Sunnyfield Scouts Port Stephens
Sunnyfield Scouts is a program designed to help make learning essential life skills an enjoyable experience. Earn badges as you master skills like numeracy skills, cooking, laundry, bed-making, and travel training.
Tuesdays 3pm to 7pm
01 Oct 2024
Week 1: Water and Sun Safety
Today, we’ll learn how to be safe while swimming at the beach and as summer is around the corner, we’ll also learn about sun safety, water safety at the beach and pool, and some basic first aid that can be useful in on our day out.
Activity Cost
$08 Oct 2024
Week 2: Housekeeping
We will continue to learn how to keep our space tidy and develop our cleaning skills. Learn how to mop, clean toilets and showers, windows and disinfect to protect ourselves from germs, and more. We will also refresh our skills in washing, ironing, and folding laundry.
Activity Cost
$15 Oct 2024
Week 3: Health and Wellbeing
This week, we will learn about our health and wellbeing and the many ways we can look after ourselves. We will cover diet and nutrition and how to make healthy choices, exercise, mental health, and develop healthy habits we can practice in our everyday lives.
Activity Cost
$22 Oct 2024
Week 4: Money Handling and Budgeting for Groceries
Using what we learned last week, we will choose a healthy recipe to cook next week. Research ingredients we need and budget plan to know how much money we will need.
Activity Cost
$29 Oct 2024
Week 5: Cooking Skills
Let’s develop our kitchen skills. Today, we will choose a recipe, make a shopping list, budget and shop ingredients before cooking our chosen meal. While we cook, we will also delve in to food hygiene and practice kitchen safety.
Activity Cost
$05 Nov 2024
Week 6: Emergency Preparedness
Learn to be prepared for emergencies, so that we know how to stay calm and be safe. We will learn to read and understand evacuation plans and maps, identify safe places, and what to do in various emergencies.
Activity Cost
$12 Nov 2024
Week 7: Communication Skills
Being able to advocate for ourselves is an important skill. Today, we will learn about communication, being able to communicate with others, using our words and body language to express ourselves and our needs, and set boundaries. We will also practice active listening skills so that we can understand others in return.
Activity Cost
$19 Nov 2024
Week 8: Travel Training
Let’s learn how to find and read public transport timetables and use Trip Planner. Use these skills to plan and complete an outing on local public transport. Please bring your topped up Opal Card so we can practice tapping on and off.
Activity Cost
$26 Nov 2024
Week 9: Problem Solving
Let’s develop our problem solving and teamwork skills. Roleplay several scenarios and work together to find solutions. We will develop our independence, cooperation and compromise skills, and our ability to cope with change.
Activity Cost
$03 Dec 2024
Week 10: First Aid
It is important to regularly refresh our memory of first aid. This week we will revise our first aid skills and knowledge from last term as while also learning some new first aid.
Activity Cost
$10 Dec 2024
Week 11: Recap Week
Didn’t earn all your badges the first time? This week we will revisit any tasks you did not complete to help refresh your skills.