Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Written by: Trisha Chan, Senior Sixer & Scribe Today, our cub scout meeting was very special and different. Because, three different Cub Scout units came to our school! They were going to compete against us in the Solar Oven Challenge. There were two rounds, the first round was judged based on Construction, Creativity and Design. The second round was based on how well the oven worked. We had two hours to complete our solar oven. Halfway through the two hours, we ate a snack, which consisted of curry puffs and egg with mayo sandwiches. Then, we got right back to work! Then, after we were done with our solar ovens, we all worked together to clean up the Kidzone. After that, we went for lunch! We had chicken, sunny side up eggs, brow and white rice, boiled cabbage with carrots, and fish balls. Then, we sang some songs! Soon after, the winners were announced! When we heard the name of the winners, we felt sad, as many of us had made friends among the other units. ...

Written by: Joanne Koong, Sixer & Scribe leader Today, eight of us attended the Akela Award assessment conducted by the Scouts HQ - 4 P5s and 4 P6s, accompanied by Mr Ng. We were surprisingly calm while in the bus. The boys were discussing possible interview questions and one of them was “How has scouting helped you in your daily life?” Hmm… I started to ponder. I have had 3.5 years of scouting and have so much experience to share! When we arrived at Yangzhen Primary School, we were each given a piece of duck tape with a number on it, to be placed on our uniforms above our squirrel and bumble bee badges. We were then assigned to our groups. There were at least 200 candidates, divided into 9 groups. All of us took the Scout Promise, after which we were led to our respective activities. I was in C2 and my group, together with A2 and B2, did the written test first. I noticed that there were more questions on First Aid in the paper. After the written test, we then proceede...

Written by: Joanne Koong, Sixer & Scribe leader The Kidzone was bustling with excitement and laughter as the cubs talked excitedly about our activity that day. We were going to do art and craft! We started our meeting with the Colour Party, along with the Grand Howl. We then moved into Indian file and Raksha briefed us on what we were going to do. She began by introducing 4 different types of pasta: elbow-shaped, long, shell-shaped and curly. Thereafter, Raksha instructed the sixers to collect the materials we needed for our activity -- pasta and a vanguard sheet with the pelican logo and our respective six names with the animal pasted on it. We were instructed to go to various areas in the Kidzone and start working on our projects. Each six was given one hour to complete the task. After sitting down, I shared with my six what we could do and how we could go about completing our task. I divided my six into 3 groups of 2 - Trisha and I were in charge of the border of th...

Written by: Bryan Low, Assistant Sixer & Scribe Today, we came to school for scouts at 6 a.m. The reason why we had come so early is because today, we were going to have a hike. As I sat down at the front of my Six (since we had no Sixer yet), I could feel the excitement of the other scouts building in the air. I too was very excited. After most of the scouts had come, we stood up for the Senior Sixer, Trisha, to take the attendance. We were instructed that when our name was called, we were to say “here” and then sit down. When we had finished taking attendance, we waited for the few people who came late. Next, we took a head count. It started with a scout saying one, then two, then three, and so on. After we were done with the head count, we were told to take out our bottles, drink a sip of water, then either go to the toilet, refill your water bottle, of both. Then, we were ready to board the buses. Six by Six, we slowly started boarding the buses, the Sixes with gir...

Written by; Syed Hafiz, Assistant Senior Sixer & Scribe “ Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!” the senior sixer Trisha blew the whistle to indicate horseshoe. The scouts flag rose high during colour party. We did one minute of silence and tied a knot on the left side of our scarf. After horseshoe, Trisha told us to line up in Indian file. Mdm. Kerina told us that we were going to do rope crawling! All of us were very excited as rope crawling sounded very fun. Mdm. Kerina called us six by six to come outside of the Kidzone. When we saw Mr. Tan adjusting the ropes onto the tree, we were scared as we did not know if it could take our weight. But when Mr. Tan showed us how to do it, we were confident. We went in order starting from Primary 1 to Primary 5. Since it was taking too long, Mr. Cheong tied another rope to the tree to start another queue. The Primary 4s went to the other rope that Mr. Cheong tied. When I saw the queues, they were so long I did not know what time we wer...