Guide for Bronze Award Participants with Web Links

Guide for Bronze Award Participants Summary of Conditions

This summary of conditions is your quick at-a-glance guide to completeing your Award. For each level, it indicates the duration of time which must be spent on each sections. If you have any questions, please contact your Division oce which can be found on page 18. Click here to Welcome to your Award challenge download the summary of conditions.

PHYSICAL ADVENTUROUS RESIDENTIAL Award Level & SERVICE SKILLS Taking part in the Award isn’t easy – it requires Age Requirement RECREATION JOURNEY PROJECT commitment over time – but it is simple to get BRONZE 13 weeks 13 weeks 13 weeks Preliminary Training: started and after all your time and e ort you minimum start Practice Jouney - 1 Day age is 14. A minimum of one hour per week dedicated to each will have achieved something special of which activity for the time indicated Qualiying Journey: n/a ** Complete 4 2 days + 1 night sections as 6 hours of purposeful you can be proud and which universities and indicted. Plus an additional 13 weeks in either: Service, Skills, or Physical Fitness. Participants select which section effort per day. employers rate highly. they wish to dedicate the extra months.

SILVER 26 weeks 26 weeks 26 weeks Preliminary Training: As an Award participant you will have the chance to: Practice Jouney - 2 days + 1 night minimum start A minimum of one hour per week dedicated to each • Design your own Award program age is 15. activity for the time indicated

• Set your own goals and record your progress complete 4 If a Direct Entrant to The Award (did not do Bronze) Qualiying Journey: n/a ** • Make a positive impact on the lives of others through community service sections as then an extra 26 weeks is required in either: Service, 3 days + 2 night indicated. Skills, or Physical Fitness. Participants select which 7 hours of purposeful • Learn valuable practical and social skills for career development category to dedicate the extra months. effort per day. • Take up the challenge of an adventurous journey • Connect with other Award participant at home and abroad. GOLD 52 weeks 52 weeks 52 weeks Preliminary Training: You can continue with activities you’re already taking part in, such as sports Practice Jouney - or volunteering, and count these towards achieving your Award, or your minimum start A minimum of one hour per week dedicated to each 2 days + 1 night age is 16. activity for the time indicated Award could be an opportunity to try something new and develop a passion 5 days + 4 nights complete 5 If a Direct Entrant to The Award (did not do Silver) Qualiying Journey: for something di erent. sections as then an extra 26 weeks is required in either: Service, 4 days + 3 night indicated. Skills, or Physical Fitness. Participants select which 8 hours of purposeful effort per day. The Bronze Award is the rst step to getting involved in The Duke of category to dedicate the extra months. Edinburgh’s International Award and you can then continue your Award Participants must be registered with their Division before starting their Award. by getting involved at Silver and then Gold levels. Participants must complete all sections in a level before moving on to the next. **Participants must be at least 16 years of age to embark on their Residential Project.

The Award’s structure really is quite simple. You’ll create your own program, choosing activities for So, you’ve decided to start your Bronze Award and you should now be each section of the Award. registered on the Online Record Book (ORB). Good start! To begin with, you need to set up your Award by choosing an activity to do in each of the If you need advice, you can always ask your Award Leader. four sections. You can start a new activity or develop your skills further in activities you have already been doing. This is your Award and it is entirely up to you what you do for each section. It is all about setting yourself a challenge and feeling great when you see yourself progress and achieve your goals.

Se rvice You can take this as an opportunity to start an activity that you always Challenge yourself to wanted to do or develop your skills further in the activities you are already be a responsible, caring involved in – your Award, your choice! member of the community. See pages 10–11 Next step, you have to ﬁnd an Assessor for each section and determine your goals for the sections with them. This person should be knowledgeable or experienced in the activity and can’t be a relative of yours. Your Award Leader

Physical Recreation will conﬁrm whether your Assessors are suitable for your chosen activities. Challenge yourself to When you are ready, register your activities and your goals for each section improve your, health, on the Online Record Book (see pages 6–7). ﬁtness and performance. See pages 12–13 Timescales You can start your Bronze Award if you are 14 years old or older. You’ll need Skills to do your activities in each section for a consistant amount of time - a minimum of one hour per week can be logged. Challenge yourself to improve your skills and Physical Recreation minimum 3 months / 13 weeks Plus an extra widen your interests. 3 months/ 13 weeks Skills minimum 3 months / 13 weeks See pages 14–15 in one of these Service minimum 3 months / 13 weeks } sections. Adventurous Journey Adventurous Journey 2 days + 1 night = Qualifying Journey 1 Day = Practice Journey * Challenge yourself to journey and explore *Your Practice Journey does not need to be the same duration or route as your Quali ying Journey. However with your eyes open. it must be the same activity. See pages 16–17 Remember to r.egularly log your activities on the Online Record Book (ORB). See pages 6 - 7.

