AC Details

Annual Camp 2010: 31st May (Monday) to 4th June (Friday)

Details:

• Reporting Venue: Raja Block
• Reporting Time: 31st May 8am - Sec 1s and Sec 2s; 7am - Sec 3s
• Attire: Full Scout Uniform - Sec 1s and Sec 2s; PE attire - Sec 3s
• Dismissal Time: 4th June, 1pm - Sec 1s and Sec 2s; Sec 3s - No idea
• Parent's Night is on Day 4 (Thursday 3rd June) at 1800 hrs

Packlist - Personal:

• Full Scout Uniform (Red Scarf)
• PE shirts (min 4)
• PE shorts (min 4)
• Underwear (min 4)
• Sports shoes
• Socks
• Slippers / Sandals
• Toiletries
• Towel
• Jackknife
• Backpack
• Writing materials (I guess a pen and a notebook is enough)
• Water bottle
• Torchlight
• Spare batteries
• Poncho
• Groundsheet
• Ziploc / plastic bags
• Hanger
• Fork and spoon
• Mess tin
• Gloves (this is COMPULSORY, you can buy at any hardware store)
• Wallet with money (appropriate amount, not too much, not too little) and ez-Link cards

Packlist - Patrol:

• Patrol Video
• Icebox
• Structure / Gadget design
• Meal plan
• FOL items
• Condiments (oil, pepper, salt, soy sauce, etc) - will not be provided
• Lightsticks (per tent per night)
• Aluminium foil
• Radio - optional
• Snacks - they say optional, but I think otherwise
• Camera - optional

Contraband:

• Antisocial stuff (playing cards, mp3 player-unless you bring a speaker or it has one)
• Pillow, bolster

Things to do before AC:

• Structure/gadget design
• Kitchen tent structure
• Table, bench, dustbin, dresser, clothesline, shoe-rack, fence, 1 practical gadget
• Meal plan
• FOL
• Patrol Video
• Banners
• Buy, saw teckos
• Obtain parent's response for parent's night

Poles:

• Each patrol will be allocated the following amount of poles:
• 1m - 10
• 1.5m - 10
• 2m - 20
• 2.5 m - 10
• 3m - 10
• 4m - 10

Meals

Meal	Theme	Special Dish
D1 Dinner	Noodles
D2 Breakfast	Handmade Delicacies
D2 Lunch	Mixed Rice
D2 Dinner	Vegetarian	Cookie
D3 Breakfast	-
D3 Lunch	Western	Vegetable/Fruit Salad
D3 Dinner	Open
D4 Breakfast	-
D4 Lunch	Asian Cuisine	Cake

• Budgets
• Breakfast - $1.50
• Lunch - $2.50
• Dinner - $2.50
• Grading
• Sufficiency (25%)
• Creativity (15%)
• Taste (20%)
• Presentation (5%)
• Hygiene (15%)
• Nutrition (20%)

Reminders:

• Waterproof all items in your bags
• Use a backpack
• Sew on relevant badges onto Scout Uniform
• Revise your skills (especially pioneering)
• Be punctual
• Have initiative
• Have a sense of urgency
• Safety is paramount!

Annual Camp Details

1. Campsite Layout
Every patrol will be allocated a certain area for your entire campsite. You will need to mark out your campsite through whatever form you want, if you have enough poles (or money for tecko), you can even surround your entire campsite with it, but that's entirely up to you. And you will need to think of where you want to pitch your sleeping tent and kitchen tent structure, and where to put spare poles etc.

2. Kitchen Tent Structure
Instead of a gateway structure, this year you all will have a kitchen tent structure. Attached are pictures from National Patrol Camp 2008, where several groups have used it. One of it is very simplified, the other is much more complicated. There are more pictures, but we don't want to restrict your imagination. The basic requirements of the kitchen tent structure is that it must be able to shelter you when it rains, be able to fit ONE tarp, and enough space at the bottom for your working needs. This kitchen tent structure will replace your kitchen tent. You will not have kitchen tents if you do not build this one properly. Your kitchen tent can be elaborate, but make sure you can get the basic structure up first, before adding on any other stuffs. The kitchen tent will have to be up by the end of the first day.
For those who are really confident and want to try something new, you can even get planks and build your kitchen tent in such a way that you can sleep in it. How complex or simple you want the kitchen tent to be is totally up to you.

3. Gadgets
This would be the same as previous years. Table (one for cooking, one for eating, or one big table for both), chairs/benches (enough to comfortably sit 8 people), dresser, dustbin, shoerack (big enough for 1 pair of shoes per person in your patrol), and one other practical gadget.

4. Meals
There will be a total of 9 meals that you have to plan for, 3 breakfast, 3 lunch, 3 dinner.

Meal
Theme
Special Dish

D1 Dinner
Noodles


D2 Breakfast
Handmade Delicacies


D2 Lunch
Mixed Rice


D2 Dinner
Vegetarian
Cookie

D3 Breakfast
-


D3 Lunch
Western
Vegetable/Fruit Salad

D3 Dinner
Open


D4 Breakfast
-


D4 Lunch
Asian Cuisine
Cake

As you can see, there are themes for most of the meals. This means that there will be a marking criteria for following the theme, and it is also to "guide" and give you ideas for the meals. For the special dishes, they do not have to be in accordance to the theme. Meaning you do not have to bake a vegetarian cookie. For the "open" theme, it is for you to show off your patrol's signature dish =)
One thing to note for the meals, there will not be any fixed categories like staple, meat, veg, dessert/soup. This is because you may want to mix your dishes together (eg spaghetti bolognese with minced meat). That being said, it does not mean you do not have to cook food from a certain category. We still expect a good mix of food types.

5. Banners
The banners will be hung on your kitchen tent structure, or if you want you could make a structure to hang it up as well. I believe you have already bought cloth for Annual Show, so do make full use of it. Remember to have a space on your structure where you could hang it from.

6. Festival of Lights
Think of how and where you would want to light up your entire campsite. Be creative! No big big fire and stuff like that, just make sure you don't burn the field down =)

7. Video
There will be times for you to showcase a video, which follows a theme of "01's funniest videos!" It should not exceed 3 minutes, and your patrol members got to star in it =D

During activity this Monday, we will dismiss the SU slightly early. There will be time after that for you to plan/discuss with your patrol, so make good use of it! There's not much time left till AC, so we got to work fast. Remember that banners will take a long time to paint/dry, so you may want to start on that first. Also, we will be checking your gadget and kitchen tent designs on Wednesday, 19 May.


That's all for now! Hope to see you well, recharged and ready to go on Monday.

Thanks
Roy

Owl is back!

Hey all. My exams are over! How about all of you? How are the exams? Done well? I hope everyone put in their best effort to say the least xD Guess what everyone? Next up for 01 activities is ANNUAL CAMP!!! and for that there will be alot of preparation work for us to do. All this will mostly include the Sec2s and 3s as we are the ones who are gonna be building our ultimate structure. The plans im still going through and the ideas are mostly complete but i need to touch up and contact Tharun about how he feels about them.

For, now everyone should just kick back and enjoy the after-exam happiness and when the AC preps come, we will have to chiong through alotta things :D

Have a nice post exams period time!
Roy =D