Camp Christine Clean up CIP

Hi guides :)

There'll be a camp christine clean up on 9 November, Sat, from 0730 - 1300pm. I need at least 15more of you to volunteer for this cip :) If you are interested, please text me (96866312) your name and class and tell me that you're interested for the clean up by 7Sept, 1900h. 

For those that have not completed your 6h of VIA, this Cip is compulsory for you as this is the last cip we are offering through cca for this year and you MUST COMPLETE 6H OF VIA BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. Since we are giving you 3months advance notice, please keep your day free. If you are really unable to make it or reschedule the things you have on that day, text me and tell me the problem but i hope that all of you will make an effort to keep this day free. 

The following people are those that must come for this CIP unless you have a valid reason 

No	Names	Guides VIA hours
1	TAN KAI TING LYNETTE	4
2	HUANG LU JING	4
3	KOH SI YUN	0
4	BELLA WONG	0
5	TAN YING YING	5
6	Loh Ming Li, Esther	0
7	Wong Guan Min	0
8	Sheena Ng	5
9	Wong Zing Rong	4
10	Chng Wen Ting, Dinise	5
11	Chua Min Yi	5
12	FAITH ONG	5
13	NG JING WEN GRACE	0
14	YEO MIN YI	5
15	TAY SHIN PING, ERIN	0
16	LAU HOR YAU, VANESSA	0
17	THENG JIN YUN	0
18	YONG QI HUI JANICE	5
19	TAN REGINE	0
20	CHENG ZHI NING	0
21	GOH YI XUAN	5
22	HO XUE WEI	0
23	ANNABELLE GOH	0
24	CHEW WAN YEE NATALIE	0
25	CHUA XI WEN	0
26	LIM LI YING	0
27	LIM YU YI, MEGAN	0
28	MARY MAGDALENE	0
29	NG PEI QI, RACHEL	0
30	TAMMI TOH JING EN	0
31	YEO JUN TING	0
32	YEO XIU MIN	0
33	HAZEL KHOO SHYI YEE	0
34	ONG SI YING, ALICIA	5
35	TIAN WEN YI	5

Thanks! 

LOVE,

bingpeicl

FIrelighting

Hey guides! sorry for this late post on firelighting but here's more information and tips on firelighting that'll be useful the next time we have fire lighting :)

Safety checks before fire lighting (SAFETY IS ALWAYS FIRST):
1. Pail of water to douse fire
2. Newspaper and trash bag for rubbish and residue
3. Check equipment and area ard

• Are there any cracks on the handle close to the blade?
• Is the blade firmly attached or is it unstable?
• Is there sufficient space for fire lighting? Consider: number of people, number of turfs, overhanging trees/branches
• Ensure that there is two cangkul dist between whoever is turfing and observer. Observers should be at least one meter away from turfer. 

This scenario should never appear: If the cangkul is not in good condition, inform the seniors instead of just leaving it there. Also, the position of the cangkul is wrong.

4. The blade of the cangkul MUST beEMBEDDED INTO THE GRASS WHEN NOT IN USE. 

Your cangkul should ALWAYS be placed in this manner when NOT IN USE.

5. Hair should be neatly tied up, accessories off.

Steps for firelighting: 

1. Prepare for turfing, ensure that all safety precautions are taken care of. 

2. Lay out the punk, kindling and twigs that you have collected on a newspaper in order of size

3. Use your master hand to grip the top of the cangkul (nearer to blade) and your other hand to be below the master hand in a comfortable position but do not hold the cangkul right at the end.

4. Use your body weight to turf, not your back/arms. We need the swinging action so that your cangkul can go deep into the ground. 

5. You should be turfing a square that is just slightly bigger than the cangkul blade such that the cangkul can fit into the depression.

6. Each time you swing the cangkul into the ground, try to lift up the ground a little and loosen the piece of land.

7. When the piece of ground is ready to be taken out, swing your cangkul in one last time and then try to shift the cangkul under the turfed piece of land and then lift it up. The piece of land that comes out should look like a 'cake' instead of many separate pieces. This is so that when you place is back into the ground, it will look like it wasn't dug up before.

8. After which, continue to turf the sides of the depression such that you create a perfect square and make the surfaces more even. Then, remove the soil in the depression using your cangkul and place it on another piece of newspaper.

