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Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme is thriving at St Dunstan's College
with more and more pupils getting involved each year.
For information from the main Award Scheme Site please click on the link below:
If you would like to sign up then please see Mrs Hunt or Mr Gordon for even more information.
The Award Scheme flourishes at St Dunstan’s, with more than half the students in some year groups involved. Full details of the aims of the Award and requirements for completion can be found on the Award website.
The Bronze Award is introduced in Year Nine, where the Award is now mainly followed via the Combined Cadet Force. Fewer students attempt Silver, as many prefer to concentrate on examinations in years 10 and 11, but here again numbers are healthy and success is growing under Patsy Hunt's leadership.
The Gold Award can be attempted once pupils reach the age of sixteen, with approximately 30 students in the current Lower Sixth. Completing the Award at this level presents a real challenge, and not all achieve it by the time they leave the College, but many go on to finish the course while at University. Mr Gordon oversees the Award at this level, as well as acting as Award Officer for the whole College. Successful participants receive an invitation to one of the London Palaces, and are usually lucky enough to meet the Duke of Edinburgh himself.
It has become a tradition for Heads of School to achieve the Award by the time they leave the College!
Statistics for London Independent Schools (note that these do not include schools which follow the Award through Local Authorities):
During the recording year April 01 to March 02 St Dunstan’s:
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gained more Bronze Awards than any other school
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came fifth in the number of Silver Awards gained
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came third in the number of Gold Awards gained, after Harrow and John Lyon Schools. We had one Award more than St Paul’s Girls.
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Overall we gained 64 Awards at all levels, placing us second to Harrow School’s 71.
This is a superb record and is a tribute not only to our Students, who follow the programmes entirely in their free time, but also to the staff who give their own time to this activity.
Last year saw a great effort from some of the other top schools and we slipped slightly in the table. At Gold Level we were fourth after Harrow, St Paul's Girls and John Lyon schools. Nonetheless, our 67 Awards overall placed us third in London after Harrow School and St Paul's Girls.
Awards gained in the Academic Year 2001-2
Gold
Piers Tweddell, Patrick Higgs (OD), Katherine Miller.
Silver
Adetola Adeniran, Ali Altinsoy, Alan Bowden, Alex Bull,Cody Clifford, Jamie Giles, Nathan Giles, Emma Kerr, Rushil Patel, Luke Turvey, Mark Waite.
Bronze
Elaine Athanas, Rebeccah Bailey, Juliet Barratt, Chris Benyayer, Mark Berbeck, Michelle Bernard, Kemal Bicer, Emma Bodenham, Ela Ceyhan, Joshua Cockrell, Theo Coppinger, Laura Dalrymple, Sarah DeZoysa, Esther Giles, Adam Gray, Archie Gullan, Marc Holmes, Michael Illsley, Yasemin Isik, Robert Jackson, Joseph Juwah, Nathaniel Kastoryano, Matthew Kitchingman, Matthew Lewis, Warren Lewis-Jagne, Natasha Marshall, Annwen Moore, James Murray, Farah Patel, Alex Pettitt, Tara Postma, Lizzie Powell, Jo Redler, Jack Retallack, Ariya Salari, Sanjay Selva Rajasingam, Callum Sida-Murray, Grant Studart, Beth Tanner, Haydn Thompson, Barney Wakefield, Daniel Wiseman, Kaja Zuvac-Graves.
Awards gained in the Academic Year 2002-3
Gold
Sarah Bodenham,John Coling, William Guy, Nadia Messina (OD), Thulasi Nithiyananthan, Jigna Patel, Nicholas Sicard-Askey.
Silver
Rebecca Bailey, Tom Barnes, Shona Barnes, Sarah Barnett, Kemal Bicer, Emma Bodenham, Sarah De Zoysa, Esther Giles, Adam Gray, Alex Hollyman, Stephen Hugkulstone, Michael Illsley, Nathaniel Kastoryano, Victoria Keppe, Alexandra Lattimore, Matthew Lewis, Warren Lewis-Jagne, Chris Montgomery, James Murray, Farah Patel, Tara Postma, Hanna Retallack, Arya Salari, Philip Sutton, Haydn Thompson. Helen Touška, Fongphu Tran.
Bronze
Anna-Maria Amato, Rosemary Anrude, Tom Badminton, Tom Barnes, Sara Bassey, Charlotte Bone, Timmy Brookland, Nick Brown (OD), Katherine Campbell, Felipe Carvallo, Daniel Carlisle, Adam Clarke, Emma Corbin-McKenzie, Holly D'Cruz, Sean Dean, Tom Dickson, Antony Faithfull, Daniel Green, Richard Greenhill, Anna Harborow, Lucy Hinton, Francesca Hodge, Samantha Holder, Nicholas Holloway, Alexander Hollyman, Ben Jacobs, Shamicka Jordan, Siobhan Kelly, Robin Lanes, Georgia Lopez-Cea, Lloyd McMillan, David McNeil, James Melbourne, Rachel Moses, Shameel Nanuck, Claire Nelson, Rose Paine, Kairvee Patel, Sundeep Patel, Vafa Pirjamali, Babette Radclyffe-Thomas, James Reed, Molly Robson, Laura Romer-Ormiston, Kugavarna Sakthikugan, Sharla Singh, Elizabeth Skinner, Molly Stopps, Philip Sutton, Alexander Taylor, Anna Thomas-Bohl, Jermaine Thompson, Robin von Einsiedel, Hannah Watson, Chris White, Peter Whittaker, Seran Ziya.
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