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Documentation!

Published by Mr.Kiernan April 9th, 2008 in Bronze award and Silver award. 0 Comments

Get those parental consent forms in.

Time is of the essence!

Important meeting for Bronze group.

Published by Mr.Kiernan March 19th, 2008 in Bronze award, Duke of Edinburgh Award and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Please make sure you attend an important meeting in Mr Kidd’s room at breaktime on Wednesday 9th April.

You must attend!!

Expedition paperwork

Published by Mr.Kiernan March 19th, 2008 in Bronze award, Duke of Edinburgh Award and Silver award. 0 Comments

Please see Mr Kiernan asap to collect important paperwork. This letter will give the dates and times for our Silver and Bronze expeditions as well as the all important parental consent form (tells us about any medical concerns you have, emergency contacts, etc)

Expedition training

Published by Mr.Kiernan February 1st, 2008 in Bronze award and Duke of Edinburgh Award. 0 Comments

It was SUPERB to see so many of you at our first exped training session. It fair cheered us teachers up. Now comes the fun part; getting you lot up to speed and able to find your way to the campsite!! From what we’ve seen so far, this should be a walk in the park.

Here are the dates for the Expedition training.

These are really really important.

23^rd January	Navigation - Preparatory map skills Compasses and direction
30^th January	Navigation - Practical map skills, Map symbols, Scale distance, Contours, Timings
6^th February	Compass skills
20^thFebruary	Hygiene, Tents and Campcraft : Pitching a tent
5^th March	Cooking- Trangia stoves, Food and nutrition- preparing menus
12^th March	Equipment - Packing your bag.- More complicated than it sounds!!
9^th April	Expedition Reports - How to write an expedition report (ie what to look for and be interested in the outdoors

Start straight after school in Lab 10 (Mr Kiernan’s room)

Basic First Aid is also really important and will be covered but dates have to be confirmed when our volunteer Paramedic is available.

See you all in Lab 10.

Now we are up and running!!

Published by Mr.Kiernan February 1st, 2008 in Bronze award. 0 Comments

We are up and running with this exciting development at PL, and you will hopefully now have thought about what you want to do for the 3 sections of the award.

If not, speak to your staff mentor and they will help you decide.

We also have a list of service opportunities if you are stuck for this section of the award.

Stuck for ideas for skills, check out the following link. It tells you what you need to do for each skill. Chose from the drop down menu in the top right hand side.

http://www.theaward.org/participants/index.php?ids=48,120&id=54