Hi Guides! Today, we are proud to have represented Dunman High Guides in participating in various Comms for East Division Day!
We have participated in the Recycled Fashion, Newsletter, Dance, Snack Making, as well as Mini Gadgeting! It was such a fruitful and eye opening experience, as we tested our limits and let our imagination run wild!
Here are some of our experiences we would like to share with you!
Reflection from a Year 3 in P6 on Recycled Fashion Comm:
For East Division Day, I participated in the recycled fashion competition. I believe the preparation for the competition was extremely fun. We had to use recycled materials to come up with the outfit that not only resonated with the theme but also looks visually appealing. Our seniors came up with a beautiful design that we felt really looked like a greek goddess’s costume. They had come up with the idea to roll paper to make the skirt and then stick strips of bubble wrap that would be coloured half blue and half pink to match the theme of gender equality. They had also come up with the idea for something that looked like a weighing scale and I felt that that part really matched the theme of the competition. Unfortunately, it was very hard to meet up to prepare for the competition as there were many public holidays during that period and we were unable to meet up on certain days. Sometimes some of us would join late as we had extra modules to attend. Luckily, we were able to get everything ready for the day of the competition. When we were painting the pieces of bubble wrap, we had to be really careful such that the paint did not get everywhere. The paint was very messy and got stuck to many of our hands, turning our hand blue and pink. As we hurried to cut the strips and paint, we realised that the weighing scale had to be fixed as it kept slanting to one side. Luckily, we were able to fix that with some tape! We hurriedly dressed up our model, Xuan Ni in the costume and placed the flowers as the finishing touch. We thought it looked really pretty and amazing. To our surprise, we actually won first place! We were so happy and I am so grateful to our seniors for helping come up with the design!
Reflection from a Year 2 in P4 on Newsletter Comm:
We had our East Division Day on 25 April 2025, and it was a wonderful new experience for me. My friend and I took part in the EDD Newsletter, along with two Year 4 seniors, Frederika and Hui Wen. We took the bus to Bedok View Secondary School, where we spent the rest of our day supporting our seniors and gathering information for our Newsletter. We went around the school to search for the different competitions being held. There was the Recycled Fashion competition, Mini Gadgeting competition, and Advocacy Booths. For our Newsletter, we decided for our topic to be based on Recycled Fashion. We collated all the photos that we took in a Google Doc and wrote about the experiences of the competitors in Recycled Fashion; how they felt and how they looked. We then picked out the most relevant and interesting photos to add into our Newsletter and added it into Canva. We always kept in mind to adhere to the Newsletter requirements, such as the word count and number of pictures, while remembering to show the emotions of the competitors and the atmosphere. For the Canva theme layout, we chose to go with the colors blue and yellow. Not only were the colors bright and eye-catching, but they also represented Guides. We also put in some elements, like a blue hat and a yellow scarf, to include more details to make our Newsletter appealing and engaging. We even added the Guides emblem to the blue hat to make it more apparent that it was the Guides hat. We were constantly checking and changing the size, font, and color of the words and changing the size of the elements, as we were extremely determined to win the Newsletter competition. In the end, we won third place! I was really joyful when I heard about our results, but I thought that we could have gotten second place. Nevertheless, it was still an accomplishment and an amazing experience for me and my friend, since it was our first time participating in EDD. Working alongside my seniors was fun, and I learned how to make a Newsletter. I would definitely like to take part in EDD again!
Reflection from a Year 3 in P2 on Dance Comm
I was super excited to do EDD dance as i had already choreographed 2 dances with the same group of people for ATC campfire and WTD and they were both just as fun! We chose the song "Dear Future Husband" as we thought it fit the theme on Gender Inequality that we chose. The song is about a more traditional approach to relationships where the woman offers domestic duties in exchange for chivalry and gifts. Choreographing the dance was a tad bit hard as it was difficult to come up with a move for the literal meaning of the lyrics so we had to interpret and try to convey the lyric, which took more time. Some of our actions were also too complicated to carry out during a part as the song is quite fast paced, being an upbeat song. So we either had to swap it out for something less time consuming or just dance really fast which we pulled off so well! It was also difficult to find a day where everyone was free to choreograph and film so we decided to choreograph on a HBL day and film the video on a school morning where everyone was free but this meant that we would have very limited time and we would have to work fast. This gave us quite a bit of stress but it made us work faster and the laughs we had during the whole process made it so much less stressful and worth it! We managed to finish choreographing on a HBL day as we are so productive. It was so fun to choreograph as we were giving funny looking suggestions and the atmosphere in the group was so lovely and I love everyone in EDD dance group everyone was putting in effort to learn the dance and put in so much energy during recordings of the dance video even though we had to re-record it multiple times on a school morning where everyone was tired. Our efforts paid off though as we got our well deserved 1st place!
Reflection from a Year 3 in P1 on Mini Gadgeting Comm:
For East Division Day 2025, I participated in the Mini Gadgeting Competition. I had wanted to try Mini Gadgeting last year as well, but by the time I went into the spreadsheet, there were no more open slots. I found Mini Gadgeting interesting as it was almost the same as normal CCA sessions, where we tie either Gadgeting or Pioneering structures. However, I later realised that Mini Gadgeting was not as easy as it looked. Because the string we used to tie our structure was extremely thin, I struggled to tie the Clove hitches and Half hitches, taking almost the same amount of time to tie them and the rest of the lash. We also could not 抽 too hard as the string breaks easily, and we would have to restart the entire lash if the string was too short to complete the lash. However, the tiny string broke a few times when tying as I forget we should not 抽 too hard and I use my normal strength to 抽, resulting in frustration due to having to tie again. We were also confused at times as the measurements of the sticks we needed to cut kept changing, but I am glad we knew what to do on the actual day. On the actual competition day, we started off quite slowly as we had originally planned to only take 5 minutes to cut our string and sticks, but we had 过时 by 5 minutes. That gave us 5 less minutes to tie quite a complex structure, so we were pressed for time. We also had to split into pairs to tie a frame together, which was also quite difficult as the frame was small and 2 people had to work on it at the same time. We worked much faster towards the end of the 1 hour we were given, barely managing to finish our structure. Although we were missing a few small details, I am quite proud of us as we managed to finish the structure with a functional sliding ladder. I am happy we won 3rd place in the competition, and hope to give Mini Gadgeting another try in EDD next year.
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