GUIDES INITIATIVE PROPOSAL

Name of School/Unit: Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School 1st Coy

Date Submitted: 23 OCT 2009

Type of Initiative (Unit/ Inter-unit): Unit (KCP 1st Coy)
Date of Activity: 07 DEC 2009
Title of Activity: Knowing Our Local History
Details of Activity:
A. Things to bring:

• Visit to Chinatown Heritage Centre - Water bottle, notebook, pen and camera.

B. Duration/Time:

• Visit to Chinatown Heritage Centre (2 hours)

• PowerPoint making project – Local history badge (2 hours and more)

C. Attire: Guides blue polo tee and Guides skirt.

D. Details of Activity:

• Visit to Chinatown Heritage Centre at 48 Pagoda Street. Guides are allowed

to roam about for 1hour and gather information for their ‘Local history’ badge.
For the next hour, a cross-word puzzle and a quiz will be given out to them,
this will be done in their patrol. During the game, they are allowed to ‘buy’ a
clue from a different patrol with their accumulated points, this will only be use
once and it also depends if the patrol will help them out. They will compete
against each other for a prize. $10 will be needed for entry fee.

• POWERPOINT MAKING PROJECT(Local history badge) –

o Get into groups of 3 - 4. Do a PowerPoint on these topics:

1. Individual reflections on Chinatown ( Discoveries from the

heritage centre and stories of Chinatown or how Chinatown
looked like in the past )

2. A brief research on a local custom, legend or craft.

 3. Find out the origin of six local place names.

4. Write a short account of the lives of 3 people who have

played an interesting role in history of Singapore.

Details:

1. Must be at least 10 slides.

2. Give credits for sources

3. Guides are not to plagiarize and are encouraged to be creative

by using the computer software’s tools.

4. The most creative powerpoint slides will be given a prize.

Brief account on how the activity will benefit participants:

Using of computers – Guides are young and should learn how to be up to date with
this centuries technology. This initiative is to help them have practices and be
familiarized with the computers software. This will help them in future Guides or
school projects.

Bonding of Guides – The game held in the Heritage centre aims to help deepen the
bond in their patrol and build up teamwork and leadership skills. Although it is a short
and simple game, participants will be able to help each other and brainstorm
together. They will get to know each other better.

‘A Guide is self-disciplined in what she thinks, says and does.’ – As this will be held
in a tourist attraction place, Guides will be able to practice self-disciplined in front of
tourists and the staff there to give a good impression of themselves.

By: Sharon Lam, KCP 1st Coy ACL