Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Jamb100 cum 3rd ASEAN Jamboree 5th to 9th December 2010 Sarimbun Scout Camp The Jamb100 is the finale to a year-long celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of scouting in Singapore. It was a truly historic event, attended by ,3000 scouts of all ages, with 1,000 of these scouts coming from the ASEAN region and other countries in Asia, several European countries, as well as Australia. More than 80 Pelican cubs and their family members attended the first day of the Jamboree, which included the Opening Ceremony, graced by our Chief Scout, President S R Nathan. After days of rain, the weather turned bright and sunny, and it was a glorious day. We have neverseen so many scouts from so many countries together - there was a myriad of colours, and we were fascinated by the variety of scout uniforms worn by the participants. Everyone was so firendly, and soon Pelican cubs were making friends and exchanging badges and scarves! While waiting for Chief Scout to arrive, our cubs wen...

Fun Camp Overall Reflections By Scribe Brenda Wang The Fun camp was indeed fun, as its name suggests. During the 4 days and 3 nights, not only did we learn independence, we also had lots of enjoyable moments with our friends. One of the main highlights of the camp was the low and high elements. These challenges are tasks we do not normally attempt or think we can overcome. They stretched our confidence level and challenged us to undertake seemingly “impossible” tasks. It’s okay if you fall during the high elements, indeed some did. However the act of trying is already half the battle won in building one’s self-confidence. During my attempt on one of the high element, I was asked to freeze at the other end of the balancing beam as another scout was climbing up the central pole that I was about to descend by. The boy was scared and was climbing his way up slowly. I could not pull him up, because if I were to let go of the pole, I would fall. Instead, I encouraged him not to wor...

Fun Camp Day 4 12 Nov 2010   The day started with the usual breakfast of cereal and bread. This would be our last meal at this camp and we were all grabbing the last of food we would taste at this camp. All of us were reluctant to leave camp as we all had a fun time with our instructors and friends. Since this was our last day, we did not have inspection. Hooray! After breakfast, we proceeded to get ready for the highlight of the last day at camp- water bomb! We all loved to get wet, especially on a hot day like this. We wore our shoes, and were briefed on the objective of the game: To see which team has the driest flag. We were then given 10 minutes to strategize and make our water bombs. The 10 minutes swept past quickly and the game started in no time. The boys kept on ‘saboing’ our team, but we reacted quickly and threw our bombs at them. The bombs had run out very quickly and the game ended very quickly. When we assembled back in our respective sixes, we waved our ...

Fun Camp Day 3 11 Nov 2010 By Scribe Brenda Wang The day started with the blowing of whistles to get lined up in horseshoe--our usual ritual to start the day’s scout activities. Horseshoe was much better this time compared to the last, as many people wore their full scout uniform this time. After horseshoe, we made our way to the dining hall for our long awaited breakfast. We had our usual cereal with milk and bread with jam. Yum! Once our whole wave had finished breakfast, we walked to our UGA, also known as Usual Gathering Area in front of our water cooler, to be briefed on our first activity- H20 Challenge! We were all hoping to get wet soon- the sun was scorching and we had to brave the heat to continue our challenge. The first challenge included a: water tumbler, a cup, a basin, a ping pong ball, a blindfold and of course, water. In this activity, we had to pair up, hold a cup in between our partner’s hands and walk to the basin with the ping pong ball and pour water in i...

The good thing about today is that a lot of people encouraged others to do well. (Wayne Chin) On the long anxious wait to do the solo night walk, it's like waiting for a Chinese exam to start. (Jonathan Koong) I think we should keep quiet and listen if someone is talking. (Gerald Cheong) On climbing the high elements, I was afraid of heights, but then I decided to overcome my fear and try. (Eugene Lim) I learned about teamwork and shouting, scolding or panicking will not solve the problem. (Aw Yong Miao Xin) When they came back, they smelled like the town sewers. (Kimberly Song)

Fun Camp Day 2 10 Nov 2010 By Scribe Kimberly Song We scouts woke up bright in the morning just to finish up the remaining missing information for our journals. Some woke up and got ready. After all this last minute checks, we changed and did horseshoe. My ears perked up when I overheard Akela telling Brenda that we will have breakfast right after horseshoe. We all made a mad dash towards the Legacy Hall for…food! Once we were done eating that delicious breakfast of cereal and milk, it was raining. Since we could not do the high and low elements for now, so we did inspection! The horror! However, lady’s luck was smiling on the girls for the passed the inspection. We fooled around in the dorm. What fun! I hope that this may happen again in the next camp! (Next year!) When the rain subsided, we were able to do the elements! But, we’re led to the Hall instead. We play the some games. For example: Dragon’s tail and sailor’s command after all this games, we did the elements!...

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Fun Camp Day 1 09  Nov 2010 By Scribe Marcus Choo Fun Camp, here I come! Though sad that I would not see my family for three and half days, I was looking forward to the activities on the first day! I was especially looking forward to the Geo-caching activity, a chance to try out a new device! Firstly was a briefing, we were briefed on some camp rules and introduced to the trainees. I was amazed at the number of trainers, and they come from all over the world, from Indonesia, UK, US and more! To my surprise, our first activity was Roller Coaster making. At first, I thought ti was using LEGO bricks to make a mini roller coaster, never did I know that we had to use straws, newspaper and balloon sticks to let a tennis ball coll down safely. This really was testing our creativity! After planning for 10 minutes, we were all set and ready to build the roller-coaster. Taping the newspaper to the balloon was a little messy, but could stable the ball, and the tape wasn't that stick...