9. Now that you have removed the piece of land, you are ready to start the fire! Lay some thick twigs at the base of the depression as the soil might be wet.

10. Shape punks(leaves from casuarina trees, a.k.a. maomao) into a nest and place it above the twigs.

11. Light the nest of punks. Stay low when lighting the matchstick. After the matchstick has caught fire, wait for awhile so that the brown part of the matchstick has caught fire before you place it at the bottom of the nest (this is so that the fire can spread from the base to the top)

12. Wait for the fire to spread, you can attempt to light more matchsticks to start more fires. After the fire gets bigger, throw in the kindlings and twigs in random directions.

13. If the fire is dying out, blow in strong, short breaths, after the fire has revived, throw in more twigs and continue to blow until the fire is stable. Do not blow against the wind direction as smoke will get into your eyes and the fire will be burning in your direction.

14. Only resort to using punks when the fire is not rescuable anymore. Note that punks are used to start fires while twigs and kindlings are used to maintain the fire. 

15. Place two pieces of thick, stable wood on top of the pit, parallel to each other.

16. Rest your messtin on top and COOOK

17. Continue to feed the fire to keep it going

18. Enjoy your food with your patrol mates :D (and the patrol-less four -hint-) heheh

19. Pack up. Sprinkle water over the embers and ensure that the fire has completed died out. Also ensure that all the white embers have turned black. Leave the embers to cool for awhile while you pack your surroundings. Clear all your mess tins and utensils and wash them (DO NOT CLOG UP THE SINK)

20. Use the cangkul to dig up those embers and debris. Place it in a newspaper and throw it away.

21. Place the things you have removed from the ground back into the ground. Remember that the first that was dug up is the last to go back in, vice versa.

22. Jump on the area that was dug up and try to make it look flawless :D

23. Ensure that your area is completely clean and that there is no more food particles left behind. 

OKAY THAT IS ALL :)

FIRE LIGHTING IS COOL AND FUN AND ITS A WAY OF SURVIVAL IN THE WILD ;) ALWAYS RMB TO DO IT SRLY AND THAT SAFETY IS ALWAYS NUMBER ONE. 

If you still have any questions, feel free to clarify your doubts with any of the seniors. 

Sec1s and 2s, please ensure that all of you have your own mess tin by the next activity :) It is sold at any of the army shops :D (eg. safra, army shop at pasir ris bus interchange thr, etc.)

LOOOOVELOADS

bingpeicl :)

Guides Donation Drive

Some pictures from Guides Donation Drive 2013 for the Elderly residents of Pipit Road as well as a short reflection! :)

4 Sept's activity

Hi guides!

Wednesday is the last activity we'll have until after eoy ): Guides will resume on 11Oct so just anticipate hehehh! All the best for your eoys and study hard!! JIAYOU -clapclap-

For sec1s, there will be NO ACTIVITY for this wednesday which means last Friday was your last activity ! D:

For sec2s, activity will only be from 3.00-4.00 and you'll be having your 5 point test!
Sec2s please fall in at the concourse at 3.00 in whatever school uniform you're in that day. 

For sec3s, there will be INTERCCA games on Wednesday! Wear your grey tee with PE shorts!:) The groupings are as follows :) more details for the games will be given on the day itself heh

Sitting Volleyball	Goalball	Modified floorball
Cherie Kwek	Cheng Wei Ting	Koh Qing
See Yu Qing	Tan Ying Ying	Bella Wong
Charlotte Tan	Jazel Koh	Huang Lu Jing
Tan Xin Hui	Zhang Jing Yu	Lynette Tan
Lee Quan Fang	Nyang Bing Pei	Lim Cheng Sing
Jasmine Lim		Koh Jia Xuan
		Koh Si Yun

Do your best but don't forget that this time's intercca is about having all the ccas come tgt to bond and have fun instead of competition :) JIAYOU!

lovelots
biingpeicl

Sec 2 Guides survey

Dear Secondary 2 Guides,

Please complete the Guides survey that has been emailed to you latest by 1st September 2013. It is compulsory for all Sec 2 Guides to complete the survey.

All responses will be kept highly confidential. Due to the sensitive nature of the survey, avoid sharing your responses with your fellow Guides.

If you are not able to access the survey, please approach Ms Juni for the alternative link. Thank you.

