It was a rather interesting day today, reason being it was the first scout meeting of the year with the confirmed secondary one students who were interested to join scouts. There was quite a large number for a first meeting with about 13 attendees, as compared to my year's 7. Almost a 100% increase, which I guess is quite a good piece of news for Arrow Scout Troop =D

The two new arrivals to my patrol(A group of 8, in my case), Washington, were called Yip Ming and Jerald. They were from Tao Nan School. They were quite enthusiastic and eager to learn and generally I felt that they were quite a great pair of juniors...although a bit perverse, if I may call it that. Let's just leave things as they are. It can get quite disgusting. Anyhow, other than that everything was just fine.



Jerald



Yip Ming

So today we started off with physical training(PT) where we ran from School to Bedok Jetty and back. The Secondary 1 scouts were actually quite good at running and about 5 of them were leading the pack at the front. Of course, I'm not a bad runner myself( Wipe that smirk off your face :) ) and so I was running with them. Surprisingly, I wasn't as tired as I was before whenever we ran this route. I still relish the memories where everyone would start cursing the PT-in-charge whenever he took a right turn out of the school onto the zebra crossing to run down East Coast Park =D

After that was a rather fun game at the parade square called "Assassination All Stars". Basically it was a game where you had to capture the other patrol's "staff" at their base and carry it back to yours. You carried your scarf in your pocket, and if the opposing team managed to pull out your scarf you were "killed". You would then have to go back to your base and then you could go out again. As you know, scouts wear scarves as part of their uniform. So it was really a game of "Get the staff but don't get killed while you're at it". It could get pretty rough, with torn pants and minor bruises being the norm. I myself got some minor scratches because of the hard concrete floor and the nature of the game, but I guess it was pretty worth it, with the learning objectives being strategic thinking and teamwork.

After that we had our various lectures and tests for the different components on our Scout Standard. The Scout Standard is the most basic progress badge for scouts. It requires a certain proficiency in First aid, Knots, Foot drill, Map work, National loyalty and other aspects.

As a group of the Secondary 1 scouts, including myself, had already passed, we were tasked to build a rope ladder using the knots we already knew. It was also actually partially due to a talkative scout mate, Fabian, who suggested to the scout leader that we build a ladder. As such, we had a 10 minute limit, and for any knots tied wrongly or for any extra time we took, we were given 10 push ups for each "offense".



We had tied one knot at the top of the ladder wrongly, and we were also late by a minute. As such, we had to do 20 push ups. However, it was quite fun as we obviously enjoyed ourselves. It was a practical application for the knots we had already learnt, and besides, you do have to know how to tie the knots in a practical setting, rather than just knowing how to tie them without a clue as to their real use.

After building the ladder, we were made to play a game of soccer, albeit twisted almost beyond recognition. We were playing on all fours on the extremely rough ground and our goal posts were improvised with shoes and the monkey bars already there. It was also pretty easy to get tackled as we were all on our hands.



All in all, I felt that it was a rather interesting scout meeting and that it was a good introduction to scouting for the new Secondary 1 recruits. They witnessed the scouting spirit for themselves when they saw us doing the Arrow Yell, and in some sense they also saw the Victorian Spirit. There was plenty of opportunity for interaction, and I also learnt that even though in theory, some things might be easy, but in real life, it could be vastly different. It's one thing to learn textbook knowledge, but a different thing altogether to put it in practice.

Labels: Scouts

It was a rather interesting day today, reason being it was the first scout meeting of the year with the confirmed secondary one students who were interested to join scouts. There was quite a large number for a first meeting with about 13 attendees, as compared to my year's 7. Almost a 100% increase, which I guess is quite a good piece of news for Arrow Scout Troop =D

The two new arrivals to my patrol(A group of 8, in my case), Washington, were called Yip Ming and Jerald. They were from Tao Nan School. They were quite enthusiastic and eager to learn and generally I felt that they were quite a great pair of juniors...although a bit perverse, if I may call it that. Let's just leave things as they are. It can get quite disgusting. Anyhow, other than that everything was just fine.



Jerald



Yip Ming

So today we started off with physical training(PT) where we ran from School to Bedok Jetty and back. The Secondary 1 scouts were actually quite good at running and about 5 of them were leading the pack at the front. Of course, I'm not a bad runner myself( Wipe that smirk off your face :) ) and so I was running with them. Surprisingly, I wasn't as tired as I was before whenever we ran this route. I still relish the memories where everyone would start cursing the PT-in-charge whenever he took a right turn out of the school onto the zebra crossing to run down East Coast Park =D

After that was a rather fun game at the parade square called "Assassination All Stars". Basically it was a game where you had to capture the other patrol's "staff" at their base and carry it back to yours. You carried your scarf in your pocket, and if the opposing team managed to pull out your scarf you were "killed". You would then have to go back to your base and then you could go out again. As you know, scouts wear scarves as part of their uniform. So it was really a game of "Get the staff but don't get killed while you're at it". It could get pretty rough, with torn pants and minor bruises being the norm. I myself got some minor scratches because of the hard concrete floor and the nature of the game, but I guess it was pretty worth it, with the learning objectives being strategic thinking and teamwork.

After that we had our various lectures and tests for the different components on our Scout Standard. The Scout Standard is the most basic progress badge for scouts. It requires a certain proficiency in First aid, Knots, Foot drill, Map work, National loyalty and other aspects.

As a group of the Secondary 1 scouts, including myself, had already passed, we were tasked to build a rope ladder using the knots we already knew. It was also actually partially due to a talkative scout mate, Fabian, who suggested to the scout leader that we build a ladder. As such, we had a 10 minute limit, and for any knots tied wrongly or for any extra time we took, we were given 10 push ups for each "offense".



We had tied one knot at the top of the ladder wrongly, and we were also late by a minute. As such, we had to do 20 push ups. However, it was quite fun as we obviously enjoyed ourselves. It was a practical application for the knots we had already learnt, and besides, you do have to know how to tie the knots in a practical setting, rather than just knowing how to tie them without a clue as to their real use.

After building the ladder, we were made to play a game of soccer, albeit twisted almost beyond recognition. We were playing on all fours on the extremely rough ground and our goal posts were improvised with shoes and the monkey bars already there. It was also pretty easy to get tackled as we were all on our hands.



All in all, I felt that it was a rather interesting scout meeting and that it was a good introduction to scouting for the new Secondary 1 recruits. They witnessed the scouting spirit for themselves when they saw us doing the Arrow Yell, and in some sense they also saw the Victorian Spirit. There was plenty of opportunity for interaction, and I also learnt that even though in theory, some things might be easy, but in real life, it could be vastly different. It's one thing to learn textbook knowledge, but a different thing altogether to put it in practice.

Labels: Scouts

Francis
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Improve chinese. [ ]
Lose the fats. [ ]
Maintain level position. [ ]
Maintain a good study-life balance.[ ]
Be less vulgar.(How did I become vulgar in the first place) [ ]
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