The first DofE Silver Award Presentation Evening for Bolsover School students.
NEW YEAR – NEW CALENDAR
make it even easier for you find and share tips and ideas on how to make the DofE as successful in your school as possible. Now accessed directly through
DofE.org/schoolscalendar, the improved calendar contains a host of advice shared by other Leaders. It covers all areas of DofE delivery, to help you better structure your DofE activities to the academic year and maximise the resources you have available. From suggestions on how to keep participants engaged to ways of involving other members of staff and parents with your DofE activities – the calendar not only helps you spread the workload, but also build support for the DofE within your school and raise awareness of its positive impact on your pupils. Tips posted on the calendar are primarily mapped against school term dates and key events, but there may be advice that is relevant to all Licensed Organisations. So please customise the resource as you see fit for your DofE group.
L What’s new?
We’ve made the Schools’ Calendar easier to navigate by enabling you to filter your search by month, subject category or keyword (such as ‘expedition’) – narrowing down the results so that you can find specific tips.
DofE Magazine Issue 29: SPRING 2018
aunched in 2015, the Schools’ Calendar has been given a fresh new design and is packed with interactive features to
We understand that each school delivers the DofE differently and that you are busy people with busy lives. That’s why we’ve introduced some quick and simple ways for you to adapt the calendar to suit your schedule and workload, as well as set reminders, so that you never forget to complete a task again. For example, when you’ve found a tip you like, you can now add it to your personal online calendar – prompting you at just the right time in the year. You can also send a list of your favourite tips to your email address, which can then be printed and used at your convenience – helping you keep your school and support team up to date. We know there’s amazing work happening every day to support young people through their DofE programmes. Why not share these valuable experiences to help other Leaders across the network strengthen their DofE by submitting your tips directly to the calendar?
New Year checklist
The New Year is the perfect time to look at what can be changed or improved to help participants complete their DofE programmes. Here’s a taster of some of the top tips featured on the calendar, which can help get you started:
1. Ask form tutors to help encourage completions; highlight those students who still need to submit evidence.
2. The start of a new term is a great time to recruit volunteers. Use your regular staff communication channels (such as noticeboards in the staffroom, pigeon holes, email requests and so on) to promote opportunities.
3. Send a letter to parents whose children need to submit evidence and give guidance on how this can be done.
4. Use sectional certificates to help keep participants motivated, so that they can feel a sense of achievement for each step of their journey.
5. Advertise a list of all participants on your noticeboard to help your students to form their expedition groups. Or send them a letter to let them know what to do.
To find more tips and ideas on making the most of the DofE in your school, and to share your best advice, visit the Schools’ Calendar now. Please remember to let us know what you think:
communications@DofE.org.
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