Here are some reflections from this week's Patrol Activity.
Reflection from a Year 3 in Patrol 1:
For PA, we had to build a emergency shelter and KT. For the retrieval of logistics, we had a lack of communication and took the wrong logistics. From that, I have realised the importance of communication among the patrol members as we ended up wasting time to retrieve the correct amount of logistics. For the emergency shelter, we were unable to complete the structure on time due to the lack of sense of urgency. At first, we realised that we took the thin 中木. Therefore, our emergency shelter was unstable and not taut as we did not want to assert too much tension, least the poncho breaks. For KT, our sense of urgency and patrol morale were low during the first 30 minutes of building the structure. We feel that we should improve on that as a sense of urgency is required for us to sucessfully build a structure under the given time. Furthermore, patrol morale is important in order to make PA a happy learning opportunity. Overall, the lashes on the KT was pretty loose even though we were able to complete it under the given time. Through this activity, I have learnt that I should step up more as a Y3 to assist the assigned PL and PS. I also hope that the Y1s were able to learn more about the structures we build in guides from this patrol identity.
Reflection from a Year 3 in Patrol 2:
For Monday's P, we had to build a modified baggage rack. With the 中短木 replacing 中木 for the tripod 定脚s. As there was not enough 中短木 in 团部，we took 短木 instead and the baggage rack became very small. As it was our first time building baggage rack with year 1s, we as year 3s have to step up a lot to lead the year 1s and to teach them more skills along the way like rafting, 定脚 etc. I could see that our year 1s knew their basic lashes already but the tightness of lashes could still be improved. Overall, our structure was quite stable but was not pleasantly looking and there were many protrusion errors and 木s could be twisted out easily. After that, we had to build structures that could shelter at least 2 patrol members and hold all our water bottles. We could make use of our surroundings. We did not 过时 and succeeded in building the structures. We used a quadpod with frapping to hold our bottles and tied 木s to the railings and covered it with poncho, connecting the poncho and 木s with 八字结 and clove hitch. After that, we played broken telephone with very weird tongue twisters. There was a lot of laughter while playing broken telephone. Overall, this pa is consists of lash trainings as well as fun activities. It was an enriching and fun PA.
Reflection from a Year 3 in Patrol 3:
During PA, the Y3s planned a proposal for a creative mini gateway while the Y2s taught the Y1s the guides code and trekking signs. We didn't draw the mini gateway very well but I think we planned out the logistics needed quite quickly. After that, we had 50 minutes to build both the creative structure and a baggage rack. In hindsight, I think we should have allocated manpower more appropriately because while we planned to do the baggage rack first, we realised that we had a lot of extra manpower so we started the creative gadget as well. The Y3s focused more on the creative gadget as well. Although we were making both structures simultaneously, we finished just in time. This means we should have had a better sense of urgency as well.
Reflection from a Year 3 in Patrol 4:
During the PA, we manage to learn how to build the emergency shelter. As the Y3s and Y4s have mentioned a lot of important key points that we should take note of when building the emergency shelter such as making sure that the 2 gadget poles are far apart enough, we manage to keep those important pointers in mind so that when we build the emergency shelter in future, we will better take note of it. This was also a good opportunity to test our knowledge of the emergency shelter, flagpole and the 8 men tent as while we were building those, we could better find out what are the parts we are not sure of and need clarification. We also had the chance to teach the Y1s what are those structures and how to build them. We manage to refine our skills and better find out how to build these common structures.
Reflection from a Year 3 in Patrol 5:
The PA we did was slightly different from what we usually do. We were given situations in which we would have to know how to react and what we should build. In the end, based on the situations, my patrol built a Baggage Rack, Flagpole and Emergency Shelter. However, we had to build this 3 structures concurrently so we had to split the manpower among our patrol. Furthermore, every 10 minutes, two patrol members would have to answer guides questions or riddles. A forfeit would be given if we get 5 or more questions wrong. Unfortunately, we could not answer 5 questions and had to do our forfeit which was dancing Maboleh and Chek Chek Goleh. As we had extra time left, our seniors came up with an activity such that the Year 1s and 2s were given 8 minutes to re-tie an Emergency Shelter while the Year 3s used that time to plan for the rest of the PA. In the end, we decided to let the Year 1s be more familiarised with the items in the 团部 so we did broken telephone in which the first person has to explain what the item is without saying its name and the last person would have to guess what the item is. I felt that through these activities our patrol got to become closer to one another and the Year 3s were able to feel how it was like to plan an activity which is very interesting.
Reflection from a Year 3 in Patrol 6:
For PA, we did creative gadgeting. We had to build the structure in a given time limit and it was challenging as the Year ones were new to tying of lashes. Hence, we had to teach the year ones how to tie basic lashes such as the square lash, diagonal lash and tripod while building the structure within the given time. Furthermore, we took the initiative to explain the purpose of certain parts of the structure. For example, the diagonal lash on the bottom of our structure that connects both tripods together was used to stabilize the structure. When collecting of logistics, we also took the opportunity to show the year ones around the 团部 and 小队箱 so that they can familiarize themselves with where certain logistics are stored at. This PA session was very enriching and fruitful as it helped to hone our leadership skills and our ability to teach a new batch of guides while tying the structure within given timing. Even though we managed to finish building the structure, quite a few of our lashes were loose and not up to standard. Hence, I feel like we can work on our lashes and do more lash training with our juniors during Friday Morning sessions.
We hope everyone bonded with their patrol during this PA! :)
Published by:
Heather
51st Batch Secretary
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