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1/5 Scout Skills Types of Tents The Scout Association 2000 – Item code: FS315086 (Format Revision Aug 2000)
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provide a small Patrol with a self-contained unit
at camp.
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2/5 Scout Skills Types of Tents The Scout Association 2000 – Item code: F315086 (Format Revision Aug 2000)
The Scout Association, Information Centre, Gilwell Park, Bury Road, Chingford, London E4 7QW. Email: info.centre@scout.org.uk
Website www.scoutbase.org.uk Direct: 020 8498 5400 Local rate call: 0845 300 1818 Fax: 020 8498 5407
Can you do it?
TEACH YOURSELF
Check. how you are doing and see how many of
the following you can answer:
Tents come in all shapes and sizes for a variety
of different purposes and great care needs to be Can I list seven main types of tent?
taken in finding the right tent for the right Can I describe the sort of occasion that they
purpose. You will need to have read the
might be used for?
Information Sheet about the specific types, if you
Can I state the things to consider when buying or
have not already done so.
selecting a tent?
Time and equipment
So you want more?
This will depend upon the method chosen but in
Visit camps of other Troops within the District.
the case of tents, it's easier to go to them, rather
See what tents they are using.
than bringing them to you!
Speak with camping and tent suppliers and/or
Learning all about it
obtain various catalogues to find out about the
current developments and availability of tents.
There is no substitute for actually looking at, and
examining different types of tents to understand
their advantages and disadvantages. Indeed,
sleeping and living in a tent will provide you with
first hand knowledge of the tents.
3/5 Scout Skills Types of Tents The Scout Association 2000 – Item code: F315086 (Format Revision Aug 2000)
The Scout Association, Information Centre, Gilwell Park, Bury Road, Chingford, London E4 7QW. Email: info.centre@scout.org.uk
Website www.scoutbase.org.uk Direct: 020 8498 5400 Local rate call: 0845 300 1818 Fax: 020 8498 5407
If it is possible, arrange a visit to a camping
HOW TO TRAIN OTHERS exhibition or local camping supplier. If
contacted, a camping equipment supplier may be
interested in coming along to you and putting up
This section is designed to give some practical examples of different tents.
ideas about how you can help other people to
find out about types of tents. This might be Have a go at one or more of the training games
Leaders or Scouts - either in an informal way on outlined below. As there is little factual
a Troop night or more formally on a skills information to put across, there is no reason why
workshop, training course or something similar. these should not be introduced early on.
Objectives Training games
By the end of the session, participants will be • Using previously pitched (put up) tents, and
able to: with participants in small groups, the session
I. Identify seven main different types of leader specifies a type of tent and one
tent; person from each group has to run to the
II. Describe the possible uses for each of appropriate tent. The first person to correctly
the above named tents; identify the tent gets a point.
III. State the features to look for when • Devise a wordsearch or anagram type puzzle
selecting a tent. which includes different types of tents and /or
their uses.
Time • In small groups, give participants a selection
of scenarios for which they have to decide
This will vary depending on whether constructing what type of tent would be most appropriate.
tents or just looking at some already up, and on • Have a selection of different types of tents
the training method and games chosen. available, not pitched. Ask participants, in
However, 30-60 minutes will probably be small groups, to erect each of them, discuss
sufficient to introduce the different types of tents their features, advantages and
and discuss their uses. disadvantages, and to take them down
again. After all the groups have done this,
Equipment each group should then give a short report
back on what they have found.
Again this will depend upon the method chosen,
but it is possible that you will require an example Alternatively, the putting up and taking
of each tent and current camping equipment down could be done in groups, but this time
catalogues if you are not visiting a camp or against the clock.
exhibition.
• This game requires a bit more planning -
Training methods take a selection of photographs of different
tents, some of which should make it obvious
The most effective way of familiarising what the tent is, whilst others should be
participants with the different types of tents taken from unusual angles and from inside of
available is for them to see the tents for them! Get Members to guess what type of
themselves. In an ideal situation, there should tent they are.
be a display of each type of tent for participants
to look at and, better still, an opportunity for them Checking their progress
to sleep and live in and to find out first hand their
advantages and disadvantages. A camp situation Ask participants if they can answer the following
is, therefore, ideal for this, although this is not, of questions:
course, always possible.
Can I list seven main types of tent?
Here are some alternatives: Can I describe the sort of occasion that they
might be used for?
Using diagrams of various tents, ask participants,
Can I state the sort of things to consider when
either individually or in pairs, to name them and
buying or selecting a tent?
describe the uses of each.
4/5 Scout Skills Types of Tents The Scout Association 2000 – Item code: F315086 (Format Revision Aug 2000)
The Scout Association, Information Centre, Gilwell Park, Bury Road, Chingford, London E4 7QW. Email: info.centre@scout.org.uk
Website www.scoutbase.org.uk Direct: 020 8498 5400 Local rate call: 0845 300 1818 Fax: 020 8498 5407
So they want to know more?
5/5 Scout Skills Types of Tents The Scout Association 2000 – Item code: F315086 (Format Revision Aug 2000)
The Scout Association, Information Centre, Gilwell Park, Bury Road, Chingford, London E4 7QW. Email: info.centre@scout.org.uk
Website www.scoutbase.org.uk Direct: 020 8498 5400 Local rate call: 0845 300 1818 Fax: 020 8498 5407