Euroletter 3

EuroCamp 2014

ITALY

InfoLetter N° 3

“SCOUTING FLOWS THROUGH PATROLS”

PROGRAMMES AND SCHEDULES

The Main Theme

The Ancient Romans are the background theme for the programmes of all Sections.

The Ancient Roman Empire included many people from different lands living together, with many customs, languages and styles, just like us.

The Ancient Romans built very clever encampments, bridges, roads and towns. They were also real sportsmen, and loved very much to play! So all participants can take inspiration from Ancient Rome to organize and decorate their places in the Subcamps. There could even be a competition for the best scenery!

Main Programmes for the Sections

Beaver
Summertime is approaching, and the JONES Family was very excited because this year they decided to meet a lot of friends who invited them and the Beavers to visit Italy, to know some very Old Families of the place, and play a lot of games with them.

Some of these games are played as ancient Romans, where Beavers make dresses by themselves, or play music with simple, self-made ancient musical instruments like sistrums, drums and the like.

There could be a visit to the Water Playground of Sutri or other activities, according to the “Friends of the Forest” tales.

The Beavers' handmade items will be exhibited at the Roman Market.

Cubs

Cubs will play adventures and games based on Roman Divinities, every day a big game inspired to a different Roman God and some workshops.
Cubs will also participate in the Roman Market with their handmade works.

Scouts

Of course the main programme is the one for Scouts, according to the following guidelines.
The whole EuroCamp will be divided into 4 Subcamps with Beavers, Cubs and Scouts and 1 only for Rovers, each assigned to a Subcamp Chief (Praetor), and with the typical organization of ancient Rome in the background.

Each Subcamp will have a common space (Forum) for meetings between troop leaders or patrol leaders, to approach technical and logistic problems, for briefing the daily activities in the morning and reviewing them later.
The Subcamps will have names taken from major families of the Roman Empire.
Each area will be marked with the symbol of the family paired with a color.
Gens CLAUDIA Gens IULIA Gens FLAVIA Gens FLAMINIA
Yellow               Green          Red                 Blue

. All major activities and some of the workshops will have in the background the theme

Subcamp Schedule for the Scout Section (each Subcamp will receive their own plan)

During the first camp days the patrols will be mainly involved in setting up their own

"corners" in accordance with their idea of the Roman Theme.
We will send another infoletter to the participating Troops/Patrols with a number of ideas and suggestions for the preparation of the Camp.

LAUNCH AND CHECK OF ACTIVITIES

Every evening each Subcamp will organize a quick meeting in the Forum with the Subcamp Chief with the aim of reviewing and checking the activities carried out during the day and explaining the next day activities.

Each Subcamp Chief will be provided with the necessary documentation in order to approach the explanation of activities.

PATROL TWINNING

All activities, either technical or games, will be carried out by pairs of twinned Patrols from different countries.
From now on, therefore, any "patrol activity" is to be understood as "an activity carried out by a team made up of two twinned patrols."

HIKES

The Patrol hikes will take place in the surrounding countryside of the Camp and will last from morning to late afternoon.
During the hike each Patrol will perform technical surveys and create a "logbook" of the activity. These logbooks will be exhibited during the Roman Market with the possibility for everyone to read them.

THEME ACTIVITIES

There will be 3 Theme activities (excluding the Market). Each activity will last a half day, with both Scout technical aspects and play spirit.
The Theme activities will take place outside the camp, within given and fixed areas.

1 - “The Streets of Rome”

THEME: the Romans were able to move quickly, for commercial and war reasons, through the incredible network of consular roads at their disposal. Find out how.

ACHIEVEMENT: Orienteering activities to be carried out with compasses, which will include both a small rectified path and a "relay race" of building a stretch of Roman road.

2 - “School of Legionaries”

THEME: the Roman Legions were not makeshift but very professional, and before being appointed the legionaries were trained in special training camps.

ACHIEVEMENT: hebertism activities on predetermined paths and physical activities, maybe special training on Roman Centuria. Each participating Patrol will receive a certificate of successful attendance.

3 - "The Roman Circus"

THEME: in times of peace, the Romans organized games that lasted for days, where the best athletes from every nation of the empire showed their talent.

ACHIEVEMENT: There will be 2 activities, the two-wheeled chariot race and catapult shooting. Both the chariot and the catapults must be built by the patrols.

 

WORKSHOPS

The Workshops will be run by the Troop Leaders in each Subcamp, but the patrols will move to the various Subcamps depending on the day program, trying to complete as many as possible. Depending on the number of achieved Workshops the patrols will receive certificates, banners or pin awards.

The Workshop activities will be prepared by the adults before the camp, and to have a sufficient number of Workshops we will need a lot of volunteers to organize them.

THE ROMAN MARKET

The EuroCamp will head towards conclusion with a "strong moment", starting with the Pax Romana. Twinning of the patrols with be over, and this activity will take place with the patrols in the original Troops. The Roman Market is a general activity, including all Subcamps.

In a given area each Troop will set up a space that illustrates the history of their people (Nation or region) at the time of Ancient Rome, i.e. 2000 years ago. Scouts will have to dress up in costumes of the period, absolutely self-made at low cost. For this Roman Market all patrols will have to produce typical ancient souvenirs to share with other patrols.

During the Market, each Troop must arrange games, songs and entertainment for the visitors.

EXHIBITIONS

During the Roman Market, in annexed areas, will be showed the various reports of the activities carried out during the Camp, the wall newspaper (one or more sheets) that each patrol will carry out during the camp on a specific date.

Each Association will have to carry a placard with a short presentation of themselves and their activities with photographs, drawings, badges etc, etc...

Rovers

Gens DOMITIA

Orange

The main Theme of Ancient Rome will also hold for the Rover Section, but more as a background.

The Themes for the Rover Section will be Service to Others and Great Adventures Outside the Camp. But they will also play games and have fun !

Service to Others inside EuroCamp will include helping other Sections to build their camps and maybe helping the local community to build a little playhouse for children.

Great Adventure Outside the Camp will include reaching strange places, not very far, with little geysers, smoke-holes and volcanic landscapes.

In the meantime Rovers will also produce handmade things, with a reference to their own places of origin, to present at the final Roman Market.

Looking forward to meet you all in August !