Exciting June Holiday Activities

First and foremost, we have raised a total of 758 dollars in total for the walkathon! Good work! Although we did not hit our target of 50 per girl, I would say most of us have given in our best effort to raise the fund. (Those of you who gave us just $2 out of your own pocket, please reflect and think about the rationale of having the donation card. If one could afford $5 to buy KFC, why not help others with the little that we have?)

Come June Holidays is going to be very exciting for us. Please mark these dates on your calendar and plan your activities accordingly.

1) 20th to 22nd May: 10 girls guides (forming a group with 10 NCC boys) will follow the Sec 2 to a post-exam camp at Johore as part of our "overseas camp initiative". You will be given additional CCA points to participate in the camp. The campsite is going to be resort-like with air-con. There will also be many adventuous activities like mountain trekking to look for water falls.

2) 26th May: Healthy Lifestyle Course Badge

3) 2nd to 4th June: Girl Guides Camp in School

4) 13th June: Heritage Trail by ZhongHua Secondary

5) 21st June: Walkathon + Competitions

At the same time, I would like to remind all girls that our activities are very important to us. Your selfishness or absence in a certain event may cost us to lose our GOLD award. We have lost the Silver award last year, let's be united and bring upon pride to both ourselves and the school. Bear in mind that all our courses (Batik, rock climbing etc)cost us a lot of money. If you cannot commit yourself, do not sign up. Otherwise, all of us will have to bear the cost of all the courses we attend next time. These courses are a privilege to us, so please do not abuse this.

Walkathon and fun competitions!

Dear Girls,

So far I have only received one walkathon card from Kinyu ($53). The HQ is going after us for the cards already. Please return the cards to either Ms Chan or Ms Geja by FRIDAY 18/4/2008.

Please also take note of the walkathon date. There will be some fun competitions going on at the walkathon itself. Let us win some prizes back!

1) FUN DRESS COMPETITION
2) CHEER
3) PEACE MESSAGE

Details can be found below. We will plan these together when we meet after MYE.

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Letter from HQ:

GGS Walkathon 21 June 2008

Thank you for your submission of the walkathon cards and money. If you have not done so, we would appreciate it if you do so soonest possible, with Mrs Esther Ling at Guide House, as we need to tie up this administrative detail.
We are happy to share with you the exciting details for our Walkathon on Saturday, 21 June 2008. This is planned with a committee that includes our former President Guides and trailblazers, Sophia, Theresa and Divya.

PROGRAMME:

0730 Arrival of Brownies, Guides, Young Adults, Guiders, Trefoil Guild, Council and ExCo members
0750 Arrival of President, GGS, Mrs Joy Balakrishnan
0800 Arrival of Guest of Honour, Ms Kit Chan
0805 Address by Chief Commissioner, Ms Yvonne Lim
0815 Flag off by Guest of Honour, Ms Kit Chan
Walk along the route in Bishan Park with stops along the way to enjoy the many fun activities planned for you!
0915 Rest and Recover@Guide House
1000 Departure of Guest of Honour, Ms Kit Chan
In alignment with GGS theme for 2008 “Discover your potential- Every Guide a leader” and the peace initiative, we will focus on Leadership and Peace.

We invite you to participate in the many fun-filled activities that have been lined up for all.

Please refer to the pointers below for the different activities you and your Guides and Brownies can look forward to participating in.

1. “FUN Dress” challenge

Everyone enjoys dressing up for parties, how about dressing up for the Walkathon? We invite all Guides and Brownies to take part in this “FUN Dress” activity of the Walkathon. Each unit may send a representative as the mascot, but have as many girls may dress up as a character and walk together.

Theme: Woman Leaders Past and Present
Idea: You may want to dress as leaders that have inspired you. Put on your creative juices and be original.

For instance portray Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Victoria, Mother Teresa, Mu Lan, Power Puff Girls, Athena, Maria Sarapova, Pink Ranger, Wonder Woman etc.

Criteria for judging: Creativity, Congruence with theme on leadership, Attractiveness and Appeal, Materials used for costume (Recycled or environmentally friendly materials)

*Be spotted by our roving camera and you might stand to win a surprise gift*

2. CHEER

Share your thoughts on “leadership” in the form of a cheer… create an original cheer routine accompanied with some movements with your cheers relevant to the theme “leadership”.

