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'heritage is all around us even in the smallest of areas''heritage is cool'

'Fabulous Finds' is what the South Queensferry Girl Guides have called their part in our heritage project. The Guides are researching Guiding and local history and with support from our partners Dunfermline Young Archaelogists Club, are developing their archaeological knowledge and skills. This project is also supporting the Guides to achieve their Traditions and Go For It! - Blast From The Past badges.

The Guides enjoyed a lot of different activities, including beachcombing and a VIP Evening. They learned a lot of things through the project including discovering that South Queensferry Guides are 100 years old in 2019.

The Guides also had a central role in co-designing our 'Hosting Heritage At The Hub' event, co-hosting the day and exhibiting a 'fabulous' stall to share their activities and learning.

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By bringing together a network of people working with and for children, alongside children and young people themselves, we offer a broad, balanced and independent voice. We create solutions, provide support and develop positive change across all areas affecting children in Scotland.

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'heritage is all around us even in the smallest of areas''heritage is cool'

'Fabulous Finds' is what the South Queensferry Girl Guides have called their part in our heritage project. The Guides are researching Guiding and local history and with support from our partners Dunfermline Young Archaelogists Club, are developing their archaeological knowledge and skills. This project is also supporting the Guides to achieve their Traditions and Go For It! - Blast From The Past badges.

The Guides enjoyed a lot of different activities, including beachcombing and a VIP Evening. They learned a lot of things through the project including discovering that South Queensferry Guides are 100 years old in 2019.

The Guides also had a central role in co-designing our 'Hosting Heritage At The Hub' event, co-hosting the day and exhibiting a 'fabulous' stall to share their activities and learning.

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By bringing together a network of people working with and for children, alongside children and young people themselves, we offer a broad, balanced and independent voice. We create solutions, provide support and develop positive change across all areas affecting children in Scotland.

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The girls with our display

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The team with the display and certificates

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Enjoying the day

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Part of our final display.

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Receiving the Heritage Hero Awards for our Guides.

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The Guides were lucky enough to help to plan Hosting Heritage at the Hub, where groups of young people from all over Scotland shared their Heritage projects. A few of us were lucky enough to come as well , and played a big part in co-hosting the event. Olive was co-chair with Jane from CIS.

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Guides being presented with Traditions of Guiding badges by Helen.

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A few old badges from Joyce's archive

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Mark showed us how to use Padlet to make an online display.

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Joyce's photos of Guides in South Queensferry over the years.

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Can we still do reef knots?

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Photos for our heritage guests to look at.

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Photos for our heritage guests to look at.

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A visit from a 1970s Guide, Helen, in her actual Guide uniform.

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You need a really hot fire to make popcorn

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You need a really hot fire to make popcorn

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Joyce keeps a Guiding archive in Linlithgow. She brought an exhibition of old uniforms, badges, photos, books and records for us to see.

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Interview questions for our guests

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We made these Guiding Timelines and asked our heritage evening guests to make them too to help us share our experiences

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Smores for our  Traditions of Guiding badge

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Smores for our  Traditions of Guiding badge

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It worked!

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We entertained our guests with tea and home baking and we interviewed them about their time in Guides. We discovered that the first Guide company in South Queensferry was registered in January 1920.

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Using our interview skills to find out what our guests did when they were Guides.

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in these pictures we are using dig boxes to find some artefacts like real life.

Here are some of the artefacts that we found in the dig boxes.

Most of them are from the medieval times. We put what we found into a find box, to separate them from the dirt, then we wiped them off with a toothbrush, and looked at them a bit closer to examine then.

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In this photo we are excavating the artefacts with a lolly stick. After we find one we clean it with a toothbrush. We used a lolly stick to dig because they are a good shape for digging and they are made from a soft material, so that means we won't damage any artefacts we come across.

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On the 18th of September the 3rd South Queensferry Guide unit went to the beach. At the beach we did beach combing and we also made fires. We finished off with a Promise Ceremony for Niamh and Jess.

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Searching the seashore before the rain started.

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In beach combing we found lots of interesting things including; a metal spoon and fork , a spark plug, sea shells, lots of sea glass, a bone and lots more! We also found lots of plastic which is worrying as it could badly harm local wildlife.

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In fire making, we gathered dry branches from the woods to make our fires . We also made newspaper bows to help our fires stay alight.