Uniformed Groups

Girl Guides (Brownies)

Brownies CCA is a uniformed group for young girls in Primary Schools. It is under Girl Guides, an educational youth Movement. Brownies are guided by a comprehensive 5-point programme, which develops them in 5 areas:

Personal and Social Development
Home
Community
Outdoor
International

It provides opportunities for girls to develop leadership and decision-making as well as life skills through activities such as games, craft work and learning journeys.

Aims:

● To enable girls to develop their fullest potential as responsible citizens of the world

● To cultivate girls to find happiness in helping others and be independent

Core Values:

Team Spirit	Brownies will learn to work together as a Brownie Pack.
Graciousness	Brownies will learn to provide service to the school and community. They will learn to be humble and be helpful.
Perseverance	Brownies do not give up easily and show resilience to complete tasks at hand.
Self-discipline	Brownies will always uphold the Brownie Law.

Teachers in charge: Mdm Poonguzhali (I/C), Mdm Punitha (2nd I/C)

Training Frequency (Day and Time): Every Monday, 2.30pm – 4.30pm

Progression:

	Tweenie (First Year)	Brownie
Remarks	New member, required to complete Golden Badge Test	Required to complete Golden Bar and Golden Hand Tests, Proficiency Badges tests

Scouts

TGPS Scouts has a long history of nurturing young men into responsible and dedicated citizens of our country. In line with TGPS’s values, our scouts are trained to ‘Be Prepared’. This is the scout’s motto and our cub scouts are constantly challenged to live up to that motto. In TGPS we train our cub scouts to be future leaders and responsible citizens.

Aims:

To equip students with important life skills.
To develop students’ ability to communicate and make friends through the Scouting movement.
To provide opportunities for scouts to be involved in the activities carried out internally and externally
To inculcate values in every Scout based on the Scout Promise and Scout Law.

Essential skills to be taught: Basic life-skills like outdoor-cooking, camp-craft and a lot more of skills to be taught and inculcated during the weekly meetings and also through the camps participated. The whole Arrow badge structure enables the Scout to grow holistically.

Core Values:

Team Spirit	Scouts will learn to work together as a group
Graciousness	Scouts will learn to be humble when they play and to accept defeat graciously. They are also taught to be tolerant towards one another regardless of race, language or religion.
Perseverance	Scouts will have to persevere as they are earning their different badges and have to complete all tasks given to them.
Self-discipline	Scouts will be self-disciplined to come for weekly meetings and to ensure that whatever that is expected of them are being practised.

Teachers in charge: Mr Sherhan (I/C), Mr Ong Dunming (2nd I/C)

Commitment Level: The students will attend weekly meetings on Friday afternoons for 2 hours. Additional meetings will be held mostly on Saturdays should there be any external events that the unit is participating in namely, Campfires, Camps and Field Day.

Training Frequency (Day and Time) : Every Monday, 2.30pm – 4.30pm (CCA Room 2 & 3 at ISH Level 3)

Progression:

	Bronze Arrow	Silver Arrow	Gold Arrow	Akela Award
Remarks	By Default, at the end of the first year, all members will earn the Bronze arrow.	Members who attained the Bronze Arrow will be able to embark on earning the Silver Arrow Award	Members who attained the Silver Arrow will be able to embark on earning the Gold Arrow Award	P6 members who already attained the Gold Arrow will be earmarked to attain the highest Award that is the Akela Award before they enter Secondary School education.

External Achievements

2017	Entered the 3D Car Derby Competition and Attained 2 Gold awards and 1 Bronze Award.
2023	Entered the 3D Car Derby Competition and Attained Bronze Award.