Key Information for Bronze and Silver 2024/25
Duke of Edinburgh Award Registration:
BRONZE: You can sign up here.
SILVER: You can sign up here. (Deadline extended to 18 October 2024.)
Dates for Bronze
Parental drop-off for all expeditions
Training Day: – Saturday 1 March, 9am – 3pm in school.
Practice Expedition: – 10am Saturday 29 March – 3pm Sunday 30 March 2025.
Start Location: Nowton Park IP29 5LP (to be confirmed.)
Finish Location: Hartest Village Green IP29 4DH (to be confirmed.)
Qualifying Expedition: – 10am Saturday 31 May – 3pm Sunday 1 June 2025.
Start Location: Thetford Forest (to be confirmed.)
Finish Location: Spruce Covert Car Park IP27 0SS (to be confirmed.)
Dates for Silver
Training Day: – Saturday 22 March, 9am – 3pm in school.
Practice Expedition: – Parental drop off/collect from the start and finish locations.
10am Friday 9 May – 3pm Sunday 11 May 2024.
Start Location: South Suffolk (to be confirmed.)
Finish Location: South Suffolk (to be confirmed.)
Qualifying Expedition: Parental drop-off at school. Travel by coach to and from location
10am Friday 4 July – 3pm Sunday 6 July 2025.
Start Location: To be confirmed.
Finish Location: To be confirmed.
Payment
Bronze:
£33.50 non-refundable deposit – King Edward VI School via ParentPay by 18 October 2024.
£195.00 to BXM. BXM will be in touch with an invoice by email in November 2024.
Total cost: £228.50
Silver:
£50.00 non-refundable deposit – King Edward VI School via ParentPay by 11 October 2024. (Deadline extended to 18 October 2024.)
£146.00 first instalment – King Edward VI School via ParentPay by Friday 17 January 2025.
£146.00 second instalment – King Edward VI School via ParentPay by Friday 25 April 2025.
Total cost: £342.00
Funding
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award offers the Resilience Fund designed to offer young people support to access the award. Details of the Resilience Fund can be found here.
BXM Outdoors
We have a long-standing relationship with BXM Outdoors who have a team of qualified outdoors instructors who lead our expeditions.
Evidencing activity
While participating in their activity evidence is required to show participation. This can be done by keeping a diary of what you’ve been doing, taking photos and uploading them on the DofE app, and then the main way, is by keeping an activity log. The activity log is an essential way of demonstrating participation. These can be found here:
Submitting an assessor’s report
An assessor’s report is required for the volunteering, physical and skills components when a young person has completed their required length of activity. This can be done in a few different ways. See here:
Different ways to submit an Assessor’s Report – DofE (edofe.org)
Looking for inspiration for activity ideas?
If you are not sure what you can do for your volunteering, physical or skills sections, try here on the DofE website!
Parents information Teams meeting recording
If you were unable to attend the parents’ information Teams meeting regarding both the Bronze and Silver awards (for year 9 & 10 students respectively) on Thursday 26 September, you can watch back here. Mr Hepper presented the set up of DofE in the first half, while Ben Maxfield from BXM Outdoors gave further information about the training days and expeditions in the summer.
