The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
at Fortrose Academy
The Award’s guiding principles
• Non-competitive• Achievable by all• Voluntary• Personal development• Demand commitment• Enjoyable
The benefits
• Develops many important life skills• Pupils learn basic skills in first aid,
camp craft and navigation• Pupils work as part of a team and
individually• Advantageous for applications to
college, university and jobs.
Bronze Award (14+ years old)
Volunteering Physical Skills Expedition
3 months 3 months 3 months Plan, train for and complete a 2 day, 1 night expedition
One of these 3 sections must be done for 6 months.
The 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
Choosing activities
There is a massive choice of activities that count towards DofE programmes.
• Participants need to choose activities they are going to enjoy.
• Activities could be something that they are already doing.
• Activities should be challenging but achievable.
• Participants should think about their level of expertise, maturity and confidence.
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.
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
• Helping People• Community Action and Raising Awareness• Working with the Environment or Animals• Helping a Charity or Community Organisation• Coaching, Teaching and Leadership
Here are some of the places pupils at Fortrose volunteered at this year…
• Helping people• Community action and raising awareness• Coaching, teaching and leadership• Working with the environment or animals• Helping a charity or community organisation
• Avoch and Culbokie after school club• Fair trade shop in Dingwall• First Aid with the Red Cross• Coaching rugby to S1• Helping at Munlochy Animal Aid• Helping a child minder• Marine House• Greenhouse Charity Shop Dingwall• Helping at Glachbeg• Helping at Cromarty Youth Club
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.
Physical categories
• Team sports• Individual sports• Water sports• Racquet sports
• Dance• Fitness• Extreme sports• Martial arts
Here are some of the physical activities pupils did this year…
• Rugby• Zumba• Badminton• Body Vive• Sailing
• Netball• Climbing @
Aquadome• Hockey• Swimming• Athletics with Ross
County
Skills
Aim • To inspire young people to develop practical
and social skills and personal interests.
Skills categories
• Creative arts• Performance arts• Science and
technology• Care of animals• Music
• Life skills• Learning and collecting• Media and
communication• Natural world• Games and sports
Here are some of the things pupils did this year…
• Road Rally Navigation• Cake decorating• Keyboard• Tuba• Xylophone• Drums in Pipe Band
• Guitar• Flying• Photography• Flute• Music Appreciation
ExpeditionAim• 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.
ExpeditionWhat’s involved before the walk:• Training
– First Aid– Camp Crafts skills– Navigation
• Planning– Decide on a route– Write route cards
All these activities take time and require commitment from ALL participants. You will have to give up a lot of free time to do these.
ExpeditionWhat’s involved during the walk:• Hiking• Camping• Fun• Putting training into practise• All assessed expeditions require pupils to
carry out an aim e.g. ‘studying tourist potential in the area they walk in’.
• Presentation– After the expedition pupils present to parents,
leaders and assessors.
www.dofe.org
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