duke of edinburgh | Studley High School

This weekend, our Year 10 DofE bronze pupils completed their practice expedition.

They completed approximately 8 miles of walking each day, within their groups – navigating independently between Bretforton and Pershore.

The weather was bright which was reflected in everyone’s mood! Everyone did extremely well and developed their skill set in preparation for the qualifying expedition in November.

A special thank to our former pupils (who completed their Gold DofE award with us!) and all of the staff who gave up their time this weekend. Furthermore, thank you to all of the parents that ferried students backwards and forwards at the beginning and end of each day. It was a real Team Studley effort.

Studley High School has been awarded the Duke of Edinburgh Licensed Organisation certificate after successfully applying to the scheme. After a restructuring of the DofE organisation, school are now able to run their own scheme, which will lead to quicker certification and allows us more autonomy with how the course is designed.

As a school, our DofE is run through Venture Outdoors and James Vann. We have 30 Year 9 students completing the Bronze Award and 8 Year 10 students completing the Silver Awards.

The DofE award challenges pupils to achieve 4 key areas: Volunteering in the local community; Learning a new skill; Getting involved in physical activity and performing an expedition where they create their own route and carry the equipment they need to camp overnight and cook their own food.