1st Melbourn Guides Learning practical skills is the best bit about being a Guide and we covered lots of that in the autumn term. To experience what Guides did during the war, the girls used the phonetic alphabet, learned bandaging, and competed to build a tower from bamboo skewers and blu-tak. Then came the Bake-Off competition: for the technical challenge they whisked up a mousse, crème pâtissière and baked pastry cases or shortbread. The girls also showed great creativity with biscuits and coloured fondant icing to produce Showstopper themes of Beauty and the Beast, and a nativity scene on a pre-baked sponge base. With flowers kindly donated by Bury Lane Farm Shop, we finished the term making Christmas table decorations with a candle, oasis foam and lots of foliage. We started the new year with the girls’ choice of games, then did a First Aid skills badge. The hall trustees kindly showed us a video and their new defibrillator and we then practiced CPR using a dummy and a fake defibrillator machine. We also learnt how to treat sprains, ways to use a bandage and a sling, and how to make an emergency call. To think about accident prevention, the girls played hide and seek using a torch and hi-vis jacket and drew a picture showing hazards around the home. At the All Saints Coffee Stop, the older Guides served hot drinks, whilst our cake stall raised £56 for the PDSA and Macmillan Cancer care. If you would like to know more about our Guide unit, please contact me on (01763) 261443 or email melbournguides@gmail.com You can also look on the girlguiding.org.uk website to find out more. Hilary Marsh 31
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