Pursuit Badge Scheme

Revised Pursuit Badge Scheme 

(Formerly known as Proficiency or Interest Badges)

Objectives and Learning Outcomes:

By undergoing the scheme and attaining Pursuit Badges, we hope to:

1. Encourage interest-driven and ability-driven education in our Youth Programme.

2. To encourage Youth Members (Youths) to develop individual hobbies, pursuits, and interests, aimed at giving them new skills and knowledge while developing their confidence and self-esteem.

3. To provide a platform for continuous, self-directed learning and development of interest areas, to encourage Youths to progressively attain higher proficiency in these areas, culminating in sound mastery of the subject matter through their individual’ Scouting journey. (i.e. Cub Scout to Rover Scout)

4. Allows the Association to provide a broad-based education with opportunities for specialisation, increased repertoire of activities for education and marketing of the Youth Programme.

5. To promote an active and balanced lifestyle where Youths pursue meaningful and healthy activities which continue into their life after Scouting. This will contribute to keeping them from indulgence in vices and undesirable activities. This also inculcates discipline and perseverance.

Types of Pursuit Badges

The Programme is developed on a universal tiered system which allows a Youth to continue develop his/her interest as he/she transits from the different age section.

Tiers have been proposed under the Programme, which spans across all four youth sections. These tiers have been designed to achieve certain learning outcomes suitable for each youth section, based on their age and general level of maturity.

While each tier is designed for a specific age section, youths can progress to badges beyond their tiers if they can demonstrate the learning outcomes required in that tier.

There are THREE types of Pursuit Badges:

1) Activity Badges

2) Proficiency Badges

3) Campaign and Service Badges

The Activity and Proficiency Badges are split into the following themes:

1) Sports and Physical Recreation     

2) Creative Pursuits

3) Hobbies and Interests

4) Community, Citizenship and Global Awareness

5) Scoutcraft