Silverline offers a wide range of extracurricular clubs and activities. After-school activities are designed to enhance our students’ interests and provide a range of learning experiences. Clubs run daily, and we welcome registration from all students.

It was also established as a form of non formal education for young people, giving them a forum where they can achieve a recognisable Award, showing that they have developed a variety of skills, broadened their experiences and have a certain capability in areas such as team building, working with the community as well as ability to show a commitment something and to follow it through. These are all skills which employers and Universities value.

Anybody between 14 and 24 years old can participate and achieve the award at Bronze, Silver or Gold level.

In order to succeed participants need to set and reach their goals in four areas:

Today there are over 850,000 participants globally, participating in the programme in 132 countries.   There have been over 7 million participants since 1956 and 3,359,589 Awards achieved.

The sections of the Award are completed in the Students’ own time, so in club time we focus on training for the Adventurous Journey, learning skills such as map reading, first aid, route planning and camping skills. We also plan future events and fundraising events for charity, and also to raise money to go towards funding trips and events for the club, to encourage team bonding.

It also gives students an opportunity to try different things such as go-karting, ice skating, horse riding, jewellery making and archery.

To find out more about the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award please visit the official website – Intaward.org

The Duke of Edinburgh International Award at Silverline School.

As you can see, the Award requires a personal commitment, and is completed in the participants’ own time.  Club time at Silverline is used for a variety of purposes such as filling in the log books and training for the Adventurous Journey, which includes basic first aid, orienteering skills, camping and packing skills as well.

The club is also involved in a variety of fundraising and money making activities to generate money for Duke of Edinburgh events.  We have performed car window washes, made and sold Christmas Cards, bake sales, and our main fundraising event has been (and will be in the future) Valentines Day, where we made a variety of cards, fridge magnets and chocolate and sweet gifts, sold them, and also offered a delivery service.

In addition to trips and events we also used this money to give a donation to Sirius Dog Sanctuary of 100 euros.  Another 100 euros was used to make micro loans to people in countries such as Tajikstan, Cameroon, Tanzania and Kenya through the Kiva organisation.  Nearly two of thEse loans have now been repaid and we will be able to re-lend the money, helping more people around the world. Please visit the Kiva website and explore this really worthy organisation, and start making microloans and crowd funding yourself.

In the past we have also taken part in the Dancing Queen Foundation, ‘I’d rather walk than drink and drive’ Annual Sponsored walk, and even when we don’t take part, we help to raise sponsorship for those people in the school who do. Please visit the Dancing Queen Foundations website to find out more.

News articles

Ida Rosenberg is one of our year 11 students, who is currently completing her Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award. For her Service Section, she decided to write some news articles about events and people at the school.

This service activity has a dual purpose, it helps to inform parents, pupils and teachers in greater detail about events and people in the school, and also serves as a tool to help Ida develop her English and Communication Skills.

Here are some of the articles she has written.