Proper wear of your beret.

The picture above shows how to wear your beret. Notice the large fold over the right of the head and the beret badge exactly above the left eye.

Here is how your beret should look like when worn as illustrated by your SPL Martin Lim .

Here is some instructions on how to and how not to wear your beret. Please disregard the note below the Picture as those are meant for WOOL berets . The Scouts Beret is not made of wool.

Here is a picture of Venture scouts with their Maroon beret on.

How to season your beret.

1) Place your beret as shown in the picture below. Notice where the beret badge is placed on the beret from the previous post.
2)Fold the left side of the beret just a little as shown in the picture below.

3)Now fold the right side of the beret till the end touches the left end of the beret as shown below.

4) Place 2 or more clothes clips to keep the folds in place.

5) Finally iron the crease of the folds so that the beret takes its "seasoned" shape.

Having a seasoned beret is crucial to the proper decorum of our uniform. It shows the pride and discipline of the unit .

How to put on your beret badge

1) Make two small holes with a pen-knife from the inside of the beret as shown in the picture below. The holes should be as wide apart as the portruding pins of the back of the beret badge.



2) Insert the pins through the hole and fix the metal twizzer that comes with the beret badge as shown below.

I will be posting on how to season your beret and methods of wear for beret soon.

More updates on sec 1 uniform

Our Troop was awarded the Silver Award for the Frank Cooper Sands Unit Competition in 2007. As such Oneida Scouts are allowed to wear the silver embroidered FCSA badge on their uniform.

The badge will be given to the Sec 1 scouts on Wednesday Meeting. Here are the instructions on where to sew the badge.

As according to the picture above the Frank Cooper Sands Badge needs to be sewn above the LEFT pocket. Leave a space of at least two finges above the pocket for your bumblebee and your squirrel badge for the later parts of the year.

Sec Ones Uniform

By Friday 30th January you would have bought your uniforms. These are the few things you need to do over the weekend.

1) Sew the Patrol Badge given to you on the LEFT sleeve just below the Singapore Scouts Flash

shown below. If you are an AKELA AWARD holder from your cub scout scheme, you are to

sew the AKELA badge just below the patrol badge as shown below.

2) Next , sew the TAMPINES district badge on the center of the right pocket just below the pocket sleeve as shown in the picture below.

3) Finally, sew the TROOP badge in the position shown below making sure you make a space of two fingers above the right pocket for your name tag.

Please complete all necessary updating of your badges onto your uniform by wednesday 4th February as we will check on the uniform. You are to bring your uniform in a BLACK suit cover on this day.

We will settle your UNIT POLO T and your PATROL POLO T by mid february before the district field day event.

In future I will correspond with all you scouts through e-mail, be it to send lecture notes on Scouts Standards or to update your parents on your progress. I will be collecting your e-mail addresses as part of the next round of administrative processes.

Happy Scouting
DreamKeeper

Season's Greeting

HAPPY MOOO.....YEAR !!!!

On Behalf of the Venture Unit,

Wishing you guys a great harvest of RED packets
Success in whatever you wish for
And always NEVER GIVE UP!!!

This goes out especially to the boys i have been with, Wesley, Martin, Ismail and Alexis training you guys and seeing you guys grow haas been a great joy and i felt a great sense of achievement for me. But it has always been my regret not getting the CCA. I hope that you guys would do yourselves proud and get that award. Don't let the people who believed in you guys down, don't let me down. I've got high hopes for you guys. Just NEVER GIVE UP !!!

And once again to all HAPPY NEW YEAR! MOOO......

Oneida Venture Unit
Chairman
Hulbert Teng

DRAGONBOATING!

Hi guys;

Here is a pic of our ventures dragonboating every sunday. Look forward to venturing and you can join the Dragon Knights in sea regatta competitions. More pics at the venture's blog. Link is on the right bottom corner of the blog.

AHOY MATES!