West Division Day 2015

Hi Guides!

Here are the details for West Division Day 2015.
Date: 29 August 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 8.30 am to 12.45 pm (Registration starts at 8.30 am, briefing to start at 9am)
Venue: Nan Hua High School
Attire: NYGG Tee, Guide skirt with whistle, belt, white socks and white shoes


Coy 1 Captain’s Ball
Liew Keen Huei
Tan Yu–Lynn
Georgina Kam
Wong Zi Xin
Clara Wong
Chan Hui Ping
Vera Koh

Coy 1 Traditional Costume Parade
Koh Hui Ying
Ng Yen, Tara
Long Yi Xuan
Calista Lock

Coy 1 Let’s Get Crafty
Cheryl Tan
Ng Xin Le
Glenda Wee
Claire Mak
Goh Ka Lin

Coy 1 Amazing Race
Ashley Kwan
Jessica Tan
Li Sihan
Ang Lin Xuan
Koh Ro Zen

Coy 2 Captain’s Ball
Isabelle Ong
Ang Jia Hui
Tammy Yim
Heng Rui Qing
Crystal Yip
Alison Wong
Lee Jia Wei

Coy 2 Scrapbooking
Selene Tan
Lee Le Shuen
Celeste Ong
Kellie Chooi

Coy 2 Trivia Quiz
Kuek Yan Ling
Zhang Zi Yi
Chong Shu Ning
Wong Zi Ling

Coy 2 Win, Lose, Draw
Vanessa Lim
Isabel Phua
Liu Jia Hui
Tong Zhixian

The following will participate in either the filler activities (origami, batik wax painting) or act as replacements, should those competing be absent.
Tan Jia Xuan
Clarissa Aw
Esther Cheah
Foo Jyh Hsien
Peh Jing Yee
Christine Huang
Rebecca Zeng
Patricia Tung
Angeline Lee
Nicole Ng
Kylia Koh
You Jing
Lim Le Yun
Georgia Lou
Cosette Lin
Gao Si Tian
Lynette Chai
Nancy Wang

Jiayou!

Regards,
CLs and ACLs ‘15

Click below for more information on the competitions!


Competitions & Filler Activities for West Division Day 2015
Theme: GGS Commemorates SG50 : Celebrating our Roots
1.      Captain’s Ball

Objective/Aim:
To promote team bonding and sportsmanship among girls through Captain’s Ball.

Description:
A guide from each team will be placed on a chair. Each team is to score as many goals against the other team as possible in the 5 minutes of games. Schedule will be given and teams are to report at the time given to play against other teams.

Judging Criteria:
Through rounds of elimination of 5 minutes per round, top 3 prizes will be given for guides and brownies.

Duration: 5 minutes per round

Venue: ISH

Participants:
     7 brownies/guides per team. One team per company or pack.
     To accept 6 teams of brownies and 12 teams of guides.  (First Registered First Served)


Materials to bring by each participant:  Nil

Attire: Guides shirt with shorts/slacks

School IC: Shuqun Primary School

2.      Using recycled materials to make traditional costumes and do a catwalk

Objective/Aim:
To enable Brownies/Girl Guides to be creative in designing using given materials and do a simple catwalk with the outfit.

Description:
Each group needs to design an outfit (traditional costume) using given materials and dress up one of their members as their model. After dressing up the model, the model will do a catwalk with a given piece of music. The catwalk should be vary according to the music. Teams that do not follow the requirements will be disqualified.  All craft pieces will be collected and judged and the winner will be announced at the end of the day.  Guides/Brownies are not allowed to pre-design any part of the outfit.

Duration: 45 minutes

Judging Criteria:  
Criteria
Points awarded
Creativity of costume design
                  /20
Practicality of costume design
                  /20
Degree of completion of costume
                  /10
Aesthetics of the costume design
                  /30
Stage Presence (Catwalk)
                  /20
Total
                  /100

Number of Participants:
·         A team of 4 guides/brownies from each participating school
·         A maximum of 8 teams of Brownies and 8 teams of Guides per 1 hour timeslot.
(First Registered First Served)

Logistics required: (Items 4-7 To be brought by the guides/brownies of participating schools)
1.      Newspapers
2.      48 plastic bottles
3.      Scissors
4.      Scotch Tape/Masking Tape
5.      Glue
6.      Construction/Coloured paper
7.      Trash bags/plastic bags

School IC: Bukit Batok Secondary School

3.      Scrapbooking – Vision board for Singapore

Objective/Aim:
Using scrap booking materials, students will design a vision board to illustrate their hopes and dreams for Singapore to commemorate SG50

Description:
Students will create an A3 size vision board that represents their hopes and dreams for Singapore.
They will be provided with an A3 size board and they may make use of recyclable materials such as newspaper and magazine cuttings and also coloured paper to create their board.

