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Agenda: What is the Duke of Edinburgh Award? The bronze award for your child How you can help and support your child The expedition – H5 Adventure What next?

The world’s leading achievement award for young people. 1. The DofE is… The world’s leading achievement award for young people.

Guiding Principles Non-competitive Achievable by all Voluntary Personal development Personalised Balanced Progressive Achievement focused Demands commitment Enjoyable

The DofE programme is a real adventure. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from. You just need to be aged between 14 and 24. You can do DofE programmes at three levels: Bronze (aged 14+) (year 9) Silver (aged 15+) (year 10) Gold (aged 16+) (year 12) …which lead to a Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

The DofE is… You achieve an Award by completing a personal programme of activities in four sections: Volunteering: undertaking service to individuals or the community. Physical: improving in an area of sport, dance or fitness activities. Skills: developing practical and social skills and personal interests. Expedition: planning, training for and completion of an adventurous journey in the UK or abroad. At Gold level, you must do an additional Residential section, which involves working and staying away from home doing a shared activity.

Time requirements Minimum period of participation by: Level: Direct entrants Previous level Award holders Bronze 6 months n/a Silver 12 months Gold 18 months Direct entrants are young people starting their DofE programme at either Silver or Gold level, who have not achieved the previous level of Award.

Bronze Award (14+ years old) Volunteering Physical Skills Expedition 3 months Plan, train for and complete a 2 day, 1 night expedition All participants must undertake a further 3 months in the Volunteering, Physical or Skills section.

Silver Award (15+ years old) Volunteering Physical Skills Expedition 6 months One section for 6 months and the other section for 3 months Plan, train for and complete a 3 day, 2 night expedition Direct entrants must undertake a further 6 months in the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.

Gold Award (16+ years old) Volunteering Physical Skills Expedition Residential 12 months One section for 12 months and the other section for 6 months Plan, train for and complete a 4 day, 3 night expedition Undertake a shared activity in a residential setting away from home for 5 days and 4 nights Direct entrants must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills section.

Bronze Award (14+ years old) Volunteering Physical Skills Expedition 3 months Plan, train for and complete a 2 day, 1 night expedition All participants must undertake a further 3 months in the Volunteering, Physical or Skills section.

Choosing activities There is a massive choice of activities that count towards DofE programmes. You can select practically any activity you want – as long as it’s legal and morally acceptable. Activities are placed in specific sections for a reason. You need to choose activities you are going to enjoy. Activities could be something that you are already doing or perhaps one you’ve always wanted to try. They must participate in at least an hour a week.

Volunteering Aim To inspire young people to make a difference within their communities or to an individual’s life and develop compassion by giving service to others.

Benefits Learn about their community and feel a sense of belonging and purpose. Learn to take responsibility for their communities and their own actions. Build new relationships. Further understand their own strengths and weaknesses. Develop teamwork and leaderships skills. Trust others and be trusted. Enjoy new adventures.

What is required? Volunteering is simple. It’s about choosing to give time to something useful, without getting paid. Team volunteering can be beneficial to you and to the project you choose. At least 3/4 of the activity needs to be practical volunteering, so only a 1/4 can be training. Training courses, therefore, must either: Change their content to include practical volunteering e.g. raising awareness of the project. Count towards the Skills section – e.g. Life skills category.

Volunteering categories Helping people Community action and raising awareness Coaching, teaching and leadership Working with the environment or animals Helping a charity or community organisation Explain why we have chosen these activities – flexible enough that all volunteering activities should fit in. Old categories were very prescriptive. Make it clear that some activities will fit into more than one category, this doesn’t matter and will often depend on the aim of the young person. This is outlined on pages 41 – 42 on the DofE Handbook. Give example on page 42 of Handbook about how First Aid training could be 3 months as a Bronze Skill for one person or training for 3 months and 9 months practical volunteering with St John Ambulance as a Gold Volunteering activity for another. You could use any example here: A Bronze DofE group attends a police course once a week to learn about the criminal justice system. As part of the course, the group are asked to design a project to raise awareness about personal safety in their community. A Gold DofE programme participant supervises the group and the police officer is the Assessor. The group deliver a number of assemblies to their peers as well as at the local primary school on how to stay safe.

Physical Aim To inspire young people to achieve greater physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle through participation and improvement in physical activity.

