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As you’ve probably guessed the girls this term the girls studied Christmas, but they did it with a difference, four scrap books were placed on the floor and inside each scrap book was a piece of paper with a year on it, the years were 1900, 1925, 1950 and 1975, PL’s chose a scrap book without knowing which year was in which book. They were then told that was the Christmas they would live, they were told to take on the role of a girl in an average family, (no servants but not in the work house either). They talked amongst themselves for about a half hour decided on what food they might eat we then made a combined shopping list and wrote the year next to an item if they did not think it was available in that year. Because between the girls and leaders we knew nothing about pre-decimal money, the girls used pounds and pence, we just halved the price for each decreasing year. They were told the monthly wage in 1975 was £200. In 1950 it was £100. In 1925 it was £50. and in 1900 it was £25. they were told to spend it carefully and live December of their year. They made lists of how much milk, bread, coal ect. they bought for the month, they had to budget for bills and presents and they made decorations. The only patrol to have difficulty keeping within their budget was 1975 because they decided the three children in that family all had a bike for Christmas but they could not afford it so when we asked them about it they said the parents joined a Christmas club and had been paying all year for the bikes. They stuck all their evidence in the scrapbooks.
We also joined the Rainbows and Brownies at RAF Wyton to perform a small play called “Christmas Joy”. Kimberley chose tonight to make her Promise, as her Mum is the Rainbow leader and the Brownie pack was where she had been a Brownie, which meant Family and friends surrounded Kimberley.
For the last meeting every girl bought a small wrapped gift up to the value of £2.50, we then stuck raffle tickets on each gift and each girl pulled a raffle ticket out of a box, match the ticket they’d pulled with one of the presents and that was the presents they got, luckily no girl went home with the presents she’d bought. |
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