Last night, as it’s the Easter Holidays, the Scout Leader decided to have a Patrol Leader’s meeting with the PLs and Assistant Patrol Leaders. It was a shame that only half were able to attend as the rest were away.
No matter, we talked about who the new PL and APL were to be, as the incumbent will be leaving us for Explorers soon. The suggestions were sensible and they gave it some proper thought. Also, the issue of one of the APLs was covered. His behaviour has been deteriorating of late and his PL is getting fed up with the constant messing around. So after some discussion it was decided he was to be on probation for 4 weeks and if he does not improve then he will be demoted and the role given to someone else. We even discussed who that could be. The PLs and APLs there gave all this some serious thought and were very mature in their thinking. I have to say that I am impressed with them and the way they’ve grown up recently.
After that, we talked about what activities they would like to do in the future and we told them about the various activity badges they can earn and how to go about researching what they need to do themselves to gain the awards.
I suspect there will be a large badge order coming up soon! But that’s how it’s meant to be and a good thing.
They all enjoyed the walking last weekend and want to do more. One even suggested a week’s walking and camping until we pointed out that we’d need to do a lot of practise before we could do that! However, it shows what great enthusiasm there is in the Troop for getting out and about and you can’t knock that and must encourage it!