Duke of Edinburgh Awards
On Wednesday 29 November we hosted an award evening for the cohort of students who were involved in last year’s Bronze Award scheme.
Parents and students were invited to join us so that we could say a big thank you to everyone. The students who completed the award were given their certificates and badges at the end of the evening as the photo shows.
Before that, we watched a video performance by Paula and heard from her about how the award had helped her achieve even more in music. Ariam spoke about her technical challenges as part of a team entry to a competition. Naomi spoke of the problems faced when choosing a skill which wasn’t strictly allowed, cooking at home under her mum’s overseeing eye and what I insisted on her doing in a bake off in school to validate everything. Mia talked about her physical skill and how having completed it had left her determined never to do that form of exercise again. We shall see.

Finally, we watched one of the videos from last year’s expedition, which was highly appropriate as many of the team in the video were in the hall.
Huge thanks to the parents for supporting the students through a long journey of learning and success.
Huge thanks to the students for persevering with the whole process and being continually nagged by me to get on with it.
And a BIG message to all those who have yet to finish. You also finish and get the reward of knowing you’ve been on a long journey.
Garry Doyland
DofE Coordinator