SEC 3s ONLY for 31/03/12

Hey SEC 3 guides!!! tomorrow is Skill Training Day!!! Remember to rest early today and report to school tomorrow at 7.30am SHARP in full-U. PLEASE PLASE remember to bring beret, hanger! Also, if you guys have not done so, please collect twigs, mao mao, branches and so on for your outdoor cooking (sec 3 guides that went pioneering course, please help to collect!)

Lastly, please bring a pen for tomorrow too!! :)

rest early today and cya tomorrow!! :)

Camp ICs

Sec 3s only: Skill Training Day 31 March 2012!

Hey Sec 3s! as you guys know, you will be having your skill training day this saturday, 31 march 2012. Fall in at 0730 sharp in the concourse in full uniform on Saturday! :)

Full uniform with beret, scarf tied neatly, badges sewed on, enrolment badge POLISHED, World badge in place, hair tied neatly and socks at least four-finger high. No earrings, watches, bracelets, etc. when wearing full-u. Please cut your nails, and if you have applied nail polish, please remove it. remember to help one another with the uniform!

There will be double punishment for any attire mistake. Therefore, please make sure your attire is perfect before falling in :)

This is your grouping for this Saturday's skills training day! :)

A: Jaymie (leader)
Simin
Xinlei
Katty

S: Chevlene (leader)
Jiawen
Sijia
Chuahui

P: Chuaying (leader)
Lynn
Tianhui
Minhui

I: Caroline (Leader)
Shailyn
Gwendolyn
Jiahui

R: Kezia (leader)
Fiona
Cihui

E: Kayleen (leader)
May
Ng Kaiying
Fion


Things to bring for this camp!

do have an early night on friday and drink lots of water :D

PLEASE REMEMBER TO COLLECT TWIGS AND MAO MAO AND BRANCHES FOR OUTDOOR COOKING BEFORE SATURDAY :)

Camp ICs :)

300312 Activity :)

Hi guides! :)

We will be having the Sec 1 Enrolment Ceremony this Friday! :D

Fall in in the concourse by 2.30pm in guides full uniform with shirts tuck in, IRONED SCARF, plaits tied nicely, fringes all pinned up, 4 fingers high white socks and short fingernails. Please ensure that your badges are all sewn on and bring along all these necessary badges: POLISHED Enrolment badge, World Badge, Bronze/Gold/Silver badges, Total Defence badge. Remember to bring beret too!! 

Sec 1s, please fall in guides full uniform with all the necessary requirements shown above. If you have bought your enrolment badge, please bring it along with you. For those who have not buy enrolment badge yet, please bring $1.10 and buy from the QMs, those who have the enrolment badge but still have not hand it to us, pls pass it to Wan Ting AQM. 

If your attire is not neat, for every 1 mistake, there will be double punishment given!

For those whose lessons end late, please also report at 2.30pm. We will be giving you time to eat later.

For those who have been missing the past few activities, please take the initiative to hand in your MCs to the STs before activity starts. 

Please also bring guides grey tee + wear PE shorts (no FBTs allowed) and hanger to hang your uniform.

For the Sec 2s & 3s who have signed up for Pioneer Course, you'll be having the PIONEER TEST on Friday, during guides activtiy. Please remember to pick LOTS & LOTS & LOTS of SUPER SUPER SUPER DRY MAOMAO + TWIGS + BRING EVERYTHING YOU NEED (including matchsticks)!  Do revise on your skills and you may feel free to approach your QMs or any Sec 4s for help :)

Thank you :)


~ CLs

CIP recruitment for sec 1-4!

Hello guides!


I have 3 CIP work available now. If interested, pls sms lexin CL @ 83883490 for coy 1 or Catherine CL @ 97400696


1) Yeoman service for wushu competition
    I need 15 guides (art fest volunteer, pls do not volunteer for this cip as i dont want you to tired yourself out). It will be on 3 April from 11am-5.30pm at our school ISH level 2. Please report to Mr Ambert Khoo if you are selected.


2) * Volunteer for toa payoh sports hall
    I need 15 guides on 12 April from 9am-5.30pm . Please report to Mr Ambert Khoo at 8.45am if you are selected.


