Great day delivering day one of our Lowland Expedition Leaders Award, exploring leadership skills and behaviours, considering group needs and some team building activities.

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Really nice to be back working with young people on the water this weekend. Definitely a weekend of two halves wet windy and horrible yesterday but blue skies and sunshine today.

West Sussex is one of only two areas in the country with secondary attendance above 90%.
Our cabinet member has thanked everyone involved in education as we come to the end of a uniquely challenging term for our schools, staff, pupils and parents: westsussex.gov.uk/news/west-suss…

Great to be able to get out on the river today and spend some time relaxing.

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Enjoying a nice paddle session, great to see so many young people out.

Practising what we preach, Grahame and Simon on the water training a silver DofE canoe expedition team, and developing new canoe sailing skills

Lovely morning on the river training a silver DofE canoe expedition team

Not a bad view to enjoy whilst having breakfast. Day 2 of the C:Ore Risk Conference looking at safety in the outdoors across a number of areas.

Millais mothers and daughters enjoyed an exciting & unique STEM visit to Gatwick Airport. Highlights incl. a construction challenge, learning about the systems used to guide aircraft & fire station session firing water cannons by the runway! Huge thanks to Gatwick Airport staff.

A great day celebrating the achievements of the young people of West Sussex gaining their Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

We’re delighted to announce Ruth Marvel as new #DofE CEO. Ruth joins in November from #Girlguiding . Welcome Ruth!

After two incredible Gold DofE residentials at Dartmoor Zoo so far this year, we’re happy to announce our dates for next year have been released! Check out the DofE opportunity finder for more details! dofe.org/opportunity-fi…. DofE South East @DofE

This weekend a couple of our leaders are doing their two day outdoor remote first aid course with Escape Outdoors #firstaid #lifeskills #Dofe #volunteering DofE West Sussex

'Heat exhaustion is not usually serious if you can cool down within 30 minutes. If it turns into heatstroke it needs to be treated as an emergency.' See NHS website for more advice on treatment and prevention: bit.ly/2MavQd9

Completely agree with the comments made this morning on BBC Breakfast about the key #skillsforlife that young people develop while completing The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and and how it helps with #apprenticeships Balfour Beatty BBC News (UK) @stephbreakfast The Duke of Edinburgh’s AwardNorth Paul Trainor