DHS-psyCOYlogy!

Hello guides :D

On Thursday, about 40 Year 2 and Year 3 guides went for a tent pitching workshop held at Camp Christine. After the workshop, the year 3 went to recce the campsite for ATC while the year 2s had gadget making.

Firstly, we were taught on tent pitching. The tent that we will be pitching during ATC is a 12 man tent. The tent is heavy so it requires a lot of teamwork to build. We broke up into 4 groups, P1 and P2, P3 and P4, P5 and P6, P7 and P8. With a step by step demonstration, we were told to have some hands on with our tents.

From the hands-on session, we realised the mistakes with our tents, for example, we should not take to big steps before putting the pegs. We also hope that the years 2s learn that, it is very important to allocate manpower properly and clearly to the patrol to ensure swift completion of the tents because we have to build 2 tents per patrol and should not spend too much time on them as we also have other Camp D gadgets to build. Another reason for allocating manpower properly is so that the patrol members will know what to do in the next steps of pitching the tent, and not have nothing to do while waiting for the other patrol members to finish their jobs an get bored.

After lunch, we were broken into 2 groups, year 2s and year 3s and told to build 2 tents each. Ms Ngau gave the year 3s 1 hour while the year 2s were given 1.5 hour to pitch 2 tents and strike the tents. The year 3s managed to pitch our tents on 30 mins and the year 2s managed to pitch their tents in 50 mins, GREAT JOB EVERYONE :)

The year 3s hope that the year 2s would be able to apply what they had learnt on thursday to other jihes and also ATC. Make sure the other year 2s who didnt go on thursday know how to pitch the tents too, so as to maximise manpower during atc.

Enjoy the remaining holidays :)

Love guides.