West Division Day Details

The West Division Day 2008 will be held on the 12th July 2008. The details are as follows.

Theme : Discover Your Potential, Every Guide a Leader
Venue : Zhenghua Secondary School, 91 Senja Road
Time : 9am – 3.00pm,
Lunch is provided for $2 per person. (WE HAVE ORDERED FOR OUR GIRLS)


Competitions

We will be holding several competitions on that day. In order for your brownies and guides to enjoy themselves, we encourage you to enroll them in the following competitions.

Each school is only allowed to send in 1 team per coy. Maximum number of Guides/Brownies per team is 4. Some of the competitions, teams will have to bring their own materials. Your guides are not allowed to participate in the competitions that your school organized.




1. Talentime (Brownies & Guides ) – Sub Theme :Sisterhood/Best Friends
· Please bring along your musical instruments for your performance (singing or dancing)
· Please label your CDs with the school’s name, title of performance and track number that needs to be played for your performance.
· Please ensure that costumes must not be revealing.
· Judging criteria will be given to the school on the day of competition.


2. Fashion Parade (Brownies & Guides )- Sub Theme: National Education(YHSS girls are in charge of this competition)
· Design a camping outfit (using only recycled material) that features the icons of Singapore. Icons may include the Merlion, Natonal Flower, National Flag.
· And also an accessory that goes with the outfit for the camp
· Prepare a short speech not more than 2 minutes to explain the above outfit.

3. Cards Designing (Brownies & Guides)
Guides
Each school needs to pay $2 for the materials
Design a Happy Teachers’ Day and Happy Birthday Card using the materials

4. Craft Competition (Brownies & Guides )
Guides
The Craft activity is called Survival of the Slipper Challenge and the mission is to create a shoe or slipper.
Each team needs to bring cloth (2pieces), plastic bags (5), aluminum foil (0.5m), string (2m), straws(10), rubber bands(10), newspaper (1 stack), toilet rolls(3), yoghurt cups(2), egg cartons(2), cardboard(2), decorative materials, masking tape, staplers, scissors.


5. Gadget Making (Guides only)
Each team will be given instructions to build the structure.
Please bring 50 gadgets of 25cm long and a ball of twine.

6. Environment Booth (Guides only) – Sub Theme: Reuse ( we didnt take part in this)
To redesign old clothes to make them fashionable.
Things that need to bring are old clothes, fabric paint/beads/sequins/glitter, hangers, newspaper.
Two old clothes have to be re-designed. It can be in any combination (two blouses or one blouse and one pants, or two skirts) and display their products on hangers. The before and after photos will be taken.
Teams will be disqualified if they bring along old clothes that have been re-designed.
Teams will be judged based on their creativity, originality, usability of the re-designed clothes.

7. Environment Activity (Guides only )
· The team will be given a scenario drawing block before the competition.
· The team needs to bring newspaper(3), toilet rolls(2), cardboard(2), raffia string(1.5m), 500ml plastic water bottles(2), aluminum foil (1m), shoeboxes(2), Plastic/foam cups(2), masking tape, scissors, stapler and garbage bags

8. Games (Brownies and Guides)

Guides

Human Snake and Ladders
Each group would send 1 representative to be the ‘chess seed’. Each group will take turns to answer a question. If they answer correctly, they can roll the dice to see how many steps their ‘seed’ can advance. If their answer is incorrect, their turn would be forfeited. The questions would mostly be IQ questions. When the ‘seed’ reaches a square that has a ladder, she can advance up the ladder to the square the ladder leads to. However when she reaches a square with a snake, she will have to move backwards down the snake.
The winner will be the team that reaches the end point first.

Brownies
Treasure Hunt
There will be a few stations. Each team will begin at different station. Each team will receive a map with the station checklist. When team visits the station, a guide will endorse their attendance at the station checklist.
The team has to complete an activity or solve a puzzle before they can get the letter assigned to each station. The activities and puzzles will be extracted from the brownies handbook.
Teams will complete all the stations and at the end of their rounds, they will have to collect some letters to be unscrambled.

9. Quiz Competion (Brownies and Guides)

It will be based on the guides and brownies handbook.
No materials required.

10. Food Related Competition (Brownies and Guides) – Sub Theme: Racial Harmony Sandwich
All ingredients must be halal.
Please bring the ingredients and design the sandwich according to the theme given.
The judging will be based on presentation, creativitiy and explanation (ability to explain what do the different items in the sandwich mean)