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Sunday, November 14, 2010
VS SPORTS DAY 2010 14-7-2010
All the sec 3 cadets were clad in their NPCC uniform doing crowd control duty. It was yet again another Victoria School Annual Sports day. However, this time, it was held at the Institute Of Technical Education, or otherwise also known as ITE. We were unfamiliar with the ITE area but we were determined to do our service well.
The NPCC unit was then deployed in groups of two at specified areas. Nevertheless, as soon as the sports day was about to commence, a slight drizzle took off. However, despite this all of us stood our ground and continued to direct people from outside ITE to inside ITE where the teachers were. Soon, hordes of previous and current batches of Victorian thronged the already crowded place. However, this did not taunt us as we started to do our jobs proper.
Fortunately for us, the drizzle stopped after awhile, and our school's sports day could go on smoothly. During the sports day, we helped controlling the crowd, carrying the logistics such as the cones to their respective spaces. 4.5 hours went by quickly. Our duties started again just as it ended, instead we were immediately redeployed to our respective stations yet again to guide our fellow school-mates out of ITE and safely to the exits.
During the debrieifing, we were complimented by our Teacher in charge and siad that there was always room for improvement, and that we were luck that it did not rain. Although we cannot control the weather, we must act accordingly. Our squad was proud that we were able to guide the people well enough and direct them to their proper seats and do our allocated tasks well.
Road Safety Park 4-8-2010
All Secondary 3 NPCC cadets were invited by the Traffic Police to help out in the annual Shell Traffic Games Day organised by Traffic Police to promote the importance of road safety to primary school students and educate the students on road safety measures.
We were driven by bus to Road Safety Park in East Coast Beach, where the police officers in charge of the event put us into different groups and briefed each group on their roles. Some cadets were assigned to carry out road marshal duty, while others were instructed to help with the sorting out of the goodie bags, which were to be given to the primary school students upon their arrival.
The police officers in charge of each group then deployed the groups to their respective stations. I was assigned to help out with sorting out the goodie bags, which came in a few colours. As the goodie bags were stored in one of the rooms, my group members and I entered the room and carried the bags out to the pavilion, a few at a time. This took quite some time as there were many bags and the relatively large size of each bag made it rather difficult to carry many bags at a time. Nevertheless, we soon completed this task.
After that, we proceeded to sort out the bags according to their colour. The white bags would be placed together, the yellow bags were placed together and the same went for the light green bags.
Soon, the primary school students arrived and we gave every student a bag before asking them to proceed on with the activity schedule. It was fun playing with the three different colours of the bags as some students preferred the yellow coloured bag, whereas others demanded for a white coloured one. White was the most popular colour and we had to give out the white coloured bags slowly so as to ensure that students from other schools that arrived later would still have a chance to obtain them.
When all the students had cleared the pavilion, we took a rest as the other groups performed road marshalling at different spots around the park. From the pavilion, I could see some of my fellow cadets acting as ‘green men’ and others directing the students as they were playing the games.
Lastly, all the groups helped to clean up the area after the students had left. We were then treated to some food by the police officers as a reward for our hard work. By then, everyone was tired but we were happy to have been able to help the traffic police in making the 2010 Shell Traffic Games Day a success.
VS Cross Country Run 9-9-2010
That day was our Victoria School cross-country event as well as a mass run. All Victorians travelled to East Coast Park for the event. In order to ensure order and safety of the students, Victoria School National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC) unit decided to deploy about 20-30 cadets to help in ensuring the order and safety of the students. We were deployed at different sections of the road towards East Coast Park as well as near the running path itself and were to ensure that the students did not run about or play on the way there, which may result in injuries. If the students felt any discomfort or pain, we were to escort the students to either the Red Cross students for help or sent back to the school to rest.
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