Five Basic Essentials in Girl Scouting.ppt

Presentation on the 5 Basic Essentials in Scouting

1. The 5 BASIC ESSENTIALS
The 5 Basic Essentials of Girl Scouting
are so interrelated to each other that they
can not be arranged or numbered in any
order of importance. Each is as important
as the other.

2. The 5 BASIC ESSENTIALS
• Promise & Law
• Patrol System
• Badgework
• Out of Doors
• International Friendship

3. THE GIRL SCOUT PROMISE & LAW


• Provides a girl a simple definite way to understand the
principles and code of behavior which are embodied in the
Promise & Law.

• Provide the fundamental principles of Girl Scouting allover the
world.

These principles are:
a.the acceptance that God exist and that we have a duty to
know, love and serve Him and in doing so, love and serve
our fellowmen who are His children.


b. loyalty and service to one’s country


c. Conformity to a code of behavior embodied in the Girl
Scout Law

4. THE GIRL SCOUT PROMISE & LAW


On my honor, I will do my duty to God and my country
To help other people at all times and to live by the Girl
Scout Law.
A Girl Scout’s honor is to be trusted.
A Girl Scout is loyal.
A Girl Scout is helpful.
A Girl Scout is a friend to all and a sister to every other girl
scout.
A Girl Scout is courteous.
A Girl Scout respects living things.
A Girl Scout is disciplined.
A Girl Scout is self –reliant.
A Girl Scout is thrifty.
A Girl scout is clean in thought word and deed.

5. PATROL SYSTEM
- is a self-government in action - - democratic living
on a level which girls can understand and
appreciate.

6. PATROLS are small groups of six to eight
members, each working together under the
leadership of a patrol leader who is chosen by
the girls from amongst themselves and
trained by the troop leader for the job. Three
to five patrols make up a troop inasmuch as a
troop has a maximum of forty girls.

7. badgework
BADGEWORK – is the means by which girls are encouraged to
participate in Girl Scouting activities.

8. badge
A BADGE is provided as incentive for a knowledge or skill
acquired as a result of participating in the activities.


The BADGE, therefore, is the symbol of the girl’s achievement
and not an award as some people think it is.


A BADGE stands for the girl’s preparedness for service and tells
what she is capable of doing.

A girl may work for a badge individually, with her patrol, with
the troop or with a group sharing the same interest.

9. THE EIGHT POINT CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE OF WELL
BEING & SPIRITUALITY
CHALLENGE OF
FAMILY LIFE

10. THE EIGHT POINT CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE OF
ENVIRONMENT
CHALLENGE OF
ECONOMIC
SELF-SUFFICIENCY

11. THE EIGHT POINT CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE OF
HERITAGE & CITIZENSHIP
CHALLENGE OF THE
ARTS

12. THE EIGHT POINT CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE OF
PREPAREDNESS
CHALLENGE OF
WORLD COMMUNITY

13. OUT OF DOORS
The Girl Scout program is best carried out in an outdoor setting.
One of the chief attractions of Scouting to young people is the
promise of adventure and fun in the out-of-doors.
CAMPING ranks as one of the highest in the list of activities
that girls like to do.

14. INTERNATIONAL
FRIENDSHIP