Chigwell participates with great enthusiasm to in The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme all the way up to the Gold Award level! Every year, from the LV to the MVI, pupils are involved at different stages. Some find it very challenging to sustain commitments to the various components of the scheme, however, most of them manage very well! The Scheme requires pupils to prove a good level of self-motivation by taking the lead and organizing community service programmes, physical and skills activities. Advice is given by staff, but essentially pupils follow their own interests and often training and expeditions take them far away from Chigwell. Teachers are also required to rigorously keep up their training skills and last year Mrs Richardsons, Messrs Earldy and Londsdale have been practising their night navigation skills in the Brecon Beacons.
The DoE scheme has become such an integral component of the School’s life that the expeditions dates now feature in the School Calendar.
During the 2004 Summer Term there has been a DoE Bronze Expedition in Essex, a Silver in the Yorkshire Dales and a Gold in Snowdonia.

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