Map reading & briefing for parents, 17th September 2016

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 promote this movement. There was also games and activities that we could sign up for, one of them is cycling and there are many more other activities too!

We went back home after the briefing, I feel that this meeting is very educational. I look forward to the next scout meeting!