Duke Of Edinburgh Award Networking. December 12, 2006
Posted by Bill in : Duke of Edinburgh Awards, Outdoor Education, Users Group Meeting , 5commentsRecently one or two schools have been asking us for advice on running D of E Awards. I am quite keen to get a meeting 
set up (potentially at Outdoor Education users group meeting Wed. 14th March 2007) with all the staff in schools who are involved in the award as I feel most of the expertise in running awards is within the Secondary Schools although there are stand alone community based groups. I think a meeting could have several benefits:
- Let aspiring D of E leaders see what others are doing and encourage them to run awards
- Let current leaders share ideas i.e.share current exped planning and routes
- Develop new ideas for running expeditions
- Develop partnerships for running awards i.e. more trainers, assessors.
- Share good practice
- Celebrate success
I will contact all the staff I know who are involved in awards to see if they would attend. I also mentioned this in our new winter newsletter which is available at www.eloe.ik.org (click on noticeboard). Look forward to hearing peoples thoughts on this. I will email all I know involved and perhaps people could leave comments on this blog so I can track interest.
