Fresh air The views and seeing the colours of the trees Singing Meeting new people, especially new Woodcraft Folk people! Being at Lockerbrook Having time with Theo How to run a good and fun Woodcraft Folk groups Ideas for group nights Useful skills More about Woodcraft Folk At the end of the residential, participants were asked to revisit their responses and confirm whether their expectations had been met, questions had been answered, their anxieties lessened…
Responses to scenarios included: Is it a safeguarding issue? Current practice Is this acceptable behaviour? Does this need further discussion An 11 year old boy turns up at Pioneer group and asks to join. He is not accompanied by his parents/carers. Yes, we have no emergency contact details or medical information. Do parents know where he is? How will he get home? Not as concerning if attending with a friends To contact parents and discuss what to do. If we couldn’t contact parents, keep the boy at the group and keep trying to make contact with parents Yes, procedure needed An adult leader often shouts, and has been heard using offensive language in front of Elfins and Woodchips. Yes, emotional abuse Offer the volunteer other roles e.g. treasurer, looking after equipment No Safeguarding Officer could talk to the individual about appropriate behaviour A parent has uploaded photos from camp onto a public website, tagging/naming each child. Yes, need parental permission to take and use photos We ask children for their permission before taking photos no Further discussion required A 13 year old Pioneer regularly falls out with another Pioneer. What started as name calling has become more physical e.g. Yes, bullying Nip the name calling in the bud No Needs discussion within group and with parent’s about their responsibilities for the child’s behaviour
Next steps? All participants were asked to reflect on their next steps, particularly: What they would do in their group following the training event? What they would share with other leaders in their District following the training event? What they needed help with following the training event? Responses included: To do To share Need help with A session on the aims and principles Use aims and principles more to link to themes New games Risk assess regular Elfin night Find out how to set up the new Pioneer group Run a couple of Elfin group nights Take more time to be a leader Help Shipley Woodchips set up Access website and complete new leader information Encourage members of all ages Craft ideas I have picked up from others Take responsibility for completing risk assessments Contact Porter & Don to volunteers More games when leading a session to get bigger repertoire Set up session plans Share resources and toolkits with other leaders in my group Share games Greater understanding of the aims and principles That there are lots of lovely leaders setting up new groups This experience with others in my group Share with the children that they are in a good group and that Woodcraft Folk is amazing Share games The benefits for adults and children Games DVD Getting involved in more training New games, resources, getting people more involved in training and using the website Importance of programme planning with young people Need to log risk assessments in a file Implementing the aims and principles Recruiting children Recruiting adults and children Making it not seem a difficult task to set up a group Learning to feel authoritative around kids as well as being their friend Reviewing Elfin risk asssessment Getting more experience as a leader fundraising Fundraising and available grants for my group Any information that will assist in doing risk assessments Remembering to do the things I said Games and activities for Woodchips Pithy sentence to describe Woodcraft Folk to wider group in order to recruit more
Stop waiting for funding and set a date to open our group Be more confident in my ability to run sessions Set up term session planning meetings Get more involved Try to promote more of the aims and principles More activities based around the aims and principles Increasing children’s involvement in programme planning Putting the aims and principles into action during group night Review how we construct our programme Values and ethos of Woodcraft Folk Activity ideas Ethos of Woodcraft Folk More singing Lots of new games Games booklet Encourage other leaders to attend training New games and songs New games Tower building activity diverse children into new groups Games that work with 3-6 year olds Organising food at our District camp Achieving consensus amongst group Getting people to come to sessions leaders/ground rules and volunteer inclusion issues how to do the finances Evaluation At the end of the event, participants were asked to complete a ‘Hand evaluation’. This involves drawing around your own hand and highlighting: Something good on your thumb Something they wanted to point out on their index finger Something bad (or not so good) on their middle finger Something they will remembers and treasure from the event on their ring finger Something little on their little finger A prediction for the future on their palm A Hand evaluation is a participative method of evaluation that enables quick and easy feedback following an activity. The table below includes a summary of all responses: Something good Confidence boost Know more about Woodcraft Folk The food