Reflection for 23 August:)

As usual, we left our bags at the guides room and fall in outside LH2. The sec 1s had their Health Trooper Badge Course and hence, they left for the Health Promotion Board after greeting the seniors. After that, the sec2s went to the Ecube room for our 5-point test. The 5-point test was about acting out a scene based on a world issue. Elissa, Wi En and I acted out a SARS disease scenario, whereby, as a guide, what can we do to solve the problem. We all fun even though it was a test. I felt that our patrol did the job well, the other patrols did well too! Thereafter, we had our craft making session for the Gardens by the Bay project. This time, we're assigned to make flowers. As my patrol have already finished the 100 leaves, i went to oriole patrol to help them out with their leaves. At the end of the session, everyone finished the number of leaves and flowers required. Overall, i felt this craft making session is very meaningful. It help us bond as a patrol while doing the craftwork. Everyone put in their fullest effort in making the craftworks too :D 


Eunice Ng, Sunflower Patrol

Pretty flowers:)

Survey time!

Reflection for 21 August:)

On Wednesday, we fell in outside the LT2 after putting our bags in the guides room. Then we did some drilling and gadget making after that. We split ourselves into groups and made a table each. the seniors then tested to see if our tables could stand.

Then for the rest of the activity, we used newspapers, felt and scouring pads to make the shapes of different leaves for the Gardens by The Bay project. We had to make 100 leaves per patrol. We cut out the shapes of the different leaves, decorated it with either paint, markers and newspapers. We worked together as a patrol and finished it very quickly. After we finished making, we cleaned up the classroom and fell in at by the lakeside for dismissal. this activity was enjoyable! :)

Sheena Ng, Sparrow Patrol

Proud creations:)

Coy 1 working hard...

Coy 2 working hard...

Having fun in each other's company!

Week 9's activities! :)

YOOOOOOZZZZOOOO! 

28August, Wednesday

On Wednesday, please fall in in front of the innosphere at 245pm in half u. 

Sec1s : Study hard for your health trooper badge's test and your dome tent pitching retest (you are to pitch the tent in 30mins) :)

Also, we'll be having an initiative on Wednesday yayy!!

You all will be making a house made up of ice cream sticks (look below hehe) as a patrol and on in inside, you'll be hanging photos of your company's guides (photos will be provided by us :D)

You will need to bring along these few items as a patrol, do allocate the items evenly among all the members!

1. Everyone to bring a bottle of UHU glue

2. Decorative materials eg. paint, marker.

3. A cardboard from your drawing block/2 foolscap backing for the backing of the house (the green thing)

4. Twine (to hang the photos)

5. 2 hole punchers (to punch holes on the photos)

6. 4 pairs of Scissors

7. Newspaper (to lay the table before starting)

8. At least 3 thick card board pieces to support the sides and bottom of the house.

 

Have fun during initiative! :)

OKAY THAT'S ALL FOR WEDNESDAY! NOW SCROLL ON FOR FRIDAY'S ACTIVITY!

30 August, Friday

On Friday, fall in at the concourse in Full Uniform at 230pm. Please refer to JingYu QM's blogpost on the attire. Ensure that your nails are short, socks are four fingers high, scarf nicely tied, hair neatly tied (HAIRSPRAY psstt psst) and your beret and all your badges are present. 

Please also bring along your grey tee shirt and a hanger. 

Sec1s : Study hard for your personal and social development 1.1-1.2

Coy1 Sec2s : Read up on canvas tent pitching

Coy2 Sec2s : Read up on set ceremonies

Lastly! We will be having outdoor cooking!!!!! YAYYY

Outdoor cooking:

Theme: POTATO LAND 

Ensure that potato is the main item that stands out in your dish! 

Things to bring as a patrol (Please distribute the items evenly among your patrol) : 

1. Twigs and Maomaos (Sec1s please take the initiative to pick :), Sec2s guide the sec1s) 

2. Matchstick

3. Messtin

4. Your ingredients 

OKAY THAT'S ALL FOR FRIDAY! THANKS FOR READING THE QUITE LOONG POST <3

Rest well and drink up :)

Love loadsss

Bing Pei CL :)

Cancellation of Sept camp, EEC Course for Sec 2 guides on 11 & 18 Oct

Dear Guides,

1) The school has set the last day of activity (EOY study break) for all CCAs to be on 4th Sept. As such we will cancel the Girl Guides September camp which was scheduled to be from 6-9 September 2013.