Rules: 1) Cheer routines will be NON-STUNTING (no elevation and human tosses)

2) The cheer should not be longer than 3 minutes.

3) The cheer should be performed in English only.

4) Props can be used to enhance the performance.

Criteria for judging: Creativity of cheers and routine, Congruence with theme, Positive message, Clarity of Cheers

3. Peace Message

Design a peace message for a patch on an A4 size paper and explain the meaning of the peace patch in no more than 10 sentences on another A4 paper.

Criteria for judging: Congruence with theme on peace, Creativity, Design, Explanation

Singapore Youth Festival IMPORTANT documents

Congrats once again to our 3 girls who were selected for SYF!

I've received the schedule from HQ and you can also download the files from the 2 links below:

SYF schedule

Namelist of selected girl guides

Please keep to the schedule as SYF is a very important event for us GG.

BATIK PAINTING AND SYF this coming SAT

Dear girls,

There will not be a girl guides session this friday and we will only meet after the Mid year examination. When we come back from MYE, we will need to plan for our annual Camp which will be held in school on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th June.

As such, in order to settle some administrative matters, we (including the Sec 4s) will meet for a short while straight after school at the foyer this FRIDAY 11/4/08 (and then we hope to proceed to the AVA theatre).
(I will make a short annoucement tmr)

Things to be settled includes:

1) Batik Painting details (Mdm Geja will be bringing you to the HQ)
2) SYF marching contigent - Shivani, Zhou Yan and Xinyi
3) Walkathon cards.

If you cant make it for this Friday's short meeting, please find out from our fellow guides what has been going on.

Study hard and all the best for your mid year examinations!

Let's look back...

SPEECH DAY 2008

Everyone did a fantastic job on speech day! Thank you girls putting up such a good parade on friday! All the hard work finally paid off!

Girl Guides posing before the Parade.

Marching in to the Parade Ground

Celebrating the end!

ROCK CLIMBING on 5/4/2008

Getting ready

Listening attentively

Jingyi giving her best at it.

Minyi trying hard too.

Huimin and Felicia striving to reach the top!

AND, one more piece of good news!

SHIVANI, ZHOU YAN and XINYI have been selected to march for the Singapore Youth Festival! :) We are so proud of you!

UPCOMING EVENTS

1) ROCK CLIMBING on 5 April 2008 (SAT)

- Min Yi
- Felicia
- Hui Min (Sec 2)
- Jing Yi

Please meet Ms Chan @ 9am, bus stop outside our school.

Details:

TIME: 1000 HRS – 1330 HRS. (Reporting Time: 0945 hrs)
VENUE: CIVIL SERVICE CLUB, TESSENSOHN ROAD (5 mins away from Serangoon Station - North East Line MRT)
ATTIRE: i. NAVY BLUE/BLACK TRACK PANTS
ii. GUIDE BLUE POLO T-SHIRT
iii. TRACK SHOES & SOCKS

Guides are to bring their own water bottles and a packed lunch as refreshment is not provided.


2) SYF Selection on 5 April 2008 (SAT)

- Hidaya
- Shivani
- Zhou Yan
- Xinyi
- Siu Ting
- Christina

Details:
A selection of Guides will be held on Saturday 5th April at 0830 hours at Guide House, Bishan St. 14. Guides are to report at 0800 hours in FULL UNIFORM.

3) BATIK painting course on 12 April 2008 (SAT)

- Xinyi
- Zhou Yan
- Shivani
- Christine
- Ishwari
- Minyi
- Nuraini
- Hidaya
- Komati
- Jingyi
- Felicia
- Heidi

Details of the course as follows:

Date: 12 April 2008 (Saturday)
Venue: Guide House (Terrace Level 3)
Time: 9.00am – 1.00pm (Please report 15 minutes earlier)

Attire: Guide Light Blue Polo T-shirt
Black/Blue Shorts
Track shoes

Things to bring: Stationery set
Sandwiches/Snacks


Please note that lunch will not be provided.