Well that was a turn up for the books! Most of our training is focused on how to navigate in…
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Expeditions News
Bronze D of E Practice Expedition
The Bronze Practice is always an interesting expedition, as for many of the candidates it is the first time that…
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Gold D of E Practice Expedition: Black Mountains
Two groups of apprehensive Gold candidates eventually arrived at the OEC ready for the drive to South Wales. Once over…
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Silver D of E practice in the Surrey Hills
The silver practice expedition was scheduled for the busiest time of a very busy term. Fortunately all the participants were…
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DofE Night Navigation
After a quick briefing and a fish and chip supper down at the OEC, the latest cohort of Gold candidates…
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India Expedition 2016
In August the school Expedition headed to Ladakh in northern India with a group of 11 students led by Mark Jenkins…
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Bronze DofE Assessed Expedition
Hooray! Some decent weather at last! Right after Speech Day seventy members of the LVth gathered on the South Lawn…
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Silver DofE Qualifying Expedition: The New Forest
Once again the weather forecast was indicating that we might not make it through our adventure with dry socks and…
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Gold D of E Assessed Expedition to Mid-Wales.
The Inuit of Greenland are falsely held to have dozens of different words for “snow” – in fact they don’t.…
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Journey to the North Pole
A select audience was treated to a wonderful lecture by Chris Cope about his journey to the North Pole to raise…
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