Co-Curricular

Duke Of Edinburgh's Award - Complete Your Award - 2022-23 - Reminder

Whilst the enrolment deadline for new starters has passed, there is still time to complete your award.

Please continue to prioritise signing off your volunteering, physical and skill sections. Guidance can be found on a DofE Completion email sent to pupils and parents, and the advice documents are also available on MySchoolPortal. Lunchtime drop-in clinic takes place every Tuesday 1.05pm in LG02.

The Certificate Presentation Evening takes place on Thursday 8 February 2024. Please prioritise signing off your sections so they can be processed in time to receive an invite to the evening. Invitations will be distributed in the next couple of weeks.

Will Bower
Head of Outdoor Education

 

Duke Of Edinburgh's Award - 2023-24 - Next Steps - Reminder

A reminder to Year 10 Silver participants, your expedition training takes place in The Limes on Saturday 27 January, 9.00am – 4.00pm and Sunday 28 January 2024, 9.00am - 1.00pm. You will have received an email with full details. Attendance on both days is mandatory in order to be adequately trained for the practice expedition in April.

Well done to all who met the first deadline by completing the steps listed below by Wednesday 20 December. You should now be logging your hours for the volunteering, physical and skills sections and uploading evidence on your eDofE account. Gold participants should also book their residential.

For those who failed to meet the deadline, please sign in and get started as soon as possible. The DofE will then send a participant handbook directly to your home address. For help, DofE clinic takes place every Tuesday at 1.05pm in LG02, or refer to your ‘eDfoE Start Up’ email and MySchoolPortal.

A reminder of the start-up steps required:

  • Download the DofE app or find www.edofe.org
  • Login using the username and password sticker on your folder
  • Update your personal details
  • Set timescales (for example at bronze physical 6, volunteering 3 and skill 3 months)
  • Complete the programme planners for the physical, volunteering and skill sections.  This includes:
    - selecting the activity
    - inputting start dates
    - setting a goal to achieve
    - recording your assessor details (please speak to your potential assessor to ask permission  before you upload the details)
  • Submit your programme planners online to your DofE Leader for approval.  Once approved you can start your award.

It is fantastic to see the wide variety of activities pupils have chosen to complete. Good luck in logging your hours, I hope that you enjoy your sections and achieve your goals.

Will Bower
Head of Outdoor Education

 

Celebration of Achievement Lunch - Lent Term - Reminder

It is always great to hear about our pupils' successes that take place outside of school; please do keep us updated if your son or daughter has won a competition, raised money for charity, is performing in a show or competing at a high level with a sporting team outside of school.

We would like to invite parents to submit this information to us via a nomination form by clicking here so we might celebrate these achievements in school too.  

Neil McCollin
Assistant Head - Co-Curricular