Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Balloon House Building & Cook Badge Test 30th July 2011 By Scribe: Senior Sixer Kimberly Song We started the meeting with the usual horseshoe. But instead of the senior sixer conducting the horseshoe, Lynette, the assistant senior sixer did it in my stead! If you are thinking I’m such a cruel person, well I’m not.  I had a reason.  I just wanted the assistant senior sixers to be prepared in the event I was not around to do the horseshoe.  Remember ‘Be Prepared’ is our Motto!!! “Indian file in front of me now!”, the 3 seniors sixer shouted the command to the cubs. I quickly took out my stopwatch and started timing. To my surprise, it took them 2 minutes to settle down! I’m sure they can do better than this at the next meeting. Ms Tan sat in front of the 11 untidy rows and started to give badges and woggles. After the tedious but happy task of giving out huge numbers of badges and woggles, it was finally time for… building balloon houses! Akela distributed 40 l...

Collection of monies from the sale of Scout Donation Draw 23 Jul 2011 By Scribe Jeremy Tan After the meeting was called to order, Akela briefed the Cubs on the activities for the morning. They  were collection of  donation draw tickets and playing games. There was an uproar from the Cubs. They moaned and groaned  in disapproval as they had expected an exciting morning. Who could blame them? After all, they had two consecutive weeks of hyper and exciting activities in the handing and taking over Sixers ceremony on 9 Jul 2011 and the picnic and treasure hunt at Labrador Park on 16 Jul 2011. They had enjoyed themselves very much and had their expectation raised for the Scout Meeting on 23 Jul 2011. The flag raising started at abt 9:10 a.m and flag breaking ended at 11.30 a.m. It was an anxious moment for many of us when there was a hiccup during flag raising. The meeting ended early as P5 Cubs had to meet in School at 2 p.m that Saturday for the National Education Sh...

16 July 2011 By Pelican Scribe Georgia Yew The day has arrived for the scouts to go on our exciting excursion to Labrador park for our treasure hunt and picnic! Everyone was excited about the treasure hunt, especially the picnic. This was also a new opportunity for the new sixers, assistant-sixers and senior sixers to lead their cubs! I have been appointed as a sixer, I was excited and a bit nervous about leading my cubs. Not only did the scouts go to Labrador park, some Japanese friends went along to accompany us. My Japanese friend, Kana, also came along. After the new finally senior sixers, Kimberly, Lynette and Johnathan counted the number of scouts, they put the scouts into their new groups then we set off to Labrador park. When we reached at our destination we all lined up in Indian file and got ready to walk to our destination. After a short walk we reached a small area where we settled down in Indian file. Akela explained to us the rules of the treasure hunt. We...

Handover Ceremony 9th July 2011 By Scribe Brandon Khaw I woke up to an exciting day on July 9 as it is the day we would know who would be the new batch of cub leaders. The P6 cubs were stepping down to concentrate on their coming PSLE examinations. However, I had to wait till about 12.00 pm to join the scout meeting as all P5 cubs had to attend a PSLE briefing led by Mrs. Maria Koh and the HODs of English, Mathematics, Science and Mother Tongue. It is interesting session for the parents but less for kids like us. Together with my P5 scouts, we could not wait for the briefing to end. We all rushed out of the school hall once the session was over. It was more fun to be at the Kid zone than the school hall which seemed to last like eternity! Before the handover ceremony began, Akela was giving out some proficiency badges and progress badges to cubs that have attained them. I eagerly wait to receive my Gold Arrow Badge but unfortunately Akela did not have enough to distribute that ...

Day 2 Sunday 3rd July 2011 Senior Sixer: Kimberly Song Asst. Senior Sixer: Lynette Yeo Elephant Sixer: Dominic Yap Asst. Sixer:: Pierre Teo, Marshall Chong Giraffe Sixer: Keith Ho Asst. Sixer: Iain Low, Jarod Chua Hippo Sixer: Ivan Khoo Asst. Sixer: Justin Kong, Kiranraj 6am, Rise and Shine! The day started with morning exercise! Breakfast was served after that. After breakfast, INSPECTION!  Laying out groundsheet for the dreaded INSPECTION!  First try, ALWAYS MESSY!  Ahhhhh! Much better! Clothes were laid out on ground sheets, with Eagle Scouts on hand to advise Cubs on the form of the layout. Some Cubs who had been to our STC last year were tasked to share their experience and knowledge with the others for a proper inspection. As always, their first time was messy, and Cubs were asked to redo the layout. After several tries, most Cubs got the idea and finally managed to layout properly.  Flag Break Ceremony  Fo...