About Us

St. Andrew's 'Star' Scout group
Home of the star scouts

                                     

St. Andrew's Star Scouts Group was founded in Singapore in 1924, 14 years after scouting was founded in Singapore. We were formerly known as the 10th Pegasus, 71st Leo and 94th Orion Singapore Troop. We are also known now as 2501 scouting group of Singapore.

The St. Andrew's Star scouts Group is divided into 5 sections. 

1. St. Andrew's orion cub scout troop

2. St. Andrew's Orion Scout Troop

3. St. Andrew's Aquilla Ventures

4. St. Andrew's 'Star' Rovers

5.St. Andrew's chapter, Singapore Scout Guild

WHAT WE DO(Scouts)

St. Andrew's orion scout troop has scouts age ranged 12-17. We do different activities from other Uniformed groups. These are some of the things that we scouts exclusively do.

1. Outdoor cooking aka Backwoodsman

2.Pioneering

3.Exploration

4.Job Week* 

*- Job week is a event happening on mid March every Year. The scouts will go to each house and ask for a job to earn money. The purpose of this event is to understand the importance of hardship, to see how is it like to take up an odd job and it gives you a real life experience of working. It is a unique yet meaningful event that scouts experience every year. The money eventually goes to the Scout troop for the subsidy of external courses, jambourees and national events. 

We aim to inculcate discipline, leadership qualities and teamwork attributes through informal education processes at various formative stages. Scouting is a non-formal self-education system,which composes of seven different elements which work together to provide a rich, active and fun learning environment. 

In scouts, we learn by doing. Learning by doing means developing as a result of first-hand experience. It reflects the active way in which one gains knowledge, skills and attitudes through a pratical approach. Learning by doing as a patrol also allows everyone in the patrol to actively engage with the process ,take ownership and learn how to work with different kind of people with different attitudes.

One aspect that makes scouts special is the patrol system. The patrol system is the basic organisational structure in Scouting. Each small group, normally comprising 5-6 students,operates as a team with two members acting as a Patrol leader and a Assistant Patrol leader. Within each team and in ways appropriate to their capacities, the Scouts organise their life as a group, sharing responsibilities, learning from each other's strength and weaknesses and working as a team. This moulds a teenager to handle different personalities when he or she goes to the work force.

As a scout, you will have the opportunities to travel overseas to participate in international scouting events. These events are generally jambourees. Find out more about jambourees in the world scout movement tab in the main page if you are interested to participate in jambourees OR consult with your Patrol leaders.