We will resume Girl Guides activity on 11 October 2013.

All Sec 2 guides to note that they will be going to Energy Efficiency Centre for Part 1 of the course on 11 Oct for the Energy Efficiency Proficiency Badge from 3-5pm. One way bus transport will be provided, and it will leave the school at 2.30pm. Consent forms will be issued next week during activity. Do note that you will need to bring your pencil case, a copy of your latest utilities bill from Singapore Powers (do start to prepare this now) and a calculator to class. Photocopies of the bill are also acceptable.

Do note that for the second part of the course on 18 Oct from 3-5pm. One way bus transport will be provided, and it will leave the school at 2.30pm. There will be a written test on that day and it is also the final date of submission of an assignment that was given out in session 1.

Thank you.

East Division Day 2013

Dear guides, 

Fun and exciting day at EDD today!

Congratulations to Company 1 team consisting of Wi En and Zing Rong who won 1st Prize in the Fashion show category earlier today. :))) Both of you have done us tremendously proud!

(include picture of trophy)

And to the rest of you who have contributed your heart, soul, sweat, time and tears during the preparation for EDD, give yourself a pat on the back. Hope you have learn a lot about each other's strengths and also bonded during the preparation time. Remember, the journey is more important than the outcome. 

Keep the guiding light shine, guides!

Group Shot. :))

Scenes at the our fundraising booth:

Working on a unique request from our dear brownies

Happy customers with their combined heart shape,

Working hard on a full face request

Some pictures taken earlier today:

Scrapbooking Team 1

Scrapbooking Team 2

Desert Making Team 1

Desert Making Team 2

COY 1 Dance Team doing their thing...

Coy 2 Dance Team

Thrift Badge

Missing parts in thrift badge assignment:

Photo of being thrifty at home:
- Xin Hui
-Cherie
-Wei Ting
-Jasmine
-Wei Ran
-Ying Ying
-Yu Qing
-Lynette
-Bella
-Koh Qing
-Cheng Sing
-Jazel

Photo of bankbook:
-Koh Qing

Article/item of being thrifty:
-Lynette
-Koh Qing

Please bring those missing parts of the assignment and pass it to me tmr :) Thanks.

River_of_life project

Dear Guides,

An update of the number of leaves completed by the different patrols on Wednesday is as follows:

Patrol	No of leaves completed	No of leaves halfway done	Total
Jasmine	43	38	81
Hibiscus	0	55	55
Sunflower	100	0	100
Orchid	14	95	104

Patrol	No of leaves completed	No of leaves halfway done	Total
Mynah	39	45	84
Dove	50	0	50
Sparrow	95	0	95
Oriole	0	26	26

1.5 hr has been allocated for craft making this Friday. If your patrol has completed all 100 leaves, you may proceed to complete the flowers. Each patrol should make between 25 - 50 flowers for this project.

Cheng Sing and team will be guiding you through the steps for flower making on Friday. Do help out the other patrols if they did not manage to meet the minimum quota for leaves and flowers. Have fun!

Donation Drive ~~

Harro Guides!!

This is the list of items that will be collected for the donation drive. It is not compulsory to bring them, but do support this project and try to bring at least one item!! If you wish to contribute, please pass the items over to one of the four people in charge (Jasmine PL, Hannah, Seow Khim, Yong Yu) of the project on Friday, either before or after activity starts. Thank you!

Reflections for 16thAugust

On friday, we fall in at the concourse at 2.30. As there was oral on that day, we could not time as loudly as we normally would. After greeting the seniors, we helped to carry the bags to the guides room. Then we spiltted into our East Division Day groups. As Ms Anisa was not present that day, we did not present our dance. Instead, we helped our seniors to put the service learning posters all over the school. When we finished, we practiced our dance steps in the guides room.

