{"id":19171,"date":"2021-04-16T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentcollege.sch.ae\/dubai\/?page_id=19171"},"modified":"2023-10-23T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T08:11:28","slug":"junior-dukes-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kentcollege.sch.ae\/dubai\/junior-dukes-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Dukes Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Micro, Mini, Junior Dukes and Senior Dukes International Awards at Kent College Dubai<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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The Junior Dukes Award: \u201cIn a busy world it\u2019s too easy to do things for children, but when should they begin to take responsibility for themselves? Micro Duke, Mini Duke, Junior Duke, and Senior Duke Awards are an award scheme for primary to senior-aged children to encourage and develop valuable life skills.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Juniorduke.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Kent College Dubai aims to be the best British School in Dubai, and as such we are an authorised provider of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award, as well as the Micro Dukes Award, the Mini Dukes Award, the Junior Dukes Award and the Senior Dukes Award. Parents pay a nominal fee that covers the cost of importing the workbooks, certificates and badges, and the rest is run by our teaching staff in-house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What are the Dukes Awards all about? <\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Every parent wants their child to succeed in school, but equally important are life skills that teach them about well being, happiness, confidence, resilience, independence, responsibility and self-reliance. At Kent College Dubai, we believe in \u2018whole-child\u2019 development \u2013 it matters to us not only how well they fare at school, but also who they turn out to be when they grow up and graduate from our school, and given how many hours children spend at school, it matters what they do and what inspiring experiences they\u2019re exposed to whilst they are in our care during the school day. And so we want help young people to learn these valuable skills.<\/p>\n

The Duke Awards, inspired by The Duke of Edinburgh International Award, have been developed to give children aged 4 to 13 an opportunity to participate in a variety of character- and ability-building activities and challenges. It exposes them to new experiences, teaches them independence, which in turn gives them the confidence to believe in themselves and to try new things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Become #worldready<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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\u201cBy enrolling in the award, children will learn that you may not always succeed the first time and that is okay. This helps them to develop the resilience they will need throughout their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How Micro, Mini, Junior Dukes Awards and Senior Dukes Awards work<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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We offer both the Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s International Award \u2013 for Senior School Students from Year 10 upwards \u2013 and Micro Dukes, Mini Dukes, Junior Dukes and Senior Dukes Awards for Junior and Senior School Students (FS2 \u2013 Year 8). Whereas for the Duke of Edinburgh International Award, students are given individualised online logins to a site where they can capture their portfolio of evidence, the Duke Award students are given an age-appropriate booklet. This booklet sets out the challenges that they need to achieve in order to win the award. Students get 6-9 months to complete 10 of the 14 challenges set out in their Guidebooks, and will also use these booklets to record their experiences in each of the challenges. Each Year Group (age group) has a different set of challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There is a different booklet for each year group as follows: <\/h4>\n<\/div>
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