Speech & Prizegiving Day GOH 2010

NCDCC cadets have been selected to be the GOH on 10 April 2010. [Ma'am Chang i/c]
This would mean that you have one month to get ready for GOH training and prepare for NCDCC Observance Ceremony in April 2010. March will be a busy month for us. Thus Year 1 cadets will be asked to attend CCA session on 17 March 2010 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Year 2 and 3 cadets from 2 to 6 p.m. except for Rachel, Laurel, Syahindah and Hanis.

Other announcements:
1. Only 20 cadets will be allowed to participate in Inter UG campfire. Please wear black NCDCC t-shirt, shorts and covered shoes. Please bring your water bottle and packed dinner. Dessert will be served after the campfire. Ma'am Chang will be on duty.

2. For Service Day, please report at St Patrick's SS on 13 March 2010 at 0830 in No. 4 uniform and jockey cap. The cadets are Averyn Tananta (team leader), Nur Liyana, Stacee-Ann, Rasyidah, Nadia, Tifflin Tan (team leader), Taryn Wong, Claire Tan, Huey Yiing, Claire Seow (team leader), Shamini, Emelia Lee, Sarah Lim, Mallika (team leader), Umme Laila, PK and Nahlah. Team leaders were given a survey form which is to be completed when they visit about 40 households in Marine Parade / Marine Terrace area.

3. For the Obstacle Course, please do not participate if you have any injured arm / leg or serious medical condition or if you do not know stretcher drill, first aid bandaging and the 7 basic knots.

4. The Math Room will be opened at 2.45 p.m. every Wednesday for you to keep your belongings there.

Latest news!

1. Suzy, Qamarina, Aqila, Khairunadia, Norlinnah, Nurul Shahira, Putri and Hanis
- 4 will be selected to participate in Frisbee Competition and 4 will be selected to participate in Sec 1 Adventure Challenge. Level Representative, Qamarina will bring a frisbee next Wednesday to test all 8 cadets. Consent forms will be issued soon and Qamarina will collect the consent forms the next day and leave them in Capt Lim's pigeon hole outside the Upper Staff Room. Year 1 cadets may have to meet Capt Lim or Ms Ng earlier than 3 p.m. because they need to meet their group members to do their TD (B) group project and some need to use the computer. But the TD (B) individual project is to be done at home. It can be a poster / powerpoint presentation / symbol on one of the aspects of Total Defence - military, psychological, economic, social and civil defence.

2.Consent forms for SNCO Course [4 cadets], Obstacle Course [4 cadets], Service Day [16 cadets] and Inter-UG Campfire will also be issued on 24 Feb 2010. Year 1 and 3 cadets will have footdrill session on 3 March from 3 to 5 p.m. Some Year 2 cadets who need to present their TD(B) project or pass F(B), please turn up too. The inter-UG Campfire is optional but Capt Lim will make those who are irregular in attendance to attend so that their percentage of attendance for the year can be increased.

3. Consent forms for ATC, Sec 2 Campfire Leaders' Course, HDB Shelter Visit and SMRT CEPP [Ma'am Chang in-charge]

4. CDA Visit is scheduled on 19 August. Visit to Heritage Gallery will take place on 21 July 2010. CDA Visit is for year 1 cadets while Visit to Heritage Gallery is for year 2 cadets. Year 2 cadets will visit Tampines Fire Station for IPP assessment.

5. One hour will be set aside for theory and paper work while 2 hours are set aside for water mist gun training for Year 2 and 3 cadets. HQ Officers will be present from 4 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday until mid-April. Year 1 cadets will learn footdrill from 5 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday while the first two hours will be spent on theory.

6. The teachers-in-charge of NCDCC have the right to reject cadets' requests. For an example, we do not entertain requests from any cadet to change level SNCOs and we do not accept corporal punishment. We do not accept bad behaviour such as shouting at cadets or threatening others (seriously or jokingly) or abusing your authority. Capt Lim wants to remind all cadets that there should not be backstabbing. She does not want to hear complaints about SNCOs because they are just doing their job as student leaders. She wants to focus on the more important issues such as attendance and UOPA. However, cadets must be prepared to get a shock when they go to HQ for training because the instructors there are much stricter (or fiercer) and the training there is tougher. At HQ, doing push ups is a common punishment. So what is there to complain at KC?

