President's Award

Enrolment Fees and Banking details
Enrolment Form
Service Sheet
The President’s Award Portfolio

The President’s Award is part of the international Award for Young People, and is run on precisely the same lines as The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in the UK and in plenty of other countries...

Bishops started running it properly in 2008, and it fits unsurprisingly well with the school’s ethos...

The Award is divided into 3 levels, Bronze, Silver and Gold, requiring different degrees of commitment...

Service: The aim of this section is to encourage active citizenship and community involvement...

Skills: The aim of this section is to encourage the discovery and development of practical and social skills and personal interests...

Physical Recreation: The aim of this section is to encourage participation and improvement in physical activity...

Expeditions: The aim of this section is to encourage a spirit of adventure and discovery by preparing for and carrying out an adventurous journey...

The table below summarises the requirements and gives some examples:

Skills

Physical recreation

Service

Adventurous Journey

Residential project

Bronze
(aged 14)

+ 3 months of extra skills, physical recreation or service

3 months

Any new skill or significant improvement in level of skill, e.g., individual music lessons, 1st Aid, cooking, accelerated art programme

3 months, any sport they do at school.

3 months
24 hours, A maximum of 5 hours in any given day.

K4K, Fun Frenzy, Sacristan, One-to-One, Marshalling

1 night, 2 days. Minimum of 6 hours activity per day.

Usually Grade 9 camp or Cape Point Overnight Trail

N/A

Silver
(aged 15)

+ additional 6 months if non-bronze holder

6 months

ICDL, drivers’ licence

6 months

6 months
48 hours, A maximum of 5 hours in any given day.

2 nights, 3 days, minimum of 7 hours activity per day.

EPIC

N/A

Gold
(aged 16)

+ additional 6 months if non-silver holder

12 months

12 months

12 months
72 hours, A maximum of 5 hours in any given day.

3 nights, 4 days, minimum of 8 hours activity per day.

EPIC, Kilimanjaro, The Hoerikwaggo Trail

5 days/four nights out of normal community, e.g., participation in a youth forum, exchange, sports or cultural tour

More information and to join the scheme:
Contact Mrs van Selm avanselm@bishops.org.za
Check the President’s Award website www.presidentsaward.co.za


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