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Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award

Polam Hall invites all pupils entering Middle 5 to join the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme at Bronze level. The Award consists of 4 sections:

  1. Skills
  2. Physical
  3. Volunteering (new name for service)
  4. Expedition

Training

There are weekly training sessions. This year training is on:

Wednesday or Thursday nights 4.15pm to 5.15 pm.

Students should come to one of these training nights each week.

During these sessions Miss Booth prepares the students for the expedition section and gives advice on completing the skill, volunteering and physical sections. Training is very varied and includes navigation, emergency drills, camp craft and team building tasks. The students need to make a commitment to attend one session each week.

2011/2012 Dates

DAY WALKS

Saturday 5th or Sunday 6th November 2011 Richmond walk (10 –2.30pm)

Saturday 17th or Sunday 18th March 2012 Reeth walk (10 –3 pm)



EXPEDITIONS

Saturday 12th May to Sunday 13th May 2012 - Practice expedition in Swaledale.

Saturday 23rd June to Sunday 24th June 2012 - Assessed expedition - Wensleydale.

Saturday 30th June to Sunday 1st July 2012 - Reserve expedition date.

The expedition dates are provisional and there may be changes once the GCSE examination timetable is published.

What’s New?

The Duke of Edinburgh Award is trying to get with it. Currently there are two major changes planned.

The new name is just D of E because that’s what everybody uses.

The more drastic change is NO MORE RECORD BOOKS. All records are going to be kept by the participants online in a controlled version of a social website like facebook to be called eDofe. Students will go online and upload their pictures, evidence, blogs on completing each section. When the students complete the award it will all be printed out to create a portfolio of achievements which will become a keepsake and part of the certificate. There is a lot more to it than that, so Miss Booth is looking forward to the challenge of mastering erecords!


Further information about the D of E Award can be found out at dofe.org or by asking Miss Booth.

Pictures from past expeditions are shown below.

Bronze D of E Expedition 2011

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Bronze D of E Practice Walk

Bronze D of E Practice Walk