Parent Information

Contact Information

Parent Committee - 307ssc@gmail.com

Squadron - 307air@cadets.gc.ca - all absences need to be emailed to this address.

Cancellation of Cadet Activities

Cadet Nights will be cancelled if Hanover School Division cancels school due to bad weather. Any last minute cancellations of any cadet activity will be by phone to parents by the Parent Committee members. The Officers will also post any cancellation info on the 307 RCACS Community Facebook page and Sway.

Fundraising

Cadets is a free program, but there is a yearly cost for each cadet who is enrolled. These costs are covered by the Air Cadet League of Canada. We help them out by doing a couple of fundraisers for them during the cadet year. We also need to fundraise to pay our bills such as rent for the hall, food for events like the Mess Dinner, ACR, etc. Those are all costs we must cover each year. There is also insurance for cadets and events like gliding that the cadets need a bus ride for.

The Cadet Program CANNOT run without fundraising!!

Volunteering

For most people taking part in volunteering projects is about 'giving something back', socializing and making new friends, or getting to know the local community. Others enjoy feeling like a valued member of a team, finding a worthwhile hobby that gives them quality time away from work or a busy lifestyle, or knowing they are making a difference to the lives of young people.

Your cadet will also appreciate being able to show you what they learn when you volunteer for an activity. We need volunteers to help keep things running smoothly and efficiently, there are also times when an event cannot happen without parent volunteer to supervise the cadets.

Screening

With the protection and safety of youth as the goal, Canadian youth organizations have a moral, ethical and legal obligation to put in place a process to prevent wrongdoing or abuse of youth entrusted to their care. As the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) develop and train youth through the CCO, the importance placed on appropriate and thorough screening of adults who are working with cadets cannot be overstated. In addition to the Reliability Screening, any adult with direct supervision, access or control of cadets is required to have an up-to-date Police Records Check (PRC) conducted by the local police agency in the jurisdiction where the member resides. The check includes police information located on national and regional computer systems (e.g. Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC), Police Information Retrieval Operation System (PROS), Police Records Information Management Environment (PRIME), Law Enforcement Information Portal (LEIP) and other approved systems), along with information located through local police records checks.

Additionally they must produce a Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS). This permits the disclosure of conviction records for sexual offences listed under the Schedule of the Criminal Records Act in respect of which a pardon has been granted. Such records may be provided to an organization if an individual working for that organization has a position of authority or trust relative to children or vulnerable persons.

Individuals applying to join the CAF to work with cadets are required to have a PRC and VSS completed as part of the enrolment process. Applicants must also complete a Suitability Assessment Protocol (SAP) specifically designed to determine an applicant’s suitability for working with cadets. Commanding Officers are responsible for ensuring that all activities are adequately supervised by competent, screened, and authorized adult supervisors of each gender.

Effective Speaking

This is optional for Cadets. If a Cadet is interested in Effective speaking they need to discuss this with an Officer. One evening cadets will be broken into groups with their peers, each cadet will do a speech on one of the topics chosen, this is a speech they prepare. They will also do a second speech that is impromptu. They will not know ahead of time what their speech is about. They have 2 minutes to prepare, and the speech needs to be 2 minutes long. They are scored by 3 judges, top ranking will move on to the next week which will be the top 3 cadets from our squadron competing with each other. There is a provincial competition that the top 2 cadets will have the chance to attend. This is a great opportunity for the cadets, and we encourage the winners to attend.

Here are some of the topics from previous years:

What does bravery mean to you?

What are the positive or negative effects of AI?

What are the health and social effects of vaping?

Canada’s role in international affairs.

What are the greatest challenges facing the Canadian aviation industry

What are the greatest challenges facing the Canadian aviation industry?

How do you remember the sacrifices made on our behalf by our nation’s military?

Describe an historical event of note, and what it meant to Canada.

Describe a true Canadian hero, and the difference he/she made to our nation.

Cadet’s Choice: the Cadet’s Choice must fit into one of these categories: Cadet Life, Science and Technology, Aviation, Canadian History or Citizenship.

Mess Dinner

This is a very valuable part of the lesson plan, it teaches the cadets etiquette and much more. This is a mandatory event for cadets. Parents are not allowed to attend this event, but if you volunteer for serving or clean up, you can catch a few of the things that happen throughout the night.

FTX

Field Training Exercises – a weekend of learning survival skills

All cadets are required to participate in FTX. Exercises are conducted over weekends; the squadron will depart Friday evening and return Sunday afternoon. Training includes many different skills such as shelter building, fire starting, GPS navigation, water collection, map and compass, safe use of equipment and many other lessons.

ACR – Annual Ceremonial Review

The Annual Ceremonial Review (ACR) is the most important event of the Air Cadet training year. This mandatory event is the opportunity for the cadets to display what they have learned over the past training year to their families and assembled guests. It is also the opportunity for the Squadron to honor deserving cadets by presenting them with various awards. There are 2 parts – the parading and the awards dinner. The dinner part is paid for by our squadron, so tickets are sold to anyone attending (other than a cadet)

Scholarships

There are a lot of opportunities for scholarships for any cadets who will be attending post secondary education the following year.

Air Cadet League of Manitoba

Air Cadet League of Canada