The
Brownies and Guides in this area are the 1st Landford Units;
Rainbows are 1st Nomansland; but they serve jointly the villages
of Whiteparish, Landford and Nomansland.
We are very active units—and did you know that the Brownies
celebrated their 90th birthday in 2004? That’s 90 years of
fun and activities that many young girls and women have had
while growing up as a Brownie. In the autumn of 2004 the Brownies
in our area joined over 2,000 other Brownies from all over the South
West of England in a day full of activities at Foxlease, our Guiding
home in the New Forest. Brownies from all over Wiltshire have attended
Pack Holidays and camps, teaching Brownies how to survive
without Mum and Dad. Examples of past or planned Brownie activities have
included: an evening tour of Marwell Zoo as part of our birthday celebrations;
Pack Holidays including sailing at Calshot Activity Centre,
and climbing, archery, and lots of other activities outdoors and in
at Ferny Crofts, the Scout Training and Activity Centre.
Recent or planned Guide activities have included an exciting and energetic
day Dragon Boating with Guides from all over Wiltshire; ice-skating,
ten-pin bowling and swimming at Basingstoke with other Guides from
Downton District; a course in First Aid; a week in the Czech Republic;
and joining Guides in the rest of the district for a day at Calshot,
climbing, ski-ing and sailing. In addition Guides always enjoy craft
activities and always have an annual Camp.
BROWNIE NEWS (January 2010)
Last summer the Brownies and their leaders went on Pack Holiday in Coombe Bissett. The theme chosen was HARRY POTTER and the girls enjoyed fun activities based around this. The highlight was a day out, which began with a morning of outdoor activities at the Avon Tyrrell centre, followed by fun on the beach at Bournemouth, finishing off with fish and chips at Harry Ramsdens!
In the Autumn term there was a trip to the Rapids in Romsey where we all had lots of fun being swept around the rapids and playing swimming games. The Brownies are all ‘Water Babies’
For Christmas the Brownies chose to have a Pyjama Party and enjoyed playing games and dancing to the disco. A big thanks to the mums who provided delicious things to eat and drink.
Girl Guiding UK Centenary: 1910—2010
This is a very important year for the Guiding movement as it is their Centenary Year and there are many wonderful activities planned for the Guides, Brownies and Rainbows to take part in.
It began with the Launch Party which the Downton District held at Trafalgar school. There were lots of exciting activities including dancing, water games and crafts, which were followed by a party tea the centre piece of which was two cakes decorated with the Guide Trefoil and the Centenary Logo and a hundred gold candles. The tea was enjoyed by all and the party ended with songs around the camp fire lead by Snowy Owl and the ‘piece de resistance’ a grand Firework Display courtesy of Pains Fireworks, where we were joined by friends and family.
Another party was organised by the Division ( Salisbury Area ). It was at the City Hall and several Brownies, Snowy Owl and Brown Owl, enjoyed the Disco with a live band and entertainment from Jonathan the Jester.
Just before Christmas the pack went to the Library in Salisbury to see an exhibition of Crib Scenes from around the world organised by Wiltshire South Division. The scenes had been lent by Libby Purvis, the author and broadcaster and were truly wonderful. After tea at Pizza Hut the girls enjoyed exploring the exhibition looking for the different features from different countries. Also displayed were the winners of a competition for Guides and Brownies to make their own cribs. Some Downton Guides were among the winners.
The latest activity we have been busy with is painting a piece entitled ‘ My Wow Guiding Adventure’ to be entered into a country wide competition organised by the artist John Dyer and Girl Guiding South West England. The Brownies have painted some very vibrant scenes of their Wow Activities in the style of John Dyer himself. We hope some of them may catch his eye!
COMING UP
On 14th February we will have Church Parade at the Methodist Chapel in Landford, where we have our Brownie meetings. Everyone is welcome to come along.
This year we will celebrate Thinking Day as One World One Beat, meeting at the college in Salisbury with other Brownies and Guides from around the region.
That is not the end! There are many more things coming up during the year, which we will let you know about. We hope this gives you an idea of how exciting being a Rainbow, Brownie and Guide is. It offers girls many great opportunities but above all ------- it is FUN!
Little Owl
BROWNIE NEWS (January 2008)
Trip to London.
A group of excited Brownies met at Southampton Airport station for the train journey to Waterloo. Oh,, we did reserve seats! Sorry madam, but we can put you in first class. So despite the awful weather we travelled to London in style. Our first stop was the Houses of Parliament where we had a guided tour of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The girls were extremely interested in all the history and interesting facts our guide, who herself had been a Brownie, had to tell us. We learnt how the two houses work and saw, the throne where the Queen sits to open Parliament, the woolsack, and portraits of all our past Kings and Queens. We ended the tour in Westminster Hall and left to see the hands of one face of Big Ben whirring round and round! Eventually all faces showed the same time. This was followed by lunch on the Victoria Embankment (the rain had stopped) and a trip down the river to visit The Tower of London. We were lucky enough to see the bridge open to let an old Thames Sailing Barge go through. This was followed by a brief train ride and a visit to Pizza Express. A good time was had by all and the girls were a pleasure to be with.
Radio Day
As part of our Communicator Badge some of the Brownies went to Chandlers Ford where, with the help of a Guider and Itchen Valley Radio Club, we joined in a Jamboree of the Air and were able to talk to people near Birmingham, who were in an old windmill, and even to someone in New York State, although this was very faint. The girls learnt how to spell their name in the Phonetic Alphabet and made a bead bracelet to represent the name in Morse code. We have also been texting our Brownie friends in Nomansland.
Other Activities
We took part in the Village Service in Landford Church on 14th October and showed how we begin our meetings with a Brownie Ring around the toadstool, singing the Brownie song.
Autumn leaves inspired the girls to make leaf pictures of an animal or person which would have graced any gallery.
Star Gazer Badge . Unfortunately the weather prevented our visit to the Southampton Observatory but Mike Bryant came to explain the workings of the solar system with help of lamps, a polystyrene ball and the Brownies!
Halloween Activities included making a stained glass pumpkin and bobbing for apples.
Christmas s aw us making presents, sparkly Christmas tree shaped boxes with chocolates inside and Christmas tree cards using felt and more sparkle!
Our party took the form of a Teddy Bear’s Night, which I was sorry to miss.
THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO
Our newest Brownies will make their promise.
- Valentine’s Day cards. SHhhh!
- There will be a Thinking Day Service
- We’ll be making Mother’s Day items. SHhhh!
- Easter activities
Little Owl
BROWNIE NEWS, Autumn 2006:
The 2006 autumn term started with the Brownies of the First Landford Pack completing work to achieve their Brownie Pack Holiday Badges. This year, twenty four Brownies had a fun-packed weekend at the Wiltshire Guide Headquarters, in the old school at Berwick St James. Eight of the older Brownies braved the inclement weather (thunder, lightning, rain!!) in a tent in the grounds accompanied by two guiders. Activities centred on the theme 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and included a physical activity course, a scavenger hunt in the local countryside, cooking, and clay work to produce a name plaque. All great fun, but totally exhausting!!! Brownies have lots of energy.
Also this term, six new Brownies will take their Promise and we will be doing some star gazing as part of the Seasons Badge. The Brownies have already made beautiful Autumn leaf collages.
We were very pleased to be invited to take part in the Christmas Tree Festival at Landford Church from December 8th to 10th, and our tree will be decorated on the theme of 'Away in a manger' Do come along to see ours, and all the other trees.
Happy Christmas to everyone from the First Landford Brownie Pack!
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