Awhile later, we were told to assemble at LT2 where Yong Yu, Hannah, Seow Khim and --- gave us a talk about the service learning activity. I find that the service learning project is very meaningful as we get the opportunity to help people who are not as fortunate as us. We can help them by giving them daily necessities that some might not have access to. By doing that, the people who received the stuff might not have to worry too much about whether they would have enough food to eat and so on. Seeing people happy makes me happy too! :D

When the talk ended, we gathered behind LT2 for a drilling competition! And Coy 1 won the competition by 0.5 points! :p I think that the competition was thrilling as I find it exciting to drill with the seniors and we never had such an experience before. It was fun to drill as a company together and compete with company 2. Though we made some mistakes, I think that we did quite well. I hope that there will be more of such competitions. xD Finally, the competition ended and the sec 1s and 2s split to different classrooms for our respective 5-point tests. Then the tests ended and we all sang taps before going home. The activity was enjoyable and I hope that guides will be more bonded!!! :)

~Huing Lee, Orchid Patrol

Week 8's Activities!

Harro Guides!!! :D

On Wednesday, please fall in at 2.45 pm outside LH2 in Guides half-uniform. Sec 1s, please read pages 202-205 of your handbook. Study hard for your 5-Point test!

On Friday, please fall in at 2.45 pm outside LH2 in the grey tee and track pants. Sec 2s, please read pages 41-46 of your handbook.

From now on, you will have to leave your bags in the Guides room before the start of activity. Report to the Guides room to leave your bag there before falling in front of Innosphere (outside LH2). Please also remember to bring the items on both days.

Rest well and stay hydrated!

xoxo
Jazel CL :>

Week 8 guides activity

Dear guides,

For activity next Wednesday, we will be having a craft making session for the Gardens by the Bay - River of Life project. Below is a picture of what we will be making:

Green - Souring pad leaf, Orange -Felt/Fabric cloth leaf

As a school, we are required to submit 800 of these handmade leaves for an exhibition. Therefore, each patrol will be given 2 hours during the activity on Wednesday to contribute 100 leaves. [100 leaves/patrol].

Do remember to write your patrol name & CCHMS Guides 2013 on each of the leaf that your patrol contributes. This will allow visitors to the exhibition to identify the leaves that you made! You should label it on the side facing upwards as the leaves will be placed on a hammock and the lower side of the leave will not be seen.

As a patrol, please bring the following:
- 100 pieces of Felt cloth or Scrap cloth (do note that if the cloth are flimsy, you would have to sew two cloths together) or 100 pieces of scouring pad from used dish-washing sponge. Scouring pad refers to the thin, rough green portion of dish-washing sponges.

Scouring pad

- Colourful yarn/string to decorate the veins of leaves (enough to make 100 leaves for your patrol)
- 3 sets of non-toxic biodegradable paint/arcylic paint of at least 4 colours
- 3 paint palletes/containers (to contain paint or mix paint colours)
- 3 permanent pen (to label patrol & school name on each leaf)
- 3 stacks of newspaper to line the tables in the classroom

Note for patrol leaders: Do not assign just one guide to bring all 100 pieces of cloth/scouring pad. Distribute the numbers among your patrol members.

Individual items to bring: Every guide is required to bring the following individual items:
- 1 scissors
- 1 liquid glue (able to stick  fabrics/ felt together and also able to stick coloured yarn/string to leaf)
- At least 1 paint brush (size: fine) --> to decorate leaves

EXTRA INFORMATION
For the activity on Wednesday, each patrol will be given 3 sets of leave template to trace onto the fabric & also 6 instruction sheets.

For the activity on Friday, we will be making the PET flower bottles/Egg Carton flower.

PET bottle flowers

Egg Carton flowers

As a school, we would like to contribute 200 flowers. As such each patrol would have to submit 25 flowers (you can have a mixture of both PET and egg carton flowers) after the 1 hour craft making session Friday.

As a patrol, bring the following items:
- 25 plastic bottles with cap still on
- 1 cardboard egg carton
- Twine (enough for 25 flowers)
- Packet drinks boxes (emptied and washed)
- 3 sets of non-toxic biodegradable paint/arcylic paint of at least 4 colours
- 3 paint palletes/containers (to contain paint or mix paint colours)
- 3 permanent pen (to label patrol & school name on each leave)
- 2 pen knives
- 2 stacks of newspaper to line the tables in the classroom


Individual items to bring:
- 1 scissors
- 1 liquid glue (able to stick  fabrics/ felt together and also able to stick coloured yarn/string to leaf)
- At least 1 paint brush (size: fine) --> to decorate leaves


 Have fun guides! Let's work together to complete this project! Jia You!