The Scout Method

Our Scout Method is how we Scout; how we facilitate Scouting for our young people in partnership with them.This is our guide to ensuring our aim is achieved for each and every young person in Scouting. The Scout Method, has 8 interconnected components, to guide us in achieving our aim:

1. Scouting fosters a value system based on the Scout Promise & Law. This value system becomes the method by which a

Scout lives and works with others. 2. Through learning by doing and reviewing our experience, we gain knowledge about the task completed and about ourselves. 3. Scouting happens outdoors whenever possible. Challenge, adventure, and a sense of freedom are all present in close contact with nature and away from everyday home life. 4. The success of the Scout’s task or adventure is not important. The dynamics of the team, and the growth of the individual within that team, is of real importance.Each

Scout will progress at their own speed through Scouting challenges individually and within their small team. 5. In Scouting we work in small teams, so

Scouts learn individually and in teams. Every

Section is a collectionof small teams, not a collection of individual Scouts. 6. We use names, themes, stories, and traditions to spark the imagination and to aid learning. In so far aspossible this is created by the Scouts themselves. 7. Scouting is a movement of young people supported by adults. In the younger

Sections the adult’s support is greater, whereas in older Sections the adult’s role lessens and it becomes more of a partnership. 8. Scouts interact with their local community.

Service to others is the element of the

Scout Method dealing with this commitment. We support young people to become active citizens and to work to create a better world.