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Last Friday, we jihe in Guides uniform for roll call and just a reminder to all that everyone is supposed to be in the standard guides attire for every guides jihes. For this jihe, half of the company had initiatives while the other half had foot drill and physical training. P1,2,7,8 had initiatives while P3,4,5,6 had skills training.

For foot drill training, it is new to the year1s and to prepare the year1s for their enrolment while it is a time for the sec2s and 3s to brush up on their foot drill and to know the commands well. After that, we had physical training. The sec1s did a great job for this first PT that they had so keep up the good work :D For the sec2s, it is good that you guys had constant cheering to boost your morale and pia throughout the PT but know when to fall out, do not over exert yourselves. For the sec3s, there is room for improvement and remember what your senior had taught you.

For initiatives, P1 and 7 had to use recycled materials to come up with something and they managed to build a robot out of cardboard, magazines, plastic bottles. The robot is currently being displayed in our tuan bu now. P2 and 8 had sushi making lessons which were taught by Stephanie's father. They had lots of fun learning and enjoying their ending product.

Jiayou sec3s for COJ !

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Hello guides,

We celebrated World Thinking Day yesterday, in school and today, in the indoor National Stadium with all the other girl guides and brownies around Singapore.

World Thinking Day which falls on the 22nd of February, is a day where girl guides/scouts all over the world, in 145 countries will think of one another and give thanks and appreciations for their sister guides and to renew the guide promise we made when we were first enrolled. This year’s theme is girls worldwide say "stop the spread of AIDS, malaria and other diseases". It links directly to our new Global Action Theme: girls worldwide say "together we can change our world." With regards to our new Global action theme, our seniors have also planned to do a cip project to help the needy people thus do participate actively and 'pay forward', something which all of us learnt from the movie today. Together as a whole company with 120 guides, we can make a difference.

Not to forget what Miss Ngau had mentioned to us, “A Good Turn a Day” – This is one of the golden rules of Guides all over the world. Doing something to help is a good turn. It need not be something particularly big or showy and we should aim for at least one good per day :D

Remember to visit the new launched Guides Website for more information about guiding.

http://www.girlguides.org.sg/

GOH
Year4s

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Hello guides!
On Friday we had our Combined UG Campfire 2009 to welcome our new sec1s!
We jihe-ed at 2.20pm, while the songleaders went off at 3pm to rehearse for the last time before the actual campfire. After that, we joined our patrol and taught the sec1s campfire songs and the mass dance!

At around 5+pm, we went to have dinner at the canteen, and we had fun bonding with our patrol. The songleaders left earlier to go to the hall. We were all very nervous before the start of the campfire, wondering how it would turn out to be, whether our 3-times-a-week practises would pay off.

We started off by welcoming the vips with the scouts doing their lion dance, and Mr Sng giving an opening speech. The highness started when Mr Sng announced the magic words, "I declare the campfire OPEN!" We started singing Campfire's Burning, and then slowly moving up the highness graph. At the end of section 1, it was the audience's first game! The emcees called out for people who fit the descriptions of what they said, and the enthusiatic participants dug into a box for items that were from the 4 UGs.

After section 2, we had our very own Don't Forget The Lyrics kind of game!
A few representatives from each UG sang funny cover versions of each song where participants were made either to guess the song title or sing the next line.
Everyone shouted "encore!" because it was just so entertaining to see the funny representatives singing their own renditions.

The climax of the campfire was at section 3, where the audience had alot of fun singing and doing actions to the fast action songs. And our very own combined UG MASS DANCE! For the second time of the dance, each CCA chairperson was called out on stage to dance, and some other enthusiastic people also went in front! Even though the fire was not real and the venue was indoors and air conditioned, the atmosphere was still super super high!

The end of mass dance marked the start of section 4, the songs that made the atmosphere descend down the highness graph and put everyone into a swaying lullabye mode. We ended with the song Auld Lang Syne.

And then Mr Sng went up on stage and uttered the words we dreaded, "I declare the campfire closed." And we all went woosh.

At the end of campfire, even though we were tired and sad that it was over so quickly, and having the emo after-effect flowing in, it was really a night to remember and we had loads and loads of fun as a big big family!
Looking back at the few weeks of songleaders' trainings, I felt that we really had an enriching time having fun with people from all 4 Uniformed Groups, working with the people whom we previously only knew by name or face. There were little little conflicts along the way, but that strengthened our bond(: It was heartwarming to see everyone trying hard together and willing to stay back.

And on behalf of the songleaders, I would like to thank all the mentors and Sec4s ex-songleaders who took time out from their busy school schedule to supervise us and gave us advice on how to improve, and for being so patient with us. And also thankyou to everyone for their effort in making this campfire a huge success! :D

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Yesterday, it was the second jihe for the year1s and our Combined UG Campfire. The year2s taught the year1s some of the basic knots and lashes while the year3s had to complete their creative product that they came up with before this jihe within a certain time. Some of the products that the year3s made were creative however there were still areas of improvement such as stability of it and the practicality of it. The objectives of creating a new and different gadget was to allow the year3s to think out of the box and use their creativity to build something different besides the usual gadgets we build and also to allow the year1s to see different gadgets that can be build just by using the knots that they learnt and gadget poles. After skills training, we had patrol corner whereby PLs taught the patrol on campfire songs, cheers and mass dance to prepare for the campfire. After dinner, we proceed to hall for our campfire.

This year's campfire theme is "home away from home". We were honoured to have our school principal joining us in this campfire as well as the teachers and seniors. Everyone had lots of fun singing together around the campfire, dancing and cheering together, spending the night together as one whole big family. We hope that the year1s enjoyed the campfire as much as we did and "Welcome of our UG family and enjoy the following years in UG"

Here are some pictures taken yesterday :)

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