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COLYTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Expectation & Excellence
established 1546

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD

Silver Award

You must be at least 15 to start the Silver Award.

Your Silver Programme has 4 sections:

Silver
Volunteering
Physical
Skills
Expedition

You need to do 6 months Volunteering.  With Physical and Skills you need to do a minimum of 3 months on one and 6 months on the other - you can choose which.

If you start Silver without doing Bronze first (as 'Direct Entrant'), you’ll have to do an extra 6 months in one of your activities – see the table below:

Volunteering Physical Skills Expedition
6 months One section for 6 months and the other section for 3 months Plan, train for and complete a 3 day, 2 night expedition
Direct entrants must undertake a further six months in the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.

Information letters and forms for all DofE levels can be downloaded here