Programme Schedule for 30th November 2009

Dear Guides, here is the programme schedule for the first precamp training, 30^th November 2009.

Programme Schedule for

30^th November 2009, Monday

Time	Activity	Action by	Venue
0830-0845	Roll Call and Briefing	CLs, ACLs	Quadrangle
0845-1130	Outdoor Cooking Tryouts (inclusive of lunch)	CLs, ACLs	Science Lawn
1130-1145	Patrol Corner	CLs, ACLs	Canteen Area
1145-1445	Gadget Tryouts	All Guides	Science Lawn
1445-1500	Debrief and Taps	All Guides	Canteen Area

Attire:

Sec 1s and 2s: LSC '09 Tee + NY shorts/Dark Blue FBTs

Sec 3s: Blue Tee and NY shorts/Dark Blue FBTs

Things to note:

• Patrols are reminded that this will be the only time that they can try out their dishes using outdoor cooking before camp itself.
  
• Guides are reminded to bring the necessary items for outdoor cooking, which include at least 3 bags of twigs and 2 bags of punk, 2 rags, at least 2 days supply of newspapers and a poncho. Guides may also bring the food items as well as the other things necessary for cooking their dishes.
  
• There is no need for guides to present the dishes that they will be cooking for outdoor cooking.
  
• Guides are reminded to cook enough food for the Sec 3s in their patrol as well. A small portion is to be set aside for the CCs, ACCs and Guiders.
  
• Guides are reminded to bring their penknives for the gadget tryouts.
  
• Guides are reminded to print out the necessary proposals for the CCA session to refer to during the tryouts. Guides are reminded to stick to their time frame as much as possible as the pre-camp training would be a similar situation to camp.
  
• Sec 3s will be meeting at 0730 to prepare for the training session.
  
• Guides are to submit their camp fund of $10 and their consent forms if they have not done so.

Cheers,

AMMPlified

Important things about precamp outdoor cooking session

Hello everyone!

As most of you know, we will be having our first precamp training session on 30th November!

We will be having outdoor cooking, so here's the patrol-based logistics:

• 3 bags of twigs (of different lengths and thickness)
• 2 bags of punk
• 2 rags
• Poncho
• 2 days' supply of newspapers
• Ingredients and other logistics required to cook your dishes

There will be no presentation, so there is no need to bring all your decorative plates/bowls along (:

We hope that all of you are enjoying yourselves during this precamp period! Get to know your subcamp members, patrol mates, batchmates, seniors and juniors better! (:

Here's a reminder to every one to take care of yourselves too! We know that this is an extremely hectic period and there are many things to do before camp, but do take care of yourselves! Drink lots of water, don't eat too much cup noodles, sleep early and don't stress! Treat your body well! If you fall sick, try not to do too many things and take a day or two off to recuperate!

Camp is coming up soon, we hope that all of you are excited :D All the best to all of you for the remainder of the precamp period! There's about two weeks left to camp, so jiayou everyone! Feel free to approach Michelle/Pingzheng if you have any concerns/queries or anything! :D

That's all, see you guys and keep up the good work!

Love,

Your AMMPlifiers! (:

WEST DIVISION DAY 2009

Hello Guides!

As you know, West Division Day is just round the corner! Here are some important updates. Please take note of the manpower allocation and the respective details of your competition.

OICs:
Aurelia Chan Hui-En
Jolene Goh Cheng Chin
Seah Xuan Shi Sheryl (Will not be present for actual event due to GCP)

Attire:
Full Guides Uniform, white shoes, white socks
Time:
0900--1400 h
Venue:
Commonwealth Secondary School
698 West Coast Road
Assembly Point:
Jurong East MRT Station (Beside bus depot)
0820h
Dismissal Point:
Commonwealth Secondary


Manpower Allocation

Quest Competition
Lee Chu Yin Bernadette (I/C)
Agnes See Hon Queen
Tan Yu Lin
Sarah Ye Yunxi

Talentime
Lee Si Hui (I/C)
Wong Xin Yi
Choong Jia Chee
Roselyn Yeo

Games
Wu Lingran (I/C)
Nyssa Low Pui Cheng
Lek Yee Khoon
He Chen
Ng Su Min, Rachel

Food
Ge Yunting (I/C)
Ooi Shu Hui
Ng Pei Xuan
Choo Wen Xin
Tan Kah Min

Gadget
Tan Hui Yin Melissa (I/C)
Serene Chung
Ashleigh Toh
Cheryl Tay

Statement Sneakers (Environmental Booth)
Goh Wan Ting (I/C)
Gladys Ng
Tan Ting Ting
Chai Hwee Han

Recycling (Environmental Event)
Neo Xin Hui (I/C)
Belle Tan
Emelia Poh
Shanisse Goh