The Online Record Book (ORB) is an What’s my username? Help, I’ve forgotten my password! easy-to-use online system in which you will Your username will be the email Click on the ‘Forgot your password?’ record your activities and achievements as address you used when you ﬁrst link and the password you chose will you work towards your Award. registered on the Online Record Book. be emailed to you.

• Sign in to the Online Record Book I’ve confirmed my email address, How are the percentages worked If you are reading this guide, you must have completed your registration. To access the Online Record Book, go to http://intawardorb.com but still can’t log on. out for my Award progress? Your Award Leader has to authorise For the Skills, Physical Recreation and • Register your chosen activities your access to the Online Record Book Service sections of the Award, you so check with them if this has been must undertake regular activity over See pages 10–17 for some activity ideas, or come up with your own, and then done already. a set period of time. On the Online speak to your Award Leader, who will need to approve your choices. Don’t Record Book, all logs are recorded forget to then enter the info and your goals on the Online Record Book. in quarter, half and full hours. The Can I change my password? general requirement for Skills, Physical • Find your Assessors Recreation and Service is to undertake Find someone (not a relative) who is an expert in your choice of activity Yes. Hover over where it says r rt of one hour of activity per (such as a coach). Your Award Leader will need to agree on your choice of ‘Welcome [your name]’ and a box will week or two hours every two-weeks Assessor for each section. You can record your Assessors’ details on the pop up. From here you can change over the required time frame. You Online Record Book. your password, update your personal can’t achieve your Award by working details and also change your profile more intensely over a shorter time. • Do the activities picture. Do your activities regularly for the set amount of time. Log your activities regularly on the Online Record Book and follow your progress on the M progress bar. I’ve got evidence I want to save, logged activities, how can (s)he can I save it in the Online Record do this? • Assessor reports Book? When you’ve finished a section, you can download the Assessor report to be Once you’ve completed a section, you can either download and print signed by your Assessor, upload it onto the Online Record Book or talk with Yes, you can upload photographs, a summary of your activities for your Assessor and submit your section for your Award Leader to approve. videos and scanned documents into your library. your Assessor to sign or ask them to • Celebrate! provide another form of proof, then just scan it in and upload it to your When you’ve completed all four sections, your Award Leader will submit library. If you don’t have access to a your Award for approval to your local Divisional oce where they will approve scanner, speak with your Award Leader and authorise your Bronze Award – congratulations! Now it’s time to sign up for For more resources and tips visit: about other ways of getting your your Silver Award ! dukeofed.org/orb summary onto the Online Record Book.

You will have achieved your Bronze Award when: The following pages contain • You have done your activities for each section for the minimum basic information about time period each section you’ll complete • You’ve recorded all your activities and uploaded evidence into the in order to achieve your Online Record Book (ORB) • Your Assessors are happy with your progress and have made their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s reports. Once you’ve completed your Award make sure you submit it to International Award . your Award Leader on the Online Record Book.

Your Award information will automatically be passed by your Award Leader We’ll give you some ideas to through the Online Record Book to your Divisional Duke of Ed o ce where get you started when you are they will check that everything is correct. If all requirements have been met, trying to decide what to do you’ll be notied that you’ve achieved your Bronze Award. for each section. Remember that these are only Congratulations! You can now receive your certiﬁcate and pin. Ask your Award Leader suggestions of activities that where and when your Award presentation ceremony will take place – this is other people have done in the an opportunity to celebrate and to be recognized by your family and friends past... Use them to help you for your achievement! think about what interests When you have completed your Bronze Award you can continue on to your you or what you’d like to try. Silver Award . If you move from Bronze to Silver, all your account information on the Online Record Book will remain the same.

