ARMY BOOT CAMP
The Army Experience Programme is a project launched by Global Edutourism Group to promote teambuilding activities and leadership development through outdoor action and metaphor learning. As the first of its kind in Singapore, the programme is conducted in a unique setting of Military Environment & Activities.
The programme offers the best training curriculum and highly experienced training consultants to create high impact outdoor military learning for participants. Incorporated on the Ministry of Education curriculum, the Army Experience Programme seeks to equip participants with life-changing values and skills through the Socio-Emotional Skills Model (SEL), which breaks down the process of learning into systematic stages. The chief advantage of the SEL from a pedagogical point of view is that it can be used as a tool to ensure that an effective transfer of learning occurs for all participants. SEL is essentially committed to the holistic development of every individual that challenges the social, physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of all participants. This learning is further reinforced through our training consultants’ astute application of framing, funnelling and solution-focused facilitation techniques.
Hence this action-packed approach strives to produce a hybrid of recreational, educational, developmental and re-directional outcomes to challenge the participants to not just have a great time of fun but also to be equipped with the abilities to translate the learning points and values acquired from the military training activities into practical and pragmatic solutions for real-life challenges and scenarios.
Learning Objectives
Under the theme “Brotherhood of Steel”, the camp is beneficial to students in the following aspects
Regimentation training is the program of physical and mental training required in order for an individual to become a soldier in the National Army. It is carried out at several different Army posts around the country. Regimentation training is designed to be intense and challenging. The challenge comes as much from the difficulty of physical training as it does from the required quick psychological adjustment to an unfamiliar way of life.
Basic Combat Training (BCT) is where individuals learn about the fundamentals of being a soldier, from combat techniques to the proper way to address a superior. BCT is also where individuals undergo physical training to prepare their bodies and their minds for the eventual physical and mental strain of combat. One of the most difficult and essential lessons learned in BCT is self-discipline, as it introduces prospective soldiers to a strict daily schedule that entails many duties and high expectations for which most civilians are not immediately ready.
Tactical Combat & Strategy: In pace with the changes in mainsteam school curriculum and in tangent with the ministry initiative for character development, holistic education and socio-emotional learning of students, TAC games presents a fun and engaging platform for the experiential learning interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. Different from classroom activities and conventional ‘team-building’ styled products, TAC games employs a do-experience-learn approach rather than a “show and tell” manner.
In each of these game plays, the students learn through a pre-game briefing and a post-game feedback session. The trainers provide a formative assessment of their performance, allowing the experience to focus on their processes, decision-making and interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. With this, emphasis is placed on their code of conduct, rather than winning the game entirely.
Programme Outline
- Becoming a Steel Soldier:
- Daily study and training in a disciplined environment: stay in military dorms, self-washing, punctuality, self-government -> More independence, growing-up, better spirit & endurance.
- Immersion in Military life with exciting Regimentation training: self folding of army cloths, trekking skills, outfield cooking, stationary drills, stand by bunk, route march.
- Gain good fitness through 12-obstacle physical training.
- Exposure to modern Military Airfare by a field trip to Singapore Airforce Museum.
- Forming the awareness of Brotherhood:
- Develop fully SEL skills: Self Awareness, Social Awareness, Self Management, Social Management, Responsible Decision Making.
- Learn how to be a team-player, unleash the leadership within and champion mind-set with Tactical Combat & Strategy Training.
- Equip creative skills, adventurous mind-set, self-confidence & analytical skills with Scouting & Navigation Training
- Learn to treasure family, friendship and social responsibility; Learn how to share with others thought the Camp Fire night.
- The Amazing Race @ SDC is the final test to prove the great change in self-awareness, forming his/her own evolution and growth-up of a “new army recruits” when study under the disciplinary environment of the Army.
- Explore Singapore at its finest: Students will have the opportunity to visit various places of interests in Singapore during a City Tour and this will help them understand the cosmopolitan nature of Singapore. The visit to Singapore Discovery Centre will provide students with history, culture and future development of Singapore. It is also time a recreation at the largest theme-park in South-East Asia: Singapore Universal Studio. For the shopaholics out there, Vivo City is a must.
- Going back home, students will be able to understand that Family is still the best place and love their father & mother more. From there, parents are expected to see improvement in their child’s life style & study. This result is essential as a starting-stone for further personal development if parents keep committed to long-term SEL education of their child.
