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A Challenge Designed to Explore the County We All Know and Love! WELCOME A challenge designed to explore the county we all know and love! WELCOME Welcome to our ‘I Love Staffordshire’ challenge! This challenge aims to teach you more about the county where we live as well as having lots of fun working through our challenges. Girlguiding Staffordshire is split into 17 divisions across the county. Every single Rainbow, Brownie, Guide, Ranger, Young Leader, Unit Helper, Leader, Trefoil Guild Member and Occassional Helper belongs to one of our divisions. To earn the ‘I Love Staffordshire’ challenge badge simply choose and complete one challenge from each of our divisions. You can choose to complete the Outdoor, Food, Craft or Pen & Paper challenge for each division depending on which one appeals to you the most. Some of the challenges will require adult supervision and so please remember to ask for help if you need it. There are lots of ideas in this pack but you can always search online to find extra instructions or guidance for some of the challenges. You can also be creative and adapt the challenges if you don’t have all of the equipment and/or ingredients. We’d love you to share your successes with us so please email your photos or videos to [email protected] and we’ll add them to an online photo album so we can all see how everyone is getting on. Once you have completed your challenges then you can order a badge to celebrate your success by visiting girlguidingstaffordshire.org.uk/shop We hope that you enjoy completing our ‘I Love Staffordshire’ challenge. Alison Holmes & Cat Kerr County Commissioners Don’t forget to share your photos with us at [email protected] Special thanks to the following members of Girlguiding Staffordshire for their contribution in helping to put this challenge together: Penny Williams, Claire Keen, Victoria Davies-Friend, Karen Micklewright, Jill Longhurst, Samantha Abell, Amy Beech, Sharon Ward, Steffi Thompson, Katie Plant, Marie Hames. Burton Division Outdoors Craft Burton Albion is Burton’s football team. Burton-on-Trent is situated on the River They play in League 1 and have celebrated Trent and near the Trent and Mersey Canal. success. Their football ground is Pirelli Canal boats and barges provide many outlets Stadium and the club’s nickname is The for your creative side. Burton is also well Brewers due to the town’s history in the known for its wool and textiles. brewing Challenge: industry - the town is still home to eight Decorate a breweries today. wooden spoon The players have to with flowers in do lots of exercise the style of canal and training to keep art. themselves fit and healthy. Challenge: Set up an obstacle Pen & Paper course and see if you Tutbury and Hatton are situated within can dribble a football around it. Can you Burton Division, they share a railway station beat your best time? Can you beat other called Tutbury and Hatton station. members of your family? Tutbury is best known for its castle. Hatton was the home for Nestlé’s factory due to the surrounding farmland that supported a strong dairy farming industry. Food Burton-on-Trent is well known for beer Until the late 1970s the factory had its own and Marmite. It hosts the National Brewery private railway siding, which gave access to Centre. Marmite is a by-product of brewing. milk trains from the station. The Both beer and Marmite contain yeast. factory since has developed into a major coffee producer, the sole UK facility Challenge: producing the Dolce Gusto range. Railway Make yourself a Marmite sandwich. Do you stations tend to have large advertisement love it or hate it? posters. Challenge: Produce a poster advertising your Guiding section - Rainbows, Brownies etc. Make sure it’s bright and colourful. Cannock Division Outdoors Craft Cannock Division has lots of outdoor spaces Chasewater Country Park is an outdoors for us to enjoy but we mustn’t take this for space just within Cannock Division with lots granted. To keep our guiding promises we to offer, including a large reservoir and have made, whilst we are out and about, visitor centre. People take part in lots of we should make sure we know, and stick water sports, including sailing and water to, the Countyside Code. skiing. Challenge: Challenge: Take a walk around An experiment to see which materials float your local area and best. Pick as many different types of clean think about the recyclable materials as you can. Sort them Countryside Code. into order of least likely to float to most How many times likely to float then test your ideas in the you need to follow kitchen sink. Put the material you think is it, eg, when you least likely to float in the water first. Does close a gate behind it sink straight away, float for a little while you or put rubbish in or float really well? Test all your materials in the bin. order. Which could you use to make a boat? Try making a boat out of the best floater. Food Cannock Chase is an area of outstanding Pen & Paper natural beauty with lots of outdoor space Cannock has a lovely coat of arms. It is for us to enjoy. Hednesford Hills nature made up of all sorts of things that represent reserve is on the edge of Cannock Chase Cannock: the Staffordshire knot, which is and is a nice open area for a picnic. the symbol of our county; a stag to represent Cannock Chase which is home for Challenge: 800 deer; and at the bottom the motto, Plan the perfect picnic for your family. Make ‘Labor In Venati’ which means ‘Labour in sure you have a good variety of food - fruit the Chase’. We use mottos to describe is just as important as cake! You’ll also need things that are important to us, e.g. the plenty to drink to make sure you stay Brownie motto is ‘Lend a Hand’. hydrated on warm days. Once you have your Challenge: list why not make it for real? You don’t have to go far to have a picnic; you could have Draw your own coat one in your garden or your living room. of arms and make up your own motto. Make sure you include the things you think represent you, whether that’s a book for reading, a promise badge for guiding or a cake for baking! Lapley Division Outdoors Craft Weston Park is a stunning park and gardens The village of Wheaton Aston’s claim to in Weston-Under-Lizard, which lies within fame is that it is the most northerly point Lapley Division. It is the home to V Fest, an in the UK where the snake’s head fritillary annual music festival held during the third flower can be found growing in the wild. weekend in August. There are various Locally the flower is known by the name stages and tents with activities. You can “folfallarum”. In years gone by it used to be also camp overnight. tradition that on the first Sunday of May the villagers would all go out and pick the flowers. This tradition led to the flower to becoming the village’s unofficial emblem, used on things like the local school uniforms. Nowadays the area where the flower grows, known as Mottey Meadows, is run by English Nature, to protect the flower. Challenge: Have your own music festival in your garden. Pitch a tent, or make a shelter, face paint, make a head band and a flower Challenge: garland to wear, wear your wellies (even if Using tissue paper or craft paper make some its not raining), put on some music and do flowers. There are lots of ideas on the some dancing! internet if you need some help. Food Gnosall is a village within Lapley Division. Pen & Paper It was mentioned in the Domesday Book, in Penkridge within Lapley Division had a which it was named Geneshale. It is listed ‘fulling mill’ as well as corn mills. A fulling there as having a population of 12 mill was where fabric (especially wool) was households! Coton Mill is an interesting cleaned to remove oil and dirt. The cleaning landmark where local rumours suggest was done by pounding the fabric with large self-raising flour was invented (despite mallets. strong evidence it was actually created in 1845, by Henry Jones, a baker in Bristol). Challenge: Challenge: Discover and learn washing and ironing symbols on clothes labels. Have a go at Self raising flour is used sorting your laundry accordingly. in baking all sorts of goodies. Choose your favourite and bake it for your family and friends. You could give it to a neighbour as an act of kindness. Leek Division Outdoors Craft Leek is situated at the foot of the Peak Following the industrial revolution Leek was District and most of the town is at least 600 a major producer of textiles and many of feet above sea level, with some parts of the the town’s mills still remain. William Morris, town being as high as 1,657 feet above sea founder of the arts and crafts movement level! studied at a dyeworks in Leek which provided him and his company with silk. Challenge: Have a go of tie-dying a an item of clothing. Experiment with different tying methods to create different patterns. Challenge: Pen & Paper Take a stroll around your local area. What Leek Division is home to two steam railways is the highest point you can get to? Take a - the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway and the photo to prove how high you get.
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