
• Organising and being tidy.
• Looking after my things.
• Helping around the house.
• Physical activities (e.g.: Football, Running)
• Being a good friend and helping others.
• Behaviour (Either at Home, School or Scouts)
• Doing my best (Not just at Scouts)
• Making the best use of my time. (Rather than being lazy)
• Making things. (Arts and Crafts)
• Teaching skills to others
• Trying out new activities
• Remembering things
2. Find a clear space on the floor (or at a table) and order the personal skills on how good you are at each skill/quality from strongest to weakest on the third page of the booklet. Leaders/ Young Leaders to help Scouts who may have difficulty reading/deciding.
3. Complete first page of the ‘Personal Challenge’ Booklet – Write out name, top 3 and bottom 3 skills/qualities
4. Tell Scouts to Pair with a friend and find an empty place on the floor. Discuss answers from Activity 2 for 2 minutes with your friend. Do they agree with you?

Activity 3 (10 mins) – Choosing Their Challenge
1. Talk through example challenges from the ‘Example Challenges List’ How are you going to improve you 3 weakest skills? Talk to your friend. Do they have any ideas for your challenges?
2. On page 2 of their booklets ask scouts to give 3 challenges which they think would be good for them to do.
3. Collect in the booklets (ensure they have their names on them)

Activity 4 (rest of the night) – Choosing the Leaders Challenge
1. For the rest of the meeting do something totally different and more practical such as a game. During the game have a leader (or 2) call up scouts to discuss and set their final challenge(s).
2. You could use challenges which you have previously decided to assign to your scouts.
3. If a challenge cannot be agreed communicate with parents to set a challenge.

Tags

• personal challenge

Badge Links

• Personal - Leader challenge
• Personal - Your challenge