Area 8 ‘Club of the Year’
Challenge Trophy

Table of Contents

Complete the Curriculum.. 2

Complete the Advance Curriculum.. 2

Bake Off Competition – Adventurers. 2

Bake Off Competition – Pathfinders. 2

Participate in SEC Fair. 2

Club Staff Challenge. 3

Club Administration Challenge. 3

Grow Large Sunflower (Adventurers) 3

Grow Own Food. 3

Points Allocation Table. 5

We have devised Seven (7) areas in which each club will need to excel if they are to be in the running to lift the challenge trophy at the end of 2021.  These seven areas are as follow:

• Complete Curriculum
• Complete Advance Curriculum
• Bake Off Competition - Adventurers
• Bake Off Competition - Pathfinders
• Club Staff Challenge
• Club Administration Challenge
• Grow Own Food

Complete the Curriculum

As the main work of the Pathfinder and Adventurer is to complete their class requirements each year, this area has a greater weighting than any other area.    Please see the points allocation table for more details.

Complete the Advance Curriculum

We are grateful to God that our clubs are getting stronger and stronger each year.  We now want to encourage more children to complete the advance requirements.  While we see this as possible for some children, we do not want leaders and counsellor to pressure Pathfinders who do not want to work on the advanced requirements.  So, we have included this as an area for the challenge trophy but have given it a very low weighting. Please see the points allocation table for more details.

Bake Off Competition – Adventurers

We like to encourage our Pathfinders and Adventurers to develop new skills and are aware that some may find their life’s work from experiences had in Adventurers.  We have held a Bake off before and it was a great success.  We have included this as an area again this year and hope to see even more clubs participating.   Please see the points allocation table for more details.

Bake Off Competition – Pathfinders

We like to encourage our Pathfinders and Adventurers to develop new skills and are aware that some may find their life’s work from experiences had in Pathfinders.  We have held a Bake off before and it was a great success.  We have included this as an area again this year and hope to see even more clubs participating.   Please see the points allocation table for more details.

Participate in SEC Fair

One hundred points would be award to all club which participate in this years SEC Fair.

Club Staff Challenge

Aim: to get the children to name the title of your master piece.

The title: 'Changing the World'

Each participating group or individual are to try and be creative in depicting the SEC theme for 2021, ' I Will Go'

Requirements:

- you are not allowed to use words.

- you can only use household items.

- the poster should be no bigger than A3

- only club staff can take part in the activity.

- you are to use the poster as an active tool when undertaking outreach in 2021. Please take photos so it can be shared.

Winner selection:

All submitted posters will be presented anonymously to the PAC team and a winner selected. They will be looking for creativity, use of materials, people’s ability to interpret theme.

Club Administration Challenge

We have noticed that there is still room for improvements when it comes to club administration in some clubs.  So, we have added this as an area to be worked as you aspire to life the trophy at the end of the year.  This is all on the leadership of the club – don’t let your Pathfinders and Adventurers down. Please see the points allocation table for more details.

Grow Large Sunflower (Adventurers)

Sunflowers are fast growing with a beautiful flowering head at the top at the end of the growing stage.  Adventurers may enjoy measuring themselves against the growing plant on a daily basis then measuring their parents against the plant when the plan has passed their height.  Parents can use sunflowers to explain all about the different stages of a plant’s life.   We will supply a couple sunflower seeds to all Area8 Adventurers and have a Sunflower growing competition.  Let’s see who will grow the tallest Sunflower and the widest Sunflower head.

Grow Own Food

Each pathfinder and adventurer must grow a fruit or vegetable from seed!  This is going to be a big challenge but one to which we are hoping each club will rise.  2020 may have hinted that the end of time is nigh, and we would not have properly equipped out pathfinders and adventurers for end times if we haven’t taught them how to grow their own food.   Get someone from your church to help or use YouTube or take them to an allotment – It doesn’t matter how they learn but get each child to grow a fruit or vegetable.

Points Allocation:  Points will be awarded on a percentage basis as follow:

• % of club to plant from seed but didn't get to harvest
• % of club to plant from seed and get to harvest

Judging:  We will need 3 photos of each child with their produce as follow:

• Photo 1: showing child next to plant as it germinates.
• Photo 2: showing child and a plant with lots of foliage.
• Photo 3: showing child and a plat with produce ready to be harvested.

More photos can be supplied but the above three are the minimum requirements to get full points.

Points Allocation Table