2. Welcome to the Duke of Edinburgh’s award at Ridgeway!

3. What is the D of E? An internationally recognised achievement
3 levels to the award: bronze, silver, gold
You can start bronze at age 14
Finish gold by age 25

6. The 4 Sections Volunteering Physical About an hour per week Skill
Expedition
About an hour per week

7. The 4 Sections Volunteering Physical Skill Expedition 3 months
Plan, train for and undertake a 2 day, 1 night expedition
All participants must undertake a further 3 months in one of the volunteering, physical or skills sections

8. Volunteering Examples of past volunteering sections:
Helping younger children at brownies / cubs
Charity shop
Student librarian
Volunteer at park run (Lydiard park)
Helping older people (gardening or cleaning)
Coaching at a sports club

9. Physical Examples of past physical sections:
Running or cycling, either with a club or keeping a log of personal achievements
Dance
Any sports club
Fitness classes
Horse riding

10. Skill
This cannot be a physical activity – working on your backhand or golf swing can’t count
Past skills sections have included:
Music exam
Any extra GCSE tutoring outside school
Dog training
Drama (Les Miserables)
Flying / gliding

11. Expedition 2 day, 1 night expedition
Must undertake a practice expedition and training first
You will plan your own route, be completely self-sufficient for 2 days, walking in groups of 4-7 friends

12. SILVER

13. GOLD

14. Expedition kit Things that we provide: Tent Roll mat Rucksack
Stove and fuel
Map & compass
Some waterproofs (not enough for everyone)

15. Expedition kit Things that you will need:
Walking boots (Must support ankles).
Clothes to walk in (Artificial fibres to wick out).
Sleeping bag (Low profile which has a small pack size).

16. You will receive a pack and you can fill in pages like this:
eDofE
Your activities will need to be logged online and verified by an adult (not related to you!)
You will receive a pack and you can fill in pages like this:

17. eDofE
You can then take a picture / scan the page and upload to eDofE Or if the assessor is happy to do it online they could go to the website and type their comments in themselves

18. Commitments
1 After school and enrichment expedition training 2 Mountaineering Club Activities 3 Practice expedition & Assessed expedition 4 Being a role model in and out of school

19. What next?
1 Hand in an enrolment form by break-time on Thursday 15/09/16 2 Make the first payment on parent pay by midnight on Thursday 15/09/16 3 Sign up for the A Mountain Club walk

20. Dates
22/10/16 Mountain Club 12/11/16 Mountain Club 26/11/16 Mountain Club 10/12/16 Mountain Club 07/01/17 Mountain Club 04/02/17 Mountain Club 11-14/02/17 Yorkshire Dales(Mountain Club) 11/03/17 Mountain Club 25-26/03/17 Y10 Bronze Practice Expedition 20-21/05/17 Y10 Bronze Assessment Expedition

21. ANY QUESTIONS?