3) * Volunteer for toa payoh sports hall
    I need 15 guides on 13 April from 9am-5.30pm . Please report to Mr Ambert Khoo at 8.45am if you are selected.

* I hope more sec 2 and 1 can volunteer on the 13 April event.


Excuse slip will be given during days that you all have to miss lesson.

DO NOT SIGN UP FOR ALL 3 EVENTS. Each guide can only sign up for 1 CIP.

Sms us in the following format:


1) Full name
2) Class
3) Handphone no.
4) NRIC
5) CIP event that you want to take part in. (event 1, 2 or 3)

Pls sms us latest by this Fri 30 March, 9pm.

:)
~CLs

Homemakers Proficiency badge

Hello Sec 3s! 

THIS BADGE COURSE IS COMPULSORY!
Date: 19 May
Venue: HQ, level 3 training rooms
Cost: $15 (Those with financial difficulties can approach Ms Juni and she will tell you more information about subsidies)

Things to bring: sewing kit, scissors
There will be a test at HQ by a tester from HQ on another day. You must pass the test before you will be awarded the proficiency badge.
Please inform JafQi QM by 3 April if you cannot make it for the course.
Consent forms will be given out on 30 March and MUST be handed in by 13 April.

~QMs

Reader badge last criteria for sec 1

Sec 1s,
 those who have not yet submit your reader badge assignment to the QMs, pls do so ASAP. You can find Jafqi QM @ 4MD, 4th floor of old block and Zhiyun QM @ 4RP, 4th floor of old block to submit your work.

·     Those who have not taken the reader’s badge oral test, the re-test is during the this fri

·     HERE’S THE LAST CRITERIA OF THE READER’S BADGE (deadline 30^th March 2012) :

Read books with different headings (at least 3 out of 6) out of the following:

- Science/nature

- Travel/exploration

 - A foreign country

- History

- Biography

- A book of poems

Submit a synopsis/summary of no more than 200 word for each of the chosen 3  books. All the 3 synopsis/summary should be typed and printed on no more than one A4 page.

·      So if you have completed the

1.    Story book review

2.    Online book synopsis

3.    “Wolf That Never Sleeps” oral test

4.    Book synopsis of different headings (the one above),

YOU’VE COMPLETED THE READER’S BADGE!!!!!! (*clap clap clap*) :D:D

Any queries, text Zhiyun QM at 93985559 :{>                  

Steps to wear your full uniform neatly

Hello Sec 1s.

All of you should have received your patrol emblem. Please sew them on like you see in the picture. 

(01) Your world badge should be placed on the left side, ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE. As you do not have the white rectangular theme patch, the green oval shaped patch which I have given out on Wednesday will take its place. 

(02) As you can see, there are tiny “clips” sew onto the small collar. NOTE: SMALL COLLAR NOT BIG ONE. Please sew them on as you see. 

(03) Your “clips” should fit nicely when you fold down the collar and look like this 

(04). The clip is there so that your scarf will not run out of place when you are wearing the full uniform. If you do not know what the clip looks like, it looks like this 

(05). All of you should have your beret. 

(06) Please remember to bring them along with your full uniform. When wearing the beret, you are to fold up the back slightly. 

(07) Your beret and scarf are NOT to touch the floor at any time. Your world badge, enrolment badge (will be given) are equally important and should not be dropped.

How to iron your scarf:


(08) Your scarf should look like this, iron it.

(09) Turn your scarf to the back and fold it down, leaving a gap of about four fingers between the Singapore crest and the base of the triangle of the scarf. Iron it to make the fold obvious and neat.

(10)  Front view after first fold.

(11) The point of intersection should look like this from the front. (folded behind)

(12) Fold it down into half from the front. Iron it to make the fold obvious and neat.

(13) The corner of the scarf should look like this from the front.

(14) and like this from the back

divide your scarf into three equal horizontal areas and fold down, ironing after EACH fold to make the fold obvious and neat.

(15) first fold. IRON

(16) corner from front after first fold

(17) end product (:

(18) end of corner from front

(19) corner from front

How to sew your badges:

Please alter your skirt until just above knee.
Only black clips and hair tie are allowed in ALL guides activity. Only long socks allowed.
When wearing full uniform, you are supposed to tie 2 side plaits so that your hair do not cover the crest on your scarf. Pls try to tie your plait till the end of your hair layer.
Do not draw on your hand when wearing full uniform, if not is counted as one mistake
When wearing full uniform cannot wear watch and earring.

