The Duke of Edinburgh Award is open to any student from 14 onwards. Typically the Bronze Award will be completed in year nine, with the silver programme spanning years ten and eleven. The Award comprises four sections as follows:

1. Service – This involves assisting people in the community. Students have helped out in primary schools hearing children read and assisting with general activities, worked on a voluntary basis in a charity shop on a regular basis or worked in an animal rescue shelter at the weekend.
3. Skill – Students must learn a new skill for either three or six months. Skills have included learning a new musical instrument or taking up a skill based hobby such as needlecraft and dancing.
5. Physical Recreation – Students must participate in a sport
6. on a regular basis over three or six months.
8. Expedition – This is the most difficult of the four areas and involves a two day walk and camping over night. Students must follow a programme learning First Aid, camp craft, cooking on a tranjia, team building, the country code and emergency survival as well as map reading and route planning.

Photographs are from the bronze expedition to Earlswood Lakes in September 2007 Accompanied by Mr and Mrs Flood, Mrs Housley, Ms Brown and Mrs Skrybant students  completed a gruelling two day walk with heavy rucksacks and camped overnight in the freezing cold!

Our next expedition will be in April 2008 in Clent.

 

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