Leopard Syllabus (9 year olds)
The work for the Leopard Progress Badge will take about a year to complete and there is a fair amount of homework to be done! Listed below are all the items the cubs cover during the year, and items in bold are homework that will be given to the cubs at some point during the year. Not all items have homework.
We will usually cover the material at a cub meeting, and then send them off with an information sheet to fill in and bring back the following week. At Leopard level, cubs will often not finish whatever they are given during the pack meeting and are expected to finish it at home and return it the next week.
Craft projects and creative items that are not finished during a pack meeting need to finished at home and brought back the following week too.
If you child is older than 9 but was at cubs before turning 10, and does not yet have the Leopard badge, feel free to print off any of the worksheets for progress items that he/she has not yet done, and send the completed info sheets to a pack meeting with your cub.
If you would like an update on what your child still has to do for any of the progress badges, please feel free to contact me, and I will email a list of outstanding items for the badges.
Living with Nature
- Build a simple bird-feeder and observe the birds that visit it for at least two weeks. OR Care for an animal or living creature for one month.
- Find out about a plant or creature which lives in either fresh or salt water. You can use this sheet to guide you, or you can write about 1 A4 page of information with no more than 2 reasonably sized pictures.
Growing Things
- Make or lay out a vegetable bed or herb garden.
- Make a bottle garden and give as a gift to someone.
Compass and Mapping
- Know the 16 points of the compass.
- With or without a compass, follow a simple compass trail based on these 16 points.
- Explain at least 6 map symbols.
- Show how to use a street map.
Fires and Cooking
- Make a billycan and use it to cook a simple meal.
Entertaining
- Make and play a simple musical instrument.
Knotting
- Make and use the following knots:
- Hank a long rope
Cubs can practice and learn any and all of the knots from their cub trails, or from the Pro Plan Charts linked, and then show a Scouter that they can do the knots at a Cub Meeting. Cubs should also practice the knots regularly once they have learnt them. If you don't practice them, you forget them!
Sensations
- Play THREE different Kim’s games with THREE of the five senses, scoring at least ten out of fifteen in each one.
Helping Ourselves and Others
- Carry out a good turn in your community as a Six or with your Pack. The Lion group will discuss and decide what they would like to do at a pack meeting. Parents then need to climb on board and transport their children to wherever the good turn will be carried out. This usually takes place over a weekend.
- Do simple repairs at home or at your Pack meeting place.
Feats of Skill
- Using a rope skip 15 forwards and 15 backwards.
- Throw a ball 15 metres OR dribble a soccer ball around a course drawn on the ground in the shape of a figure-of-eight measuring 12 metres long.
Time
- Show a Scouter you can tell the time accurately to the nearest minute using a watch or clock.
Be Creative
- Make an article which is either useful or decorative:
- Beadwork
- Weaving
- Wirework
- Pottery
Safety
- Organise a road safety activity for younger Cubs. OR Demonstrate safety on the road for a cyclist.
First Aid
- Know how to behave in an emergency situation.
- Use your scarf or a triangular bandage as an arm sling.
Conservation
- Identify everyday activities which waste or consume energy.
People and Places
- Talk to someone involved in a service organisation in your community and tell the Pack how this organisation helps the community.
Flags and Countries
- Prepare, hoist, break and lower the flag correctly.
- Using a sheet bend join the flag to the halyard.
Communications
- Carry a message and deliver it politely and correctly.
- Make and send an invitation or a thank you letter to someone and see that it is delivered.
Trails
- Know how to make and recognise at least 10 woodcraft signs.
- Follow a woodcraft trail.
Stranger Danger
- Know what to do when you are alone at home.
Healthy Living
- Know and understand the importance of good eating habits.
Recycling
- With your family plan ways of reducing the waste in your home.
The Jungle Book
- Make a jungle character mask and use it in a jungle play.
Faith
- Say a prayer of your own. You will need to write your prayer at home, and then read it at a pack meeting.
Promise and Law
- Show that you are keeping your Promise and Law and setting a good example to younger Cubs in the Pack.