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HIKE AT WOODCUTTER’S TRAIL 2nd October 2010 By Scribe Jeremy Tan 64 cubs braved the sizzling heat of the Saturday afternoon sun to adventure and hiked 5 km along the Woodcutter’s Trail, arguably the toughest trails in Singapore. It is known for its notoriously multiple trails that spiral around in the forested area. Seldom trekked, this trail lies in the vicinity of Singapore’s Water Catchment Area. Located near Lower Peirce Reservoir, we entered the Trail from Upper Thomson Road and ended our hike at Zhenghua Park in the Bukit Panjang district. We encountered undulating terrain requiring steep climbs at times and faced withsteep descents the next moment.The Trail is home to bees, wasps, snakes and monkeys. There were streams to cross. At some parts of the Trail, the footpath was muddy and sticky like mangrove swamps. Such were the challenges we experienced at the Woodcutter’s Trail . Fortunately, we did not encounter bees, wasps or snakes but some of us caught sight of a fe...

As the saying goes, curiousity kills the cat but I could not help but wonder what activities we were going to do on this typical Saturday.   I was certain Akela had something up his sleeve for when I arrived at the kidzone, I saw a huge plastic bag filled with colourful balloons.  Immediately, I racked my brains, wondering what Akela wanted us to do with the balloons.  However, my mind was totally blank. When I arrived at the kidzone, the usual sounds of cheerful shrieks of laughter filled the air while the 2 senior sixers (Brenda did not come not until around 10 am) work on the flag rising preparations.  I headed straight for wombat 1's area.  I placed my bag down and waited till the sounds of the horseshoe whistle rang throughout the entire kidzone, "Horseshoe!" the 2 senior sixers shouted, with a spring in my step, I hurried over for horseshoe. After horseshoe, we lined up in Indian file and settled down.  Akela announced that Grey Wolf will be teachi...

Written by Scribe Marcus Choo At this meeting, some cubs did not wear the full scout uniform. Some did not bring their caps, and one wore white school socks! Hmmm…are we becoming a little slack? Time to pull up our socks a little. Today, to start off the meeting, Akela tested us on how well we obeyed commands. We were told some sailors commands, and the accompanying actions of the commands. Some of the commands were "Scrub the deck" and "Climb the rigging". It was really fun to do the actions and I tried my best not to be slow to prevent myself from being thrown out of the game. Scrub the deck was the most used command…… Next was the main activity of the day: acting a short skit. Each group was supposed to act out on the how the pelican showed the value of Generosity. Each group was also given 4 examples on some behaviors of a pelican that show Generosity. The value we chose was how the pelican protects their young in all harsh weathers. It was fun acting out the...

By Scribe Jeremy Tan Scout Meeting on 4 Sept 2010 The highlight of the Scout meeting on 4 th September 2010 had two extreme activities conducted for HPPS cubs. We were asked to be Maori Warriors and had a face off with our opponents, staring hard at their faces and into their eyes to instill fear and intimidate the opponents into submission. Some of us wanted to perform the "Haka" (Maori Warrior war cry and dance) but restrained ourselves. After the fierce stand off, tension was eased and HPPS cubs were quickly domesticated and did home economics, doing oven baking. Akela was not pleased with the fidgeting of many Cubs during the Colour Party. As this was showing disrespect for the solemn Colour Party, Akela decided to "punish" constructively the whole HPPS Cubs by conducting a staring competition. Sixes were paired and Cubs had to face an opponent and stared hard at his opponent. Cubs were to "freeze" and not move even an eyelid or twitch. Cubs who...

Written by Scribe Leader Brenda Wang. Scout Meeting, 28th August 2010 As I entered the Kid zone, I wondered what will be the highlight of this week's scout meeting. Neither the emails sent to parents nor the scout notice board provided information on this week's scout meeting. The preparation for the coming continual assessment 2 had tired me out, but nevertheless, the long queue in front of Akela with their test booklets in their hands was getting longer and longer. Everyone was trying to get their badges done before the scout meeting started. Meanwhile, we, the sixers encountered some problems with the flag. Just as we succeeded, someone accidentally pulled the wrong string, causing the flag to break. Sigh! We managed to "untangle" ourselves from this mess with some help from Akela. After horseshoe, we got into the usual Indian file. Akela proceeded to give out the numerous badges. I was glad that many people had started to take their arrow badges compared to ...

This blog was written by Kimberly Song 21 st August 2010, the day we are going for our NEWater centre visit! Everything happened as usual except for a thing or two. When I arrived in school many cheerful faces greeted me. Some of the cubs were eager to complete their badges and they had already formed a straight line infront of Akela, waiting patiently for their turn to do their badge tests. Congratulations to those who had earned more badges!! Yay!! I helped 2 of the senior sixers, Brenda and Sue-Jane, to arrange the NEWater forms by sixes. When we were done, it was time to settle down. After being given a brief on what would happen at the NEWater centre, the 3 senior sixers counted the number of cubs. Akela was pretty shocked at the number of cubs present; less than half of the scout unit was here! Oops!! 7:30am, more latecomers arrived! It was pretty bad, not only were they late, some didn't bring their haversack and water booklet. To add fuel to fire, some weren't ev...