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Urmston Grammar School

Silver Award Group

Please sign in (student name) and take a booklet and form

• 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. Silver

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

• vernight 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

March 20th Checking up on eDofE progress. Introduction to the expedition. March 27th Map reading skills introduction/refresher. Easter April 17th Map reading advanced skills. Compass use. April 24th

(venue TBC)

Campcraft- How to put up a tent- and Cooking in the

• utdoors -demonstration and meal planning for the

expeditions. May 1st (TBC-

Exam Week)

Expedition preparation: How to pack a bag and what to

• take. Countryside Code and Safety

May 8th Expedition First Aid May 15th Route planning for practice expedition May 22nd Final route-planning for practice expedition

All sessions Tuesday 1.10-2pm in Conference Room unless stated

2018 Training Programme cont.

June 5th Route-planning for Assessed Expedition June 12th

(room TBC)

+ 3.20pm (S4)

Route-planning for assessed expedition (+ lunchtimes/cope time ALL WEEK as necessary) Issue of Tents, Trangias, fuel bottles, 1st aid kits (and rucksacks). June 15th-17th PRACTICE EXPEDITION – HAWES AND DENT June 19th Practice Expedition debrief. What have we learned? Improving map-reading skills and campcraft. Arrangements for Assessed Expedition Final route planning and checking. June 26th Exam Week July 3rd All final maps and route cards must be handed in this week Mon 9th-Wed 11th July ASSESSED EXPEDITION – LAKE DISTRICT

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 15th -17th

• 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 9th – 11th

• 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

• ur list
• No equipment to be brought and left at
• ffice/ 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

Further information can be found in the Bitesize guide included in your pack

eDofE – the best option