Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Written by: Justin Kong, Senior and Scribe Leader and  Claudia Kong, Assistant Sixer and Scribe Kaa, together with the sixers; assisted by Mr. Peter and 2 parent volunteers, we held our 2 nd scout meeting for the recruits. After the formality of horseshoe, we gathered in Indian files. Kaa then divided the recruits into 4 groups namely Ant, Bee, Cockroaches and Dragonfly. (The recruits from group Cockroaches ‘protested’ to the name. After much ‘protest’ they were renamed as Centipede.) The first highlight of the day was a quiz for the recruits to recap what they had learned last week. Kaa asked questions like the name of the sixers, the name of the sixes (The 10 animals) in Henry Park Pelican Scout, the characters in the jungle book and even a challenge of drawing the Singapore Scout emblem. All 4 teams did very well and points were allocated to the teams. Next, Justin & Jihn Shenn led the sixers and recruits in singing some of the all ti...

Written by: Justin Kong, Senior Sixer and Scribe Leader Today was a very special day for all our new recruits. It was their very first scout meeting of their scouting life. Today there were only Mdm Kerina, Kaa, the Sixers and three seniors. Sean Daily came to join us to support his sister who was joining as a recruit. Once attendances were taken, Mdm Kerina made us do a brief introduction of ourselves. It was very important to pay full attention because the very first game depends on how well we remember all the names. In the “Who is behind the curtain?” game, our new recruit, Gautham, surprised everyone by being able to name each of every Sixer. No problem at all! We had an exciting game of “Fixing the animal puzzle”. The three teams raced each other to complete the puzzle of animals and name each one. Surprisingly, the puzzles formed the 10 animals of our scout group! All three teams managed very well to complete the challenge. Sixers fired que...

Cubs turned out in full force for the first scout meeting of theyear. Akela started the meeting by welcoming all cubs back from their break.He then encouraged all cubs to get their Progress Badges and then asked the Sixers to agree target dates with their cubs. Each Sixer now has a record of what Progress Badge each cub has attained, and the target date for achieving the next higher Progress Badge. After that it was all fun - making paper aeroplanes and seeing which Six could fly theirs in the shortest combined time! The cubs were dismissed early as Akela was holding a Recruitment Talk for parents interested to enrol their child into our Pack.