Silver Expedition

by | Sep 23, 2022 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, News

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Silver Expedition

Southern cairngorms

Huge congrats to our amazing young people. Brave, strong and kind… one and all!

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Navigation Skills in Bonnie Weather!

by | February 24, 2024 | Life Skills, News, Outdoor Learning, Skills Development, Success Bulletin, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

Lisa and Heanock enjoyed a walk and navigation session last week. The weather was also lovely, making it a great day to be out and about! 🧭 What's your favourite spot to walk? ... Despite whether it rains or is sunny 😉 Click on each image to open them in full...
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Free Employability Introductory Course!

by | February 23, 2024 | Events, Life Skills, News, Skills Development | 0 Comments

Are you a young person looking for some support to get back into employment after a period of leave, for example?   Join our free Employability short course where we will chat about key employment skills, team building, job sites, volunteering options and much more....
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Making Curry is a Life Skill!

by | February 21, 2024 | Life Skills, News, Skills Development, Success Bulletin | 0 Comments

Lisa, our Education and Life Skills Development Worker, recently was working with Heanock on his life skills, where he was learning all about food prep and how to make a simple curry! He then went to his CASA group where he helped to make Afghan Soup - absolutely...
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How to Combat Climate Change doing your DofE

by | November 30, 2023 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, News, Skills Development, Special Days, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

combat Climate Change doing your DofEDay 1 COP28 is taking place from Thursday 30th November to Tuesday 12th December this year and the location that has been chosen to host this important occasion is Dubai. Many government representatives, world leaders, climate...
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Lovely Christmas Cards by Heanock!

by | November 29, 2023 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, News, Skills Development, Success Bulletin, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

It's never too early to get into Christmas mood, is it? Heanock, one of our students, created these lovely Christmas cards. Thank you so much, Heanock, for sharing these beautiful cards with us. We do hope everyone will have a wonderful Christmas once it comes. What...
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Progress Update: Cultybraggan

by | November 22, 2023 | Cultybraggan, Duke of Edinburgh's Award, News, Outdoor Learning, Skills Development, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

We are so excited to share with you some progress updates from our Hut at Cultybraggan! Work is progressing smoothly and every week we are closer to opening this facility to Young People. 🎉

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Exciting news! We now have the keys for Hut 47 at Cultybraggan.

by | August 1, 2023 | Cultybraggan, Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Skills Development, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

Watch for updates on progress with its renovations, opportunities for residential experiences, outdoor learning programmes, and much, much more! You can visit the Cultybraggan website to see images and read about the history of the site and what is currently happening...
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Supporting Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre

by | June 21, 2023 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, News, Outdoor Learning, Skills Development, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

The open group took an extended visit to help support volunteer activities in the aviary at Auchingarrich wildlife centre in Comrie. The group spent several hours, sweeping, brushing away bird poo, clearing rubbish and debris, sorting broken tiles and doing some...
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Jacob’s garden adventures

by | June 20, 2023 | Outdoor Learning, Skills Development, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

Jacob has spent the last 2 sessions helping volunteering in the garden by watering the beds. He has made ham and cheese pancakes on the fire and king prawn skewers with a honey and garlic glaze. He used his own garlic which he has grown at Megginch. Jacob is off next...
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Why expeditions are a great experience – A report by Kayleigh

by | June 3, 2023 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Expedition, News, Skills Development, Success Bulletin, The Starfish Way | 0 Comments

“Back in the summer and autumn of 2018, I took part in my Silver expeditions near Glenmore Lodge and Badiguish Activity Centre in the Aviemore area. It was the first time I had experienced what a camping trip was like and was the first Duke of Edinburgh expeditions...
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