Bronze Award - Duke of Edinburgh - Kenilworth School and Sports College

The Bronze D of E Award starts in January in Year 10. To complete the award you need to carry out four sections; Skill, volunteer, and physical. If you finish these three sections you will then be invited to complete the final section which is the expedition.

Skills involve learning a new skill such as chess, fishing, learning a musical instrument. A full list of possible activities is available here.
Physical involves taking part in sport or dance. A full list of possible activities is available here.
Volunteer involves getting involved in helping in the community. This could involve helping in a charity shop, maintaining local footpaths, helping with rainbows or beavers. It is important that you do not volunteer for a company where you would replace a worker. A full list of possible activities is available here.

The time you need to do in each section is shown below.

The expedition for Bronze is the final part of the award. A practise expedition takes place in the local area at the end of year 10 and an actual expedition takes place in September in year 11 in the Cotswolds. To take part in the expedition you must have completed all of the other sections of the award.

To start the award download an enrolment form and give it to Mrs Spooner (pigeon hole in lower school staff room). You will then be emailed a user name and password. This is your log into eDofE. Click on the web link right to log in. For help to start on eDofE look here.

When you first log in you need to complete the personal information then you can get started on your D of E. You need to set objectives for the skill, volunteer and physical and submit it for Mrs. Spooner to approve. Once approved you can start your activity.

If you have already been doing one of the activities you may backdate it. For example if you play in the school rugby team you can use this for your physical and back date. The eDofE website will guide you how far back you can start the activity. Further help on eDofE can be found here.

Any questions email Mrs. Spooner (ks.pesp@ksn.org.uk) or see her in L13 on Thursday lunchtimes.

To complete a section you need to upload evidence onto eDofE. This can be photographs and a document signed by your supervisor (this can be the keeping track book) to show that you have completed the sections.