Judges for Card-Making Competition
Tania Ang Lanyue (I/C)
Kwek Shi En Michelle
Lee Xiao En
Aurelia Chan Hui-En
Jolene Goh Cheng Chin
Han Shin Tian
Celeste Ng Shi Qi
Hannah Lim

COMPETITION INFORMATION

a. Quest
· Quest scope: Knowledge in Girl Guiding / Girl Scouting skills.
· Why Quest: To enhance the knowledge of Girl Guides
· Preliminary Round: All participants will answer individually, 60 multiple-choice-questions in 60 minutes. No communication of any kind is permitted during the written test. Total scores of each team will be taken and 5 teams with the best scores will proceed to the finals.
· Participants are required to bring 2B pencils and at least one form of identification.
· Round 1: Individual round. Each participant will answer 2 questions, one in each cycle of questions for 4 teams. Time given to answer the question is 10 seconds. 10 seconds after the question is read a bell will sound. Participants may answer the question at any point in time when the question is being read. 2 marks for each correct answer. The question will not be passed on to any other participant. The Quiz master will provide the answer if it is wrong.
· Round 2: Individual team round. Discussion is allowed.
· Round 3: Speed round.

b. Talentime
· Maximum Number of guides to participate in Talentime must only be 4.
· Bring along musical instruments for performance (singing or dancing).
· Please label your CDs with the school’s name, title of performance and track number that needs to be played for your performance.
· Please ensure that costumes are not revealing.
· Singing Category: The criterion is based on the theme, in tune, song selection and performance/choreography.
· Dance Category: The criterion is based on theme, costume/attire, synchronicity and choreography.

c. Games
5 guides in each team.
2 separate game stations will be run concurrently by Nan Hua High and Jurongville guides.
Duration of each station: 45 min (including briefing time)
At the end of the 45mins, the teams will do a swap to play at the other station. Please arrange for the 2 schools to be located nearby so that logistics problems can be minimized.
Winner will be the team that accumulated the highest combined score from the 2 station for the day.
At the end of the 45mins, the teams will do a swop to play at the other station. Please arrange for the 2 schools to be located near by so that logistics problems can be minimized.
Winner will be the team that accumulated the highest combined score from the 2 station for the day.

d. Food
Food-Related Competition: “LUNCHBOX SPECIAL! Get Creative: Same Food, New Look.”

Group size
- Minimum 3 and maximum 5 Guides or Brownies in a team

Ingredients Provided
- Cooked Calrose rice, 135ml (using half cup of uncooked rice, 90ml)
- Seaweed (Half of what the picture shows)
- Cucumber (1)
- Japanese radish (1 small portion)
- Crabmeat stick (6 pcs)
- Cherry tomato (4 pcs)

To ensure fairness, all participating teams will be given the same quantity and quality of the above-mentioned ingredients.

Items to be Brought by Participants
- Condiments (Only vinegar, mayonnaise, salt and chilli sauce are allowed)
- Cutlery (E.g. Chopsticks, fork, spoon and knife)
- Utensils (E.g. Chopping board, bowl/plate for keeping the ingredients)
- 1 trash bag
- Glove
- Apron
Rules
- All food must be handled with hygiene.
- All ingredients must be halal.
- There should be no food wastage.
- Only the food items listed in Section 3 may be brought and used.
- Gloves and aprons must be used during food preparation.
- The food must follow the sub-theme given.
- Each participating team is to pay $4 as registration fee to cover the cost the resources provided.
- The lunchbox (plastic container) for the presentation of food will also be provided by the station-in-charge. Teams may wish to decorate their lunchbox on the spot.

Judging Criteria
- Food entries will be judged based on the following criteria: Compliance, Presentation and Creativity.
- “Compliance” refers to the team's ability to practise good hygiene, use only the given and permitted ingredients, minimise food wastage and complete the dish within the time given.
- “Presentation” refers to the neatness of the food presentation and the ability to explain what the dish in general and each item in the dish represent.
- “Creativity” refers to the ability to align the dish to the sub-theme and present an aesthetically-pleasing dish.

e. Gadget making
· 4 guides per team.
· The guides are required to bring 9 72” poles, 6 24” poles and 2 rolls of twine.
· The rule of the competition is to complete the “limbo” structure within 20 minutes.
· After completing the structure, four members of the team have to go under the limbo to be considered as finishing the competition.
· The judging criteria are based on the neatness of the structure, stability of the structure and lastly creativity.

f. Statement Sneakers (Environmental Booth)

Task
Each guide group of 4 is to bring a pair of used canvas shoes and their task is to transform the used pair of shoes into not just a fashionable pair of sneakers but sneakers that carry a positive message or statement about environmental consciousness.