7. Capt Lim conducted an internal survey and majority of the Year 2 & 3 cadets have chosen SGT Tifflin Tan to be the CCA Leader in 2010.

8. The list of names for porch duty is put up on the CCA noticeboard. However, there might be changes due to GG World Thinking Day.

Announcements

1. Year 3 cadets, the deadline to submit TD [Silver] project is over. Only 6 cadets, namely, Laurel, Yingxuan, Zoe, Nerin, Rachel and Nisa Syahindah have completed their TD(S) project. Capt Lim noticed that in general, Year 3 cadets do not seem to have the self-discipline to follow the deadlines given, such as handing in NYAA booklets and National Crime Prevention project in 2009. There will be no extension and cadets will have the bear the consequences, i.e. they have to do the TD(S) project next year! Please do not assume that Capt Lim is very free to check her emails everyday to see whether you have submitted your TD(S) project online. She has other important things to do, such as planning the weekly lessons and settling NCDCC admin matters.

2. Please hand in your sizing form to Capt Lim on 17 Feb 2010. The nominal roll has been submitted to HQ. The tailor will be coming to KC to take the measurement for 16 new recruits in March 2010. Note: The second set of uniform does not include belt, jockey cap, beret and boots. Please take care and do not lose any of these items.

3. Sec 1 cadets, please assemble at 2.30 p.m. outside Math Room on 17 Feb 2010. There will be presentation of Total Defence (Bronze) projects (individual and group), fire safety assessment (1/2 hour) and footdrill (1 h). SNCOs and NCOs, please meet Capt Lim in the Math Room at 2.30 p.m. on 17 Feb.

4. Capt Lim has submitted the nominal roll for SNCO Course, SYF Parade and Service Day. If you did not receive any email regarding this, please inform Capt Lim your email address. In total, we can only have 8 Sec 3 SNCOs. Thus, the next four Sec 3 cadets to attend SNCO Course in March 2010 will be SGTs Laurel Lim, Rachel Tan, Hanis and Nisa Syahindah. The five cadets to represent KC in SYF Parade 2010 are SNCO Tifflin Tan, UDI Elizabeth Houghton, UDI Felicia Ong, SGT Laurel Lim and LCP Rasyidah. Reserve: LCP Hasna from Sec 206. SYF combined rehearsals will be held from mid-June to 3 July 2010 whereas Marine Parade NDP combined rehearsals will be held on the 3rd, 10th and 17th of July. MPNDP full-dress rehearsal will take place on 25 July between Blk 6 and 8 carpark, one bus stop away from KC.

SINGAPORE YOUTH FESTIVAL '10
SHORTLISTED SCHOOLS
S/n School Name No of Cadets
1 ANGLO CHINESE SCHOOL 5
2 KUO CHUAN PRESBYTERIAN 5
3 CORAL SEC 5
4 EAST VIEW 5
5 TAMPINES 5
6 YUSOF ISHAK 5
7 GREENVIEW SEC 5
8 YIO CHU KANG 5
9 PRESBYTERIAN HIGH 5
10 NORTHLIGHT 5
11 CHIJ KATONG CONVENT 5
12 ST PATRICK'S 5

5. Updating of cadets' particulars will be done soon. Cadets are also required to update their cadet sheet.

6. HQ did not inform Capt Lim regarding the posting of 2 new CLTs. Welcome CLT Nadira (in-charge of Year 1 cadets) and CLT Asyura (in-charge of Year 2 cadets)! They had graduated from Coral Secondary School last year and will be studying at Temasek Polytechnic in April 2010. SCLT Natasha will be graduating from Singapore Polytechnic and will be working from April 2010 onwards. Miss Jean Ng, an intern, does not need to shadow Capt Lim w.e.f. March 2010. We are grateful for her kind assistance when she helped us during the first two months.

7. Four Sec 1 cadets will represent KC in the Frisbee competition on 27 March 2010 to be held at East Spring Secondary School. Four Sec 3 cadets will represent KC in the Obstacle Course organised by Tampines Secondary School on 5 March 2010. They are Averyn Tananta, Elizabeth Houghton, Felicia Ong and Umme Laila.

