Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

“Horseshoe!” the senior sixers shouted. We gathered into the horseshoe formation and did colour party. After colour party, we sat down in the Indian file formation, while Mdm Kerina gave out progress and arrow badges. When all the badges were given out, we gathered in a circle with our six to mark out who had not got their silver or bronze arrow, and how many tasks they had to complete if they had not. Next, we learnt how to do square lashing. After everybody had got the hang of it, we had a competition. For the competition, we had to use square lashing to tie four short, wooden poles together. To win the competition, our square lashing had to be strong and stable, and would not come undone when it was pushed or pulled by force. We were given thirty minutes to tying our poles together. Time really flew as we rushed to meet the deadline and to make sure our knot and methods of tying it was right. All too soon, we had to stop what we were doing, commence sunset party, ho...

Written By: Jasper Koh, Sixer & Scribe “Beep! Beep! Beep!” the Senior Sixer blew the whistle. This week, the meeting was not held at the usual kidzone, instead it was held at the PAL room. This week we were going to learn “What is a topographic map? and “How to read a topographic map.” Mr Tan was the one who was conducting the lesson. He explained everything about the topographic map like what does the lines represents. We also saw a topographic map of Singapore! After that, we went down to the canteen to draw a map using symbols to represent the stall/tables. We were given about 15 minutes to draw out the map. After drawing the map, we gathered at the kidzone and handed in all our drawing to Raksha. We then lined up in horseshoe formation for flag lowering. This was not the end of the meeting yet. We went back up to the PAL room and now we were being briefed on the upcoming events such as the Tobacco Free Generation 2000 (TFG2000) as we were going to the event to prom...