Well done again for an outstanding series of expeditions. Doing all three expeditions to such a high standard inside a month is a real achievement, and you made a very positive impression on all the leaders that helped out.
If you want another fix of outdoor stuff this season, there are three places left on the caving trip. Downloads here:
CAVING EXPEDITION and Medical and Consent Form Caving
I hope to see as many of you as possible on Silver DofE next year. Subject to the school’s approval, the plan would be to get people registered onto silver as soon as they have completed their bronze, so that your other sections are more or less finished by the time your expeditions start; and to run a practice expedition during or around activities week of your year 11 (first week of July 2013) with the assessed expedition in September of your year 12 (third weekend of term).
Looking a long way ahead, we also hope to have Gold well-established by then, which would probably run during Easter holidays and after AS exams in Year 12, and just before the start of Year 13.
Silver is only going to be open to boys who have completed their whole bronze award (all four sections), plus possibly some boys who have not been involved at bronze and feel they’ve missed out. So you do need to have completed the other sections in order to do more expeditions.
Gold will probably only be open to boys who have completed their silver award, as it is a big step up from bronze, and places will be quite limited.
You should have all received e-mails with your login details for eDofE. The following have already logged on successfully, so you can pick their brains: Oliver Blagg, Gregory Brooks, Caleb Burke, Thomas Chau, Ben Cooke, Cillian Courtney, Yash Daga, Callum Hyams-Parish, Jay Patel, Rohan Raymond, Adam Stevenson, Isaac Thomas.
Your username will be e.g. THOMASALLARS and your password is your date of birth.
If you’re one of the few who haven’t picked up your box with info from Mrs Mottershead, they’ll be with Mr Hewitt now as they went to Dorset, but I didn’t get round to giving them to you.
Log on and fill in as much information about all your sections as you can. It’s all well explained online and in the handouts in the brown box. There are lots of ideas for sections and details on www.dofe.org
Regarding expeditions, I can’t put in information about them until you’ve logged on, nor can Tom add the assessor’s comment. So please all log on ASAP and then we can do you all in one batch.
If you can all get as far as possible by using your own initiative, we can then arrange a meeting to help iron out any problems. Ask other participants first, especially about anything technical to do with eDofE. Mr Hewitt will be available after school on Wednesdays to help you with any award-related questions; or you can see Mrs Mottershead in the office; or use the form below to ask a question, so that I can add answers that will be relevant to other people.
To complete your expedition section, you have to give a presentation about your expedition experience, including the purpose of your expedition. I’d like to provisionally fix a date of Thursday 10th November. We would leave school at the start of lunchtime and go to Northey early, and do the presentations upstairs in the pavilion. I’ll bring a massive slab of cake. There will be a laptop, screen, projector and speakers if you need them. You’ll have about five minutes for each group, and we did talk about having a two minute section for the purpose of your expedition, which can be where you step up the production values. The idea is to celebrate and reflect on what you learnt, enjoyed and achieved.
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