Ceremony One
Cadettes should be in a horseshoe on one side of the bridge, and a Senior or Seniors on the other side of the bridge. After the Cadettes cross the bridge and are met and given the Girl Scout handshake by the Senior Scout(s), they should then form a horseshoe with the Senior(s).
LEADER:
When you are a Senior Scout, your life is filled with action. In addition to group activities, Seniors have many individual opportunities coming their way. You can take part in special events and activities planned by Seniors for Seniors. You can be a delegate or a member of the council board and help plan council activities. You may be selected for one of the many STUDIO 2B destinations open to Girl Scouts each year. And, you can now begin work on the Gold Leadership Award and the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouts. We invite you to get involved!
Need eight white candles in holders. New Seniors may alternate lighting candles and saying the parts of the following pledge:
I pledge as a Senior Scout to:
1. Uphold the highest ideals of womanhood as expressed in the Promise and Law.
2. Be thoughtful and considerate and assume my share of responsibility in the activities of my troop.
3. Be a better citizen of my community and prepare myself for the duties and responsibilities of adult citizenship in a democracy.
4. Realize my deep commitment to volunteer my services wherever and whenever needed.
5. Keep myself healthy and the world around me as safe as I can make it.
6. Seek new knowledge and the skill to use it.
7. Increase my knowledge and understanding of the peoples of the world toward the goal of peace.
8. Prepare myself for the future.
Return to horseshoe
LEADER:
As you begin your Senior journey to the Gold Award, we give you a gold key to help you unlock the doors to the Five Worlds of Girl Scouting. Keys have quite a history. They were first used back in Biblical times. They were quite large and made of wood; they were carried as a sign of prestige. We hope that you will carry your key as proudly as the first keys were carried, and that this key will open many doors and worlds in your Senior years of Scouting. Welcome to Senior Girl Scouts.
Ceremony Two
The speaking parts can be split up into a few more parts if you have more girls available. This ceremony an be adapted to bridge girls into Adult Scouting with a few wording changes
SENIOR GIRL SCOUT:
Tonight we Senior Girl Scouts celebrate with these Cadette Girl Scouts who are ready to bridge into Senior Girl Scouting. It is our aim during this evening to see that you have a glimpse into the different options of the Senior Girl Scouting program and that we can get to know each other. We know that you have prepared yourselves well and will want to use your experiences to extend your knowledge and to explore new interests. We know too, that you will adhere to the belief in the Girl Scout Promise and Law which underlies the activities in the Senior Program. May we all repeat the Girl Scout Promise and Law together.
SENIOR GIRL SCOUT:
There are so many worlds to explore! There is the World of Yourself, partly known, but still full of mysteries and surprises. There is the World of People, like you and unlike you, girls and boys, men and women, little children and senior citizens. There is the World of the Out-of-Doors, and there are the worlds of laughter and beauty and career and growing up to be a woman.
SENIOR GIRL SCOUT OR LEADER:
It now gives us much pleasure to present you with a gift to represent your bridging from Cadettes to Seniors. As your name is called, will you please come forward to receive your gift.
SENIOR GIRL SCOUT: (after all girls have received gifts)
Let us be friends in everything of duty and of play
And in whatever other deeds we do from day to day.
Let us be kind and generous to those who cross our path
And not allow ourselves to live in jealousy or wrath.
Let us consider what we have and how much we can spare
To spread the sunshine with us to others everywhere.
For, after all, our happiness to some degree depends
On how we go about the task of comforting our friends.
So let us follow friendliness with every step we take
And do some worthy deed each day for someone else's sake.
Close with an appropriate song
Gift Ideas
- Daisies
- Yellow Roses
- Personalized I.D. Pin
- Membership Star
- Part of the Senior Uniform
- Certificate
- Bridging Patch
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