Criteria
Shoes brought have to be a used pair. Guides are free to use their imagination and any form of craft. However, there should be no finished product brought. All work has to be done at the booth from scratch. Guiders will be checking the products brought by guides to ensure that all materials are brought there without any attempt to bring objects that are already prepared beforehand.

Guides are also limited to 10 decorative items including paint, stick-ons etc (These exclude brushes, glue etc.) These materials have been packed by the OICs already.
Guides will also need to fill up a form to state the materials they used as well as elaborate the inspiration for their used canvas shoes revamped into statement sneakers!

g. Recycling (Environmental Event)
· 4 guides per team
· Duration of event: 3 hour
· Time limit for each group: 1½ hour
· Use recycled materials (such as old clothes, aluminium foil) and sew them into something that can be used. E.g. Pouch, bag etc. The most appealing/ able to use/ creative item WINS!
· NOTE: Recycled materials will NOT be provided. Participants will have to bring those materials on their OWN.
· Participants must bring recycled materials, scissors, different colours of thread, needles, any decorating materials (e.g. beads, glitter glue, markers etc) and glue.



Please liaise with your ICs as to what materials you will need to bring. Read through all the details of your competition and make the necessary preparations. There will be one hour before the activities begin on Saturday for you to prepare for your competitions. In case you have not received the SMS sent by Aurelia, please meet at Jurong East MRT station at 8.20am, and bring your consent forms. For those without consent forms, please bring a letter signed by your parents to acknowledge that you will be attending West Division Day. Those unable to attend West Div Day, please submit a signed excuse letter to the ACLs during the next CCA session. See you on Saturday and all the best with your competitions!


OICs

A short note from your has-been CLs & ACLs

Hey Guides! (:

How have your holidays been so far? 

We are already missing all of you; hopefully everyone's enjoying yourselves during your long-deserved break (: 

Anyway, here are some waaaaay overdue photos from Sports Fiesta and Farewell... 

ENJOY :D

PS, more photos will be uploaded at a later date (: 

Sports Fiesta! '09

Farewell'09

A huuuge thank you to all of you for the awesome farewell! Especially to the Sec 3s for all the planning and hard work (: Now that the Sec 3 batch has officially taken over, we hope all of you will continue to learn and grow together. Respect your seniors and take good care of your juniors. 

All of you will have new roles in the company next year- Sec 1s, you will no longer be the youngest in the company; show love to your juniors as your seniors have showed you. Sec 2s, you will be in the Upper Sec next year; workload will increase, you'll need to adapt to your new classes.. Through all the hustle and bustle, we hope you'll lead your juniors well and take on a much more pro-active role in the company as a batch (:

Sec 3s, the responsibility of leading the company now lies on you.  There will be challenges ahead, but we hope that you will all learn to support each other's weaknesses with your strengths and grow together as a batch (: Be good role models for the rest of the company to follow and instill discipline and respect within Nanyang Guides. We believe in you. :)

It's just goodnight and not goodbye; 

The Sec 4s will come back and visit as and when we can. (:

Thank you for the memories, Nanyang Guides.

Love Always,

Roosterice.

Programme Schedule for 5 Nov 2009

Dear Guides,

Here is the programme schedule for Farewell and Handover Ceremony 2009:

West Division Day 2009

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Dear All,

This post is regarding about West Division Day 2009!
Are you excited? ;D

Here are the details:
Date: 21st November 2009, Saturday
Time: 9am to 2pm
Venue: Commonwealth Secondary School 698 West Coast Road
Theme: Together We Can Change the World

Overall Manpower Allocation:

Please take note that Neo Xin Hui will be replacing Lim Jia Yu as I/C for Environmental Event: Recycling Competition.

If your name is not in the table, you don't need to go for West Division Day.

*Please note that due to the fact that more lower secondary guides can make it for West Division Day, NO sec 4s are going for West Division Day except one very privileged Sec 4, which is Xiao En!
**Also, some shuffling has been done but competition I/Cs still remains the same, please take note of your new team members(if you have)!

Competition I/Cs should have all recieved their competition details when you have seen this post, if you have not, please e-mail to sheryl_1994@yahoo.com.sg . Fret not as we will also pass you a hardcopy of the details latest by end of this week.

Lastly, consent forms will be given out latest by the end of this week and please remember to sign and bring it on West Division Day to hand in to Kwek Shi En Michelle/Jolene Goh Cheng Chin.

Thanks!

West Division Day I/Cs

Programme Schedule of 3rd November 2009

Dear Guides,

Here is the Programme Schedule for 3rd November, 2009. Please be reminded that there will be a Camp Briefing tomorrow. The Programme Schedule is as follows: