On Thursday 12th January, Highfields School hosted their annual Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards evening for students who completed the programme in the last two years. The evening was hosted by DofE Manager Mr Moody and included the guest speaker Matthew Wilkes, premiership football official.
Memories of students’ time completing their DofE Award were shared in the form of photos and a video of students talking about what they had done for their physical, volunteering and skill sections, as well as their experience of the expeditions. This gave parents and carers an insight into what students had done over the course of the programme, and what it took to achieve their awards.
Mr Moody said, ‘The award evening is always a special evening as it is an opportunity to come together and celebrate the achievements of the students who took part in the programme.’
There were also individual awards for each Bronze, Silver and Gold. These special awards went to the students who had gone above and beyond during their DofE journey. George and Amelia Beynon achieved the Bronze individual award, Sarah Oboh for Silver and Joel Austin and Aleena Raja were chosen for Gold, entitled ‘The Endeavour Award’. Joel and Aleena along with the other students who completed their Gold DofE award will collect their certificates at Buckingham Palace at a special ceremony in the summer.
After presenting each of the certificates, Wilkes spoke at the end of the evening congratulating students for their achievements. He said, ‘I am so humbled to be invited to Highfields School to present these awards. You should all be extremely proud of yourselves.’
