Amble Rangers (2026)

21/02/2019

The Rangers Program:

The Girlguiding Program recently underwent major reforms, releasing 800 new badges, to keep up with the interests of girls in the modern world and to reflect the diversity in modern society. Read the article by The Independent below!

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/girl-guides-uk-new-badges-2018-vlogging-mindfulness-human-rights-a8457676.html

The new program encompasses 6 new themes:
* Know Myself
* Express Myself
* Be Well
* Have Adventures
* Take Action
* Skills for My Future

These are used in all sections of Girlguiding: Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers.

In Rangers meetings we work on skills builder badges. There are 2 skills builder topics per theme - each with 6 available skills builder badges, totalling 12 skills builder badges. Rangers typically complete stages 5/6. Each half term we will choose a skills builder to complete, the activities for these come in packs and once completing them we have achieved our badge! The skills builders per theme are:

* Know Myself - Network and Reflect
* Express Myself - Communicate and Innovate
* Be Well - Feel good and first aid
* Have Adventures - Camp and Explore
* Take Action - Influence and Make Change
* Skills for My Future - Lead and Live Smart

In our unit meetings we will also complete Unit Meeting Activities (UMA)s. These are categorised into each theme and come in packs for us to complete.

Outside of the unit meetings we are able to complete interest badges. Each interest badge has 3 challenges which are designed to be achievable alongside the workload of GCSEs and higher education.
There are 3 interest badges per theme:

* Know Myself - Women’s Rights, Morals and Values and Genealogy
* Express Myself - Blogging, Animation and Costume
* Be Well - Sports, Cooking and Self Care
* Have Adventures - Travel, Festival Goer and Bushcraft
* Take Action - Protesting, Voting, Volunteering
* Skills for My Future - Event Planning, Digital Design and Entrepreneur

After completing 1 interest badge, 1 skills builder and 5 hours of UMAs from the same theme - you can achieve a theme award. Achieving all 6 theme awards earns the Rangers Gold Award.

Members of Girlguiding can choose to aim towards completing their gold award, or complete badges at their own pace for fun! After acquiring a large selection of badges, members of Girlguiding often choose to sew their badges onto a camp blanket which can be brought to events and camps as a symbol of their personal achievements.

Link to the Girlguiding Badge Finder - See what we do as part of our badges!

https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/our-badges-and-activities/badge-finder/

Overview of the Girlguiding Program-

https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/making-guiding-happen/how-were-being-our-best/were-going-on-a-journey/programme-overview/

Register to join Girlguiding today! -

https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/get-involved/become-a-volunteer/register-your-interest/

14/02/2019

Promoting women in STEM is a movement that needs to happen and needs to happen now. In the days that have gone by, women were expected to stay and home and raise children but no more! We are free to do whatever we want to.... so why is there a lack of women progressing in to the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics? These amazing and rewarding careers should be available to all so something has to change. We need to make everyone see that this in an option for them too!
And this is what this entry is all about- showing that these women did it and changed the world.... so why not you?

Rosalind Franklin: her work was key to discovering the structure of DNA, something that changed the face of medicine forever! We wouldn’t be able to find out a great deal about inheritance and genetics without her exceptional discovery of the double helix structure.

Marie Curie: a woman who really just sums up why STEM should be an option for all. She, alongside her husband, pioneered research on radioactivity. Without her, you wouldn’t be able to see your broken bones as a picture! Unfortunately, her research led to an exposure to harmful radiation that led to her death.

Ada Lovelace: the first ever computer programmer- truly ahead of her times!

So many people have changed the world because they weren’t scared to go into a field that wasn’t ‘for them’. So I say, why not make everyone know it’s ok?

Imagine the progress we could make if anyone felt like they could go into anything they wanted to? We need to all work together to make the world we will all be proud to be a part of.

14/02/2019

Amble Rangers we’re discussing issues currently affecting Amble.
We identified problems with litter around The Welfare and local school grounds.
We talked about the new fish and chip shop opening in Queen Street and whether this was sustainable. A small proportion of Amble’s fishing quota is white fish, will there be enough to sustain all the fish shops in Amble? The lobster hatchery aims to encourage residents to eat shellfish and lobster? Has it been successful in doing this?

We also discussed how Amble has changed as a town to become tourist orientated. A large proportion of the housing in Amble is classified as holiday housing. This could potentially raise real estate prices for the area and make Amble a less affordable place to live in. Some of us believed that Amble was operating in a mono-industry and that the town was too reliant on exogenous income from visitors, meaning that if this industry was to take a blow, the impacts on Amble could be devastating. A mono-industry is a fragile one. A more diversified industry focusing on service, retail, transport as well as leisure would create a more accessible job market for people who wish to work locally and be more open to people with different skills - therefore creating a stronger industry and local economy

29/05/2016

Exciting Opportunity!
1st Morpeth Guides and 2nd Morpeth Rainbows are looking for volunteers to join them to help run their activities.
Volunteers receive full training and support to help provide fun, challenge and adventure for girls aged 10 – 15 and 5 -7 – and themselves!

Want to find out more?
Email [email protected] or click on www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested

21/01/2016

Try something new in 2016 - join Girlguiding Morpeth as a leader, assistant leader or in a support role. You never know, by the end of the year you may have slept out under the stars, been to a pop concert, toasted marshmallows on a fire, made new friends, and helped girls and young women to have fun, build brilliant friendships, gain valuable life skills and make a positive difference to their lives and their communities. Visit us at www.morpethdivisiongg.btck.co.uk

10/01/2016

Try something new in 2016 - join Girlguiding Morpeth as a leader, assistant leader or in a support role. You never know, by the end of the year you may have slept out under the stars, been to a pop concert, toasted marshmallows on a fire, made new friends, and helped girls and young women to have fun, build brilliant friendships, gain valuable life skills and make a positive difference to their lives and their communities

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