The Award is a four-Section programme with three levels:

• Bronze (Year 10)
• Silver (Year 12) and
• Gold (University)

The Sections involve:

• Service (helping people in the community)
• Skills (covering almost any hobby, skill or interest)
• Physical Recreation (sport, dance and fitness)
• Expeditions (training for, planning and completing a journey on foot or horseback, by boat or cycle)
• Residential Project (Gold Award only) (a purposeful enterprise with people not previously known to the participant)

At St Mark's School students have the opportunity to participate in the Bronze and Silver award with many of our students going onto complete the Gold at University.

For further information, please visit the Duke of Edinburgh website: https://www.dofe.org/do/what/