HRH The Earl of Wessex recently spent time with young people, teachers and volunteers who are involved in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) during a visit to Cobham Hall. The visit was planned to thank local schools and organisations who run the DofE for their young people and showcase how doing the DofE could benefit more young people, schools, business and youth organisations in the area who are...
Duke of Edinburgh Award
An award scheme pioneered by a teacher at Gordonstoun has "come home" to the Moray-based school. The Junior Duke Awards are the brainchild of a teacher from Glasgow, who felt that there should be a junior version of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to encourage primary-aged children to learn life skills. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award was inspired by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip’s...
Silver DofE achievers January 2020 Over forty students at King’s Ely have been presented with Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award badges. King’s Ely’s latest Silver award achievers are: Thomas Biggs, Benjamin Biggs, Oscar Hills, Oliver Johnson, Thomas Kim, Matthew Larmour, Jennifer Liu, Alexander Scarborough, Molly van Poortvliet, Eleanor Wallace, Molly Whymark and Natalie...
The Wycliffe DofE Gold award winners at Buckingham Palace with Marvin Humes from JLS Six Wycliffe College pupils recently visited Buckingham Palace to collect their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards. Tillie Graham, Iona Lundie, Isla Green, Lowri Clarke, Emma Livingstone and Victoria Bogachenkova, all in Year 13, form part of the youngest and largest Wycliffe group ever to achieve this level. Each of...
Bishop’s Stortford College is celebrating another year of success as the annual Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme statistics are published. A total of 152 enrolments, resulting in 125 Awards, 16 of which were Gold, places the College as one of the top independent schools for DofE in 2018-19 in the county. With the highest number of DofE enrolments in Hertfordshire and an average completion rate, over...
Four King’s Ely Sixth Form students are celebrating completing their Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award. Aeyesha Cundy, Lucy Darby, John-Paul Gilbey and Samuel Wege each undertook an extensive 12-month programme of volunteering, physical and skill activities, and completed a four-day expedition in the Brecon Beacons in South Wales in order to achieve their Gold DofE Award status. All four...
A Sixth Form pupil at Rydal Penrhos has successfully completed the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. Head Boy Nick Fiorita managed to secure the distinction under the guidance of programme co-ordinator Dr Jim Lewis to ensure he adds his name to the long list of success stories emanating from Rydal Penrhos. In order to achieve the award, he took part in expeditions under testing conditions along with...
Bishop’s Stortford College’s Duke of Edinburgh achievement rate has exceeded the regional average. The college’s rate of 88% is higher than the regional rate of 57%, with 120 pupils having earned Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards in 17/18, 21 more than the previous year. Peter Singleton, the director of the South East region, wrote to the school to congratulate the college on its DofE...
Seventeen pupils from Felsted School recently collected their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award at Buckingham Palace. Students heard from Simon Gillespie, CEO of the British Heart Foundation, before the awards ceremony, who discussed his journey into the charity sector. HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Wessex, then spoke to them about their volunteering and presented them with their awards. A total of 32...
Seven former pupils and one current student from King Edward’s Witley travelled to Buckingham Palace recently to receive their Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Gold Award. Megan Lewis, Matilda Moss, Charlie Howard, Will Kriehn, Alex Dean, Jonathan Bell and Ed Kernick attended the event, along with current sixth former Theo Negus. They discussed their experiences with the Earl of Wessex, before receiving...
A Sixth Form pupil at Rydal Penrhos visited Buckingham Palace to collect her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award last week. Jenny Johnson joined other candidates at a ceremony on Thursday, just days before the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. She received her certificate from rugby star Johnathan Davies and met Princess Anne at the garden ceremony. Jenny said: “It was beyond...
Bishop’s Stortford College has been named as one of the best Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) centres in Hertfordshire. The college has the highest completion rate, number of awards and enrolments of any independent school in the Broxbourne, East Herts and Welwyn/Hatfield quadrant. This follows the news that 23 pupils from the college have been invited to Buckingham Palace to receive their Gold Awards next...
HRH the Earl of Wessex has visited Clifton College as part of a campaign to support the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) Charity. During his visit he met with head teachers and DofE managers based in Bristol, as well as students currently participating in the Gold programme. Students from the college and the University of Bristol then joined him in a game of “real tennis” on the same court he...