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Important Dates (23/24)
Important Dates (23/24)
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24th March 2024 – Training Day. Taking place at UCS. This will teach students the skills required to complete their expedition, including kits lists, safety and map reading skills.
28th– 29th April 2024 – Practice Expedition. Group A: Saturday
Group B: Sunday. Carried out near Harlow, Essex. Students practice skills required for the assessed expedition.
Attendance is compulsory and supervising staff must be satisfied that participants have the skills and maturity to allow participants to progress to the assessed expedition.
Group A: 24th-25th June, & Group B: 26th-27th June 2024 – Assessed Expedition. Participants undertake a 2-day and 1-night unaided expedition in order to qualify for their bronze award. This expedition is remotely supervised by qualified staff.
Overview of Bronze Award
Overview of Bronze Award
DofE-Bronze-recruitment-presentation-short.pdfYou should now have decided on your activities for your volunteering, skill and physical sections of the award. If you are not sure what to do then click on the 'click this link' button above and have a look through the suggestions.
For each activity, you need to set yourself a goal or target to achieve over the 3 or 6 months. You can choose which one you do for 6 and the other two you do for 3 months. You should do a minimum of 1 hour a week for 3 calendar months (or 6 months depending on which section). You can stop and start as long as it adds up to the equivalent of 1 hour a week for the right amount of time
For more advice on choosing an activity or more information about the award, please visit https://www.dofe.org/
Expedition Phase
Expedition Phase
The expedition section is often one of the most exciting aspects of a DofE Award. Participants will form expedition teams in school, and are given a programme of training and practice in expedition skills before progressing onto an assessed expedition. The assessed expedition, and some of the practice, is remotely supervised so that the participants are navigating, cooking and camping, by themselves without outside help. Adult supervisors and assessors will be close by to safeguard and assess participants, but in order to pass their assessment participants must complete the assessed expedition self-sufficiently and unaided. This is easily achievable if participants engage with and take on board their training and advice from instructors, but we will make no apologies for deferring (this allows participants to attempt another assessment) any team or individual if they cannot or do not reach the required standard. The standard required is high, and includes ensuring all kit and equipment is returned in good and clean condition at the end of the expedition. Participants must also complete a short project based on their expedition.
The expedition programme this year will be run by Mountainwise, an approved DofE expedition provider. mountainwise.co.uk/
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