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
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