Syllabus

Cadet

Scouting
Know and understand the scout law and promise
Learn how to roll your neckerchief and tie a square knot
Practice, At ease, Alert and join in with the rest of the troop
Learn and sing the fight song.
Learn about flag etiquette and how to fold a flag.
Camping
Know what to bring on camp and have your bag checked by a leader.
Be Proficient at pitching and folding an Icelandic tent as part of a team
Spend three nights under canvas
Show you know how to pick a good campsite
Explain how you would stay dry in an Icelandic, how could you get wet?
Take part in a litter sweep
Warmth
Light a fire in the wet and the dry
Pass the Mafikeng Axe and Saw test
Food
Assemble a trangia and use it to boil frankfurters. Explain the dangers of meths
Know how to store food on Camp
Take part in a camp rota Cooking dinner
Take charge of wash up, and explain how you did it efficiently
Pioneering
Be able to use a square lashing and a sheer lashing
Be able to tie, a clove hitch, Reef knot, and a round turn with two half hitches, and a Bowline
Make a three legged Mexican, with a figure of eight lashing.
Build a set of sturdy benches
First Aid
Know how to call for an Ambulance or Garda
Understand Hypothermia and how to avoid it
Demonstrate how to treat minor cuts, nose bleeds and burns.

Frontier

Scouting
Complete four consecutive nights under canvas
Build a full size flag pole for your campsite, or as part of a troop challenge.
Actively take part in rope care.
Volunteer to help out at a Howth community activity
Campsite
Build a table for your patrol to eat dinner off of.
Make a rubbish bin for your site that divides wet and dry.
Pitch an Icelandic blindfolded
Warmth
Build an alter fire and show a cadet how to light it. Mud it by hand.
Food
Demonstrate on camp how to stop food going off.
Cook a three coarse meal on an open fire.
Pioneering
Be able to tie a sheet bend, and double figure of eight
Be able to tie a diagonal lashing
Build a gateway.
First Aid
Be able to sling a broken arm or leg.
Learn how to stretcher someone correctly and carry them 300m
Know how to put someone in the recovery position
Know about ABC
Show how to deal with deep cuts and bleeding
Hill walking
Be able to give a six figure grid reference
List safety rules for walking on the roads
Show you can walk on a magnetic bearing.
Know your pacing for 100m

Explorer

Scouting
Undertake a job for you patrol, paint patrol box, build a cutlery box etc
Make a log book of a camp; include pictures quotes, pioneering designs menu and how it went.
Camping
Go on a winter survival buivi and sleep in survival bag. Eat only dehydrated foods
Build a Natural buivi and have it tested with water
Construct a dining shelter of a new design for your patrol
Build a camp dresser on camp
Be able to put on and tie into a harness using a figure of double figure of eight
Warmth
Train cadets in how to pass their Axe and saw test
Build a troop campfire for any troop of your choice it must burn high for at least one hour
Food
Cook a full meal backwoods style
Boil water in a paper bag on a fire
Cook a three course meal entirely without the use of gas
Create the menu and do the shopping for a camp
Pioneering
Learn how to butterfly coil a climbing rope
Build a freestanding bridge capable of moving a patrol 30m, at least 1m high
Learn how to splice a rope, and repair fraying, do so with 10 ropes
First Aid
Explain the concept of wind chill, and how to dress properly for hill walking
Be able to identify and treat hypothermia
Hill walking
Show you completely understand all features of a map, and how to take a bearing form one.
Do out the route card for an expedition.
Make your own GORP
Take part in a Sionnach or similar expedition

Dushlan

Camping
Teach 3 frontiers the first aid for their syllabus
Organise an entire patrol Camp for your patrol in February
Prepare and eat a meal taken from the wild
Navigation
Prove you can navigate competently in the mountain side
Take part in at least two expeditions
As a corp. organise and complete an expedition
Pioneering
Design and build a watch tower at least 10m high
Sleep overnight in either a watchtower or scout tree house
Build a pulley system to move a car
Learn how to set up the Arial run way and monkey bridge
Rock climbing
Demonstrate how to set up an equalised anchor system for top roping.
Do a very simple lead climb
Show an explorer how to tie into a harness using a double figure of eight
Absail 1000m
Learn about boldering and Caving
First Aid
Demonstrate a water rescue.
Show your knowledge of CPR
Show how to treat an open chest wound
Learn about Triage
Cranog
Simply survive this Challenge

You will be presented with a log book which must be updated with all your activities and achievements
Your Dushlan Syllabus will be assessed by the quality of the Log book you present, which you must speak about in an interview with all Corp. leaders, SASL and SL