What did guides do for first class award?

Answer 1

First Class : the Guide must

• Be a Second Class Guide and have a good influence in her company
• Have camped for at least a weekend in a Guide camp. (Where conditions make this impossible, the Commissioner and C.A. may give permission for the Guide to sleep in a hut.)
• Read Scouting for Boys (Boy's Edition) or The Life of Baden-Powell (published by the Scouts), or The Wolf that Never Sleeps, (published by the Guides), and make a book showing the story of The Guide Movement, including its International aspect.
• Understand the meaning of thrift and show she has endeavoured to prevent waste in six practical ways - three with regard to her own property, and three with regard to that of other people
• (i) Cook's Test (a) Cook and serve unaided a two course dinner for a small number. (Indoors or out as chosen by the candidate) (b) Answer simple questions to show understanding of a balanced menu
• (ii) Needlewoman's TestMake a simple garment, darn a stocking and patch a worn article
• (iii) Child Nurse Test (a) Make at the test a timetable for the routine of a child for a day in summer or winter (b) Keep a child or group of children happily occupied for one hour. This test applies to children aged 3 to 5 years.Note: Holders of the Cook, Needlewoman and Child Nurse Badges are exempt from these clauses
• Go on foot for an expedition of not less than six miles
• Have done her best to achieve the standards of the Health Record Card, and discuss with her Captain its practical application
• Swim 50 yards
• Throw a rope 12 yards (as a life line or for other useful purposes) with reasonable accuracy and in good style
• Have an intimate knowledge of the neighbourhood within a radius of half a mile from her home or Guide H.Q. (for country Guides one mile) and direct a stranger to the nearest doctor, fire ambulance, telephone, police or railway station or post or telegraph office, pillar box, garage, and nearest place for petrol, etc. from any point within that district. Be able to tell a stranger how long it will take to get there. Draw at the test a rough sketch map which would enable a stranger to find his way from one given point to another. The distance to be covered must be indicated. Know to what places the main roads lead
• Use a compass and find the 16 points by the sun and stars. Read a map.
• Take two Guides (not 1st Class) for a half-day's hike, where possible following a map. The tester, who may accompany or join them at any point, should judge them on their general turnout, programme, organisation, manner, care of other people's Property, clearing up, enjoyment, etc., type of food and its method of Cooking
• Be prepared to: Treat for shock following accident; arrest bleeding; treat a patient unconscious from accident, fit or fainting; resuscitate the drowning, using Schäfer's method of artificial respiration. Know how to deal with fire and ice accidents
• Prepare a bed for a stretcher case. Change the sheets on the bed with the patient in it. Show how to prevent bed sores. Use a clinical thermometer. Dress a wound.
• Throughout the test the candidate's appearance, carriage, courtesy and common sense shall be taken into consideration