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We firmly believe in the holistic development of our scouts and provide countless opportunities for young acsians to develop themselves with both practical and soft skills.
We firmly believe in the holistic development of our scouts and provide countless opportunities for young acsians to develop themselves with both practical and soft skills.
Our carefully crafted scouting curriculum successfully strives for this.
Our carefully crafted scouting curriculum successfully strives for this.
Overview
Overview
As part of the Scout Promise, scouts are made to serve the community and it is necessitated that we actively contribute to the betterment of society throughout our scouting journey.
Scouts are encouraged to experience the great outdoors as often as possible. Preference is given for activities to be conducted outdoors and outdoor survival skills are frequently touched on throughout our sessions and camps.
The unique patrol system in scouting ensures that scouts are not grouped by their respective cohorts, and are instead given the opportunity to be positively influenced by the seniors in their patrols of ten to twelve as juniors, not too long before the roles are reversed and they find themselves as seniors helping out the junior members of their patrol. This cyclical experience ensures personal progression and inculcates key values like humility, dedication and servitude over their 4-year scouting experience.
The progress scheme also ensures personal progression, but more so in terms of the core scouting skills. The progress scheme is not unique to ACS(I) and is a directive from the Singapore Scouts Association that is handed down to all troops in Singapore on a national level. Apart from the core scouting skills, it also places some emphasis on national pride, religous acceptance and 21st Century Scouting, all of which are arguably crucial to the development of proper young scouts and acsians. The progress scheme is as follows:
Scout Badge
Discoverer
Explorer
Voyager
Chief Commissioner's Award
The proficiency badge scheme also caters to the growth of interest and consequently expertise in our personal areas of interest. There are more than 50 proficecy badges that we may achieve as scouts. Examples of profinecy badges range from kayaking to camp cook.
The Core Scouting Activities
The Core Scouting Activities
Pioneering
Pioneering
Pioneering is the art of using wooden spars and ropes joined by lashings and knots to create various different structures. For practice, we use smaller gala poles and strings to create other types of interesting, albeit smaller structures like chairs, tables or even the occasional catapult!
During proper pioneering sessions, scouts will have the opportunity to work with longer wood spars and thicker manilla rope to form larger structures like flagpoles, bridges and towers.
After a 4-year scouting journey, not only would we graduate with the ability to assemble amazing structures with our own two hands, but we would also obtain a mastery of various types of knots, an extremely important life skill.
Outdoor Cooking
Outdoor Cooking
Outdoor cooking comes in two forms here in Scouts.
Firstly, cooking in a mess tin over a Tommy stove with the help of solid fuel and matches. Alternatively, backwoodsman cooking, where we start a fire and cook from a hole in the ground with foraged materials like leaves, twigs, firewood and of course, coconut husks!
Both methods are great skills to add to your repertoire and backwoodsman especially, is a particularly novel, even surreal experience.
Camping
Camping
Who doesn't love a good ol' camp or two? Here in ACSI, we went with two - the annual Camp Alpha and Camp Midway. Both are residential camps with specific objectives that span a total of three days and two nights each.
In Camp Alpha, we take part in jobweek and go around helping the community do simple tasks like cleaning their house, while also raising funds to sustain scouts.
In Camp Midway, we make a conscientious effort to hone our scouting skills and in the process, forge bonds and create lasting memories with our fellow scouts. Put simply, we have lots of fun.
Outdoor Exploration
Outdoor Exploration
In outdoor exploration, we learn all about, you guessed it, exploration, mainly through hikes around Singapore. But in order to do that, we learn proper hiking procedures, including how to both physically and mentally prepare for hikes. More importantly, we learn how to document said hikes through area descriptions and area sketches to describe the places we explore for others and for our own remembrance as well.
We also learn the important life skill of navigation, especially map reading and compass usage so we can explore without relying on the use of our phones.
Other Activities
Other Activities
International Jamborees and Camporees
Campfires
Gangshows
Parades
Istana Ambassador
Webinars and Seminars
Badge Day
Patrol Games Day
Kayaking
Scuba Diving
Rock Climbing
Singapore Youth Flying Club SWIFT Programme
And the list goes on...
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