Hello Guides!
During today’s 集合, we had station games.
The overall storyline is as follows:
One day, when you and your patrol mates were cleaning the 团部, you chanced upon an old song book. You were curious as to know what were the songs that your seniors used to sing back in the days and flipped open the book. But little did you know, the song book is actually enchanted! Before you could even take a good look at the songs, you were engulfed into the book! You found yourselves trapped inside the book and the only way to escape is by entering 6 songs and completing the tasks given to you. There are 6 fairies who will guide you along the way. After completing your task, you are required to sing the song that you are in and the fairies will give you a word. By the end of completing all 6 songs, you will have 10 words that form a spell for you to escape. Good luck and have a magical journey ahead!
Station 1: Father Abraham
Father Abraham has seven children. Some of them were tall, some of them were short, but none of them were bright. On Father’s Day, the children decided to surprise their father by cooking a meal for him while he was at work. However, they broke their stove while they were cooking (somehow) as it was their first time cooking (and they were not bright) Ohno! It is up to you to help them to build an Outdoor Fire Altar to ensure they can cook the meal before their father comes home in 14 minutes.
Reflection from a Year 3
During 集合 on Friday, we were tasked to build a Outdoor Fire Altar for the first station. I feel that our morale was relatively high during this activity as we 报时ed often. Furthermore, we managed to finish our structure on time, with only one time extension needed. This may have been due to the fact that we put in the effort to 报时, so the whole patrol was aware of the time that we have left to build the structure, thus causing us to have a greater sense of urgency. However, there can still be some room for improvement. For instance, some of our lashes were a bit loose and one of our tripods could be a lot tighter. As one of our tripods were tied too loosely, the whole structure was a bit unstable as the tripod was supposed to be the main support of the whole structure. Hence, we should ensure that our main support, which was the tripod in this case, is tied tighter next time. Additionally, there were quite a number of 鸟绳s that we did not tuck in, so we can improve on ensuring that our structure looks neat and that there are no 鸟绳s in the future.
Good job on finishing your task before Father Abraham reached home! The children managed to cook a scrumptious meal for him thanks to you!
Station 2: My Bonnie
My Bonnie, My Bonnie. Well, we all know the story of what happens next. Bonnie sailed across the ocean to become a construction worker and left you alone with sleepless nights. One day, you decided to go find Bonnie and you chanced upon magical signs that seemed to lead the way to her.
Reflection from a Year 3
In this station, we were tested on our first aid skills and ability to recognise the trekking signs. Even though we remembered most of the first aid skills tested, we missed out some details and were still unfamiliar with the head bandage. The seniors had to guide us and we now know how to tie the head bandage the right way. As for the trekking signs, we were not sure of them. Hence, I feel that we could have read the Guides notes more frequently, and not wait until we are asked to as it will be inefficient to read it only when we are reminded to. We also tried to include our juniors and were able to bond as a patrol alongside using the time to refresh these important skills. Overall, I think we were quite slow and could have worked faster, with more frequent 报时 and a greater sense of urgency.
Bonnie is mostly fine now and the ambulance just arrived to take her to the hospital. Good job!
Station 3: Three Little Ducks
Welcome to Quak Quak Land, where ducks of all species live together. The land can be ruled by anyone who has the feather on his back. The feather only appears when the duck has deemed to earn his status as a king. This feather is very special as it will not drop off the duck’s body unless one has lost the qualities as a good ruler. One day, a duck by the name of Baden wants to become the king. Your job is to assist him in becoming stronger by doing a 8 minute PT routine with him.
Baden is stronger now, but he realises that there is more to being a king than physical strength. One needs to possess certain qualities to become a king as well. You are to solve the riddles on the post-its pasted around the class. The answers to the riddles may not necessarily be the qualities themselves.
Reflection from a Year 3
For station 3, the song that was referenced was three little ducks. For that station, we had to do physical training and solve riddles. The Physical Training we had to do was star jumps, burpees jumping jacks and crabwalk. We had to do one set of all these exercises. Overall I did not feel that this was too tiring and in fact felt more ready for the activities after the Physical Training. It was also the first time I heard of star jumps. For the riddles portion, we had to look for riddles written on post-its hidden all around the classroom. We would then have to solve the riddles and guess what the underlying value was. The value was then explained and we were told how these values were related to our guiding journey. I felt that this segment was very fun as I enjoy solving riddles in general. I also felt that it was a unique way to talk more about these values that are very important both in guides and in our daily lives.
