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

The Silver D of E Award starts in year 11 once you have completed your Bronze award. 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.
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.
Physical involves taking part in sport or dance. A full list of possible activities is available here.

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

The expedition for Silver is the final part of the award. A practise expedition takes place in the Peak District and an actual expedition takes place in Exmoor National Park. There is also a training day on the Long Mynd. 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 Mr. Evans in the Library. Once you are enrolled you can login to eDofE with your username and password and you will be able to see the silver award.

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. You cannot overlap the Bronze and Silver awards.

If you have any questions then please see Mr. Evans.