Pratham Sopan syllabus

 Pratham Sopan 

1) Learn about your Patrol its Flag, yell or song and corner.
2) Know general rules of health, Practice B.P’s six exercises or Six Asanas or Surya Namaskar.
3) Learn and practice Hand signals and whistle Signals,
4) Lean wood craft signs and follow a track.
5) Whip the ends of a rope.
6) Tie and show uses of reef knot, sheet bend, clove hitch, sheep shank, bowline, fisherman’s knot and round turn and two half hitches.
7) Participate in Troop Games.
8) Practice orderly movements and simple drill for smartness.
9) Know the contents of the First-Aid Box. Demonstrate the use of roller bandages and triangular bandages collar and cuff sling and triangular suspension sling. Render first aid for cuts and scratches.
10) Participate in two patrol outdoor meetings or a patrol day-hike.
11) Make a gadget or handicraft useful at home.
12) Adopt for purpose of keeping clean a park or a water-point or a bus stop or any other public spot or a Building for a week. Or observe for at least a month breeding places of mosquitoes and flies and look to its cleanliness.
13) Participate in any two of the following activities. 

(i) Undertake a nature study project in consultation with your Patrol leader.
(ii) Discuss with your Scoutmaster and render some service involving any one of the points of Scout Law and submit a report to your Scout Master.

Scout Had to Attend at least four Troop Meetings.

We all know that whether we hold our scouts depends to some extent on the quality of our troop meetings. If they're dull, uninspired, unimaginative, always the same, the boys become bored and drift off sooner or later to one or more of the many other interests that lie awaiting them. We offer you this little book of ideas in the hope that it will help you with your troop meetings. We do not Suggest that many of the ideas are new but some of them may be new to you and others you may have forgotten

The Bharat Scouts and Guides Flag Song

The Bharat Scouts and Guides Flag Song 

SCOUT FLAG SONG:-

BHARAT SCOUT GUIDES ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA,

OOCHA SADA RAHEGA ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA.

NEELA RANG GAGAN SA VISTRIT BHATRUBHAV FAILATA,

TRIDAL KAMAL NIT TEEN PRATIGAO KI YAAD DILATA.

AUR CHAKRA KEHTA HEIN PRATIPAL AAGA KADAM BADEGA ,

OOCHA SADA RAHEGA ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA.

BHARAT SCOUT GUIDES ZANDA OOCHA SADA RAHEGA.

The Bharat Scouts and Guides Prayer Song in Hindi

The Bharat Scouts and Guides Prayer Song in Hindi in Written

SCOUT PRAYER:-

DAYA KAR DAAN BHAKTI KA HAMEN PARMATMA DENA ,

DAYA KARNA HAMARI AATMA MEIN SHUDHTA DENA.

HAMARE DHYAN MEIN AAO,PRABHU AAKHON MEIN BAS JAO,

ANDHERE DIL MEIN AA KAR KE PARAM JYOTI JAGA DENA.

BAHA DO PREM KI GANGA DILOMEIN PREM KA SAGAR,

HAMEIN AAPAS MEIN MILJUL KAR,PRABHU REHNA SIKHA DENA.

HAMARA KARAM HO SEVA HAMARA DHARMA HO SEVA

SADA IMAAN HO SEVA ,SEVAKCHAR BANA DENA.

VATAN KE VATE JEENA, VATAN KE VATE MARNA ,

VATAN PAR JAAN FIDA KARNA PRABHU HAMKO SIKHA DENA.

DAYA KAR DAAN BHAKTI KA HAMEN PARMATMA DENA ,

DAYA KARNA HAMARI AATMA MEIN SHUDHTA DENA.

The Bharat Scouts Flag and the World Scout Flag.

The Bharat Scout Flag

The Bharat Scouts and Guides Flag shall be in dark blue color, the emblem in yellow colour shall be in the center of the flag with Ashoka Chakra in blue color. The size of the flag shall be 180 cms. In length and 120 cms. in width, the emblem will be 45 cms by 39 cms. The size of the Group Flag, which is the same as above, shall be 180 cms X 120 cms. with proportionate emblem. The name of the group shall be written in a yellow color below the emblem in straight line. The Fleur-de-lis the International emblem of Scouting and Ashoka Chakra is meant to emphasize the all-India character of the Movement. The super imposed trefoil represents the guide wing of the B.S.&G.

The World Scout flag

The World Scout Emblem is the emblem of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and is worn by Scouts and Scouters around the world to indicate their membership. Each national Scout organization determines the manner is which the emblem is worn.