8. Sec 1 Unit Camp will be held in November. KIV: Making of new CCA t-shirt and can we have the Unit Camp at KC instead of Changkat Changi SS?

9. Ma'am Chang will select two Sec 2 Campfire Leaders and 2 or 3 SNCOs to assist during Sec 2 Adventure Training Camp in March 2010. Capt Lim will select 4 to 5 NCDCC cadets to assist the First Aid Group during the School Emergency Exercise in March 2010 and 2 to 3 cadets to conduct a talk to the Lower Secondary cadets on Emergency Preparedness on 30 August 2010 during Assembly periods (about 45 minutes).

10. In order to prepare Year 1 cadets for NCDCC Observance Ceremony and F(B) Badge, they will be divided into two groups. UDI Felicia and SNCO Shamini will train one group including 3 Sec 2 cadets while UDI Elizabeth and SNCO Emelia will train the other group in footdrill. Capt Lim will be present to observe footdrill training sessions from 5 to 6 p.m. while Ma'am will be present in the netball court from 4 to 5 p.m. when HQ officers are conducting water mist gun training sessions. All cadets will be reminded to practise singing "Learn, Lead and Serve" in March 2010.

11. All SNCOs, year 2 and 3 cadets are to wear their No. 4 uniform for all CCA sessions. All cadets will fall in outside the Math Room by 3 p.m. for attendance taking. When all the year 1 cadets have received their first set of uniform, Master Parade will then take place at the parade ground (below the Math Room) at 3 p.m. every Wednesday. For the time being, all year 1 cadets will wear KC t-shirt and long (black) track pants. Cadets with long hair are required to wear hairnet. Hair should not be dyed and finger nails should be short. The right hand is used to carry a water bottle and the sling bag is to be carried diagonally across from the right shoulder. Please bring the beret for footdrill training and the jockey cap when you attend external training e.g. SANA, CPR, USAR, HFS. For SNCO Course, bring both.

12. NCDCC Cadets are not allowed to quit. Your CCA points will be all gone. If your attendance is below 75%, you will be given a FAIR conduct and you will not be eligible for MOE Edusave awards (scholarship, merit bursary, good progress)and school awards (e.g. colours, eagles, speech and prizegiving day). If your CCA grade is A1 or A2, two points can be deducted from your L1R5 if you apply to study in a JC after the release of your 'O' level exam results. If your CCA grade is B3 to C6, one point will be deducted from your L1R5. This year, Capt Lim has spoken to 3 parents and does not want to entertain any Year 2 or 3 cadet who threatened to quit just because the training is tough, boring or on the verge of breakdown. Be strong and resilient. Persevere! Nothing is too difficult until you have overcome your fear.

13. Capt Lim will select the next CCA Leader and WOs. If you are interested to be a student leader e.g. SNCO, please show more commitment and dedication to the CCA by attending all internal and external training sessions. The Pinnacle Badge (highest honour) goes to the one with the most number of badges. Congratulations to WO Claire Seow from Sec 405!

By the way, have a Happy Chinese New Year!

List of activities in 2010

1. Multimedia competition from 1/2 to 2/4
2. Marine Parade NDP training sessions from 3/2 to 14/4 (Wednesdays)
3. Sec 2 Kayaking Expedition on 6/2
4. Sec 4 Adventure Finale on 6/2
5. Sec 4 AED Course on 19/2
6. Sec 3 2-star Kayaking Course on 20, 21 and 27/2
7. Sec 2 1-star Kayaking Course on 27 and 28/2
8. Year 2 Visit to HDB Shelter at Pasir Ris on 2/3
9. Sec 2 SMRT CEPP on 4/3 [12 cadets]
10. Tampines Sec Sch's Obstacle Course on 5/3 [4 cadets]