Station 4: Titanic
It was sad when the great ship went down. The ghost of the husbands and the wifes and the children who lost their lives were furious about the sinking ship. They refused to 转世重生，一直在人间阴魂不散，伤害无辜的人。You have entered their territory and they have decided to kill you. You have 15 minutes to build something as a peace offering to them.
Reflection from a Year 3
Regarding station 4, I think the concept was very innovative and fun as the peace offering made me think about how to make my structure more creative. We built a tripod with the letter P to symbolise peace to show that we were unthreatening. From the station, I learnt that as PL, at that time, I should not be micromanaging and tying lashes when not needed. Therefore, next time, instead of only focusing on the little details, I will try to work on looking at the bigger picture and lead the patrol more efficiently in order to finish our structure faster and build it more effectively. I think that our structure could have been more creative and I will try to link our structure more to the topic next time we have similar activities. I think the station also helped me better understand the song titanic and overall, it was an enjoyable station.
The ghosts accepted your offering and decided to let you go. You quickly move on to your next song.
Station 5: Cannibal King
In the Mushroom Forest, there lived a tribe of cannibals named the R.Hounds. They feed on homosapiens by hunting for them outside the forest weekly. There was a rumour going around about eating the Hula Dame can make one 长生不老。The Cannibal King ordered his huntsmans to bring the girl to him as he wanted to eat her. Unexpectedly, he fell in love with the Hula Dame after getting to know her. He pretended to eat her but hid her under the bridge near the lake. He went to find her on every bright moonlit night. But one day, some people saw them under the bamboo tree. He had no choice but to kill them as he didn’t want others to be eyeing her as food. You are to assist him in building a new shelter that can camouflage into any surrounding using the legendary ponchos to hide the Hula Dame.
Reflection from a Year 3
During this station we had to build a shelter. We built tripods to be used as the frame of the whole shelter. The Year 2s built tripods quite often and were familiar with how to tie the tripod so it was done quite quickly. While we were tying the lashes, we 报时 quite frequently but still needed some reminder from the seniors. However, our whole attention was on the lashes we were tying and did not focus on our logistics. We took a while to realise that the logistics were gone and had to ask for them back quite late. We managed our time quite wisely but towards the end we started to work a lot slower which caused us to not be able to finish up the last bit of our structure. Overall, our lashes were all quite tight except for the tripod lash which needed to be improved on. One of the dingjiaos of the tripod was tied wrongly as well. At the end of the station, we had to sing the song “cannibal king”. It was a song that everyone knew so it was pretty easy to complete that task. All in all, the whole experience helped us to revise how to tie a standard tripod and lashes.
Station 6: 南屏晚钟
你匆匆地走入森林中, 森林它一丛丛, 你找不到它的行踪, 只看到那树摇风。你们现在需要通过定向越野, 使用指南针，去找到那南屏晚钟。你们有12分钟的时间去寻找它的所在地，加油。
恭喜你们成功找到了南屏晚钟！时候不早了，你们打算在太阳下山之前尽快走出森林。但是在走出森林的途中，你们迷了路，指南针也坏了，根本找不到走出森林的方向。天色渐渐暗了，你们不得不使用火光信号求救，同时也得亲手搭建一个能让大家暂时休息的棚子。你有6分钟来发出求救信号。你也需告诉我你该如何选择一个合适的地点搭建你的棚子，及你该怎么搭建好这个棚子。
Reflection from a Year 3
It was a very enjoyable and meaningful experience at Station 6. Firstly, we started off at the station with orienteering with a compass. That was a good opportunity for us to guide and teach our Year 2s how to use a compass to navigate their way. It was also great that we managed to allow all the Year 2s to have a go at using the compass. This was also a good platform for us to refresh our memories on how to use a compass to find directions. Secondly, we tried to light up a signal fire. This was the first time we showed the Year 2s how to do so and it was very meaningful. As the Year 2s have not gone through outdoor cooking before, it was our first time teaching them how to use the matchsticks to light up the 木麻黄 and we definitely had a lot of fun doing so! Lastly, we also sang the song 南屏晚钟. During 集合, we hardly sing any chinese songs and that was a good time for for us to sing the song and recap on it. It was also a good chance for the Year 2s to learn that song.
你成功地建好了你的棚子，其他的仙女也在不久后发现了你的求救信号，帮你离开了森林，拯救了你。
We hope everyone had fun playing the station games and enjoyed the storylines!
Published by:
Cefina
52届 Secretary
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