Footdrill Practice on Monday, 1st February 2016

Hello Guides!

Please note that there will be a foot drill practice on Monday, 01/02/2016.

Time: 0700-0800

Attire: PE T-Shirt with NY Skirt & Shorts, Polished Boots, White Socks, Hat, Specs Hooks, Hair/Bun Net

Venue: Area near the canteen

Things to note:

Have your breakfast before reporting for practice

Please be punctual and report at 7am sharp

Bring your water bottle for practice

Have adequate rest the night before

Familiarize yourself with the parade procedure

Cheers,

FCs’ 16

Details for Wee Kim Wee Challenge

Hello Guides!

Here are the details for the Wee Kim Wee Challenge we mentioned during CCA

The biennial Wee Kim Wee Challenge will take place in March 2016 and we are now inviting interested Units to sign up for the preliminary rounds.

The preliminary rounds will be conducted by Division level on the 18 March at Camp Christine. The top 2 Units from each Division will then compete in the grand finals on 28 May at Guide House.

A briefing on the rules, regulations and details of the Challenge will be as follows:

Event: Wee Kim Wee Challenge

Date: 12 Feb 2016, Fri

Venue: Guide House, Hall

Time: 4pm – 5pm

Each Company can send a team of 5 Guides to participate in this Challenge.

Girl Guides Singapore
Wee Kim Wee Challenge 2016
Background:
President Wee Kim Wee presented Girl Guides Singapore with a shield bearing the Istana’s Coat of Arms in 1994 just before he ended his final term. This Challenge was held on a biennial basis and has seen umpteen Girl Guides through a variety of challenges—each challenging them to exercise creative and critical thinking skills.
The Wee Kim Wee Challenge was revived in 2007 challenging Guides to showcase their culinary skills and present their dishes creatively.
Theme for 2016: CONNECT
Date of Preliminary Rounds: 18 March 2016, Friday Venue: Camp Christine
Time: 2 shifts
Shift 1 (North & West Division): 9.30am – 1pm Shift 2 (East & South Division): 1.30pm – 5pm
Task:
Each Unit will prepare 2 dishes within a 2 hours’ time frame. Both cooked portions should be sufficient for 2.
Dish One: Unit’s Choice

•   This dish must include the two following ingredients; dried prawns (hay bee) and coconut milk. These two ingredients will be provided for by the organisers on the day of the competition
  
•   This dish must be cooked on portable gas stove. Units to bring their own gas stoves and gas cylinders
  
•   The Units can choose to cook their method of cooking Dish Two: Surprise Dish
  

•   This dish is a surprise dish. Participants will be informed on the day itself
  
•   The recipe and ingredients for the surprise dish will be provided by the
  organisers
  
•   This surprise dish can only be cooked in mess tins over small disposable
  aluminium stoves and solid fuel.
  
•   The Units will have to bring their own mess tins
  
•   The disposable aluminium stove and solid fuel will be provided for by the
  organisers
  
•   This dish must complement cooked rice. Cooked rice will be provided for by
  the organisers
  

Girl Guides Singapore
Wee Kim Wee Challenge 2016
At the end of 2 hours, Units will be given 10 minutes to lay out their presentation. Presenters are expected to present their creations to the judges and explain how it relates to the theme “Connect”. They have 5 minutes to present.
Rules & Regulations:

1. Each Unit can send a team of 5 Guides to take part in the competition. The team of 5
   Guides must include at least one Secondary 1 / 2 Guide
   3 Guides will be involved in the preparation and cooking of the dishes. The other 2 Guides will be involved in the presentation. Presenters can bring along draft materials for the presentation. The full presentation will be done at the competition venue
   
2. Each Unit must bring their own portable gas stove. No electric stove / electric appliances are allowed. Each Unit can only bring 1 portable gas stove
   
3. All ingredients, cooking utensils, cutleries used for the competition needs to be halal
   
4. 
   

