{"id":40,"date":"2016-04-20T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-04-20T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:48:01","slug":"duke-of-edinburgh-success-for-darrick-wood-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Duke of Edinburgh Success for Darrick Wood Pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dofe-logo-plain-no-words.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dofe-logo-plain-no-words.jpg\" alt=\"Duke of Edinburgh Logo\" width=\"273\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DofE01.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DofE01-224x300.png\" alt=\"DofE01\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On Monday, 18<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> April 2016\u00a0over 70 Darrick Wood pupils collected both bronze and gold awards at the annual Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s Award Ceremony in the Civic Centre, Bromley. This year, Darrick Wood saw the highest pass rate of participants who completed their DofE in the borough.\u00a0 It was also a record number for Darrick Wood School! In order to be awarded with the Duke of Edinburgh awards, Darrick Wood pupils helped our local community, putting in a total of over 1,500 voluntary hours in the last twelve months.\u00a0 This is in addition to thousands of collective hours spent learning new skills and keeping fit.\u00a0 The pupils also had to complete a two-day, self-sufficient, overnight expedition in the Sevenoaks area, where they had to navigate their way around the countryside.\u00a0 There were many highs and lows throughout their individual journeys, but the struggles were definitely worth it in the end.\u00a0 Well done to all those involved!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 18th April 2016\u00a0over 70 Darrick Wood pupils collected both bronze and gold awards at the annual Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s Award Ceremony in the Civic Centre, Bromley. This year, Darrick Wood saw the highest pass rate of participants who completed their DofE in the borough.\u00a0 It was also a record number for Darrick Wood School! In order to be awarded with the Duke of Edinburgh awards, Darrick Wood pupils helped our local community, putting in a total of over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/?p=40\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.darrickwood.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}