Doing your Bronze DofE Takes time and commitment. Involves you in a lot of

activities outside of classroom time.

Improves your fitness. Helps you learn new skills. Helps others in the

community. Will cost money. Gains a widely recognised

award.

While doing your Bronze DofE you will become involved in different activities: Volunteering Learning a Skill Taking part in a

Physical Activity Training in navigation

and camp craft Undertaking overnight

expeditions

You will take personal responsibility for arranging the following activities  Bronze  

Volunteering

Physical Skill

3 months 3 months 3 months

All participants must undertake a further 3 months in the Volunteering, Physical or Skills sections.

To prepare you for your practice expedition in May you will undertake navigation and camp craft training

This will take place after school on one night each week from January to May.

Each session will last 1½ hours.

Your Qualifying Expedition will take place in October 2014 You will go on an unsupervised, one night

expedition with your team. An assessor will check on your progress at

various points on the expedition. You will also carry out an expedition project. After completion your team will make a

presentation on all that you have done to complete your Bronze DofE Award.

Your eDofE Account You will record your activities progress

online on eDofE. You will be trained in how to do this. You will also arrange for your

Volunteering, Physical and Skills activities to be assessed and your Assessors’ Reports will be entered in your eDofE account.

Before we enrol you to do your Bronze DofE with Hyndland Secondary, we would like you to understand the level of your commitment by arranging your Volunteering Physical and Skills activities.The planning form that you take away today should be completed and returned with your enrolment form by a time to be announced.

Name and Tutor Class: (your form will also include sections for Physical and Skills Activities)Volunteering: Helping people; Community Action and

Awareness; Coaching Teaching and Leadership; Working with

the Environment or animals; Helping a Charity or Community Organisation.Timescale (3 or 6 months)  Start date  Type of activity (from list above)

 

Details of what you will actually do for your activity

 

Where are you going to do it?

 

What are your goals? What do you want to achieve?

  

Who is going to support & assess you?

 

What is your assessor’s position? 

 

Status: (what makes this person eliglble to assess your activity?)

 

A message to Parents and CarersWe hope that this presentation will give you an idea of the commitment that your sons and daughters will be making, over and above their school work and other activities, when they undertake the Bronze DofE Award.

Staff in Hyndland Secondary offer substantial training and support to help participants through their Bronze DofE Award, however participants must also assume personal responsibility by attending training, undertaking and keeping a log of activities and obtaining Assessor’s Reports.

We would urge you to log on to www.DofE.org for a full overview of what is involved in the Bronze DofE Award, in order to have an informed discussion with your son or daughter before they enrol.

Carrying out a DofE Award Costs MoneyWe would like you to be aware of the costs involved when your son or daughter undertakes their Bronze DofE Award with Hyndland Secondary.

Once calculations of costs are completed. The cost to you will be based on the final overall cost divided by the number of pupils taking part. Therefore, when your son or daughter enrols, you are also being asked to honour your commitment to pay for their participation.

You can expect the cost at Bronze level to be approximately £200.00 plus the cost of purchasing personal kit, food etc. for expeditions.

Hyndland Secondary subsidises the administrative and staffing costs incurred in running the DofE programme and negotiates the best price with outdoor providers.