Guiding
Guides meet on Fridays from 6.30pm to 8.15pm
during term time
They are encouraged to govern themselves,
making their own decisions and running their own meetings.
They work in small groups called patrols and have the same eight challenges as the Brownies running through their programme
They go camping either for weekends or for a week.
2010 Polesden Lacy Camp
7 th Epsom Guide Summer Camp 2010
 Twenty seven guides and eight leaders gathered together at Polesden
Lacy campsite for their annual summer camp from Saturday 24th
until Friday 30th July 2010, surrounded by nature, with
a camp theme of ‘Celebrations’, girls and adults alike enjoyed a
week of mixed weather – mostly sunshine, some showers, hot days,
cool early morning and warm evenings.
Five patrols worked and lived together for the week to feed
themselves and to complete different activities including hiking to
Ranmore Common, a Time Machine Wide game, crafts and campfires. A
day coach trip to Butlin’s at Bognor Regis was enjoyed by all with
everyone arriving back at camp much cleaner after visiting the super
Butlin’s Splash Waterworld
(shown below)than
when they had left it in the morning!
Butlin’s Splash Waterworld
Everyone ended the week having made new friends and learnt new
skills.
Another summer camp enjoyed, with lessons of camp life to be used
through the summer holidays and beyond!
Philippa Allen
A selection of
pictures.................here
2010 Day Camp
During May 2010 we held
our Day camp for new Guides. They experienced our annual day in a Guide
Camp making their own meals on a traditional wood fire, pitching tents and
learning many camp skills.
This gave new
Guides an introduction to the skills necessary to enjoy camping without
staying over night under canvas which can be most enjoyable but rather
daunting if not tried before.
The Patrol
Leaders camped overnight brushing up on their expertise ready for the
2010 Summer Camp
A selection of
pictures.................here
Camp 2009
This year is the Centenary year
of Guiding, and we were fortunate to have our Guide camp at Foxlease, the
Hampshire home of Guiding. So the Guides packed up the trailer and the
minibus and headed down to Hampshire for a week of enjoyment. The Guides
were excited and the leaders well prepared!! The week was rather active
with many early starts! We enjoyed climbing, a low ropes course and a crate
challenge which involved climbing up towers of milk crates. The Guides
tried archery and got wet in the rafting, where they had varying degrees of
success in creating their rafts.
The theme of the Guide’s Camp
was “Guides have got talent” which they demonstrated frequently. We held a
successful talent show, had daily prayers demonstrating many talents shown
in the Bible, and made a variety of different crafts. The Guides were also
treated to a demonstration of ‘fire poi’ (balls swung rhythmically while on
fire), which was rather exciting and made us the envy of the other campers!
No Guide camp would be complete without a campfire and we held ours in their
special tepee. This was a rather unique idea, and we were all excited to
try it out.
The weather conspired against us
on many occasions, although we had several spells of lovely sunshine, and we
even managed to watch the sun set over the forest on an evening hike. The
rain could not stop us having fun, and so when the heavens opened we moved
into the hut on our site. We enjoyed many games of ‘Heaven to Hell’ and even
held the campfire inside (with an imagined fire this time) whilst watching
the heavy rains pouring down outside. On Thursday we returned to EMC with a
group of happy but tired girls, full of tales of fire making, cooking and
new friendships. The Guides all had an amazing time, and we learnt that God
gives us all talents which we must use for his work.
Rachel King
2009 Camp Pictures .......here
2009 Epsom Division Netball
Twelve girls took part in the
recent 2009 Epsom Division Netball tournament, as there were not so many
teams participating this year it was an exhausting 2.5 hours of continuous
play!
We managed to
come second in both age groups.
Day Camp 2009
On May 16 th 2009 we shall hold
our Day camp for new Guides. They will experience our annual day in a Guide
Camp making their own meals on a traditional wood fire, pitching tents and
learning many camp skills.
This gives new
Guides an introduction to the skills necessary to enjoy camping without
staying over night under canvas which can be most enjoyable but rather
daunting if not tried before.
The Patrol
Leaders will camp overnight brushing up on their expertise ready for the
Annual Summer Camp
Camp 2008
Polesden Lacy, Surrey
The Guides - Camp 2008 Polesden
Lacy, Surrey
Guides and Staff -Camp 2008
Polesden Lacy, Surrey
The Theme was SPACE
The Venus Patrol
The Pluto Patrol
The Mars Patrol
The Young Leaders
That Delicious Cake Yum Yum
Scoutabout 2008 Report
On the 20th June,
fourteen Girl Guides from 7th Epsom Methodist Company travelled
in a coach to Ardingly in West Sussex to Scoutabout 2008 for the weekend.
After setting up our tents among the camper’s city, we ate our well-deserved
dinner and then joined the festival-like opening ceremony with the other
five to six thousand Scouts and Guides from all over Surrey. It was a great
evening, but some would say that Saturday was even better.
Everyone enjoyed the day of activities that had been set up by countless
volunteers and Guiders and Scout Leaders. To mention just a few:
quad-biking, an arts and crafts hall, two zip-wires, a circus skills area,
various water sports, popcorn-making, caving, pancakes,
bouncy-castle-slides, canoeing, dancing, abseiling, a dunk tank, archery,
skateboarding, trampoline, self-defence, different team-challenges, a
bungee-run, crate stacking, bowling, carving, go-kart racing and scouting
skills. A particular favourite of all who tried it was ‘The Belgian Box’. In
this activity, we had to shuffle through square-sided tunnels that were no
more than 30 cm height and the same in width. After entering on the top of
three storeys and wiggling along on your stomach, there is a drop to the
storey below you and then several twists, turns, drops and upward climbs
before the person reaches the end. It’s such an enjoyable activity because
it’s unique, it can be challenging because of the physical confinement and
the lack of light and because it can be fun when someone gets stuck in an
awkward position, particularly at a drop, or they need some help overcoming
one obstacle or another. It was certainly one of my favourites!
On the Saturday evening there was a disco for all of the Scouts and Guides.
There were a few live bands in addition to recorded music, and this made it
an even better and more exciting experience for us all. Again, everyone
really enjoyed this.
We had a second chance to try as many of the two hundred activities
available to us on Sunday. Most of us had a go at a range of things – my
group picked our way from an inflatable slide, to the arts and crafts zone,
to the water-based activities to our favourite, ‘The Belgian Box’. In the
arts and crafts area alone, there was a diverse selection of activities.
There was face painting, bag-decorating, temporary tattoo art, woodwork and
badge-making amongst many other things. I enjoyed the badge-making so much
that I now have sixteen of them pinned to my schoolbag!
Overall, I think everyone who participated would agree that it was a great
weekend and that there are activities to suit everyone. If you do get the
chance to go, as most Surrey Scouts and Guides do, I really recommend it.
The more, the merrier!
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the many of you that helped
either by setting up an activity, supervising one, cooking the food, driving
a coach, taking a company of Scouts or Guides, organising the music or any
of the other tasks that had to be done to make the weekend so enjoyable.
Thank you.
Stephanie Ekins, 7th Epsom Methodist Girl Guide Company.
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