Lion Syllabus (10 year olds)
The work for the Lion Progress Badge will take about a year to complete and there is plenty 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 Lion level there is a fair amount of work to be done at home and brought to a future pack meeting.
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 joined Cubs sometime after their 10th birthday, we need to do as many Lion items that were covered before they joined as possible, because the Lion badge is one of the items that has to be completed for the Leaping Wolf badge.
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
- Find out about two endangered species in South Africa and tell the Pack about them.
Compass and Mapping
- Use a street map of your local area or draw a simple map showing the area around the Scout meeting place, OR your home OR your school. Use your knowledge of the compass to find the magnetic North point and line up the map to North.
Fires and Cooking
- Make and use a conservation stove to cook a simple meal for yourself.
Knotting
- Make and use the following knots:
- Clove hitch;
- bowline and
- sheep shank.
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 FIVE different Kim’s games using each of the five senses, scoring at least fifteen out of twenty in each one. This is seriously hard. You will need to practice at home - sight and smells are the hardest.
Helping Ourselves and Others
- Discuss with an adult at home and then carry out any task that needs to be done, over and above your normal duties. In urban areas, this could include painting of a fence or wall, carpentry etc., while in rural areas, the carving of wooden utensils for use in the home would be a worthwhile activity.
Feats of Skill
- Run ‘Scouts Pace’ over a 1 km course in eight minutes.
- Swim 25m and then tread water for 60 seconds if in fresh water or 120 seconds if in sea water. OR Do 35 sit-ups and 3 pull-ups.
Time
- Know how the 24-hour clock system of recording time works.
- Using the 24-hour clock, give correctly the times of the main events of your day
Safety
- Explain how to avoid getting lost in the veld.
- Demonstrate three ways of making distress signals.
- Demonstrate how to purify water.
First Aid
- Show how to maintain an open airway, how to place the victim in the coma/recovery position, and how to alert the emergency services.
Conservation
- Heat water using solar energy. OR Use solar energy to cook something.
People and Places
- Give some of your own time to help other people. This may be done either on your own or as a Six or a Pack. Our pack is sending cubs to the NSRI for a morning to help them (mostly with washing their boats). As your child makes his way through the Leaping Wolf syllabus we will arrange for him/her to be there on a Saturday morning.
Flags and Countries
- Be able to recognise our national symbols.
Communications
- Write an article for your Pack log book or Pack newsletter.
Trails
- Lay a woodcraft trail where 20 signs are used for others to follow.
Recycling
- Start a recycling project in your home, pack or school.
- Explain what the Pack can do to make others aware of the importance of recycling.
Faith
- Help to organise and take part in a Cubs Own service.
Promise and Law
- Carry out a Promise and Law activity with younger Cubs.
