July 2013
Duke of Edinburgh Award Dinner On 22nd March, over 40 OS attended a dinner to celebrate 50 years of the School becoming a Duke of Edinburgh Awarding Authority. Presentations were given, along with quizzes and competitions. David Lovelock was one of the first from the School to have received DoE Gold, his book having been signed off for the award by Headmaster C R Evers on 11 December 1964. He remembers his group being despatched to a very cold and snowy Dartmoor in early April (with some pretty basic gear) and seemingly left to get on with it; risk assessments being still some decades away. They used their initiative to find a barn to shelter in on the final night, as they were extremely wet and cold, nevertheless David started to feel very poorly on the train back home and had to spend several days in bed recovering. He remembers the others on the expedition being David Simpson (1965 M), J Ian Kellie (1964 W), Douglas Johnston (1965 W) and David Molyneux (1964 C).
Ellie Sagrott and Anthony Bromley, current pupils receiving their DoE Gold Certificate from David Lovelock (1964 W).
Charles Bazzard (1964 L) sent in the following photographs. Also one of the first to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme in 1963 at Sutton Valence, he felt that it undoubtedly influenced his life in many ways. Lovelock, Simpson, Kellie, Johnston - Holed up for the night
Within the expedition, were his friends, Robert Lynden-Bell (1965 L), Jonathan Sewell (1964 L), Geoffrey Edwards (1964 L), Philip Blaine (1964 L), Stuart Murray (1964 L).
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