Challenges and Developing Skills

• washing up
• gardening
• putting the shopping away
• sending a letter to elderly relatives
• helping a younger sibling

Let Mr Bevitt-Smith know what you have been up to in order to receive points!

• getting smiley faces in lessons
• receiving the 5P awards for outstanding work
• Headmasters commendations

There are many ways of tracking your activity when out and about (Strava is the easiest). Choose a way of tracking your total distance travelled (walk, cycled, run) each week, screen shot it and email it to Mr Bevitt-Smith.

Your total distance will be added to your league total.

The league mascots have been around for a long time...is it time for them to have a re-design?
Send your best designs in for your League.

View the weekly competitions tab above - enter - and win points for your League! How easy is that!

Every two weeks we look at the running totals of the Summer Term League competition. Make sure you are getting credit for the hard work you are doing at home in order to receive your league points!

Education for Social Responsibility (ESR) is a framework for school development in the taught curriculum, extra and co-curricular activity and resource management. We embrace the 6 elements of ESR: Well-Being, Rights, Responsibilities, Intelligent Behaviours, Knowledge and Opportunities. As a result students will become more effective and compassionate individuals, prepared for the challenges beyond their time at school. Through the ESR framework, the school community as a whole will seek to become more sustainable.

Putting Social Responsibility at the heart of our thinking and doing (PSHCE, ESR days, 5p awards)

I played a major role in the Year 8 Leadership weekend where I got to .....

I have contributed positively towards the Year 7 Leadership afternoon and learnt ....

I have gone the extra mile in my research during and in completing a Geography, History or Religious Studies ICT based project which meant that ....

 

Learning respect for the environment in which we live (School garden, Science projects, travelling by public transport)

I have visited Chatham Green and learnt more about the importance of looking after the environment. As a result .....

I have been an active member of the Green Team within school and have learned ....

I have produced a piece of work on global warming and had it displayed at school which was ....

Challenging ourselves in whichever area we are working in by getting out of our comfort zone to learn and experience more (various trips, music, sport, artistic challenges)

I have pushed myself beyond my limits on the sports field and learned .....

I have contributed positively towards the Year 8 Leadership camp and took away .......

I have volunteered to go on an adventure holiday with the school/my scout group/during the holidays so I can ......

Learning about rights and duties and how to express one's views whilst also partaking in democratic processes (pupil voice, debating, positions of responsibility)

I have actively taken part in a democratic process that has led to change within or outside school amd learnt that .....

I have explained what democracy means to an audience which was .....

I have researched the origins of democracy and produced a piece of work explaining what I discovered which helped me .......

Learning tolerance and understanding and embracing the fact that we are all different. Learning to give to others (Charity days, MUN, Chapel)

I have followed up a PSHCE topic independently and produced a piece of work on it which means that ........

I have been involved in an International project (MUN for example) either within or outside school and got to ........

I played a major role in presenting to an audience a presentation based on the wider world which means ....

Learning to take responsibility for oneself, one's belongings and one's community (Food for Life, manners team, school positions)

I have been a responsible ‘buddy’ for a new pupil which helped ....

I have successfully held a position of responsibility within Courtauld House and learnt .....

I have been a ‘Fundamentals’ winner and realised that ....

Serving ourselves and the community, near and far
(local community projects, leading projects, sponsorship of others)

I have contributed towards the Mission Ascension Church by visiting it and spending time with the local users and parishioners which was .....

I have independently raised money for a good cause by actively doing something for the money and helped ......

I contributed positively towards Remembrance Day with the school/my scout group/my cadet group by ........

Once you have logged into the eDofE system you are instructed to select a password for yourself. Once this is done, only you know the password and it cannot be looked up by anyone else. You have the option on the log-in page to select the “forgot your password” button. This allows you to reset their password via an email sent to your school email. From this option, they just follow the on screen prompts.

All participants need to complete the “Planner Page” for each section. This is the area where you enter your chosen activity and must include the name of your Assessor and either a contact telephone number or email address. Without this information the page will be rejected and sent back to you for the missing information to be added.

Evidence is needed in order to support your activity and the achievements you have made during their time undertaking it. This is most easily accomplished by taking photographs and uploading them to the evidence section. These photos can be of yourself, of certificates which you have achieved or perhaps of the sign or building of the establishment where you may have been volunteering.

You should have been in at least one session of training about this and using the NEW DofE app for smartphones, which should also make the whole process even simpler. The phone will remember your log-in details and transferring photographs is even easier when it comes to your evidence. If you're not using the new app you can “add evidence”, select your chosen format for the evidence and “add”. You need to only add one piece at a time.

Lastly, Assessor reports are the final step to completing each section. DofE have recently tightened the Assessor report requirements and every report must either be hand written on to the relevant page of the participant’s assessor booklet, or as is the more likely at the present; emailed from the assessor, which gives the assessor validity or via the Assessor report area. www.dofe.org/assessor This requires your ID number which you should supply your assessor with.

To help you keep supporting participants, both now and when the lockdown ends, we’re introducing these temporary changes:

• Participants can now volunteer for family members, for example by mentoring or coaching younger siblings.
• Participants can now change section activities more than once. Time spent on previous activities will still count towards completion.
• DofE staff members may be able to act as Volunteering, Physical and Skills section Assessors, if required.
• When expeditions are able to resume, Silver and Gold Expedition Assessors will temporarily be allowed to be known to the expedition group.

To protect the value and integrity of DofE Awards, other requirements will remain the same. However, we’re continuing to look for ways we can be flexible to support you and young people at this time, and will update you if we introduce any further temporary changes.

These command tasks can be found in the pdf manual below and can be adapted for home use with your family or possibly on line with your friends.

1. Team Ski
2. Splish Splash
3. Island hopping
4. Shark infested custard
5. The magic carpet (suitable of indoors or online competition with friends)
6. The egg rocket
7. Observation - memory test (suitable for online with friends)
8. Observation - hidden treasures (suitable for online with friends)
9. Animal Farm - try not to look at the answers first or set it as a challenge to the family)
10. See no evil, hear no evil
     

Camouflage and ConcealmentMeasuring DistancesAmbushJudging DistancesLeadership Activities and Command Tasks

I hope that when we return from the lockdown that we will have time to complete a blank firing ‘Fire and Movement exercise’. As part of this exercise you will need to understand the concepts of working as a a pair and then as a fire team (two pairs working together).

When you are working as a team you may need to lay down covering fire or fire on an enemy. It may not always be possible to fire from the prone position. Below are some video clips which cover the basics of a good firing positions

(What are the 7 key points?)

And…

The firing positions that can be adopted

(What are these positions?, When should they be used?

Finding NorthFinding North During the Day and at NightUsing Scale and Calculating DistanceMeasuring DistanceRelief and Vertical Intervals WorksheetRelief and Vertical IntervalsContour LinesBearings