Duke of Edinburgh (D of E)

Each year most Fourth Form (Year 10) students undertake the challenges incorporated in the bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. This scheme extends to silver and gold level, the latter reached by up to ten Worksop leavers from the Upper Sixth (Year 13) each year.

Made up of four key components: Volunteering (or community service, as we call it), physical, skills and the all-important expedition, the programme is both rewarding and memorable. There is also nothing like the bond created over an ordnance survey map and a camp fire to cement friendships for life. Indeed, many are the former students who have gone on to serve others, develop a love for outward bound expeditions, or both, as a result of their experiences of ‘D of E’ whilst at Worksop. The very demanding gold expedition is completed by some volunteers as part of a major overseas expedition such as that to Chile in 2008, but it equally it can be completed in the UK, usually in the Peak District.

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