Urmston Grammar School Silver Award Group Please sign in (student name) and take a booklet and form
Silver • Volunteering section : 6 months • Physical and Skills sections: One section for 6 months and the other section for 3 months • Expedition section : 3 days/2 nights If you haven’t done Bronze, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.
What do the activities involve? • Voluntary work: - help the community, the environment…..work with the young or the old……. • Some ideas: • Charity shops • Old People’s Home • After schools clubs • St John’s Ambulance • BTCV • Brownies/cubs • Sports team coaching/refereeing
The Expedition • 3 days walking with 2 overnight camps
The Expedition Preparation: • Practice Expedition – campcraft and navigation skills training including 1 overnight bunkhouse stay, followed by 1 ½ days walking including overnight camp; Hawes and Dent • Training sessions in School
Training sessions • Tuesdays 1pm in the Conference Room • Compulsory • Navigation and map-reading • Expedition safety and first aid • Campcraft • Planning the route
2018 Training Programme All sessions Tuesday 1.10-2pm in Conference Room unless stated March 20 th Checking up on eDofE progress. Introduction to the expedition. March 27 th Map reading skills introduction/refresher. Easter April 17 th Map reading advanced skills. Compass use. April 24 th Campcraft- How to put up a tent- and Cooking in the (venue TBC) outdoors -demonstration and meal planning for the expeditions. May 1 st (TBC- Expedition preparation: How to pack a bag and what to Exam Week) take. Countryside Code and Safety May 8 th Expedition First Aid May 15 th Route planning for practice expedition May 22 nd Final route-planning for practice expedition
2018 Training Programme cont. June 5 th Route-planning for Assessed Expedition June 12 th Route-planning for assessed expedition (+ (room TBC) lunchtimes/cope time ALL WEEK as necessary) Issue of Tents, Trangias, fuel bottles, 1 st aid kits (and + 3.20pm (S4) rucksacks). PRACTICE EXPEDITION – HAWES AND DENT June 15th-17th June 19 th Practice Expedition debrief. What have we learned? Improving map-reading skills and campcraft. Arrangements for Assessed Expedition Final route planning and checking. June 26 th Exam Week July 3 rd All final maps and route cards must be handed in this week ASSESSED EXPEDITION – LAKE DISTRICT Mon 9 th -Wed 11 th July
Equipment • We provide everything except: • Footwear • Waterproofs • Sleeping mat • Spare clothes • Expedition food • Utensils (cutlery, plate, bowel, mug) • Cleaning sponge, tea towel, bin bag • Rucksack?
Food and Camping • Students will be cooking on trangia stoves • Dry pasta and sauce, bacon and sausage, breadrolls, fruit, sweets, chocolate biscuits, sandwiches, tea bag, dried milk, water • No Pot Noodles! • No tins • A tidy camp please
Safety • Roads, railways, rivers • Getting lifts • Mobile phones and emergency numbers • Checkpoints and staffing • Walking as a team • Getting lost • Training
Arrangements for the Practice Expedition June 15 th -17 th • will take place in the Hawes and Dent area of South Cumbria. • leaving school (Moorside Road) at 1.30pm on Friday & travelling to Hawes (Wensleydale) by coach. • Friday afternoon/evening; training walk in Hawes area (including tea at the chip shop) followed by final route planning for day 2 and 3
Arrangements for the Practice Expedition Day 2 • Saturday; walk approx 14 miles to campsite at Dent with full pack. • Cook breakfast on trangia stoves on Saturday morning in bunkhouse grounds and dinner at campsite in evening
Arrangements for the Practice Expedition Day 3 • Sunday; circular walk in morning • Cook breakfast in camp. Bring food for packed lunch. • Students will need to be picked up at around 12.30 - 2pm from High Laning campsite in Dent on the Sunday. • The journey time to Dentdale/Sedburgh is around 1 hour 15 minutes.
Assessed expedition – July 9 th – 11 th • Windermere area • Travel by coach on Monday morning • Return to school by coach Wednesday afternoon, arriving approx. 5pm
Kit Return: Tues July 17th • Return of rucksacks, trangias, tents, first aid kits, fuel bottles, maps, whistles and compasses • All equipment must be brought at 1pm to the conference room to be checked off our list • No equipment to be brought and left at office/ outside staffroom/ in form rooms/ handed to other staff • Tents must be completely dry & complete • Trangias must be clean & complete
Presentations • September – Presentations in the theatre • After the final expedition all groups must put together a presentation on their expedition. • The presentation should have a focus eg fauna and flora, field boundaries or land use! • All group members to be involved
eDofE • All students have been given their username and login for the eDofE website. • Should have already completed some of the sections
Assessors reports • Logbook
eDofE – the best option Further information can be found in the Bitesize guide included in your pack
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