Guiders Staff Room Part 2

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http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/extracurricularr_activities/715087-Guiders-39-staff-room-tea-wine-chat-and-optional-dancing

Part one above, new thread for when required x

No idea what I did but it is finally printing flash cards! No idea when I'm going to cut them out mind, we're off to the park after school for an hour.

Spoke too soon...it printed 5 of them before throwing a hissy fit

Rue You can parade! Well, process, because parade is classes as marching in step, which I can't imagine anyone sensible would attempt with rainbows or Guides anyway

You are perfectly fine to amble along in a procession. Manual link

We tend to moochy along with the other groups and have a chat rather than "parade"...that would be interesting with some of them

Sodding printer's printed dd2's pictures from the park just fine think it just doesn't like me!

Good job I farted about trying to sort something for tonight alllllll day...he didn't show and didn't let me know either

Just been offered a stand for recruitment next month. Any ideas for what we can display or use to occupy people and get potential adults to sign up?

Oh lucysmam I can't stand flaky people. Although I think I would have been more annoyed if he had turned up after all your hard work with the printer!!

Becles i would say free cake!! We had a recruitment stand at a recent fair and it was not popular. Get them in with something else then start chatting.

What do you all mean by parades? Have I forgotten to do something with my group? Or is this for St. Georges Day/Remembrance Sunday walks through towns?

Yy just remembrance parade etc. We participate in church parade several times a year, as we're an open sponsored unit (as are the other 8 (!) GG/Scouting units that use their hall!) and it's been much better since we got our flag, as previously Rainbows were the only units without one.

As in - you can amble along even if everyone else is marching/walking in step. As long as the Rainbows are just walking, you're fine.

Can you tell I had this argument not so long back with a Scouter insistent on showing how namby-pamby GG were and how we banned parades etc. He was fun

Ugh - such a draining meeting tonight. It started well but they were just really daft and mucking about all the time. Every time I had to get them together it was such a drag with different ones not doing as they were told. I think I need a Rainbow chat next week at the start to say how I expect them to behave. My DD was one of the worst but I've read the riot act to her at home.So annoying when you have spent ages planning and getting there early to set up etc.

My dd is often my worst offender Imfine, I put it down to beong knackered at the last few weeks of term - everyone is worse than usual!

I have just realised (literally just!) Someone has taken down our little display board in the room we use - loads of photo's, artwork and Bluebell's birth cert from Build a Bear & they didn't leave them for us . Just about to fire off an email to the lady who gave me the go ahead for Guides in the hopes she knows who might have taken it down to find out where ut all is. If not then hopefully BaB might be able to print us another cert; I was going to stick it all in a scrapbook for us to look back on.

*where it all is...

Oh no. Hope you find it has all been stored somewhere for you

Thank you for saying behaviour is end of term related. Had a bit of a woe is me moment with DH and have sent him out for comfort food!!

I have my fingers crossed! I can't find a contact form on BaB website either & talking to them on my phone is like pulling teeth (weak signal + train track = can't hear a bloody thing). Will have to nip in when I next go to town.

I'm sure it's just excitement for the hols; plus it's rather warm here & ours are usually giddier when it's hot.

We've never had a chat about behaviour expectations. Just expected the new girls to pick it up from the older ones. So I think a chat clarifying my expectations is probably overdue. Gah. And last week was so good too. Hope you can get a replacement certificate - I can't see why they wouldn't do that for you.

Argh, just had email from the cheerleading coach I'd booked for tomorrow's meeting saying that they're not coming.

Heeeelp!

Would they enjoy making up their own dance routine Rue? Maybe make some of those swirly ribbons on sticks to swish about first? Split into groups and ask them to show everyone else what they come up with.

Our Brownies leader emailed me this morning - our rooms are being decorated and everything is being temporarily moved. Nice of them to let her know and not me . I just hope it is temporary and my photo's & everything else comes back!

I thought I had a screenshot but it seems not - I've seen those swishy ribbons done using shower curtain rings to tie them round but that might be no good with a room full of Rainbows if they can't do the knots.

google how to make cheerleader pompoms from old carrier bags then make up a simple cheer. They'll have a blast!

We did pom poms from bin bags and they were really good. 2 bin bags made a great full pom pom. cheerleading.lovetoknow.com/How_to_Make_Cheerleading_Pom_Pons

Hmm, I could get them to make pompoms from carrier bags - I might even have lots a few in the cupboard from pre-5p days :o

Then perhaps I'll hit youtube for some ideas of what to do.

One of my oldest ones is mad keen on gym/cheers/chants etc so maybe I'll get her to boss the others lead a cheer?

Sounds good: hope it goes well :-)

is there anything in the flipping magic challenge badge you could use?

Phew...missing order from Trading turned out to have been wrongly addressed but still on my street. Trouble is my Queen's birthday badges are likely to be going there as well. She's going to think I'm some weirdo down the road

Complete change of plan in the end - we did yoga and it was great! Never had such a quiet session, only a couple mucked around and even they were better than normal.

It was all a bit cobbled together, we didn't have proper mats or anything, and apparently the most exciting bit was them all taking off their shoes and socks