Patrol Log Book

Printed edition cover.

I set up this logbook for my Scouts How to keep records of meetings, camping trips plans, adventures and memorable moments. They use the information to help their patrol understand what they should start doing, keep on doing or, perhaps, stop doing. By reflecting on things that worked well and things that don’t go as planned they can avoid past mistakes and make better plans in the future. By recording their thoughts they also create a memorable record of their Scouting adventures. The logbook is divided into these sections: Patrol Roster Patrol members and other important contacts.

Table of Contents Fill-in-the-blank table of contents pages.

Meetings There’s space for recording who attends the meeting, a checklist for tasks that need to be accomplished at the meeting, plans made, and who will be responsible for carrying them out (there’s also plenty of space to keep additional notes of discussions and decisions).

Camping Trips Records for short-term camping trips (one or two nights) and long-term trips (three to seven nights). Each includes a roster, a checklist for tasks that need to be accomplished, and plenty of room for notes. Trip records include a section titled ‘roses and thorns’. To use the rose, thorn, and bud idea; every Scout shares three things;

1. A rose is something good that happened.

2. A thorn is a challenge they encountered

3. A bud is something you’d like to do in the future. Here’s an example of a rose, thorn and bud from one patrol member: Short-term camping records have one ‘rose and thorn’ page for the whole trip and two pages for additional notes. Long-term camping records have daily ‘rose and thorn’ pages and a page for additional notes each day.

General Notes There are plenty of blank pages for additional notes.

There’s a place to title each page, and you can keep track of them by writing that title and page number in the table of contents.

Progress or Record Charts There are a number of progress or record charts for tracking attendance, rank advancement or anything you like. The Patrol logbook is available as a soft cover book and in a free PDF version.

Printed Soft Cover Logbook 5.5″ x 8.5″ (about the size of a Scout Handbook) 246 pages including: 40 Meeting records 13 Short-term (2 day) camping records 3 Long-term (7 day)camping records 20 pages for general notes 16 pages of progress charts Patrol Log Book: A record of plans, adventures and memories available from Amazon Example Pages from the Printed Edition Short and long term camping page example Fill-in table of contents pages Rose-thorn-buds page example PDF Version Free PDF file formatted to print out on 81/2 X 11 paper (scaled-up versions of the book pages pictured above) including: Instruction page Patrol roster page Meeting record pages Short and long-term camping pages Progress charts and over 40 other infographics and helpful PDF documents Are included in the The Patrol logbook PDF file below is formatted for 8 1/2 x 11 paper. BEFORE YOU CLICK THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON Join the growing number of Scouters who help make producing and publishing these resources possible…