Friday, October 10, 2008

Red Cross Meeting today

We held a meeting today to update the cadets on the coming events for Red Cross:

1. Speech Day Rehearsals - all cadets to report at 830 a.m. on Mon (13/10) and Sihui will decide on the cadets in the GOH and the supporting contingent. The rest of the cadets will serve as first aiders. As for the other rehearsals, the cadets will be briefed on Monday.

2. Hong Kong Exchange Program - the consent forms and edusave withdrawal forms were given out and the cadets were reminded to submit them on Monday. There should not be any more changes on Monday as their names will be submitted and printed on the air tickets. Agnes and Ellyn would also need to submit the photocopy of their passport particulars as they have not done so. The cadets also agreed on the design for the t-shirt - design no. 2 which I posted earlier. Ms Vani checked with the cadets the T-shirt sizes and reminded them to bring $15 next Monday. I had to replace Jasmine with Ellyn as she had not turned up for the meetings we had and we could not contact her parents. Simin, Siti, Ching Yee were not in the meeting as they had their papers later today and Marcus had a dental appointment. They need to get from Mrs Lai the forms on Monday or it would be too late!

3. Promotion Day on 18 Oct. All the cadets will receive their new ranks and also the badges next Sat.

4. I congratulated the team who got into the HS Olympiad "Every second counts" competition which will be held in Ngee Ann Polytechnic next Friday. The teachers will also be there to support them and Hui Si is reminded to get her team ready.

5. Sihui will be in-charge of the Red Cross First Aid Competition on 15 Nov ( right after our HK trip). I passed her 5 sets of the information sent by HQ and told her to brief her team members- Sihui, HuiSi, Caiying and Reserve Reine.

6. I put Caiying in-charge of getting the people for the mass accreditation for Gold on 1 Nov and Yu Ling for the unit instructor program. Mrs Lai strongly encouraged Caiying to go for the Gold accreditation for Gold in footdrill. However Yu Lin alerted me that the Sec 2 have not passed silver accreditation yet and might not qualify for the unit instructor accreditation.

7. I also told the cadets about the RCY challenge which will be held from 29 Nov to 2 Dec. It would be a good chance for them to earn the lanyard which they can wear with their uniform. So far Jia Yun and Yang Yew are the only ones with the lanyards and they look so smart with it.

8. This year the Project Love will be held on 12 Dec in Pioneer JC. I told the cadets to go back and decide whether they would want to participate in it this year. They have to tell me on Monday if they want to volunteer for this CIP.

9. Mrs Lai talked to the cadets about the Flag day next year. The external collection would be on the 10 Jan which would coincide with the Sec 1 meet-the-parent session. The cadets took a vote and all agreed to participate in the internal collection as well which is from 5 to 9 Jan. The cadets were reminded to prepare for it seriously as it would help us in our recruitment drive next year.

10. Mrs Lai also told the cadets going to Hong Kong that they have to prepare a presentation and share with the Hong Kong RCY our RCY activities in Singapore. I will also get them to prepare some name cards which they can share with the Hong Kong RCY.

After saying all these, I must say I will really miss HS Red Cross... .

I created the following video last year - I hope the cadets can do something similar to show to the RCY in Hong Kong.

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