•Woking High School

Staff Mrs Smith

Mr Beeson

Ms Bourne

Dr Downie

Dr Ashton

Mr Dixon

Ms Hicken

Ms Dixon

Woking High School

The DofE is…

The DofE programme is an award for young people

aged between 14 and 24.

The DofE programme can be done at three levels:

• Bronze from year 9

• Silver from year 10

• Gold at college or university

The DofE is…

The Award is achieved by completing four sections:

Volunteering: for 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.

Choosing your activities

There is a massive choice of activities that count

towards DofE programmes. Participants can select

practically any activity they want – as long as it’s

legal and morally acceptable.

• Participants need to choose activities that they are

going to enjoy.

• Activities could be something that they are already

doing or perhaps one they have always wanted to

try.

• https://www.dofe.org/doing-your-dofe/activities-

sections/

Volunteering

Aim

• To make a difference within

the community or to an

individual’s life and

develop compassion

by giving time to

others. This should

be for a charity or not

for profit organisation.

Volunteering categories

• Helping people, ie Peer Mentoring/Library

• Community action and raising awareness

• Coaching, teaching and leadership

• Working with the environment or animals

• Helping a charity or community organisation

Volunteering categories

Local organisations looking for volunteers:

1st Chobham Scouts Princess Christian Care Centre

Woking Library Tovertafel (Magic Table)”

4th Horsell Guides

Goldsworth Park Rangers FC

Barnsbury School PTA

Brooklands Museum Raising money for a charity

Woking Oxfam Shop Riding for the disabled

Woking Athletics Club Woking Lions

Horsell Rescue Donkeys

8th Woking Brownies

Woking Cougars Football Team

Brock Hill Sheltered Accommodation

Physical

Aim

• To achieve greater physical

fitness and a healthy lifestyle

through participation in

physical activity.

What is a physical activity?

In short, anything that requires a sustained level of

physical energy and involves doing an activity.

They are free to do this section independently or as

part of a team.

It must take place outside of school time but can be

an after school club.

Physical categories

• Team sports

• Individual sports

• Water sports

• Racquet sports

• Archery (but not

shooting!)

• Climbing

• Dance

• Fitness

• Extreme sports

• Martial arts

• Cycling

• Running

• Rowing/kayaking

Skills

Aim

• To inspire the development

of practical and social skills

and personal interests.

Use an existing activity or start something new

Ultimately there must be evidence that understanding

and expertise have increased in the chosen skill.

The skill section can be the continuation and

improvement of an existing skill or a brand new one.

Activities can be undertaken on either an individual or

group basis but cannot be participating in a sport.

Skills categories

• Creative arts

• Performance arts

• Science and

technology

• Care of animals

• Music

• TAG

• Photography

• Life skills

• Learning and collecting

• Media and communication

• Natural world

• Games and sports

officiating (not playing)

• Archery (but not shooting!)

• Cookery Skills

Mana Komatsu & Toby Webb

our new Young Ambassadors

Woking High School

Activities

Participants must spend at least 3 months on two of

the sections and at least 6 months on the remaining

section and must show that they have committed at

least one hour a week for the duration.

For example:

3 months volunteering at the Woking Oxfam shop,

every Saturday for 4 hours.

3 months playing football with a club (physical),

every Sunday for 2 hours.

6 months of wind band practice (skill),

every Wednesday for 2 hours.

Sections

• All sections must be completed in the

participants own time – they cannot be part of

the school day but can be an extra curricular

activity. For example rugby club, helping with

an after school club, cookery club, Windband.

Expedition

Aim

• Plan, train for and complete

an adventurous journey as

part of a team.

• Cover approximately 30 km

over 2 days carrying all

equipment in a rucksac.

• Be entirely self reliant,

including cooking, camping

and walking.

Expedition

• Participants are

expected to have

completed at least 2

of the other sections

before they can go on

expedition.

Benefits

• Gain an appreciation of and respect for the outdoor environment.

• Learn the value of sharing responsibility for success.

• Become more self-reliant.

• Become more able to overcome challenges.

• Recognise the needs and strengths of others.

• Improve decision-making skills and the ability to accept consequences.

• Learn to manage risk.

• Learn through experience.

The expedition process

Training –

starts in January

Qualifying Expedition

in July

Assessment

Practice Expedition

in June

• As well as after school

training sessions, we will

also run a half day navigation

training session on a Saturday

in the Spring, and a Day 11

activity when we will practice

cooking and putting up tents.

The expedition process

Expedition Details

• The Practice Expedition will take place on

Thursday 20th & Friday 21st June in the Surrey

hills around Peaslake and Leith Hill.

• The Assessed Expedition will take place on

Thursday 11th and Friday 12th July on

Cranborne Chase in Wiltshire & Dorset.

Timescales for qualifying expeditions

Level Duration Minimum hours of planned

activity each day

Bronze 2 days and

1 night

At least 6 hours activity, distances

are between 15 and 20km on day

one and 10 to 15km on day two.

Expedition Requirements

•Participants will be expected to attend training

sessions every week from January 2018 until

the expeditions have been completed.

•Participants will be provided with an electronic

expedition information hand book containing a

kit list for the expeditions.

•Participants will be expected to be fit enough to

undertake the expedition, 15/20km walk each

day, whilst carrying their rucksack.

•During the walk participants must be

unaccompanied. There will, however, be staff at

regular checkpoints ensuring their welfare.

Expedition Requirements

•Participants will need to be in groups of

between 4 and 7 for all of the training sessions

and for both of the expeditions.

•WHS has a small supply of tents, rucksacks

and bedding rolls that we lend on a first come,

first served basis. (subject to a returnable

deposit)

• Tents sleep 2 to 4 students.

•Participants will need to supply their own

clothing, boots, sleeping bag and food for both

days.

Cost

£130 in total to be paid with

the enrolment form. (£50 if PP)

This covers the cost of enrolment with

DofE and both expeditions, including all

staffing, camping fees and transport to

and from the final expedition.

Edofe https://www.dofe.org/doing-your-

dofe

Note to Parents

• A DofE guiding principle is that young people take

responsibility for choosing their own programme,

but you can still offer them your support and

guidance to help them through their programme.

• It’s personal... Help ensure that the activity

choices they find are exciting, but realistic for your

budget, transport and local facilities.

Get the evidence. Remind him or her to keep

gathering their evidence, e.g. photographs/

certificates, and uploading it to eDofE.

Help find an Assessor... Every participant needs to

find an Assessor to sign off each DofE section. The

Assessor can be anyone who knows about or

organises the activity. It might be the gym or sports

instructor, art teacher, club or volunteering event

organiser and so on. It cannot be a family member..

What can you do to help?

Prove it. As their programme comes to an

end you can remind them to make sure

their Assessors write their reports so that

they can complete the section.

Use it. Ensure they include their DofE

involvement and achievements in their CV

or personal statement.

What can you do to help?

What Next ?

Please ensure that you have signed the

register at the back of the hall.

Please return:

• Enrolment Form

• Consent Slip

• Combined Programme Planner

• Payment

By Friday 23rd November 2018.

Any questions?