Judging criteria: Refer to the attached rubrics.
Duration: 45 minutes 
Number of participants: A team of 4
Materials to be brought by participants: 
  • Scissors
  • Glue/Double sided tape
  • Magazines
  • Newspaper
  • Construction paper
  • Decorative items
  • Writing materials (coloured markers, crayons and coloured pencils)

School IC : Shuqun Secondary School

Rubrics for Vision Board

CATEGORY
4
3
2
1
Design
Layout of the pictures and decorative items on the vision board is balanced & pleasing.
Decorative items are well-made, suitable and well arranged.
Good use of colours.
Vision board is attractive.
Layout of the pictures and decorative items on the vision board is quite balanced & pleasing.
Decorative items are quite well-made, suitable and appropriately arranged.
Appropriate use of colours.
Vision board is quite attractive.
Layout of the pictures and decorative items on the vision board lacks balance.
Decorative items are not so well-made and not arranged appropriately.
Sparse use of colours.
Vision board looks acceptable though dull.
Layout of the pictures and decorative items on the vision board is imbalanced
Decorative items are poorly made.
Poor use of colours.
Vision board lacks aesthetic beauty.
Creativity
Quality of product is excellent, showing good imagination.
Quality of product is competent, showing some imagination.
Quality of product is fair, showing little imagination.
Quality of product is poor, showing no imagination.
Attention to Theme
Design reflects the relationship to theme clearly without the need for explanation.
Design and most of the decorative items are related to the theme.
Design and some of the decorative items are loosely related to the theme.
Design do not relate well to the theme.
Total score:

_____ / 12





4. Let’s get Crafty! competition

Objective/Aim:
To create opportunities for Brownies and Guides to bond with their fellow Brownies or Guides to forge closer ties through working together in a craft competition.

Description:
A total of 5 Brownies/Guides per pack/unit.
Using their creativity, the team must make use of all the materials in the mystery pack to create a product to suit the theme that will be provided on the actual day.
The team will then do a presentation for 10 minutes on their final product they had created

Judging criteria: see below

Logistics/ Materials required:
  • For participating schools, please bring along a) UHU Glue, b) Scotch Tape, c) Double Sided Tape, d) Scissors, e) markers/crayons
  • Each brownie team will be given a pack of mystery pack. They are to use all the materials in the mystery pack to make into a useful article. (No additional materials brought by the participating team must be used during the making of the product.)


Duration:  50 minutes to complete the product and 10 minutes to do a presentation on the finished product

Number of participants: 5 per school

School ICs: Rulang Primary School and Henry Park Primary School

Rubrics:
CATEGORY and points
4
3
2
1
Design
Layout of the repeated pattern is balanced & pleasing.

Good use of colours.

Design is appealingly attractive.

100% (All or Most) of the mystery materials given is used up.
Layout of the repeated pattern is quite balanced & pleasing.

Appropriate use of colours.

Design is quite attractive.

80% (Majority) of the mystery materials given is used up.
Layout of the repeated pattern lacks balance.

Sparse use of colours.

Design is acceptable but dull.

50% (Half) of the mystery materials given is used up.
Layout of the repeated pattern is imbalanced

Poor use of colours.

Design lacks aesthetic beauty.

25% (Little) of the mystery materials given is used up. 
Creativity
Quality of product is excellent, showing good imagination.
Quality of product is competent, showing some imagination.
Quality of product is fair, showing little imagination.
Quality of product is poor, showing no imagination.
Teamwork
Team members work extremely well together and all members participated actively.
Team members work well together and members participated actively.
Team members work well together and most members are involved.
Some/few team members work well together and only some/ a few members are involved.
Presentation
Reason(s) shared reflects the relationship to theme clearly without the need for explanation.


Reason(s) shared is related to the theme.
Reason(s) shared is loosely related to the theme.
Reason(s) shared does not relate well to the theme.
Total score:

_____ / 16





5. Win, Lose, or Draw (SG 50 version)

Objective/Aim:
To provide an opportunity for brownies/guides to develop their creativity by using their drawing skills to communicate with their team mates.
To create opportunities for Brownies and Guides to bond with each other through working together.