8 Guide for Bronze Award Participants © 2016 The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Canada 9 Example ideas Service Here’s a list of some Service ideas that you could do or use as a starting point to create a program of your own.

People in the community HIV/AIDS, primary health care, immunisation campaigns, drug or • Visiting people in need, such as alcohol awareness education elderly or disabled people, on a • Teaching a person to read or write regular basis to provide assistance with shopping, gardening or other Environmental service domestic tasks, or simply to keep them company • Participating in a conservation • Voluntary work in hospitals and project such as clearing wasteland, care centres cleaning a river, or caring for • Visiting prisons or detention centres threatened wildlife or trees under the auspices of the proper • Caring for a public or school garden authorities • Providing, maintaining and • Helping with a local community encouraging the use of public waste radio, newspaper or blog collection • Sports coaching or leadership • Caring for animals • First aid – doing a course and then • Working in a clean-up campaign making their skills av ailable to the • Promoting environmental benefit of the local community, ie: sustainability being a first-aider at football Through the Service section you can matches or dance competitions and Charity work so on volunteer in your community, meet • Fundraising for a charity people and see how your service Youth work • Creating or maintaining a charity benefits those around you. website or newsletter • Acting in a leadership role in a Volunteering over a period of time youth club or uniformed youth Emergency services “Even though I am actually organisation enables you to meet people within • Assisting in the teaching of primary • Helping an emergency service team, working full time, I always the community whom you might not school children such as the fir e services, surf find time to volunteer in a life-saving, lifeboats, coastguar d, otherwise engage with and realize Cadet Corps every week. Community education and police, mountain rescue or civil the positive dierence you can make My experience as an Award health education defence to your community. It can also help holder helped me to gain • Assisting with local or national new knowledge that I • Working with experienced persons disaster operations improve skills such as team work, could transfer to a new to educate the local community, or communication and self-confidence. generation of participants.” specific groups within it, on important issues such as prevention Rudy Allen, Canada of leprosy or malaria, combating

10 Guide for Bronze Award Participants © 2016 The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Canada 11 Example ideas Physical Recreation Here’s a list of some Physical Recreation ideas that you could do or use as a starting point to create a program of your own. If you break a sweat, it counts!

Ball sports • Kite boarding • Walking • Water skiing • Weight training • Football (of any • Diving description such • Synchronized Adventure sports as rugby, soccer, swimming Gaelic, Australian • Rowing • Rock climbing Rules, American) • Canoe polo • Mountaineering • Volleyball • Parachuting • Basketball Winter sports • Caving and • Netball pot holing • Handball • Skiing • Hang-gliding • Cricket • Snowboarding • Paragliding • Baseball • Luge • Kite surfing • Softball • Bobsleighing • Hockey • Ice skating Miscellaneous • Tennis • Ice hockey • Squash • Curling • Dancing • Table-tennis • Cycling • Lacrosse Martial arts • Gymnastics • Weightlifting The Physical Recreation section of Athletics • Karate • Trampolining • Aikido • Wrestling the Award encourages you to improve • Running • Judo • Roller skating your health and fitness, whatever • Jumping (high • Kickboxing • Skateboarding your starting point. You could choose or long) • Boxing • BMX • Throwing (hammer, • Tae kwon do • Orienteering to do a team sport, solo sport or any javelin, shot put) • Kung fu • Badminton Photo credit: Glenn McCreath healthy activity. It could be something • Biathlon, triathlon, • Fencing • Ultimate Frisbee “I an working hard to be heptathlon or • Kendo you already do regularly, have tried what I want to be. Cricket decathlon before or something completely new has changed my life Animal sports to you. and I would like to be a Water sports professional player.” • Horse riding • Polo • Canoeing The Physical Recreation section • Kayaking Zukisani Simanga, should make you feel healthy and • Swimming Fitness activities happy, and should help you build South Africa • Water polo • Sailing • Aerobics valuable team skills, self-esteem and • Surfing • Running confidence. It’s also great fun! • Windsurfing • Skipping

12 Guide for Bronze Award Participants © 2016 The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Canada 13 Example ideas Skills Here’s a list of some Skills section ideas that you could do or use as a starting point to create a program of your own.

