Hey Guides!
Today, we did Kitchen Shelter and Dome Tent!
Kitchen Shelter
This activity aims to familiarise the Year 3s and Year 2s with this structure and introduce the Year 1s to this new Pioneering structure. We hope that the Year 3s will be able to step up and lead the patrol in the building.
Reflection from a Year 1 in P6:
I think that the building of the Kitchen Shelter was a very fun, pleasant and beneficial experience. As Year 1s, we could learn the skills necessary to build a Kitchen Shelter and what things we should take note of when building the structure. We can also learn the logistics required to build the structure. Through this experience, we could work with the other guides in our patrol and build teamwork. Our seniors have taught us how to build the Kitchen Shelter properly. During this activity, we were constantly reminded to 报时. From this experience, we have learnt to constantly 报时 to keep track of time and not overrun the timing given to us. Our seniors have also taught us how to tie new lashes, such as the Mickey Mouse lash. For the Mickey Mouse lash, we have to ensure that it is facing the structure. We have also learnt that when 抽ing the structure, we have to ensure that we must all 抽 at the same time and use our whole body weight to tighten our lash. We have also learnt that we must 顶 properly to ensure that the 红木 does not slant. We have also learnt that when tying lashes, we have to be quick and at the same time ensure it is tight. In conclusion, building the Kitchen Shelter was a beneficial experience that allowed us to learn many new things.
Reflection from a Year 2 in P4:
On Friday, it was our first time building the Kitchen Shelter with the Year 1s. So many of them were confused about what to do and thus there was a lack of communication between us. There ended up being a lot of manpower wasted. It took us around 30 minutes to 起 the structure, which was way longer than it should have taken, as we had to redo the square lashes due to the fact that we did not tie a 八字结 to the canvas sheet.
This was also a lack of knowledge we should have known when we revised the Guides notes. I learnt that the lack of knowledge may have let the Year 1s lose respect to the Year 2s and that it is very hard to earn it back. The next time a Year 1 approaches me to ask me questions, I will make sure I have already revised the Guides notes and I can answer their questons confidently. Furthermore, we were not clear on whether to put the arthurs diagonally towards the 木 or not, and how many steps to take as pacings. This resulted in a lot of time being lost as we had to redo a lot of these. Lastly, I believe we did not work with a sense of urgency, even when the seniors told us to hurry up, which they did more than once. We should have 报时d more and cheered more to increase morale and our sense of urgency.
For the building of the Kitchen Shelter during last Friday's 集合, I felt that there were still a lot of hard and soft skills that could have been improved on. Our sense of urgency was not up to standard as we were unable to 起 the structure even after 20 minutes had passed and it could have been improved if we had worked faster and tied our lashes tightly and correctly. I think we should also have been completely familiarised with the Kitchen Shelter as it is one of our standard structures. We could have taken better note of the different details such as how the “X” of the Mickey Mouse lash should be facing inwards when we 起 the structure. I also learnt how to lead and give out instructions better as a Patrol Leader. When we 抽 the guylines, the Patrol Leader should stand in the direction of the canvas sheet and shout out instructions to everybody to hear so that everyone is clear of whether the canvas sheet is taut enough. Overall, I feel that there is a lot that we can improve on and we also learnt a lot through the building of the Kitchen Shelter, which we can apply during the Patrol Leader Training Camp (PLTC) for Year 3s.
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This activity aims to help the juniors revise on how to build a Dome Tent and teach the Year 1s how to pitch a tent.
Reflection from a Year 1 in P1:
Last Friday, we built a Dome Tent. I think learning to build a Dome Tent was pretty interesting as I had only built a Dome Tent once before during Modular PE which was a while back. Since we, the Year 1s did not really know how to build the Dome Tent, our seniors told us what to do. We laid out the Dome Tent on the track, then put the support sticks through the hooks diagonally across the tent and worked together as a patrol to set up the Dome Tent. After the Dome Tent was standing, we put the waterproof cover on the tent. My senior then tested me and my other Year 1 patrol mate on what we had to do when we were supposed to build the Dome Tent. What I think we did well on was working together well building the tent relatively quickly and trying to help each other when needed. I think that we could work better on time management as we still needed to ask for a time extension. We could also 报时 more because I think we were forgetting to 报时 a lot during that 集合 session. If we had 报时more, we could have had a better sense of urgency and finished building the Dome Tent faster. We could even cheer more as I felt that the other patrols were cheering way more than our patrol throughout our entire activity. Through building the Dome Tent, I learnt that teamwork is always very important and we all need to be focused on the task at all times.
Reflection from a Year 2 in P5:
During this activity, we had to assemble a Dome Tent. Personally, I feel that while my patrol did well, there were definitely areas for improvement. In the beginning, it was very hectic and messy, and I found it slightly confusing. While we had prior experience doing this, it felt rather foreign at the start, and I think that in the future, we can familiarise ourselves more with such things. However, we pushed through and managed to complete it in time.
As we had finished earlier than some other patrols, I think that we could have moved to help them instead as there were many of us holding the tent down (more than needed). If we had moved to help the other patrols, we likely could have completed it faster as a whole 团.I also think that we could have had a greater sense of urgency and cheered more during this activity in order to keep morale up. Doing so truly does make a huge difference, so in the future, we can try to work faster and cheer more frequently.
All in all, this activity was very enriching and taught me a lot about working together not just as a patrol, but as a 团.
Reflection from a Year 3 in P2:
During 21 April’s 集合, we were required to build a Dome Tent in 10 minutes. My patrol quickly got to work because 2 of us already knew how to make the tent and we verbally gave instructions to everyone else in the patrol. The Dome Tent was not a difficult structure to complete and we quickly managed to complete the Dome Tent in 7 minutes. When we finished, some of us went into the tent to experience what it was like and some of us were showing the others how to use the tent. Afterwards, we went to help other patrols with their Dome Tents. After multiple time extensions, in the end, we took a total of around 15 minutes to finish the Dome Tents. Although we managed to complete the tent very quickly, I think we should have taken more initiative to offer help to other patrols quicker. We also could have 报时-ed and cheered more to boost morale. Overall, I think this was a good activity to teach everyone how to build a Dome Tent and get them familiar with the Dome Tent. And I hope we can build the tents faster and improve on our knowledge of the tent.
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Hope everyone learnt something new today!
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