Den Newsletter templates

[dmillar71]

Does anyone have any good Den newsletter templates they'd be willing to share? I did a GIS and was surprised at how little was out there.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[sawdustr]

Don't know about good - but I have a den newsletter that I would be happy to send to you as an example of what works for me & the den's parents.

[bbender]

And there is a letter/email template here (scroll down):

 

www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Leaders/DenLeaderResources.aspx

 

(sorry, can't make this one hot link)

 

Now, somewhere on the www.scouting.org site they were supposed to post these in Word (so that as a "template" they could be, uh, copied and . . . used), but for the life of me I cannot find where those landed.

-- I fear that they were pulled.

-- If you can locate those, please post!

 

Of course, with a decent adobe viewer you can copy text out of the pdf and edit away to fit what you're doing.

 

These letters are written from the point of view of both (or either) as you see fit:

(1) here's what we just did, and here's what we're doing next; and

(2) here's our plan for the year (and here's where this fits in).

 

They've got reminders also about "what you gotta do at home" if you're following the Guide, and then as you change from that, you can adjust to fit what you're doing.

[dmillar71]

at sawdustr, that'd be great. email is dmillar71@comcast.net

 

at bbender, I found a lot of links to a template on scouting.org, but it appears the template(s) were removed.

 

 

[ScoutNut]

BSA has this Pack newsletter template -

 

http://scouting.org/filestore/xls/13-288nws.xls

 

For a den newsletter I never got real fancy. I put the name and date of the newsletter at the top of a Word sheet. Then did different paragraphs for each of the upcoming activities, with each activity name and date in bold at the head of the paragraph. Then my contact info at the end.

 

 

[bbender]

Let's see if these will link up:

 

Tiger: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/CubScoutMeetingGuide/Tiger/TigerLetterTemplate.pdf

Wolf: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/Wolf.pdf

Bear: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/CubScoutMeetingGuide/bear/BearLetterTemplate.pdf

Web I: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/CubScoutMeetingGuide/webelos/WebelosLetterTemplate.pdf

Web II: www.scouting.org/filestore/cubscouts/doc/arrowoflight.doc

 

Found that last one as a Word doc through Google.

[kari_cardi]

I can't cram enough information into the templates I've found, so I developed my own using a table in MSWord. Super simple, every month I do a 'save as' of the previous month and edit for the current month. A good chunk of the content doesn't change very much, just dates or what achievement we are working on so this method is easier for me than a template.