Bronze

To commence Bronze you must be in Year 9 or be 14 years old

There are 4 areas to the Bronze Award

• Service
• Skill
• Physical Recreation
• Adventurous Journey

The Service, Skill and Physical Recreation components require students to undertake activities for a commitment of 3 months, either as;

• 1 hour of activity every seven days or;
• 2 hours of activity every fourteen days or;
• 4 hours of activity every 28 days
• Totalling 13 hours

Major Section – students must select one component (service, skill or physical recreation) to complete an additional 3 months. Totalling 26 hours (6 months) in one component

Adventurous Journey:

• practice journey: 2 days /1 night
• qualifying journey2 days/1 night

If you choose to make a single trip be both your Practice an Qualifying journeys, you need to make sure that there is a night’s-worth of ‘down time’ between the two phases.

For more details about the requirements of an Adventurous Journey see the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (Victoria) website here. These include group size, duration and rules about unique routes. If in doubt, ask!