Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Written by; Syed Shafiq, Senior Sixer & Scribe The outgoing senior sixers blew their last few blows on the whistle. That day was a special meeting that most of us would never forget: The Hand-Over Ceremony. I came to school very early for the scout meeting as there was a briefing for all the Akela Award Candidates. The seven of us waited patiently for Mr. Cheong to address us. When he arrived and sat down on a seat, we immediately sat in front of him in a semi-circle. When he gave us the instructions to bring our documents and log, we scattered, ran to our bags, grabbed them and came back to the semi-circle. He instructed us to line up for him to check that we have filled the forms in properly. Suddenly, while checking through someone’s form, the senior sixer blew the whistle, so we had to pack all our things and from horseshoe. After the horseshoe, we lined up in Indian file. As we were told to sit down, Mr. Cheong called for all the Akela Award Candidates. W...

SIXERS’ TRAINING CAMP @ Sembawang Terror Sea Scouts Camp 2 to 4 July 2016 By: Min Wenn, Jessica, Sarah, Nicole , Yew Meng and Jasper A nice collaboration by all Scribes of 2015-2016!  Special thanks to Jessica Koong (Scribe Leader 2015-2016) for putting this together! Day 1 – 2 July 2016, Saturday The selected cub scouts gathered in school. One by one they arrived, carrying their heavy duffel bags, backpacks, and luggage. As parents bid their children farewell, the gathering point was getting fuller by the minute. Scouts from different packs had volunteered as service scouts to help run some of the activities during the camp. The cubs were then placed in the groups, Elephant, Giraffe, and Hippo. Duty Senior Sixers, Sixers and Assistant Sixers were then assigned. They would rotate their duties daily. After all the adult leaders, service scouts, and cub scouts were on board the bus, we set o...

Written By: Jasper Koh, Sixer & Scribe The school holidays have just started! But we still had a scout meeting. This meeting was special though. We were going to take our test for either the Cyclist badge, Skater badge or the Journalist badge. Everyone was there quite early, some with bikes and some with skates. There were only a few cubs taking the Skater badge while there were more cubs taking the cyclist badge. The cubs who were taking the cyclist badge went to the basketball court while the cubs who were taking the skaters badge went to the kidzone. Mr Ho and Kaa were in charge of the cyclist badge test. They taught us the signs to obey on the road and how to signal to other people as a cyclist. After that, they tested us what we needed to check before we start riding.   The tire pressure and whether the tracks on the tires are worn out Brakes Sit   Pedals Chain Helmet Soon, we cycled around the basketball court while Mr Ho gave us commands on...

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Written By: Jasper Koh, Sixer & Scribe It was a Saturday morning as we started our scout meeting as usual. We got into Indian file and adjusted our lines. Baloo then came and everyone greeted him. The first thing he asked us to do was to get the Sixers to sing the song “Bare Necessities” as we watched the “Jungle Book” book last week. When the Sixers got up, we only sang the song softly and Baloo got us to go back and sit down. Soon, he led the song and everyone started singing along loudly. “Enough of singing, now let’s see if you were attentive and alert during the movie with a quiz,” Baloo said. The prizes were kites! One of the first few questions was : Who is Seethi? Lots of people thought Seethi was an elephant but it was revealed that Seethi was the actor acting as Mowgli. One of the hardest questions that no one answered was what the “Law of the jungle” was. It was actually a very long law and no one could answer it. After the questions, we were divided into gr...

Written: Cheong Yew Meng, Sixer & Scribe It was a normal Saturday scouts meeting but there was a special meeting that was only for the sixers and assistant sixers. We were told by Raksha that we had to come at 8.15am, 45 minutes before the meeting actually began. There was a new parent volunteer whom we address as Mr Cheong. He gave all of the sixers and assistant sixers a good talk about our standard of discipline and told us to work for our progress badges. “Beep…. Beep…. Horseshoe!” The senior sixers shouted. We started the meeting 15 minutes later as the sixers had a good talk by mister Cheong and have not set up the flagpole yet. After all the horseshoe ceremony. There was a minor change in six members. We collected the money for the movie tickets to see the jungle book in the cinema. Then, mister Tan told us that we had to pitch a tent. We went out to the field to watch mister tan pitch a tent. Although it was boring and many six members asked their sixer if the...