All ingredients for the surprise dish will be provided for by the organisers. Units are expected to bring their own ingredients for the dish of their own choice (with the exception of dried prawns and coconut milk. These two ingredients will be provided for by the organisers)

We encourage those who are good/ interested in cooking to sign up for the competition! If you are interested, please inform one of the CLs or ACLs by 2nd February.

Cheers, 

CLs and ACLs'16

TDP Parade Procedure 2016

Hello Guides!

This is the parade procedure for Thinking Day Parade 2016. Please familiarise with the procedure

Colour Party: Jazlin, Tammy, Rui Qing, huiping, jiawei

Parade Procedure

1.     Contingent contingent, masok baris.
(Band to start playing march-in beat)
Contingent marches in. Once guides have reached their positions, they will hentak on the spot and turn to face the front according to the drum beat. Drumming stops.
Squad 1 commander marches to the front of contingent and squad 2 commander marches to the back of contingent according to xinrui's timing.

2.     Contingent contingent, ke-kenan lurus.
Timer will give timing of ‘one check one’. Whole company will then adjust dressing according to the right marker. There should be as little shuffling made by boots as possible. Squad 1 commander will turn to face the squad and squad commanders will adjust their positions according to the middle person of the whole contingent.

3.     Contingent contingent, pandang ke-hadapan, pandang.
Timer will give timing of ‘up’ and whole company to jerk their heads and arms back to original position.
 4.     Contingent contingent, senang diri.

5.     Sekolah sedia.
All will sedia with school population.
Parade commander and CLs will turn to face the flag poles. xinrui will give timing of ‘check up’ for parade commander, CLs and squad commanders to salute while national anthem plays.
(Music for national anthem plays)
xinrui will then give timing of ‘check down’ for parade commander, CLs and squad commanders to check down. Parade commander and CLs will then turn back to face the contingent.
6.     Membacherkan ikrar.
Timer will give timing of ‘check up’. Alison will lead the school to recite the pledge. After reciting the pledge, timer will give timing of ‘check down’.

7.     Sekolah senang diri.
After reciting the pledge, colour party will march to the atrium. Thinking Day message will be said by maple.
8.     Contingent contingent, sedia.
Colour party marches back on podium.
Alison will lead the company in renewing the guide promise. “Guides let’s renew our promise.”
Timer will give timing of ‘check up’ and ‘check down’.
Note: Everyone will recite the guide promise together immediately after timer give timing of ‘check up’.

9.     Contingent contingent, begerak ke-kanan bertiga-tiga, ke-kanan pusing.
Timer will give timing of ‘one check one’ for contingent to turn to the right, facing the canteen. Squad commanders will march back to the extreme front and back of the contingent according to xinrui's timing.
10.  Contingent contingent, dari kiri cepat jalan.
(Band starts playing march-out beat)
Contingent will march off towards the canteen. Guides will hentak until the music prompts them to berhenti towards the end. Xinrui will then ask the contingent to fall out. CLs, parade commander and colour party will march off after the last person passes the podium. Parade commander will give timing to march down the stairs and towards the end of the quadrangle.

Parade commander will fall back in at the podium and give the command for the school population to be dismissed “Sekolah sedia. Sekolah keluar baris.” Parade commander will then fall out and join the rest of the company at the canteen.

Cheers, 
FCs'16

Programme Schedule for CCA on the 29th of January 2016, Friday.

Hello Guides!

Here is the schedule for CCA on 29^th of January 2016, Friday.

                     

Time	Activity	Venue	Action By
1530 - 1545	Roll Call and Briefing	Quadrangle	CLs and ACLs
1545 - 1745	Footdrill	Quadrangle	Sec 2s to 4s
1745 - 1800	Debrief and Taps	Canteen Area	CLs and ACLs

Attire:

Sec 2s-4s: PE T-shirt with NY Skirt & Shorts, Polished Boots, White Socks, Hat, Specs Hooks, Hair/ Bun Net

Cheers,

FCs’16

Programme Schedule for CCA on the 26th of January 2016, Tuesday

Programme Schedule for CCA on the 26^th of January 2016, Tuesday

Hello Guides!