Description:
Each team to will be given 4 minutes to play the game. The team members will have to guess a phrase, title or thing related to SG50 that one teammate is drawing on the whiteboard with markers.
The drawer cannot speak about the subject in his or her drawing. Usage of letters, numbers, or symbols is also not allowed.
If one of these illegal clues is used, the point for the question will not be counted in.
However, if a non-drawing team member mentioned a word that was part of the answer, their teammate at the whiteboard is then allowed to write it down.

Judging criteria: The team with the highest point will win the game. 1 point for each phrase, title or thing guessed correctly.

Duration: 60 minutes 
Number of participants:
•          A team of 4 guides/brownies from each participating school
•          8 teams of Brownies and 8 teams of Guides per 1 hour timeslot
Materials to be brought by participants: 
Nil

School IC: Zhenghua Secondary School

6. Quiz Gameshow style

Objective/Aim:
To enable Brownies/Girl Guides to learn more about Singapore and be more aware of WAGGS.
To test the general knowledge of our Brownies/Girl Guides.

Description:
·         Each school will have to send 4 students (2 guides/brownies to participate in the game; 2 to act as helplines)
·         10 categories (E.g. Singapore History/Places of interest/Famous Forefathers in Singapore etc.) will be projected on the screen with varying levels of difficulty. (The levels of difficulty and the points rewarded and deducted will projected as well so that the teams can challenge themselves and gain more points or lose points if they answer incorrectly)
·         Each team will get to choose a category and answer the question in that category. Each team will take turns to do so. (the order of teams will be selected by a randomized machine)
·         If answered correctly, the relevant points will be awarded. If answered wrongly, the question will be directed to the other teams.
·         When answered, that category will not be available anymore.
·         Guides/brownies can use the 1 helpline throughout the competition.
·         Duration: 15-20 mins

Judging criteria:
  • Points are awarded according to level of difficulty. Hence the teams that answer the more challenging questions, they will get to accumulate more points.
  • Marks will be deducted as well for some of the challenging questions if answered incorrectly. (These will be projected with the various categories so the guides/brownies will have to choose the categories carefully.)


Logistics/ Materials required: Small whiteboards, Whiteboard markers, Scoring boards, Laptops (to screen the questions)

Duration:  15-20 minutes

Number of participants:
·         A team of 4 guides/brownies from each participating school (including 2 guides/brownies)
·         5 teams of brownies/guides per 20 minutes timeslot


School IC: West Spring Secondary School

8. Brownies / Guides Mini Amazing Race

Instructions:
  1. Brownies and guides form groups of 5.
  2. They will be given a clue to the station. They must solve the clue to identify the station. At the station, complete the assigned task. Upon completing the task, they must go back to the Command Station. *Participants will be informed of its location.
  3. Verify the answers at the Command Station and then get the clue to the next station.
  4. Winners are decided based on the first three groups that can complete the most stations in the fastest time.


School IC: Jurong Primary School

9. Batik Wax Painting (Filler Item)

Objective/Aim: Brownies and guides will learn about basic batik wax painting skills and express themselves creatively through their painting.
Description: Brownies and guides will be taught basic batik wax painting skills and they get to do a small painting using what they have learnt.

Duration: --

No. of Participants: --

Materials to be brought by participants: Paint brush, rag, pencil and eraser

Logistics provided:

Item
Batik paint (red, blue, yellow)
Drawing paper
Candle wax
Paint brush
Palette
Small container
Newspaper
Large pail
Rag

School IC: Teck Whye Secondary

10. Origami (Filler Item)
Objective/Aim: Brownies and guides will learn to make simple origami figures. 
Description: Brownies and guides will be taught how to make simple origami figures.
Time: --
No. of Participants: Individual (maximum 12 participants at a time)

Materials to be brought by participants: Nil
Logistics required:

Item
Quantity
Provided by
Origami paper
4 packets
West divison

School IC: Teck Whye Secondary



11. Traditional Games + Quiz (Filler Item)

Objective/Aim: Brownies and guides will learn how to play traditional games and also learn about Singapore’s history through quizzes.
Description: Brownies and guides will play traditional games like five stone, pick up sticks and also answer quizzes about Singapore’s history
Time: --
No. of Participants: --

Materials to be brought by participants: Nil

Logistics required: --

School IC: Zhenghua Secondary