World Scout Emblem
Owner	World Organization of the Scout Movement
Created	1955

Know the parts of Scout uniform and how to wear it.

The Scout Uniform Compulsory:

(i) Shirt: A gray color shirt with half sleeves, two patch packets and shoulder strips. (Olive green or navy blue/jersey may be worn over the shirt.) Sleeves may be turned down in cold weather.

(ii) Shorts: A navy blue shorts or trousers.

(iii) Head dress: A navy blue beret cap with the official badge; a Sikh may wear a turban.

(iv) Belt: Brown leather or khakhi web belt with the official buckle of B.S. & G.

(v) Scarf: A triangular scarf of the group color other than yellow, green and purple) approved by the local or District Association with the two sides not less than 70 cms and not more than 80 cms in length.

(vi) Membership badge: A cloth badge with green background and the Fleur-de-lis in yellow superimposed by the trefoil with Ashoka Chakra in the center, worn on the middle of the left pocket or at the same place on Jersey/Coat.

(vii) Shoulder badge: 8 cms in length and 1.5 cms in width with white background and name of the group in red letters shall be worn on the right shoulder below the seam. 

(viii) Shoulder strips: Two shoulder stripes indicating the name of the patrol each 5 cms x 1.5 cms. Each 2 cms apart at the top of the left sleeve immediately below the seam. 

The Scout Uniform Optional:

(i) Stockings or socks: Black of khaki (if stockings) with green garter tabs 1.5 cms visible.

(ii) Footwear: Brown or black shoes.

(v) Knife: A Scout knife may be carried on the belt.

(vii) Staff: Made of natural wood of such length to be in line with the ear.

(ix) World scout badge: Made of cloth may be worn in the middle of the right pocket when in uniform.

Daily Good-turn at home and maintain a diary at least for a month.

GOOD TURN DIARY FORMAT

S.NO	DATE	GOOD TURN DONE	TO WHOM	SIGNATURE OF THE BENEFICIAY
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SIGNATURE OF THE SCOUT/ GUIDE : ……………………………

SIGNATURE OF THE SCOUTMASTER: …………………………….

What Is a Good Turn?

A Good Turn is a volunteered kind act of good deed.  Boys must be encouraged to watch for things that need to be done, and then do them without being asked.  More, boys must be trained and educated into the Good Turn Habit.  They must be helped to see that doing a job which they are already supposed to do, even cheerfully , ought not be classed as doing a Good Turn. 

Performing the regular routine duties about the home is not a Good Turn.  The Good Turn is a bigger finer thing–the Good Turn is really a philosophy of living, of which Service to others becomes the key.  A good Turn is a volunteered kind act or deed.  If you can  stimulate a boy so that such actions become habitual, then you have made the Good Turn Philosophy work in his life. 

Such a process is a process of education, and will not be accomplished except by careful planning and by presenting the matter again and again under all sort of circumstances, and by yourself setting up and keeping in operation certain sorts of activities which will help the boy catch the idea and experience the thrill of the real Good Turn.

Kinds of Good Turns

Good Turns may be classed under different headings.  Complying with the regulations and rules of the school and school grounds is doing one’s duty, and not a Good Turn.  On the other hand the Scout who watches for things that need to be done, and volunteers his services to the janitor, teacher or principal, has rendered a real Good Turn.

Community Good Turns include picking up banana peels from sidewalks; removing broken glass and nails, etc., from streets; removing papers and boxes from sidewalks and highways; reporting street lamps not burning; garbage nuisances, etc., on streets is but doing one’s duty. and not a Good Turn.

Troop Good Turns mean going out of your way to help another Scout with his work, or helping him to live up to his Scout obligations.  Going to another Patrol or Troop to help with signaling, first aid instruction or other Scout work, or the Scoutmaster with outside work regularly assigned, constitutes a fine Good Turn.

There are Church Good Turns, and Good Turns to Animals and National Good Turnsand unlimited numbers of Individual Good Turns.  Most boys do not wish to speak of their individual Good Turns.  In this they should be encouraged.

Good Turns vary with every situation.  We shall try to list and classify suggestions which may be helpful for your Troop. The important thing is to keep forever the Good Turn idea in all of your own thinking and planning, giving it definite place and time. Otherwise it will soon drift into a mere superficiality and do more harm than good. Avoid any reward for Good Turns. Say to your boys:

“Just do something to help the other fellow, and the joy of the service well done will be its own reward.”

