On Tuesday, Charlotte, Emily, Belinda, Sian and Sam embarked on their first training session for the low ropes course at Deer Park, Cowley. We are fortunate to have such brilliant facilities in the county and an equally brilliant team of instructors to guide us! We met up with Roger and Steph, our trainers for the evening, who explained more about the training sessions we would be taking part in.
In addition to learning the rules and safety measures for each piece of equipment on the low ropes course, we were able to actively take part. This was a lot more engaging and allowed us to have a better understanding of how each section is approached by the participants. This also gave us an insight into how to tailor the course to suit the group, with sections of the course more suited to Guide aged groups and others to Brownies and so on.
Overall, the session was really informative and showed how the girls can have fun, develop teamwork skills and overcome challenges, all in a safe environment. We are really looking forward to completing our training and to incorporating low ropes into our holiday programme.
We'll do our best to get some photos next time - we missed some brilliant photo opportunities this week (specifically one of the leaders accidentally throwing a cup of water over herself on one of the sections...!). At least the weather was nice!
We're delighted you are interested in this project which we hope will get more girls into Guiding in Gloucestershire and having a great time. Please feel free to share your comments. I will be using this Blog to record the way we have gone about it so that if others are interested they can use or improve the process
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