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Baden-Powell's Scout training scheme

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1023: 448: 28: 249:, which said that "The worst condemnation of the present training Scheme is the fact that more than half of those who join the Movement never progress beyond the Tenderfoot stage". The proposal for a new three stage scheme in which Scouts could progress rapidly in the early stages was adopted by the Association and began to be implemented in October 1967. A number of Scout Groups that were dissatisfied with this and other restructuring formed the 203:" (bread cooked in the embers of a fire), know map symbols, draw a sketch map and take a compass bearing, use an axe, estimate distances, area and capacity to within 25% error, and finally train another boy in the Tenderfoot skills so that he passes the test. The First Class Badge was a Scout emblem above the Second Class Badge. 90: 198:
The tests for a First Class Scout were: swim 50 yards, send and receive a message in Semaphore or Morse at a specified rate of letters per minute, go on a fourteen-mile expedition over two days, by foot, boat or canoe and write a report on returning, know how to deal with a wide range of specified
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accidents and know the correct first aid techniques to use, using an open fire, know how to cook items from a list that included skinning a rabbit and gutting a fish, also be able to make "
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emblem, embroidered on cloth and worn on the left pocket of the uniform shirt. A small brass badge was provided for wear in a lapel buttonhole when not in uniform.
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in fortnightly instalments. Originally intended as a programme for leaders of other youth organisations to utilise, however independent Scout
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The Tenderfoot Test was the test that a boy, originally aged between 12 and 18 years old, would have to pass before he could make his
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and outside of it. In these countries, Baden-Powell's scheme was adapted to suit local conditions. In the United Kingdom
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within 25 minutes, travel a mile using "Scout's pace" (alternate walking and running) in 12 minutes, build and light a
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To become a Second Class Scout, a boy had to: have been a Tenderfoot for at least one month, have a knowledge of basic
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in 1970 and continue with an updated version of Baden-Powell's scheme to the present day.
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using only two matches, cook meat and potatoes over an open fire, have at least
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Scouting quickly spread to other countries and territories, both within the
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from a specified list that covered core Scouting skills to a high standard.
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believed would be useful in building character and good citizenship.
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To become a King's Scout, a First Class Scout had to complete four
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The insignia of a King's Scout, UK and the British Empire, 1919.
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tested his ideas on boys' citizenship training in 1907 with an
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Scout Tests and How to Pass Them: Commemorative 1914 Edition
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and knew their uses. The Tenderfoot Badge was the Scout
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Index

First Class rank

Robert Baden-Powell
Brisbane
Boy Scouts
Scout Movement
Robert Baden-Powell
experimental camp on Brownsea Island
Scouting for Boys
patrols
United Kingdom

Scout Promise
invested
Scout Troop
Scout Law
Scout sign and salute
Union Jack
knots
fleur-de-lys
first aid
bandages
Semaphore
Morse code
track
mile
camp fire
sixpence
points of the compass
motto

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