NYAA Service Entries

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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NYAA Skills Entries 2 (Drills)

Date: 6th August 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, we started learning this new set of drills, which is rifle drills. For rifle drills, we use dummy 5.56mm M-16 rifles to learn, practice and master these drills.
First of all, we have to learn the basic rifle drills starting with ‘sedi-a’ and ‘senang di-ri’ with the rifle. It was simple, so we mastered within a short time.
Then, it was ‘rusok senja-ta’ from ‘sedi-a’. This particular drill was difficult to grasp, as we had to flick the rifle up from the ground and hold it with both hands at the same time. The main problem was that most of us could not grab with both hands at the same time, but instead ‘transferred’, which means grabbing the rifle with one hand at a time.
This drill took some time to learn and even more to practice, especially with that ‘transferring’ problem. At the end of this drill session, most of us finally managed to execute this drill properly.

Date: 13th August 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, we revised the rifle drills we have learnt for the previous training and found out that a lot of us seemed to have lost the momentum of the drills. So, we took quite some time to practice them as ‘Practice makes Perfect’. We improved significantly in terms of coordination and swiftness in executing the drill, after this revision and drill practice.
Then, we learnt another new rifle drill, ’hormat senja-ta’, which is to salute. This particular drill had many steps and parts to it, so it takes time for all of us to remember at heart and learn this drill. We practised by parts first, so as to have a good grasp of the different steps. Finally, we managed to perform this drill fully, but there is definitely much more space for improvement.
We practised this drill for quite some time, before finally having mastered this complex drill.

Date: 20th August 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, we revised the rifle drills we have learnt so far. Although most of us were able to execute the drill, there was still room for improvement. We practised and improved significantly in terms of coordination and precision in executing the drill.
We learnt another rifle drill, which is the ‘turun senja-ta’ from ‘hormat senja-ta’. It is to bring the rifle from salute down to the ground. This, just like the ‘hormat senja-ta’, is quite complex, as it has a lot of steps. We first learnt by parts and finally as a whole. Nobody can ever master a drill just by executing once, so we continued practising this drill.
Also, we learnt ‘turun senja-ta’ from ‘rusok senja-ta’. It is relatively simpler to learn and everyone was able to execute it in a matter of time. Finally, after practising all the rifle drills learnt so far, we were able to execute them very well.

Date: 27th August 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, after revising on rifle drills learnt so far, we practised marching with the rifle. We were to take note of minor details such as to avoid dragging our feet, to land on our heels and coordinating our arm swings.
Although we were able to march properly free-hand, without the rifle, but with the rifle, the marching experience was different. It took quite some time for us to adapt and we finally managed to march with the rifle well enough, though not a hundred percent perfect, at the end of the day.

Date: 3th September 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, we revised the rifle drills that we have learnt, as usual, and practised marching with the rifle. After we were perfect, we learnt two new related rifle drills, ‘baring senja-ta’ and ‘angkat senja-ta’.
The drill ‘baring senja-ta’ is to place the rifle down to the ground from ‘sedi-a’ position. It takes some time to learn and practise till perfect, as we tend to slam the rifle down on the ground, though supposed to place it down gently and silently. There were also some difficulties in trying to place the rifle straight in position. We practised for some time and managed to execute this drill with coordination and accuracy.
Next is ‘angkat senja-ta’. It is to pick up the rifle from the ground after ‘baring senja-ta’. This was not as difficult as ‘baring senja-ta’, because there was only a problem of not being able to reach the rifle on the ground. We took a couple of minutes to learn, and we practised many times before being perfect in this drill.

Date: 10th September 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, we practised the drills we have learnt, especially concentrating those newer ones, as the older ones are always used and had always being practised, such that we had no problems with them.
We were taught a new rifle drill this training, ‘julang senja-ta’. It is to bring the rifle from ‘rusok senja-ta’ to high port. We have to bring the rifle up in front of the chest and hold it with the magazine pointing forwards. This was simple to learn, but there were mistakes to be corrected, such as not pointing the magazine forward. Most of us mastered this drill at the end of this drills session.

Date: 17th September 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, we went straight into learning two new rifle drills. First was ‘aleh senja-ta’, for changing the rifle from ‘rusok senja-ta’ position on the left to the right. It is also similar for the reverse action back to ‘rusok senja-ta’ position. After learning and practising, this easy-to-grasp drill was within our hands.
Second was ‘bimbit senja-ta’, for bringing the rifle down from ‘rusok senja-ta’ to hold the carrying handle. This drill was simple to catch, but the only problem was that some of us did not hold the rifle straight pointing forwards. This mistake took some time of practise to correct till we were perfect in this particular drill.
These two drills, though simple, took some time to practise, before we proceeded to revising all the other rifle drills until the end of training.

Date: 24th September 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Today, we firstly did all the other non-rifle drills that we have learnt. Then, we combined all the rifle drills we have learnt and practised it to mastery, and did with marching drills, such as marching at ‘julang senja-ta’ position.
This session was to practise and master all the drills we have learnt so far, so that our squad can execute drills proficiently with coordination, accuracy and swiftness by the end of training.