Benefits Enjoy keeping fit. Improve fitness. Discover new abilities. Raise self-esteem. Extend personal goals. Set and respond to a challenge. Experience a sense of achievement.

What is a physical activity? In short, anything that requires a sustained level of physical energy and involves doing an activity. You are free to do this section independently or as part of a team.

Physical categories Team sports Individual sports Water sports Racquet sports Dance Fitness Extreme sports Martial arts

Skills Aim To inspire young people to develop practical and social skills and personal interests.

Benefits Develop a new talent. Improve self-esteem and confidence. Develop practical and social skills. Develop better organisational and time management skills. Sharpen research skills. Learn how to set and rise to a challenge.

Something old or something new Ultimately you must be able to prove that you have broadened your understanding and increased your expertise in the chosen skill. Activities can be undertaken on either an individual or group basis.

Skills categories Creative arts Life skills Performance arts Science and technology Care of animals Music Life skills Learning and collecting Media and communication Natural world Games and sports

The steps for the sections Preparation Training Activity Assessment

section, and check with Miss Langdon that your choices can be counted. Choosing activities Participants should think carefully about what they want to do for each section, and check with Miss Langdon that your choices can be counted. Use the helpful lists and category finder that came with the letter or on www.DofE.org/sections.

Getting assessed Participants need an assessor for each activity. Someone who vouches for what they have done over the 3 or 6 months. It can not be a parent or a sibling. It could be a coach or music teacher or whoever you have been volunteering for. If it is something done at home it is harder. Staff at school will be able to assess participants.

How to get assessed Tell the assessor what they plan to do over the next 3 or 6 months. What do you want to achieve? Keep a weekly log of everything they have done in that activity. Take photos as evidence (if appropriate) Show your assessor at the end of the 3 or 6 months and ask them to verify your activity.

Expedition Aim To inspire young people to develop initiative and a sense of adventure and discovery, by planning, training for and completing an adventurous journey as part of a team.

Timescales for qualifying expeditions Level Duration Minimum hours of planned activity each day Bronze 2 days and 1 night At least 6 hours during the daytime (at least 3 of which must be spent journeying) Silver 3 days and 2 nights At least 7 hours during the daytime (at least 3½ of which must be spent journeying) Gold 4 days and 3 nights At least 8 hours during the daytime (at least 4 of which must be spent journeying)

Benefits Gain an appreciation of and respect for the outdoor environment. Learn the value of sharing responsibility for success. Learn the importance of attention to detail and organisational ability. Develop and demonstrate enterprise and imagination. Become more self-reliant. Become more able to overcome challenges. Recognise the needs and strengths of others. Improve decision-making skills and the ability to accept consequences. Gain skills to reflect on personal performance. Learn to manage risk. Learn through experience.

The expedition process Preparation Training Practice expedition Qualifying expedition, debrief and presentation Assessment

5. The Expedition H5 Adventure will be leading the training and both expeditions: Training: Sunday 10th February 2018 Practice Expedition: Saturday 11th May – Sunday 12th May 2018 Qualifying Expedition: Saturday 22nd June – Sunday 23rd June Participants MUST attend all parts.

Mobile Phones One of the conditions required to be met whilst on expedition is that participants are ‘self-sufficient.’ We will collect in students phones and give them one phone in a sealed envelope which will be for emergency use only & we will collect this at the camp site. We will have emergency procedures in place and you will be able to contact me if you have an emergency. This will allow them to meet the criteria to pass this section and enjoy a social media free weekend.

Kit H5 provides: Tents Maps Stoves & fuel Participants need: Personal clothing including waterproofs Personal first aid Rucksack Walking boots Sleeping bag & roll mat We have the following items we can loan out: Rucksacks Sleeping bags T shirts Roll mats Waterproofs Fleeces

eDofE The award is online. When you enrol with the award I will give students an edofe log in. Participants must upload everything they do on the programme in order to achieve the award. Initially, this is registering their chosen activity, then they must upload evidence; log books & photos. There will be eDofE sessions at the start of october for students to input their activities and learn how to use the programme.

4. How you can support your child Help with their choices in activity and planning their goals. Ensure activities are realistic and affordable if there is a cost. Once started, keep them on track with gathering evidence; log books, photos; certificates; medals etc… Help them find an assessor for their sections (it can’t be you or any other family member). Remind them to stay up to date with eDofE. Ensure they use the award later in life….add to CV, draw from the experiences gained.

Have fun!