Heritage Trail 2008
Last Friday, NPCC and St, John’s Ambulance Brigade worked together guiding the students of Secondary 1G and 1H OF Anglican High School in their Heritage Trail.
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We have chosen Fort Canning, a place full of historical monuments and information of early Singapore, as our destination. We organized games in order to allow students to have fun during the games but also have a deeper understanding about the history of Singapore. This will also allow students to build a bond among them and at the same time learn more about Singapore’s past.
We divided the considerable amount of students into 2 groups, namely the ‘Incredibles’ and ‘ Superheroes’. This 2 groups are further divided into 4 sub-groups, Kacheek Meerca, Mynci, Hasee under Incredibles while Orrin, Wocky, Usul and Jubjub under superheroes. Students were each given a worksheet comprising of word search and questions regarding the historical monuments they would be visiting in the Heritage Trail.
The first historical site that we visited is Fort Gate. The game stationed in this site is ‘Makan Sutra’, a game which required students to be blindfolded and guess the food they are eating by tasting them. Students were instructed to send 6 representatives from the 2 groups and these representatives will compete with each other.
Afterwards, the Superheroes proceeded to 9-pound Cannon and Incredibles visited the ASEAN Sculpture Garden.
In the 9-pound Cannon, the Superheroes are required to compete within their sub-groups, Orrin, Wocky, Usul and Jubjub. The game assigned to this site entitled ‘Communication Breakdown’ required the students to pass down a specific message with a mouth filled with saltwater. The group leader will show the first person a specific message and the first person will pass down the message to the next person, until the last person; with saltwater in their mouths. This was rather hilarious as the students had a hard time to refrain from laughing and spluttering the saltwater everywhere while they talk. In the end, almost every group failed to complete the task due to excessive laughter.
Next, the Superheroes went to Keramat. The game stationed here is named ‘牛奶’ (English: milk) Here, the students are required to guess a specific movement that will be carried out by the group leader, mainly named ‘喝牛奶’, ‘泡牛奶’, ‘洗牛奶’ and ‘挤牛奶’respectively.
Meanwhile, the Incredibles are visiting the ASEAN Sculpture Garden, whereby they had to play a common game played during variety shows. Group members of each group were to squat in a row. Whenever a number is called by the facilitator, the number of members must stand and shout “Yo!”. Numbers are called back to back so members are to be alert and react. Due to time constraints, we did not have enough time to complete the entire game and go by the rules. Groups which did not forfeit were allowed to look for clue in that area but we had no time, leading us to just move on to our next station.
The Incredibles’ next station was the Archaelogist Dig whereby members walked into the site and read up on the information available. Moving on after about ten minutes, we approached the Keramat where the students walked around and looked at the tomb, joining the Superheroes.
Unfortunately, due to the shortage of time, the Secondary 1 students did not finish all 6 stations prepared for them. Shortly after visiting the Keramat, we head back to the meeting point and waited for the bus to come. We were fairly disappointed, but overall, it was still an exciting and informative experience for everyone. From this, we learnt that time and proper planning are very important in large-scaled events and we are determine to do a better trail in future.
SGT (NPCC) Yohana Cahyana and SGT (NPCC) Vivien Tan
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We have chosen Fort Canning, a place full of historical monuments and information of early Singapore, as our destination. We organized games in order to allow students to have fun during the games but also have a deeper understanding about the history of Singapore. This will also allow students to build a bond among them and at the same time learn more about Singapore’s past.
We divided the considerable amount of students into 2 groups, namely the ‘Incredibles’ and ‘ Superheroes’. This 2 groups are further divided into 4 sub-groups, Kacheek Meerca, Mynci, Hasee under Incredibles while Orrin, Wocky, Usul and Jubjub under superheroes. Students were each given a worksheet comprising of word search and questions regarding the historical monuments they would be visiting in the Heritage Trail.
The first historical site that we visited is Fort Gate. The game stationed in this site is ‘Makan Sutra’, a game which required students to be blindfolded and guess the food they are eating by tasting them. Students were instructed to send 6 representatives from the 2 groups and these representatives will compete with each other.
Afterwards, the Superheroes proceeded to 9-pound Cannon and Incredibles visited the ASEAN Sculpture Garden.
In the 9-pound Cannon, the Superheroes are required to compete within their sub-groups, Orrin, Wocky, Usul and Jubjub. The game assigned to this site entitled ‘Communication Breakdown’ required the students to pass down a specific message with a mouth filled with saltwater. The group leader will show the first person a specific message and the first person will pass down the message to the next person, until the last person; with saltwater in their mouths. This was rather hilarious as the students had a hard time to refrain from laughing and spluttering the saltwater everywhere while they talk. In the end, almost every group failed to complete the task due to excessive laughter.
Next, the Superheroes went to Keramat. The game stationed here is named ‘牛奶’ (English: milk) Here, the students are required to guess a specific movement that will be carried out by the group leader, mainly named ‘喝牛奶’, ‘泡牛奶’, ‘洗牛奶’ and ‘挤牛奶’respectively.
Meanwhile, the Incredibles are visiting the ASEAN Sculpture Garden, whereby they had to play a common game played during variety shows. Group members of each group were to squat in a row. Whenever a number is called by the facilitator, the number of members must stand and shout “Yo!”. Numbers are called back to back so members are to be alert and react. Due to time constraints, we did not have enough time to complete the entire game and go by the rules. Groups which did not forfeit were allowed to look for clue in that area but we had no time, leading us to just move on to our next station.
The Incredibles’ next station was the Archaelogist Dig whereby members walked into the site and read up on the information available. Moving on after about ten minutes, we approached the Keramat where the students walked around and looked at the tomb, joining the Superheroes.
Unfortunately, due to the shortage of time, the Secondary 1 students did not finish all 6 stations prepared for them. Shortly after visiting the Keramat, we head back to the meeting point and waited for the bus to come. We were fairly disappointed, but overall, it was still an exciting and informative experience for everyone. From this, we learnt that time and proper planning are very important in large-scaled events and we are determine to do a better trail in future.
SGT (NPCC) Yohana Cahyana and SGT (NPCC) Vivien Tan
