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Egton and Danby Primary Schools complete Archie B Leadership Awards!

Date:
Wed 23rd July 2014

In September 2013 Egton CE VA Primary School and Danby CE VC Primary School joined together to take on the Archie B Leadership Awards with their Year 5/6 children. We launched our year by having a shared assembly using the excellent resources given to us by the Archbishop of York Youth Trust.

As we are small rural primary schools, located in the North York Moors National Park, we teamed up with the National Park Education Rangers and planned a series of events for the academic year.

Our community project involved learning to Geocache and how to set up a geocache trail. We then worked in our villages with Danby helping Egton to set their trail and vice versa. Our mission was to place a geocache at each church and specific sites of interest in both villages to help encourage a larger number of visitors (Geocachers) to each village to help local trades, economy and tourism.

The children also went to work with the National Park Rangers to help to clear some footpaths and bridleways to create better accessibility for all. After a comprehensive tools talk the children assisted the rangers in clearing overgrown trials and paths and uncovering ancients trods which were lost in a bog. We cleared gorse, heather and bracken and created a wider and clearer right of way.

Alongside these events we have enjoyed the materials provided by the Trust which have given the children valuable lessons which they can take with them as they move on through life and into the next phase of their education.

It has been a rewarding and enjoyable project which both schools will continue to engage with in the future on a two year rolling programme with our Y5/6 pupils.

We were very proud when our certificates and badges were awarded at a special awards ceremony hosted at the National Park Moors Centre in Danby in June 2014.

Our children were ‘the change we want to see’ in their community!

Liz Orland, Headteacher at Egton CE VA Primary School, and Clive Hellawell, Headteacher at Danby CE VC Primary School