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•Woking High School
Staff Mrs Smith
Mr Beeson
Ms Bourne
Dr Downie
Dr Ashton
Mr Dixon
Ms Hicken
Ms Dixon
Woking High School
The DofE is…
The DofE programme is an award for young people
aged between 14 and 24.
The DofE programme can be done at three levels:
• Bronze from year 9
• Silver from year 10
• Gold at college or university
The DofE is…
The Award is achieved by completing four sections:
Volunteering: for 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.
Choosing your activities
There is a massive choice of activities that count
towards DofE programmes. Participants can select
practically any activity they want – as long as it’s
legal and morally acceptable.
• Participants need to choose activities that they are
going to enjoy.
• Activities could be something that they are already
doing or perhaps one they have always wanted to
try.
• https://www.dofe.org/doing-your-dofe/activities-
sections/
Volunteering
Aim
• To make a difference within
the community or to an
individual’s life and
develop compassion
by giving time to
others. This should
be for a charity or not
for profit organisation.
Volunteering categories
• Helping people, ie Peer Mentoring/Library
• Community action and raising awareness
• Coaching, teaching and leadership
• Working with the environment or animals
• Helping a charity or community organisation
Volunteering categories
Local organisations looking for volunteers:
1st Chobham Scouts Princess Christian Care Centre
Woking Library Tovertafel (Magic Table)”
4th Horsell Guides
Goldsworth Park Rangers FC
Barnsbury School PTA
Brooklands Museum Raising money for a charity
Woking Oxfam Shop Riding for the disabled
Woking Athletics Club Woking Lions
Horsell Rescue Donkeys
8th Woking Brownies
Woking Cougars Football Team
Brock Hill Sheltered Accommodation
Physical
Aim
• To achieve greater physical
fitness and a healthy lifestyle
through participation in
physical activity.
What is a physical activity?
In short, anything that requires a sustained level of
physical energy and involves doing an activity.
They are free to do this section independently or as
part of a team.
It must take place outside of school time but can be
an after school club.
Physical categories
• Team sports
• Individual sports
• Water sports
• Racquet sports
• Archery (but not
shooting!)
• Climbing
• Dance
• Fitness
• Extreme sports
• Martial arts
• Cycling
• Running
• Rowing/kayaking
Skills
Aim
• To inspire the development
of practical and social skills
and personal interests.
Use an existing activity or start something new
Ultimately there must be evidence that understanding
and expertise have increased in the chosen skill.
The skill section can be the continuation and
improvement of an existing skill or a brand new one.
Activities can be undertaken on either an individual or
group basis but cannot be participating in a sport.
Skills categories
• Creative arts
• Performance arts
• Science and
technology
• Care of animals
• Music
• TAG
• Photography
• Life skills
• Learning and collecting
• Media and communication
• Natural world
• Games and sports
officiating (not playing)
• Archery (but not shooting!)
• Cookery Skills
Mana Komatsu & Toby Webb
our new Young Ambassadors
Woking High School
Activities
Participants must spend at least 3 months on two of
the sections and at least 6 months on the remaining
section and must show that they have committed at
least one hour a week for the duration.
For example:
3 months volunteering at the Woking Oxfam shop,
every Saturday for 4 hours.
3 months playing football with a club (physical),
every Sunday for 2 hours.
6 months of wind band practice (skill),
every Wednesday for 2 hours.
Sections
• All sections must be completed in the
participants own time – they cannot be part of
the school day but can be an extra curricular
activity. For example rugby club, helping with
an after school club, cookery club, Windband.
Expedition
Aim
• Plan, train for and complete
an adventurous journey as
part of a team.
• Cover approximately 30 km
over 2 days carrying all
equipment in a rucksac.
• Be entirely self reliant,
including cooking, camping
and walking.
Expedition
• Participants are
expected to have
completed at least 2
of the other sections
before they can go on
expedition.
Benefits
• Gain an appreciation of and respect for the outdoor environment.
• Learn the value of sharing responsibility for success.
• Become more self-reliant.
• Become more able to overcome challenges.
• Recognise the needs and strengths of others.
• Improve decision-making skills and the ability to accept consequences.
• Learn to manage risk.
• Learn through experience.
The expedition process
Training –
starts in January
Qualifying Expedition
in July
Assessment
Practice Expedition
in June
• As well as after school
training sessions, we will
also run a half day navigation
training session on a Saturday
in the Spring, and a Day 11
activity when we will practice
cooking and putting up tents.
The expedition process
Expedition Details
• The Practice Expedition will take place on
Thursday 20th & Friday 21st June in the Surrey
hills around Peaslake and Leith Hill.
• The Assessed Expedition will take place on
Thursday 11th and Friday 12th July on
Cranborne Chase in Wiltshire & Dorset.
Timescales for qualifying expeditions
Level Duration Minimum hours of planned
activity each day
Bronze 2 days and
1 night
At least 6 hours activity, distances
are between 15 and 20km on day
one and 10 to 15km on day two.
Expedition Requirements
•Participants will be expected to attend training
sessions every week from January 2018 until
the expeditions have been completed.
•Participants will be provided with an electronic
expedition information hand book containing a
kit list for the expeditions.
•Participants will be expected to be fit enough to
undertake the expedition, 15/20km walk each
day, whilst carrying their rucksack.
•During the walk participants must be
unaccompanied. There will, however, be staff at
regular checkpoints ensuring their welfare.
Expedition Requirements
•Participants will need to be in groups of
between 4 and 7 for all of the training sessions
and for both of the expeditions.
•WHS has a small supply of tents, rucksacks
and bedding rolls that we lend on a first come,
first served basis. (subject to a returnable
deposit)
• Tents sleep 2 to 4 students.
•Participants will need to supply their own
clothing, boots, sleeping bag and food for both
days.
Cost
£130 in total to be paid with
the enrolment form. (£50 if PP)
This covers the cost of enrolment with
DofE and both expeditions, including all
staffing, camping fees and transport to
and from the final expedition.
Edofe https://www.dofe.org/doing-your-
dofe
Note to Parents
• A DofE guiding principle is that young people take
responsibility for choosing their own programme,
but you can still offer them your support and
guidance to help them through their programme.
• It’s personal... Help ensure that the activity
choices they find are exciting, but realistic for your
budget, transport and local facilities.
Get the evidence. Remind him or her to keep
gathering their evidence, e.g. photographs/
certificates, and uploading it to eDofE.
Help find an Assessor... Every participant needs to
find an Assessor to sign off each DofE section. The
Assessor can be anyone who knows about or
organises the activity. It might be the gym or sports
instructor, art teacher, club or volunteering event
organiser and so on. It cannot be a family member..
What can you do to help?
Prove it. As their programme comes to an
end you can remind them to make sure
their Assessors write their reports so that
they can complete the section.
Use it. Ensure they include their DofE
involvement and achievements in their CV
or personal statement.
What can you do to help?
What Next ?
Please ensure that you have signed the
register at the back of the hall.
Please return:
• Enrolment Form
• Consent Slip
• Combined Programme Planner
• Payment
By Friday 23rd November 2018.
Any questions?