Expanding delivery
Stratford Upon Avon School, Warwickshire, has enlisted the support of an Approved Activity Provider to enable it to offer Gold programmes to its post-16 students. The Bronze and Silver programmes are delivered in-house and are hugely popular but, with no Mountain Leader qualified staff, the school had to outsource in order to offer the Gold Award.
The use of an AAP has proved to be a highly successful model for the school. The school has seen a 433% increase in Gold Award starts and they believe that their excellent relationship with their AAP has supported its growth and success.
Their DofE Manager said “We now have 16 students from our sixth form about to embark on their Gold expedition training. This will involve two full onsite training days, one offsite training day in Wales and two expeditions in April and July 2019.”
The AAP has worked closely with the school to design a bespoke package to meet their needs perfectly and to bridge the gaps the school has in specialist knowledge and training. Students at the school are now able to engage with all three levels of the DofE, something that would not be possible without using an AAP.
Internally the school has also restructured its staff, splitting the levels amongst two different staff teams, one concentrating on Bronze and the other on Silver, Gold and their alternative curriculum group. This has helped to spread the workload and ensure that their growth is sustainable.
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Using an AAP to deliver the Gold expeditions to the students who had completed their Silver with us, enabled them to stay together as a team. It is likely that otherwise they wouldn’t all have started their Gold, and we would not have been able to enrol our first Gold participants for about a decade.” ADRIAN WHITEHOUSE , THE RAWLETT SCHOOL
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