Music • Aquarium keeping • Chess • Astronomy • Draughts • Playing an • Bee keeping • Darts instrument • Bird watching • Backgammon • Learning musical • Conservation • Other table games theory • Dog training and • Singing handling Life skills • Music event • Fishing management • Forestry • Business • Gardening management Sports related • Horticulture • Financial literacy • Horse care and • Entrepreneurship • Sports ofﬁciating handling • Health awareness • Umpiring and refereeing Communication Technical and • Sports equipment vocational skills maintenance • Film and video • Sports ground making • Accounting maintenance • Film studies • Hairdressing • Sign language • Vehicle maintenance Through the Skills section you can Arts and crafts • Braille • Engineering • Foreign languages • Fashion develop your personal interests, • Ceramics • Newsletter and • Furniture making as well as practical and social skills. • Clay modelling magazine production • Furniture restoration • Embroidery • Reading • Metal work You could choose to improve on • Dressmaking • Writing • Tailoring an existing skill or try something • Glass painting • Presentation skills • Carpentry “Without the challenge • Jewellery making • Public speaking and • Cookery new. This section is all about trying • Calligraphy debating of the Award, I would still and learning something, getting • Drawing • Digital media Performance skills be washing dishes. Today, • History of art • Journalism better at it and giving yourself a my eyes are open to the • Painting • Information • Drama and theatre sense of achievement and well- endless possibilities that • Photography technology skills life o ers. The Award has • Sculpture • Website development • Circus skills being. Colleges, universities and given me the conﬁdence to • Graphic design • Puppetry employers like to see that you grab my opportunities.” Games have life skills too! Nature and the Vicky Roy, professional environment • Billiards, snooker photographer, India or pool • Agriculture • Card games

14 Guide for Bronze Award Participants © 201 The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Canada 15 Example ideas Adventurous Journey Here’s a list of ideas that you could do for your Adventurous journey, expedition or exploration, or use as a starting point to create a program of your own.

Adventurous Journey

• Exploring the natural world: glaciations, er osion, geology, coastal studies, rivers, valleys, plant studies, bird studies or animal studies, insect studies • Exploring historic land use: prehistoric man, historical periods • To investigate the survival or extinction of a language • Exploring human impact: visitor pressure in national parks, pollution monitoring, surveys of numbers of walkers in remote areas • To carry out health surveys or health education in remote areas • To complete a particularly demanding journey by foot, cycle For the Adventurous Journey section or canoe/kayak you’ll need a sense of adventure • To investigate group dynamics in challenging conditions and discovery as you go on a team • To kayak the entire navigable stretch journey, expedition or exploration. of a river • Following an ancient pilgrimage trail You’ll have the opportunity to learn • Cycling along an ancient trail more about the environment, ”I completed the hike with as well as develop self-con dence, a smile on my face, not just because I knew it signiﬁed team work and optimize your health. I had achieved my Award, It is a tough challenge and you but also because I knew might be taken out of your comfort in my heart that I had zone for a bit but you will be achieved something for me.” safe with suitable training and supervision, and you won’t Janice Mustofova, regret it! Republic of Ireland

If you have any questions about your Award, talk to your This publication was orginally created and published by The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Leader ﬁrst – they are there to help you. International Award Foundation. You can also contact your Divisional ofﬁce at The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award - Canada if you have a problem that your Award This publication has been inspired by the work of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Leader, our website or the Online Record Book can’t answer: in the United Kingdom and their publication DofE Participants’ Handbook. The Foundation would like to acknowledge and thank the DofE UK for their co-operation British Columbia & Yukon – [email protected] in the creation of this international publication. Alberta, Northwest Territories & Nunavut – [email protected] Saskatchewan – [email protected] Manitoba – [email protected] Ontario – [email protected] Quebec – [email protected] New Brunswick – [email protected] Nova Scotia – [email protected] Prince Edward Island – [email protected] Newfoundland & Labrador – [email protected] National O ce – [email protected] About our charity The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award - Canada is the world’s leading achievement award for young people. We are a federally registered charity that is available across the country, segmented into ten Divisions to better serve young Canadians. Each division is a seperately registered charity licenced by the National Oce. We want every young Canadian aged 14-24 to have the opportunity you’ve had to participate in the Award. We hope you enjoy your experiences! Don’t forget to let us know how it goes and share your stories and photos!

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