First Class

MAP READING

1) From an elevated observation point draw a sketch map of an area of urban or rural territory of not less than one hectare. Using an adventurous scenario of your own imagination, devise and run a wide game for your Patrol based on the map.

CAMPING

2) Have camped away from the Scout meeting place at least 15 nights as a Scout.

3) Patrol Camp. Within the limits of your equipment:

a) plan and run an overnight Patrol camp away from the Scout meeting place, in which you train your Patrol in camp layout, setting up camp, proper storage of equipment and personal kit, making camp gadgets, camp and personal hygiene and camp programme;

b) plan and use a balanced menu for the camp including baking a loaf of bread;

c) report back to the Court of Honour on training objectives achieved at the camp.

PIONEERING

4) Plan and run a programme of training activities for your Patrol involving pioneering projects to be built which are used in an enjoyable way to train your Scouts in the following:

a) the six basic knots and the fisherman's knot;

b) Sailmaker's, West Country and simple whipping;

c) square, diagonal, round and shear lashings;

d) Prussik knot, marlinspike, taut-line and rolling hitches.

FIRST AID AND EMERGENCIES

5) Conduct a series of training events in which you train your Patrol in the prevention, signs, symptoms and treatment of the following:

a) Hyperthermia

b) Hypothermia

c) Sunburn / sunstroke

d) Dehydration.

6) Demonstrate how to rescue someone in distress and apply the necessary first aid for:

a) Bleeding

b) Fractures

c) Sprains

d) Cardiac arrest

e) Burns

f) Poison

g) Choking.

OBSERVATION

7) Bushcraft:

a) Demonstrate the ability to camouflage and conceal your Patrol and put this skill into practice in the form of a wide game.

b) Prepare a tracking story for younger Scouts to solve.

BACKWOODSMAN

8) Prepare a presentation to demonstrate to your Patrol one natural method of fulfilling each of the following five survival requirements:

a) Finding food

b) Making shelter

c) Obtaining warmth

d) Finding water

e) Finding your way out.

9) Be able to identify five types of venomous snake commonly found in South Africa. Explain how to avoid snakebite and how to apply first aid to someone who has been bitten.

HIKING

10) Plan for and lead a Patrol of at least three other Scouts of lower advancement level than you, on an overnight cross-country hike of not less than 20 km. Half of the distance may be on water, animal or bicycle. The hike must be approved and evaluated by the DC or his/her nominee, who may be the Troop Scouter. A written log is to be submitted to the evaluator within 21 days after the hike. The hike may only qualify one Scout. This must be the last item before the PGA.

PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

11) Assist in the planning of a Scouts' Own and form a personal evaluation of its success that you discuss with your Troop Scouter in preparation for the time when you will plan and lead your own Scouts' Own.

12) Identify an outdoor service project to improve the quality of the environment in your community. It must require not less than ten hours work. Lead your patrol in carrying out the project

13) Plan and lead a friendship activity for your Patrol with people of another culture. If the locality of your Troop is too far away from people of another culture, undertake this activity with a Patrol from another Troop.

14) In the form of a ten-minute yarn for each, tell the Troop what you did to full fill the requirements of items 12, and 13, and interpret the experience in terms of the Promise and Law.

15) Lead a song or a dance or present a skit or lead a formation display or a scout band rendition at a campfire or AGM,

16) After consultation with your Troop Scouter lead your patrol in a discussion on AIDS awareness and prevention plus one of the following social issues, relating to the Scout Law:

a) Theft

b) Child abuse

c) Substance abuse (alcohol, tobacco, drugs)

d) Or any other similar topic approved by your Troop Scouter.