Here is the schedule for CCA on 26^th of January 2016, Tuesday.

                     

Time	Activity	Venue	Action By
1515 - 1530	Attendance Taking and Briefing	Quadrangle	CLs and ACLs
1530 - 1745	Footdrill Session	Quadrangle	Sec 2s to 4s
1745 - 1800	Debrief and Taps	Canteen Area	CLs and ACLs

Attire:

Sec 2s-4s: PE T-shirt with NY Skirt & Shorts, Polished Boots, White Socks, Hat, Specs Hooks, Hair/ Bun Net

Cheers,

FCs’ 16

Programme Schedule for CCA on the 22nd of January 2016, Friday

Programme Schedule for CCA on the 22^nd of January 2016, Friday.

Hello Guides!

Here is the schedule for CCA on 22^nd of January 2016, Friday.

                     

Time	Activity	Venue	Action By
1530 - 1545	Roll Call and Briefing	Quadrangle	CLs and ACLs
1545 - 1745	Various Testworks	Various classrooms	Sec 2s to 4s
1745 - 1800	Debrief and Taps	Canteen Area	CLs and ACLs

Attire:

Sec 2s-4s: LSC’15 + NY shorts/black or blue FBTs

Things to note:

Below is the list of testworks to be taken during the testwork session on 22 January 2016:

Level	Testwork(s)	Who needs to take this test
Sec 2s	Section 5 Module 3.1: WAGGGS (Theory)	All Sec 2s
	Section 5 Module 3.2: World Conference, World Committee, World Bureau	All Sec 2s
	Section 5 Module 3.3: World Centres	All Sec 2s
	Section 2 Module 1: -  Cooking -  Washing & Ironing -  Housekeeping (Homework)	All Sec 2s (except for Calista, Yi Xuan, Vera, Celeste, Kellie, Clarissa, Zhixian, Zi Xin, Lin Xuan, Xin Le, Cheryl)
Sec 3s	Section 4 Module 2.2: Fire, Gas and Electrical Accidents	All Sec 3s (except for Jyh Hsien, Jia Wei, Patricia, Georgia, Kylia)
	Section 2 Module 3.1: Safety Devices & Measures	All Sec 3s
	Section 1 Module 1.1: Rules of Health	All Sec 3s (except for Rui Qing, Jia Wei, Patrica, Jing Yee, Georgia, Rebecca)
	Section 2 Module 1: -  Cooking -  Washing & Ironing -  Housekeeping (Homework)	All Sec 3s (except for Jyh Hsien, Rui Qing, Jia Wei, Patricia Jing Yee, Xi Wen, Yu-Lynn)
Sec 4s	Section 5 Module 3.1: WAGGGS (Theory)	All Sec 4s (except for Lynette, Ro Zen, Shu Ning, Xin Rui, Zi Yi, Ka Lin, Si Tian)
	Section 5 Module 1.2:  Flag Etiquette (Practical)	All Sec 4s (except for Ro Zen, Shu Ning, Le Yun, Zi Yi, Ka Lin, Maple, Genevieve, Si Tian, Jia Hui, Keen Huei)
	Section 5 Module 1.3: Flag Etiquette (Theory)	All Sec 4s (except for Faith, Ro Zen, Shu Ning, Xin Rui, Jazlin, Heidi, Alison, You Jing, Genevieve, Shu Hui Claire)
	Section 2 Module 1: -  Cooking -  Washing & Ironing -  Housekeeping (Homework)	All Sec 4s (except for Ro Zen, Yan Ling, Maple, Alison)

Guides are reminded to bring the following

o      Sec 2s: writing materials, foolscap paper

o      Sec 3s: iPad, writing materials, foolscap paper

o      Sec 4s: writing materials, foolscap paper

Cheers,

CLs and ACLs’16