{"id":8928,"date":"2025-11-28T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/?post_type=article&#038;p=8928"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:43:02","slug":"duke-of-edinburgh-awards","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/article\/duke-of-edinburgh-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke of Edinburgh awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Duke of Ed encourages and supports young people to build resourcefulness and develop important and relevant life skills outside the classroom. An information session will be held for Year 8 students and their families in early 2026. It&#8217;s not too late for Year 9 and Year 10 students to get involved as well &#8211; email <a href=\"mailto:dukeofed@oxley.nsw.edu.au\">Mrs Benardos<\/a> to find out more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bronze<\/strong> Awardees:&nbsp;The Bronze Duke of Ed award can be commenced in the year that a student turns 14. These students have completed a minimum of three months activity for each of the Volunteering, Physical and Skills sections, and planned, trained for and completed a two-day, one-night Expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Clementine C (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Edie C (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anna C (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scarlett C (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fraser F (Year 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Max G (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Olivia M (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rory S (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stewart S (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Michael W (Year 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Silver <\/strong>Awardees: The Silver Duke of Ed award can be commenced in the year that a student turns 15. Further to their Bronze award, these students have completed a minimum of 6 months for the Volunteering section, and a self-allocated 3 months and 6 months activity for the Physical and Skills sections, as well as planned, trained for an completed a 3-day, 2-night Expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Samuel B-L (Year 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sophia B (Year 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tina F (Year 12 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oscar M (Year 12 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Matthew M (Year 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brigitte P (Year 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Madeleine W (Year 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke of Ed encourages and supports young people to build resourcefulness and develop important and relevant life skills outside the classroom. An information session will be held for Year 8 students and their families in early 2026. It&#8217;s not too late for Year 9 and Year 10 students to get involved as well &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[3],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8928","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-good-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}