Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Written by: Cheong Yew Meng, Assistant Sixer & Scribe “Beep….beep! HORSESHOE!” The Senior Sixers blew their whistles. I immediately gathered together with my Sixer .Doing my job as a new Assistant Sixer, I helped the others get in line. After horseshoe, we gathered in indian file. Baloo scolded the scouts that came late and the scouts that were missing parts of their uniform. I hoped the scouts have learnt their lessons and not repeat the same mistakes again. For this week, we have a fun and interesting activity – Outdoor Cooking. All of us are going to be transformed into mini-chefs and cooks! We started cooking at 10 am. The most challenging part of Outdoor Cooking was to start a fire using only twigs and matchsticks. With the assistance of the Leaders and the learning from the recent Sixer Training Camp , we managed to start the fire. I was in charge of cutting the fruits and vegetables. After finishing cutting, we brought the food to cook! We cooked egg with...

Written by Jessica Koong, Assistant Sixer & Scribe Everyone assembled at the foyer at 7am sharp. It was our 2 nd hike of the year. We were all very thrilled! Claudia and Daniel called for Indian File and took attendance. Everybody was present, save some who were either sick or busy. Chil briefed us on the safety precautions as the path would be very muddy. Also, he roughly explained the route to us - from Bukit Merah to Greenleaf and then back to school. Before we knew it, we filled two big buses and set off to the starting point of our little adventure! Upon reaching our destination, we lined up in a single file according to our sixes, from Bilby to Wombat 2. Along the way, we would change positions, so that each six had a chance to lead. At the starting point at Bukit Merah, we were greeted “warmly” by an extremely muddy path. Many of us were horrified. How were we going to get through? Nevertheless, we believed in ourselves and braced ourselves for the...

Written by: Kwey Xiu Xi, Sixer & Scribe As the title, location and date tells you, this paragraph is about the Cub Scout Meeting on the 16 th of August. Anyway, I came to scouts early to hand up some bits of my Silver Arrow, and I saw 4 big scouts. Later, I found out that they were some Scouts who would be teaching us for the next three/four weeks. I was pretty excited, until I found out that the first programme on the list was foot drills. I do my best at them, but still do not really “enjoy” them. Well, foot drills weren’t bad. We learnt this new interesting exercise called the Parade Party or something. We just stood still. We managed to get up to 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Next, we had first aid. We were taught how to tie the normal arm sling, the elevated arm sling, how to bandage a hand with an object stuck in it, and a head bandage. The arm slings were easy to tie with our scarfs and I soon got the hang of it. Lastly, we had games. We played Captain’s Bal...

Henry Park Pelican Scout unit is honoured to be invited to be the guard-of-honour to welcome the Minister, Mr Christopher de Souza to the National Day Dinner held at Ulu Pandan Community Club on 2nd August 2014. At 6pm, 22 Sixers and Assistant Sixers gathered outside the school library in their smart full scout uniform ready for the evening! Upon arrival at the CC, the person-in-charge gave a short run through of what the cubs is required to do. Apart from having 16 cubs to form 2 rows along the red carpet to salute and welcome the minister, the organiser also needed 3 cubs to "escort" the guest of honour down the red carpet, 3 cubs to take care of the National Flag during the National Anthem and 1 cub to lead everyone in our pledge. It was an evening to remember asour  cubs did their best to do our school and unit proud. Mr. Chia, our principal personally came by to support and thank the cubs for gracing the ocassion. 22 cubs all smart & ready for the evening ...

Written by: Evangel Wong, Assistant Senior Sixer & Scribe "BEEP!"   "BEEP!" went the whistle Claudia, Daniel and myself blew the whistle loudly to signal for horse shoe. This was my first time being the assistant senior sixer but not for the rest as I missed the last week scout meeting!!!*_*   All the cub scouts scurried into their places, we did our usual horse shoe ritual.  After that all the cubs were in horse shoe but they took quite long to gather in Indian file so, baloo asked  the senior sixer to go to a different place and call out for Indian file again. We did that until baloo was satisfied with the time spent on forming the Indian file .  When we were done with that baloo asked us some question such as what we were thinking during the one minute of silence. Some examples for the question are.....1)ways to help people  2) Ways on improving myself 3) Thanking god on what all th...