This week we finished off the parts of the Healthy Heart badge that we didn't get a chance to do while we were on pack holiday. We started off by asking the girls how they would take their pulse. One girls suggested the following
Girl: "with that armband that blows up"
Brown Owl: "no that's your blood pressure"
Girl: "oh, yeah, it's that clippy thing for your finger isn't it"
Brown Owl: "well, yes, but I meant how would you do it now, with no other equipment"
We then explained that you can take your pulse in your wrist or in your neck, and it is different for each person how easy it is. All the girls then had a go at finding their own pulse and leaders moved around the circle helping those that couldn't. Once the majority of them had managed it, we said to the once who hadn't that it was OK, there would be more opportunities through the meeting to find it.
We then said that we were going to do activities based on the 3 sixes we had on pack holiday. We started with the swimming six - all the girls had to 'swim' 3 lengths of the hall any stroke they wanted (except backstroke!) and then Brown Owl would start a stopwatch for a minute and they had to count how many heart beats they could feel in that time. It was a very abrupt change from 24 girls frantically running up and down, arms flailing, to 24 girls stood almost sliently, muttering numbers under their breath! We gave each sixer a piece of paper to write down her sixes results.
We then did gymnastics - the girls had to hop one length of the hall and then take their pulse again and write it on their sheet. Finally, we did horse riding - the girls had to pretend to ride their horse for 5 laps of the hall and take their pulse again. We then asked them which activites got their heart beating faster (horse riding, almost unanimously).
We then did a different clause - each six had to make up a game for the rest of the unit to play. We gave them a while to come up with their game and test them out with their six and then we picked one group that had finished to test theirs out with the whole unit. The game they had come up with was actually pretty good - it was a simple variation on Fishes:
- Split the girls into 4 evenly sized groups and put one in each corner of the room
- You will also need 2/3 chasers (depending on size of hall and number of girls)
- Each corner gives themselves a name
- A Leader calls out one of the names and that corner has to run in a circle around the hall (inside the other groups)
- The chasers and the rest of the unit count loudly to 5
- The chasers have to stand still until they reach 5 and then they can try and tag as many of the girls left running as possible
- Girls are safe if they reach their corner without being tagged and they sit out at the side if they got tagged
- The winner is the last group with people in its corner
The girls actually really enjoyed playing this game and we could probably have let them carry on for the rest of the meeting but we decided to let a different six have a go. This game seemed far more complicated, and I'm not 100% of the rules but they involved girls stood in a line and going under each others legs or jumping over someone curled up on the floor! I'm not sure anyone understood completely what was going on...
We then had run out of time so we told the other sixes that they could test their games after half term, if they remind us, and we finished the meeting by giving out a few more left over crafts and booklets from pack holiday and then let the girls go home.
It has been a chaotic term, but the girls have enjoyed all the meetings, as far as I can gather. It's going to be nice to have a week off as a leader though! Next weeks blog will be an update on how far I have got with my Queen's Guide Award.
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