Gold Award
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is designed to help young people develop essential life skills, resilience, and confidence through a balanced programme of activities. Programme Planner Ideas can be accessed via the link below:
Volunteering Section
Aim: To inspire participants to make a positive difference to their communities and develop compassion, commitment, and a sense of responsibility by giving their time to help others.
Physical Section
Aim: To encourage participants to improve their health, fitness, and physical performance through regular participation in a sport, dance, or fitness activity, building perseverance and a sense of achievement.
Skills Section
Aim: To enable participants to develop practical and social skills, broaden their interests, and boost their confidence by learning something new or improving an existing talent.
Expedition Section
Aim: To foster teamwork, resilience, and independence by planning, training for, and completing an adventurous journey in the outdoors, working together to overcome challenges.
The intention is to offer expeditions on foot and undertaken:
- Practise - Late July of Year 12 - Peak District
- Qualifying - October of Year 13 - Snowdonia
Packing a Backpack
Fitting a Backpack
Residential Section
To broaden participants’ horizons and develop independence by spending time away from home on a shared activity with people they don’t already know, building new friendships and skills.