Guiding award for Calarnee
Warragul Guides recently held a special celebration in honour of Calarnee Stephens completing her Baden Powell Award.
The BP Award is a youth peak achievement award that requires girls to complete three challenges in each of the following areas promise and law, outdoors, service, guiding traditions, world guiding and patrol systems.
Calarnee started with Warragul Brownies in 2013. Some highlights of Calarnee’s time in
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Calarnee also completed her Junior BP which was a fantastic achievement. Calarnee put her hand up to anything and everything and always set herself challenges of a high standard.
In 2015, Calarnee continuind her guiding journey when she moved into Guides. She also now volunteers as a junior leader in Brownies.
The following is an extract of the citation that will be read at the state awards day next year which Calarnee will attend.
“Calarnee took on her BP challenge with cheerfulness and enthusiasm from the very start. Calarnee has always been keen to challenge herself at Girl Guides, looking for opportunities to involve herself with leadership, helping new Guides find a place, running activities and inventing games to help make Guides fun for everyone, achieving many badges and ultimately her JBP award.
“Calarnee approached her BP award with the idea to really step up and challenge herself to further her understanding of her Guide promise and law.
“From the very start she wanted to gain a better understanding of the Guide fundamentals within the award. Calarnee used her passions and interests to form her challenges; she organised and ran drama nights, intricate games of skill and big fun noisy games that reflected world guiding, guiding traditions and the environment.
“Calarnee helped paint our camping shed and created and sewed Australian themed SWAPS. She organised and planned a traditional Guide campfire, complete with songs, skits and smores that we all enjoyed taking part in.
“Calarnee’s biggest challenge was to organise and run a patrol camp. This required her to plan everything from the date and place, the risk assessment, the menu, the activities and style of camp,” the citation said.