So you see the Good Turn habit has no end of avenues down which it may go.  There is scarcely a day or an hour, an event or a situation where there is not an opportunity to do a Good Turn.  The point is that boys must be trained to see these opportunities and to take real joy in making the most of the opportunity.

Scout Motto, Sign, Salute and left hand shake.

Scout Motto

The Scout Motto is:

'BE PREPARED' which means you are always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your DUTY.

Scout Sign

The three-finger salute is used by members of Scout and Guide organizations around the world when greeting other Scouts and in respect of a national flag at ceremonies. In most situations, the salute is made with the palm face out, the thumb holding down the little finger, and with the fingertips on the brow of the head. There are some variations of the salute between national Scouting organisations and also within some programme sections.

Scout Salute

The three-finger salute is used by members of Scout and Guide organizations around the world when greeting other Scouts and in respect of a national flag at ceremonies. In most situations, the salute is made with the palm face out, the thumb holding down the little finger, and with the fingertips on the brow of the head.

Meaning of the three fingers

In his book, Scouting for Boys, Robert Baden-Powell chose the three-finger salute for Scouts to represent the three aspects of the Scout Promise:
1. Honour God and the King
2. Help Others
3. Obey the Scout Law

Left Hand Shake

left hand shake

left hand shake

The left-handed Scout handshake is a formal way of greeting other Scouts of both genders used by members of Scout and Guide organizations around the world when greeting other Scouts. The handshake is made with the hand nearest the heart and is offered as a token of friendship. In most situations, the handshake is made firmly, without interlocking fingers, and many organizations only use this handshake when both people are in uniform.

Meaning of the left-hand

Various sources have attributed the origin of the handshake, as an ancient sign of bravery and respect, to Lord Baden-Powell‘s encounter after battle with Prempeh I, or to earlier published works by Ernest Thompson Seton. There exist various versions of the Prempeh story, all centering around African warriors using the left hand to hold their shields and to lower it and shake the left hand of the person was to show they trusted each other.
According to the Ashanti warrior version of the story, then-Colonel Baden-Powell saluted them with his right hand, but the Ashanti chiefs offered their left hands and said, “In our land only the bravest of the brave shake hands with the left hand, because to do so we must drop our shields and our protection.” The Ashantis knew of Baden-Powell’s bravery because they had fought against him and with him, and they were proud to offer the left hand of bravery.
The left hand is also closer to the heart, with that attendant symbology.

Scout Law And Promise

Scout Law

1. A Scout is Trustworthy
2. A Scout is Loyal
3. A Scout is a friend to all and a brother/sister to every other Scout/Guide.
4. A Scout is courteous
5. A Scout is a friend to animals and loves nature.
6. A Scout is disciplined and helps protect public property.
7. A Scout is courageous.
8. A Scout is thrifty.
9. A Scout is pure in thought, word and deed.

Scout Promise

On my honour, I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God* and my country,
To help other people and
To obey the Scout Law

Have brief information of the origin of scouting.

Scouting  has the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society. During the first half of the 20th century, the movement grew to encompass three major age groups each for boys  and, in 1910, a new organization, Girl Guides, was created for girls  It is one of several worldwide youth organizations.

Scouting began in 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the British Army, held the first Scouting encampment on Brownsea Island in England. Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys , based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham  Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

The movement employs the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft,aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports. Another widely recognized movement characteristic is the Scout uniform, by intent hiding all differences of social standing in a country and making for equality, with neckerchief and campaign hat or comparable headwear. Distinctive uniform insignia include the fleur-de-lis and the trefoil, as well as merit badges and other patches.

In 2011, Scouting and Guiding together had over 41 million members worldwide. The two largest umbrella organizations are the World Organization of the Scout Movement , for boys-only and co-educational organizations, and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts , primarily for girls-only organizations but also accepting co-educational organizations. The year 2007 marked the centenary of Scouting world wide, and member organizations planned events to celebrate the occasion.

Pravesh Syllabus

1) Have brief information of the origin of scouting.


2) Scout Law and Promise.


3) Scout Motto, Sign, Salute and left hand shake.


4) Daily Good-turn at home and maintain a diary at least for a month.


5) Know the parts of Scout uniform and how to wear it.


6) Know the composition and significance of the National flag, The Bharat Scouts & Guides Flag and the World Scout Flag.


7) Sing correctly Scout prayer and Scout Flag Song.


8) Attend at least four Troop Meetings.

This blog is made by

A.Vamsi Krishna

8th Class

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Eluru

Andhra Pradesh

India