Hello all! Term 1 of 2015 has passed in the blink of an eye, and these are some of the activities which we did :)

28 January 2015 - Introduction to YAs
This year, we have 9 new YAs joining the DHS Chapter (and all of them are taking YAs as their first CCA!!). The seniors were excited to invite the new YAs to the chapter, as we would finally be carrying out activities with new faces :) Since we already knew one another, we didn't have any sort of icebreaker games which one normally plays during their first activity. However, we still sat down and played simple games such as Human Battleship. Though the games were simple and nothing very special, all of us enjoyed them especially since we were playing them with great company :) Afterwards, we ended the session with a game of frisbee to exercise our sporty side!

Yeokmin and Crystal competing intensely to decide the final winner of the game

24 February 2015 - Thinking Day Contingent @ DHS
Hey hey hey, it's Thinking Day! Every year we celebrate Thinking Day on 22 February, but this year it fell on a Sunday and the next day was the Chinese New Year Celebrations. We arrived in school bright and early to form our contingent and as always, wore our uniforms for the entire day. It was a significant moment both for the Y5 YAs and Y6 YAs, as it was the first time the Y5 YAs were celebrating Thinking Day in their new uniforms, and the last Thinking Day contingent the Y6 YAs will ever form in school. The past 6 years of guiding memories will always stay with us no matter where we go :)

DHS Chapter 2015 - Full attendance!! :)

Happy Y6 YAs on a sunny and wonderful morning ^_^

First photo of the Y6 YAs and Ventures!

25 February 2015 - Thinking Day Celebration
We first had a round of roleplay to understand the origin of Thinking Day better. We were split into 4 grounds and were each given a storyline to act out, and incorporate elements of humour into our acting to create a more engaging mini skit.

Here is an example of the storyline:
The Girl Guides, Girl Scouts and Scouts that we know of today stemmed from this Scouting and Guiding Movement aimed to empower all boys and girls while not forgetting to have fun in the 
midst of achieving our ambitions. And every 22 February, the birthdates of both Lord Baden-Powell 
and Olave Baden-Powell, we commemorate the day of our leaders who have led the world to where 
it is today.

Next, the activity I/Cs (Crystal and Yeokmin) shared with us more about the various themes for Thinking Day in the previous few years, as well as for this year. We learnt more about the significance of each theme, and how we can play our own part and contribute to the theme this year! It was a meaningful session for all of us, especially since we tend to forget that we are really part of something bigger (a worldwide guiding movement!) when we are so caught up with our individual commitments. We were then split into 2 teams and we played a game - each team was to stand in a line and the first person will be given a word related to any one of the Thinking Day themes which we learnt of (for example, Child Mortality) and had to draw out the message. Each subsequent person in line has 5 seconds to look at the previous person's drawing and another 10 seconds to draw out what she remembered from the drawing, before passing on the drawing to the next person. It was a really fun activity and was very amusing to watch how the drawings evolved to something which the last person in line could never guess.

The last activity of the session was a very interesting one. We were given some time to each draw our own self-portrait. We could draw anything which we thought will represent ourselves best. The I/Cs then got us to reveal our drawings and share them with one another, where we could learn more about everyone’s perception of themselves. The activity really revealed our perceptions of our own strengths and weaknesses and it taught us that you are good enough for yourself and you don’t have to constantly seek skin-deep beauty. The I/Cs then shared with us about the Free Being Me project, a collaboration project between WAGGGS and Dove to empower girls through improving body confidence and self esteem. This is an ongoing project which is rather relevant to Thinking Day in terms of Girl Power and we also learnt that self-confidence is the first step to achieving such ambitions.


In between these main chapter activities, we had other activities like Leadership Training for the DHS Guides and a few meetings to prepare for the upcoming Patrol Leader Training Camp for the Y3 Scouts and Guides. Then we ended the Term 1 with the March school holiday, which was only 1 week long and meant for us to study. Regardless, Term 1 was exciting and we look forward to the busier but hopefully better times ahead in Term 2 :)

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