Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award
The Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award is a fun, life-changing experience and an opportunity to discover new interests and talents. The DofE Bronze is for young people in S3. The Bronze award is a fantastic opportunity to develop new SKILLS, VOLUNTEER in your community, advance your PHYSICAL development, and complete a 2 day EXPEDITION with friends in a way that Employers and Universities love. To find out more applications begin in September where you must attend an introductory lunch that talks you through the next 12 months. If you are still up for the challenge you can then submit an application and if selected begin your DofE journey.
Bronze | Start Your DofE
Physical
Volunteering
Skills
Expedition
September
Application
Pupils from across S3 will be invited to an introductory meeting where we discuss the Bronze award and invite anyone who is up for the challenge to apply.
Applications are then submitted to a member of school DofE staff by a set deadline. Priority will be given in order of submission and a reserve list created of pupils who did not make initial selection
Programme planner and Paper work
If offered a place, pupils will then be invited to a second meeting where they will be given relevant paperwork to be completed by them and their parents.
- Enrolment Form
- Denny HS permission form
- DofE Info
- DofE Programme Planner
If all paperwork is completed and the enrolment fee of £25 is paid a DofE account will be created.
Starting Activities
Pupils are free to begin all activities backdated to the 1st week in August if able. Evidence needs to be recorded and later uploaded to the DofE Evidence Logbook on OneNote.
October
Demonstration of OneNote Evidence Log Book
Successful pupils will be invited to an after school meeting where information from the Programme Planner will be transferred to the One Note evidence log book.
eDofE Sign in
Pupils will then be shown how to login to their eDofE account where they will submit their logbook each month
October to January
Weekly Meeting
Pupils must attend a weekly 10 minute meeting before school so that their leader can check progress and give guidance.
Activities
All pupils should have begun all activities. Each week the following needs to be recorded into the one note evidence tracker
- Date/time of activity
- A brief summary of that week’s activity with reference to their overall goal and plan
- A picture where possible of each activity (this can be a screenshot of a tracking app, a picture of the recipe/final dish, a picture of you completing the activity)
Each activity is completed for 1 hour each week and logged on the One Note evidence Log Book.
Screenshots of evidence uploaded to eDofE
Every 4 weeks, a screenshot of evidence is correctly uploaded to the eDofE website
February
Deadline to have 1 sections completed
Pupils must have displayed the commitment necessary to complete the Bronze award. Each pupil must have at least one section fully completed, with evidence uploaded to eDofE website and assessor reports submitted for approval
If pupils meet this, they will be enrolled onto the expedition module
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February to March
Pupils continue to attend their weekly 10 minute meeting and log evidence of the sections they have yet to complete.
Expedition Training
Pupils will now undertake their training for the expedition. This will involve five 1 hour after school training sessions:
- Map Training 1
- Map Training 2
- Expedition Skills 1
- Expedition Skills 2
- Food and Nutrition
April
Pupils continue to attend their weekly 10 minute meeting and log evidence of the sections they have yet to complete.
Practice
In the last week of April pupils will go out of school to learn and practice essential navigation skills around the Falkirk wheel from 08:30 to 15:30
May
Pupils continue to attend their weekly 10 minute meeting and log evidence of the sections they have yet to complete.
Expedition Planning
Pupils will then be required to meet with their group and assigned teachers to plan their expedition route. This usually takes a couple of after school sessions.
Expedition
After completing all after school sessions, the day walk, and the planning of their expedition route will pupils be able to complete the 2 day expedition. The dates for the overnight qualifying expedition are normally near the end of May
June
Expedition presentation
After the expedition, the group needs to prepare and deliver a group presentation of their expedition experience. All members need to be involved to pass the expedition section
Finish Physical, Skill and Volunteering sections
As mentioned before, any pupils with outstanding activities to complete, evidence to be uploaded to eDofE and assessor reports submitted to the eDofE website need to get this completed.
A deadline of end of August will be set for all to have all sections completed, assessor reports uploaded and sections signed off by school DofE staff. They can then be presented their Award during the school award ceremony in September
If this deadline is met, the school will refund the pupils entry fee of £25.
Any pupil not meeting this deadline can still gain their award on completion but the school will not refund the entry fee.