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NYAA Skills Entries 1 (Drills)

Date: 4th June 2010
Duration: 4 hours

To prepare us for the school 134th speech day parade, Squad Arcainez was taught flag drills. Cadet Inspectors (CIs) and Honorary Officer (HO) were the in-charge of the trainings. On 23th june 2010, we learnt static drill, including Sedia (attention) and selang diri (at ease). Beside learning how to execute these dills precisely, we learn the correct way of handling our flags, such as the griping of flag poles before retiring for the day.

Date: 11th June 2010
Duration: 4 hours

On 1st July 2010, we continued with our flag drill trainings. As warming up activity, we started off with the static drills we learnt on 4th June 2010. However, some of us had forgotten the correct way of executing the drills and for the benefit of cadets who had missed training on 4th June 2010, the instructors decided to re-teach the drills.

Date: 18th June 2010
Duration: 4 hours

Similar to 11th June 2010, we started off with static drills. Thankfully, we managed to execute them pretty well. To further improve our drills, we spent 3 hours perfecting them and during the last 1 hour, the contingent was introduced to rusok senja ta (shoulder arms). We learnt the uses of it and managed to practise it for a while.

Date: 25th June 2010
Duration: 4 hours

On 25th June, we started off with rusok senja ta. However, some cadets had difficulties in executing it. Thankfully, instructors were there to guide the squad. It was not long before the entire contingent managed to do it properly. Though all can execute it, there were still rooms for improvement and coordination between squad mates are needed, therefore, we dedicated the rest of the day practicing and by the end of the day, most of them were able to execute the drills precisely.

Date: 2nd July 2010
Duration: 4 hours

On 2nd July, we were introduced to turun senja ta (order arms). Similar to rusok, we first learnt the theoretical aspect of it before moving on to the practical session. As turun senja ta has many parts and timing, the contingent was at a loss in the first place. It was only until the end of the day before the squad managed to catch the gist of this drill.

Date: 9th July 2010
Duration: 4 hours

As per normal, we continued with the practicing of turun senja ta. Besides practicing in a contingent, we broke up into small squad to facilitate learning and true enough, improvement can be seen within individuals. However, for some reasons, the contingent still lacked coordination and in order to solve the problem, we formed back into the contingent and with numerous practices, we managed to execute the drill perfectly as a contingent.


Date: 16th July 2010
Duration: 4 hours

On 16th July 2010, the contingent began practicing marching. Though we had marched in numerous parades before, this was our first time marching with a flag, and indeed, many of us were not having an easy time when the flag covered our face while marching. As usual, the only solution to this problem is to keep on practicing.

Date: 23rd July 2010
Duration: 4 hours

On 23rd July 2010, the contingent continued with marching. Besides that, we had a mock parade to
ensure everyone knows where is their exact position and so that markings can be done. Basically, 23rd July 2010 was a day of intensive drill trainings. Adjustment of flags was also done on that day to prepare for the actual day. Instructors were present to supervise the flag training.

Date: 30th July 2010
Duration: 4.5 hours

It was similar for 30th July 2010, another day of intensive drills session. A mock parade was once again conducted. Duration of training was extended to 4.5 hours so as to prepare even better for the actual parade as that was our final training session. Much revision was also done on that day, starting from static drill, to rusok and senja and finally to marching. By the end of the day, Squad Arcainez has managed to reach the level of executing any parts of the flag drills.

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Arcainez NYAA Bronze

Arcainez,

You all will now use this blog for NYAA. You will post NYAA entries and announcements.

When you all make posts here, make sure you all do the necessary labeling for reference purposes.

There are 3 things you need to label:

1) Announcement/Entries
2) Arcainez Bronze
3) General/ NYAA Section (Skills, Physical Recreation, Service, Venture)

If you are still unclear, use the labeling of this post as reference. Refer to previous entries if you are still unsure.

Make sure you all post the entries I told you all to do by Friday.

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enrolment form

http://www.nyaa.org/images/NYAAEnrolmentform3.doc

click on the above link for the enrolment form

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Important Meeting On Tuesday (14 July 2009)

The MPFSC lady, Seow Hong, wants those who are really interested in doing this NYAA (Bronze) award with high level of COMMITMENT to attend a short meeting on coming Tuesday, 14th July, at 3.30 p.m. Those who are not coming will NOT continue with this service learning component of the NYAA award.

Attire: School Uniform
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: Marine Parade Family Service Centre

THIS MEETING IS VERY CRUCIAL FOR THE NYAA AWARD! DO COME.

Excuses such as tuitions will not be tolerated this service learning is NOT a one-day event. DO TAKE NOTE.

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Schedule of the service at MPFSC for first 3 weeks of holidays

(editted)

Those who will be going for the sessions:-

2nd June - Benjamin, Shawn, Amirul

9th June - Yong Kiat*, Zulhilmi, Hafiz

16th June - Ilyasa, Harsh*, Nick Koh

* - these are the people who will be attending the session for the first time. I need the others to guide these people on how to be cyberguides.

Any problems, look for me.

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