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Description

Scavenge through newspapers to get groups thinking about the people that help us.

Resources

A large collection of newspapers and magazines

Instructions

Learning about Remembrance
Gather everyone together.
Take a moment to discuss Remembrance. Ask if anyone knows what it is and why we mark it.
Ask if anyone knows what acts of service or service means. Explain that service or acts of service means helping someone, aid or benefit someone, lending a hand, or doing a good deed. It benefits an individual or a community, or even a country.
Ask how people think service or act of service is linked with acts of Remembrance. Lots of people gave their lives to help their country and for the benefit of others.
Ask everyone to close their eyes and think back over the last week, the last month and the last year. Ask them to think about the different people who’ve helped them. Who has helped us? What did they do?
Now, ask everyone what acts of service do they think they do? How do they help to serve people in school, at home, their friends, at Scouts and in their local community? Has anyone done anything today or yesterday to help someone?
Looking to the future, can they think of anything they can do tomorrow to help someone?

Play the game
Split everyone into equal groups.
Hand each group a handful of newspapers and magazines
Explain that you’re going to do a scavenger hunt in the newspapers and magazines. They’ll be trying to find people who serve and help our local communities.
An adult volunteer or young leader will call out something to find. The groups must look through their papers to find a matching article, advert or photo, or similar, for that job role or person.
Once they've found it, they then need to get that page to the front of the room as quickly as possible.
The first group to find and bring the item could be the winner, getting a point for their team.
To make sure the game is accessible and fair to all, groups and could nominate a runner to take all the items. Teams could also get a point for each person or job role they find without the racing element.

Ideas of people or items to find
Here are some things you can ask the young people to find. You can add any others that you can think of.

Nurse
Social worker
Doctor
Paramedic
Lifeguard
Teacher
Charity worker
Homelessness charity
Veteran
Volunteer
Young carer
Lollipop person
Vet
Paramedic
Road worker
Mountain rescuer
Food banks
Social worker
Caretaker
Refuge collector
Surgeons
Opticians
Physiotherapists
Supermarket worker
Postal worker
Dentists
Librarian
Fundraiser
Firefighter
Police officer
Coastguard
Aid worker


The winner is the team with the most points.
When the game is over, bring the group together and look at all the pictures the teams have gathered. What do they all have in common?
Ask everyone to close their eyes and think back over the last week, the last month and the last year. Ask them to think about the different people who’ve helped them. Who has helped us? What did they do? How do we say thanks to these people? If anyone wants to share their example, ask them to put their hand up to tell the group.
Now, ask everyone what acts of Service do they think they do? How do they help people in school, at home, their friends, at Scouts and in their local community? Has anyone done anything today or yesterday to help someone?

Here are some things you can ask the young people to find. You can add any others that you can think of.

Nurse
Social worker
Doctor
Paramedic
Lifeguard
Teacher
Charity worker
Homelessness charity
Veteran
Volunteer
Young carer
Lollipop person
Vet
Paramedic
Road worker
Mountain rescuer
Food banks
Social worker
Caretaker
Refuge collector
Surgeons
Opticians
Physiotherapists
Supermarket worker
Postal worker
Dentists
Librarian
Fundraiser
Firefighter
Police officer
Coastguard
Aid worker

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