Guiding Glossary
Guiding Glossary
This is not an exhaustive glossary, nor an official one, just an attempt to define words as they are used on our pages. If you are browsing these pages and come across a term you are unfamiliar with, please email us and we will be happy to add a definition.
Guiding Rangers Guides Brownies Pippins Lones Wandering Lones Investiture Promise Law Ranger V More Information
Guiding is a Youth Organisation for girls with an emphasis on teamwork, fun, the outdoors and service to others. You can find out more about New Zealand Guiding here.
Are girls in Guiding aged 13 (or in year 9 at school) to 19. Rangers plan and run their own programme with help from their leaders.
Are girls in Guiding aged from 9 1/2 to 14 1/2.
Are girls in Guiding aged from 7 to 10 1/2.
Are girls in Guiding aged 5 and 6.
Lones are Guides who live too far from a Guide unit or who are unable to attend regular unit meetings for some reason. They do Guiding by mail (or now sometimes online), their leader sends a Lone letter full of activities to do and when she has completed it the Guide sends it on to the next girl. Rangers in Lone Units become accustomed to people humming the William Tell Overture around them a lot.
Wandering Lones are overseas Lone Guides.
The ceremony where a Ranger makes (or renews) her Promise is called an investiture. Every investiture is different, and the Ranger chooses where and when and who. Examples here and here and here and here and here.
The New Zealand Guide Promise (link goes to Guides New Zealand site)
The New Zealand Guide Law (Link goes to Guides New Zealand site)
For formal occasions Rangers arrange themselves in a V shape, with the leaders standing at the open end. There is symbolism in this, as Brownies traditionally stood in a circle (therefore inwards facing) and Guides in a horseshoe (with an opening to the world). Rangers face further out into the community. There are various ways of formally marching into a V shape - sometimes we even use them!
For more information about Guiding try:
Guides Auckland - the official Auckland Region Guiding page (with a Youth Section that includes Rangers)
Guides New Zealand - New Zealand Guiding's official home page
WAGGGS - The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts official home page
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