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Meeting on 25th November

For those who have not yet received news about tmr's meeting,

Time: 0900 - 1700
Attire: Full Scout Uniform, bring PE Attire
Duty Patrol: Stingray

See you there.

Scouts Makes You Fit

After just one year in St Joseph's Pelandok Scout Group, Secondary One Leonard Tan does THIS.

Meeting on Friday, 20th November

Dear all,

The following are the details for meeting this Friday:

Time: 0900 - 1700
Attire: PE Attire
Duty Patrol: Seahorse Patrol

Agenda

0900 General Fall In
0920 Patrol Training
1220 General Fall In
1230 Lunch Break
1330 General Fall In
1340 Patrol Training
*Knots and Drill tests will be available for all Patrols during this time.
1530 Physical Training
1640 PT Ends
1645 General Fall Out
1700 Dismissal

Note: ALL Secondary 2s are expected to be down, including those attending ACE Camp 2. Secondary 2s will report at 1000 after S2 Posting Results. Perfect way to celebrate your great results, I hope. ;-D. See you there.

Yours In Pelandok,
V Santhosh
Patrol Leader's Council 2009/10

St Anthony's campfire change in meeting place

heyo! all those going for St Anthony's campfire today

please be notified of the meeting place and time.

refer to previous post regarding the campfire.

Click Here to download the consent form.

thanks.

St Anthony's campfire change in meeting place

heyo! all those going for St Anthony's campfire today
please be notified of the meeting place and time.

refer to previous post regarding the campfire.
thanks.

St Anthony's Primary Campfire.

hey peeps.
the campfire at st anthony's primary is this saturday. 14 november.
it's from 7.30 to 9.30. but we will meet at SJI at around 6.45 (yes it IS pm. not am)
*EDIT: we will meet at bukit gambok MRT (North-South Line) station at 7pm.

those interested please notify your PL.
and PLs please remember to give me the names of those going. thanks.

btw, Attire is Full Scout Uniform.
no need to bring anything.
just your voice. as OCY said last time. =)

Pls download the consent form above this post, get it signed and hand it in by Saturday.

Meeting Overview for 13th, 20th November

Hi all,

as your should know, meetings on

• 13th November
• 20th November
• 25th November

are all from 0900 - 1700 hours.

The outline for the 13th and 20th Nov meeting are as follows.


0900 General Fall In
0920 Patrol Training
1220 All activites stop
1230 Lunch Break
1330 Patrol Training
* Footdrill and Knots assessment open for Patrols.
1530 Physical Training
1640 PT Ends
1645 General Fall Out


Attendance
Pls be reminded that attendance for the following 3 meetings will be recorded as 2 meetings, meaning the attendance reported in the morning counts as 1 meeting, and the one reported in the evening will be recorded as another meeting.
If your unable to make it for this meeting pls let your PL know beforehand. All letters from parents are to be submitted the next meeting.

Attire
PE attire for 13th November
Full Scout Uniform for 20th November

Something to ponder on..

Dear Scouts of SJI, seeing that the blog seems rather dry with only posts of weekly meeting details, I wish to discuss with you a matter that carries no urgency, but yet I believe has a valuable lesson that all can take away from. And this matter arises from an anecdote my own experience from the past 3 years in this Unit.

When I first entered Pelandok as a young fellow with plenty to learn, I vividly remember asking my then Secondary two patrol mate, Matthias, (who would go on to become my Patrol Leader),

“Why does the Den have an old computer monitor?”

To which he had no idea. Years flew by, and this past week, I noticed an old familiar site, and I asked myself,

“Why does the Den have an old computer monitor?”

Thanks to Ms. Leong, we finally disposed it in the school recycling bin. Nonetheless, I posted this interesting tale on Facebook and got a few responses which got me thinking. Were our scouts simply too lazy to get it cleared? Were they too ill-mannered to think that someone someday will do that job? Or do they plainly put, just don’t care? I am convinced that Pelandok Scouts are better than that. And therein lies the rub.

It worries me to even look at how not just scouts in this unit, but the people all around us are so blissfully oblivious about the changes that need to be made.
The stores? We can just ignore them. The den? Looks fine to me. Community service? How many CIP hours for me. Check the blog? Don’t waste my time. Weekly Meetings? Oh fine I’ll come.

So where does it end? Such cynicism is cheap. Apathy is so simple – it’s always someone else’s role, someone else’s fault, somebody else’s business. Some just don’t want too much involvement. After all, there’ll always be someone at the top who will fix the problems.

Things are and will never be perfect. There will always be things needed to be accomplished in this 87 year old establishment. What I do hope, is that by the time each of you end your time in this Scout Unit, you realize that anyone, can make a change. It doesn’t matter your age, size, patrol. Anyone, can start that spark, and I hope, influence more to join in a blazing trail of improving our organization and strive for something greater.

That is what the Patrol system aims to achieve. It gives everyone a shared responsibility. No one individual can single handedly give rise to success in a Patrol. That patrol, makes up a part of our organization, that welcomes any scout who wants to help improve it.

Think the stores can be tidier? Do something about it. Think the Den could be more decorated? Do something about it. Think your patrol could use a blog/file/log? Do something about it. Until we truly understand how we got to this stage after 87 long years, we cannot move forward.

So let’s hope, that just like the ancient computer monitor that laid in the Den for years, the problems of our Unit are never everlasting. All it takes is for one of us, to identify that hitch, challenge the process and inspire change. I challenge you; start the change you want to see.

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Training on 5th November

There will be scout training from 2.40pm to 6.30pm tommorrow. Full scout uniform is required.