Junior Dukes is an award scheme inspired by the Duke of Edinburgh Award and aimed at primary pupils that encourages the development of valuable life skills. There are seven levels:
Each of the levels contain ten challenges. In order to complete a level, pupils need to complete 10/14 (7/10 for EY) of these challenges successfully.
Challenges include mastering skills such as first aid, ICT, art, drama, music, sport, cookery, amongst a variety of other experiences.
Pupils will be required to complete the challenges outside of school with help from friends and family, although support will be given in school where needed.
The skills gained through taking part in the Duke awards are valuable for our students both in school and in later life. Pupils gain confidence, independence, resilience and adaptability when embarking on the challenges within each level. By taking part in the Duke awards, pupils become better equipped to deal with the everyday challenges. Children love to do things without help. They simply need the time and space to explore, learn from their mistakes and to learn to be safe.
At the beginning of the year, the Junior Duke lead teachers launch the awards via school assemblies and parent/carer workshops.
During this time, pupils are exposed to the content and structure of the awards and an insight into what sorts of experiences they might be involved in. Every pupil from YN-Y6 is given the opportunity to participate. Pupils will then receive a digital booklet which is to be completed as a feature of the programme.
Each booklet outlines the 14 challenges which 10 need to be completed (7 challenges for EY). There is a writing element to each of the challenges and a page for inserting photographic evidence. Upon completion of a challenge, pupils share their digital booklet with their “Duke Leader”, who will sign it off.
Once 10 challenges have been completed and signed off, they will have completed the level. Upon completing a level, a certificate and a badge are awarded during our celebration assembly. Then all children who have been awarded their Junior Dukes badge and certificate, they will be invited to our Summer celebration – our huge Junior Dukes Festival.
For more information on the Awards visit https://juniorduke.com/
Check out one of our award celebrations here:
Congratulations to all of our learning heroes who we celebrated in our final celebration assembly of the 2024-25 academic year!
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challenges! You are all working very hard to achieve your Micro Duke! #RPEnrichment
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meeting. Y2 loved sharing their challenges for their gold Mini Junior Duke Award. It has been great to see all the amazing things that you have been up to and the hard work you have put into your challenges! #RPEnrichment
meeting and 3 more of our class completed 7 challenges to earn their badge! There are so many skills being learned across Year 4 including cooking, time management and first aid #RPEnrichment
meeting. The children showcased the brilliant tasks they have completed and had them signed off by our leaders! Well done to all who are working their way through the journals towards their platinum award #RPEnrichment
meetings and 5 of us completed our 7 challenges to earn our badge! There are so many skills being learned across Year 3 including cooking, being independent and learning life saving skills. #RPEnrichment
meeting and five more of us have completed our Silver Mini Junior Dukes! It has been so lovely to see all the amazing things that you have been up to and the hard work you have put into your challenges! #RPEnrichment
summer festival. Will you be joining the 35 children so far? Don’t forget to complete journals over the weekend with written reflections and photo evidence of challenge completions and bring to school on Monday.
Our next @JuniorDukeAward meeting is on Monday 10th February. We look forward to signing children’s challenges off which are complete with photos/evidence and written reflections
Children who complete 7/10 challenges will be awarded their certificate and badge in our weekly celebration assemblies and their family will be added to the guestlist for our @JuniorDukeAward Summer Festival!
Will you be partying with us?
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A huge well done to a member of our Reception class for completing their Micro Duke award! You have worked very hard!
It has been lovely to see all the incredible work and effort year 1 have been putting into their Junior Duke challenges! A masssive well done to our first two superstars to complete their Silver Mini Duke award!
Due to illness, we postponed yesterday’s @JuniorDukeAward meeting until Thursday. If your child has not returned their journal, please do so by Thursday morning at the latest.
We have taken the decision to present all children with their certificates and badge upon completion of challenges in our celebration assemblies and all children awarded with their Junior Duke badge will be invited to our prestigious garden party in the Summer term!
If you have misplaced your child’s journal, please replace it by ordering from the shop on the Junior Duke webpage: https://t.co/SdIyKp8yDn
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In forest school @Littlfoothq helped us to complete our @JuniorDukeAward safety challenge by showing us the key safety issues we need to be aware of when toasting marshmallows and when we are around fire We even had time for a sing song around the fire.
Children have until Monday 16th December to take on some of their @JuniorDukeAward challenges and update their journals, ahead of their class Duke Meeting.
Please add photos/evidence of challenges and complete reflections.
All children must bring their journals in to school on Monday 16th December please.
Children will get their challenges signed off by their Duke Leaders and earn 10 points per challenge plus an additional 100 points when they have completed all 7 challenges. That is an incredible 170 points in total for them and their team!
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Congratulation to our first @JuniorDukeAward winners. Alice in YN is our first Nano Duke winner and Alex YR & Dolly YR are our first Mirco Duke winners. Well done on your accomplishments as well as earning 100 Class Chart points for your Houses
Congratulations to one of our pupils in Nursery for completing her Nano Duke Award. She has completed all seven of the challenges meaning she has received a certificate and a badge!
We would love to see what challenges you have completed so add your photos and videos below or on our Facebook page to be included in our @JuniorDukeAward movie
We are excited for our first @JuniorDukeAward meeting this Monday. We look forward to children sharing their challenges and reflections
Thank you to all our parents and carers who were able to attend our @JuniorDukeAward meeting! It was lovely to be able to discuss which activities the children would like to complete over the year. #RPEnrichment
Thank you to all our parents and carers who attended our first @JuniorDukeAward workshop! We look forward to seeing the children complete as many challenges as they can #RPEnrichment
Thank you to all our parents who came to our @JuniorDukeAward Workshop yesterday! It was lovely to see you and see the children so enthusiastic about the different challenges. I can’t wait to see how you all get on! #RPEnrichment
We’re looking forward to welcoming parents & carers to our @JuniorDukeAward workshops. All workshops start at 9am and parents/carers will be working alongside their child to decide what challenges they will complete over the next academic year.
