What is The Duke of Edinburgh Award?

The Duke Of Edinburgh’s Award ( or more commonly “DofE”)  is the world’s leading youth achievement award, giving young people the opportunity to be the very best they can be. The DofE is a fun challenge and an adventure.
We offer the DofE Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. Students from years 9 to 13 volunteer to take on the challenges posed by the different aspects of this award.
 Participants will gain new skills, push themselves physically and help others. It builds young peoples confidence in themselves and each other and it gives them the opportunity to develop life-skills such as team work, organisation, self-reliance and inter-personal skills through the sections of the award.
Students achieve the award by completing a personal programme of activities broken down into four sections:
  • Volunteering: undertaking service to 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 in the UK or abroad.
For the Gold award, students must complete five sections, with the additional activity being a residential. The residential requires students to complete a shared activity by working and staying away from home.
Our bronze expedition takes place at Emilys cut campsite, Tilton on the hill, Leicester and Silver expedition takes place in the peak district.
More details about the DofE can be found here https://www.dofe.org/
or by emailing the DofE manager: spinel@st-pauls.leicester.sch.uk

A Fantastic Adventure!