Duke of Edinburgh
Millfield Science & Performing Arts College currently offers the Duke of Edinburgh Award at Bronze level and will be introducing the Silver award in 2025. This prestigious qualification is offered to Years 9 and 10 – the students are trained for at least ten weeks before they go on their practice and qualifying expeditions.
We are proud to have a well-qualified and enthusiastic Duke of Edinburgh staff team; we have five Lancashire County approved instructors, six Lowland Leaders who are all First Aid trained in the outdoors and our own in-house Duke of Edinburgh assessors. We are also fortunate to have additional staff who voluntarily give up their time to support and train students in maps skills, camp craft and tent building.
Bronze Award – refer to the D of E website for further details
Students work towards the Bronze Award experience expeditions in the Beacon Fell area in Lancashire. They demonstrate their camp craft and tent building skills at Waddecar Scout camp.
Training
Duke of Edinburgh training is every Tuesday after the school day. Training includes First Aid, campcraft, expedition planning with route cards, the countryside code, eDofE updating and navigation skills such as orientating maps and giving grid references.
