SCOUT FIRST CLASS

1. Have camped as a Scout, for a total of ten nights, which need not be consecutive.

2. Know what to do in the following emergencies: fire, drowning, ice breaking and electric shock.

3. Gain the Scout First Aid proficiency badge

4. Swim 50metres and know the water safety code and the use of the buddy system for swimming

5. Know precautions necessary before undertaking adventurous activities. This should include exposure and mountain safety.

6. Be able to recognise and name 8 common plants, 8 common birds and 8 native wild animals.

7. Read a series of simple tracks made in sandy or other suitable ground.

8. Use improvised equipment to estimate 3 distances and 3 heights not more than 30metres. In each case, the estimate to be within ten per cent error above or below the actual distance or height.

9. Demonstrate the following: Sheer-lashing, Back and Eye splice, Fireman's chair knot, Alpine butterfly knot, Rolling hitch and a Handy billy.

10. Use a suitable axe for felling or trimming light timber. Log up a piece of timber and demonstrate the theory of felling a tree.
Use a bush saw, wedges or log splitter safely and correctly to prepare timber for burning. Demonstrate the use and care of this equipment.

11. Know how to care for and maintain camping equipment. This should include storage and simple repairs.

12. Read and be able to use Ordnance Survey maps . Understand and demonstrate the uses of a compass. Point out compass directions by day and night without the aid of a compass. Undertake a short compass journey by night. Explain spot heights, contours and trig points.

13. Know how to choose and plan a campsite for a Patrol static camp including programme and menus. Pitch, strike and pack a Patrol tent, acting as leader. Where possible, this should be tested by practical inspection of a Patrol weekend camp.

14. Be able to operate and maintain stoves and lamps and know the safety requirements. Cook on a camping stove a two course meal.

15. Build and sleep out in a bivouac and cook a backwoods meal.

16. Re-pass the Second Class badge tests 1-12 inclusive.

17. Go on foot, with other Scouts on a 24 hour journey of at least 25 kilometres. In the course of the journey, cook your own meals (one of which must include meat (or substitute)