We will teach you how to buckle your belt and whistle on friday.

Do wear your full uniform neatly next fri to have your enrolment ceremony! :D


~QMs & AQMs

Coy 2 Cupcake Baking ^^

Hmm.. Do you girls enjoy buying cupcakes from any bakeries out there or making your own? I bet most of your answers would be making your own right?

This cupcake making initiative was specially organised for this!

On this very special wednesday 21/2/2012, we coy 2 girls head out to the OSAC International College Pastry Kitchen Level 1 at Telok Kurau Lor J to learn a new skill. We were split into two buses with 39 guides and 19 guides to get there. The driver of the bus with 39 guides, did not know the way there and there was problem communicating with him in English so we had to show our bilingual skills by speaking mandarin. We nearly lost our way! o_O

We arrived there at 3pm (together with the bus with 19 guides which set off for the pastry kitchen later than us!) and were warmly welcome by our cupcake teacher Pauline and her three other instructors! (: We went in in groups and got ready by standing by at our designated area. The guides look very excited. Soon, Teacher Pauline made a lively introduction. She showed us a demonstration of how the cupcakes could be made in 20 minutes. Really professional! She managed to entertain us too. Many of our guides were giggling because the colour of the cupcake batter looked wrong.

Teacher Pauline was nice and friendly and joined in with our jokes. I found her very tactful. She ensured that every girl in any corner of the kitchen can see her demonstration. She shared with us her experiences in baking too. For example, if she prefers mixers or mixing by hand; investments in mixing bowls etc. We did not make the ganache, due to time constraint, so we watched Teacher Pauline made, and she allowed us to dip our tiny fingers in to lick, if they were clean! (:

After a short denonstration, she set us off to try making the cupcakes ourselves. Teacher Pauline emphasised that the part on folding the batter to be very essential as it could affect the quality of our bakes.

For my group (group six), we took turns to do the mixing of butter, sugar and coffee powder, egg, cream, buttermilk and flour.

I am sure it was the same for the other ten groups right, guides? (: Other instructors were actively playing their part and guiding us when we were not sure. After all the mixing and folding of batter was done, we piped them into the pink little paper cups.

Our dear cupcakes were popped into the oven for fourteen minutes there after. The smell of the cupcakes in the process of baking, lingered in the air. It was like a total luxury!! Watching your bakes 'come to life' after fourteen minutes, was simply the best thing you could ever experience! You may feel like the parents of your own cupcakes!

We went to another kitchen while waiting for the cupcakes to cool, so we can pipe the ganache. So much of fun, laughter and jokes! (:

After a short wait, we were back in the kitchen getting ready to decorate our cupcakes, we piped the prepared ganache and added colourful decorations.

As proud owners of our cupcakes, we kept them in the containers we brought, ready to 'show off' the pretty cupcakes we made to everyone.

We showed our appreciation to Teacher Pauline and other instructors, took a group shot and went back to school, to join the coy1 guides. (:

For me!:

I could not fold the batter properly initially (I'm sure the guides in my group know that!).. However, after one of the instructors taught me again, and watching how my other patrol members folded, I finally knew how to! *smiles* I think that was what the workshop was all about. We learnt new things from one another, bond, learn a new skill and forge greater ties!

For me, I thought the piping process was totally cool as our patience were tested. We had to pipe properly, to the half of the cups. My skills of piping the batter and ganache was quite horrid at first, but practice makes perfect! It became much presentable eventually! (:

Guides, I hope you had have fun and learnt many useful baking skills through this initiative!

I learnt a lot and enjoyed planning for it, making the cupcakes and eating the cupcakes. (They are really yummy!!! Wished we made more!)

P.s. Teacher Pauline hopes to get our feedbacks on her facebook page: Cookies decorating in Singapore or her website: www.cookiedecoratinginsingapore.com! (: If you guys are free, do give your feedbacks! (:

Do look foward to more exciting initiatives oh! (:

-Jane PL <3