11. Inter-UG Campfire on 6/3 (organised by KC Girl Guides)
12. Sec 4 Motivational Leader Course on 13/3
13. Service Day on 13/3 [16 cadets]
14. SNCO Course from 15 to 19/3
15. Sec 2 Adventure Training Camp from 20 to 21/3 (2D1N)
16. School Emergency Exercise in March (Term 2)
17. East Spring Sec Sch's Ultimate Frisbee on 27/3
18. Sec 2 Campfire Leaders' Course from 27 to 28/3
19. Sec 1 Adventure Challenge on 3/4
20. NCDCC Observance Ceremony in mid-April

21. Bintan CIP in June organised by Capt Gerard from Changkat Changi SS
22. Sec 3 CD Knowledge Course on 17/6 [for non-SCNOs]
23. Sec 3 USAR Course from 23 to 25/6 [4 cadets]
24. Year 2 CPR Course on 3/7
25. Marine Parade NDP on 1/8 [24 cadets and SCLT Natasha]
26. Inter unit Banner Competition in Aug organised by Capt Lim and Capt Raymond from SPSS
27. Sec 2 inter-unit CD Knowledge Quiz on 13/8
28. Lower Sec Assembly talk on Emergency Preparedness on 30/8 (about 45 minutes)
29. 4th UDI Course from 6 to 9/9
30. Sec 3 CD Skills Competition on 15/9

31. Sec 1 swearing-in ceremony in September (collaborate with St Pat's)
32. 2nd Urban Adventure Challenge on 6/11
33. Sec 3 Homefront Security Course on 12/11
34. Year 2 SANA Course on 25/11
35. Year 3 Rescue Equipment Course on 25/11
36. Unit Camp in November [3D2N at Changkat Changi SS]
37. Other activities organised by NCDCC HQ are Sec 3 OBS, Emergency Preparedness Day, Remembrance Day, overseas trips to Hong Kong and Malacca.
38. External camps such as CERT Youth Recruitment Camp and HFS Ambassador Camp cum Animation Competition.
39. Year 2 Visits to Heritage Gallery and Tampines Fire Station to be arranged by Ma'am Chang in 2010.
40. All Sec 2 cadets will participate in NYAA (Bronze) every year.

FYI, Ma'am Chang will keep track of cadets' number of CIP hours while Capt Lim will keep track of cadets' number of CEB hours and list of participation in 2010. Some of you mentioned that you did not receive the National Crime Prevention Badge last year. Capt Lim informed Capt Tan. NCDCC HQ will send 5 Crime Prevention badges and 1 CPR badge to us soon. Capt Lim is aware that one cadet lost all her badges in the bus and one cadet has lost her beret.

Congratulations to SSG Claire Seow who has been promoted to WO w.e.f. Feb 2010!
According to Major Howard, the other 6 SNCOs will be promoted to SSG in July 2010. This is because we have to follow the directives and other schools do not have cadets who are promoted to SGT in Sec 2. Thus we cannot have Sec 3 cadets promoted to SSG half a year ahead of other schools. This is to prevent comparison among units and showing off.

Please note that SANA, CD Knowledge, Footdrill (Gold) and Community Engagement Badges are compulsory badges for promotion to WO. Only two Sec 4 SSG will be nominated to be Warrant Officers in 2011.

Total Defence & Rescue Assessments

The dates for presentation of individual and group TD projects by Year 1 cadets: 10 and 17 Feb 2010. Year 1 cadets will learn how to use the fire extinguishers and hosereels in Feb. The fire safety assessment (practical and theory) will be conducted on 10 March 2010. Firemen from Tampines FS will bring fire wok and extinguishers. Year 1 cadets will learn footdrill from 10 Feb onwards. Attire: long (black) track pants and KC PE t-shirt. The tailor will be coming in March. You will be receiving the first set of free uniform next month. Sec 2 and 3 cadets who need the second set of uniform, please collect the sizing form from Capt Lim.

All Year 3 cadets including SNCOs are to submit their TD(S) project (soft / hardcopies) by 12 Feb 2010. Capt Lim has uploaded Sec 1 to 4 NCDCC topics in Moodle including TD(S) PDF file.

Year 2 cadets, please do not be absent on 10 March. LTA Mahdi and his SCDF colleagues will bring stretchers and 5-ton mechanical jack to conduct Rescue practical assessment. It would be difficult to arrange for him to come again. You will have to wait one year later if you miss the rescue practical assessment on 10 March.