Co-curricular New s

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

Combined Cadet Force

The CCF has been incredibly busy this term with the highlights being the Field Trips to HMS Raleigh where the Royal Navy section went sailing and power boating, and Scraesden Fort where the Army and Royal Marines section experienced blank firing, moving through tunnels, and abseiling

Our CCF continues to grow and we have record numbers requesting to stay on beyond Fourth Form partly due to the outstanding leadership and commitment of our senior cadets W ill Waters (U6b) has set the benchmark for service to the CCF and has been a fabulous role model We have 35 cadets attending summer camp with Wycliffe College The camp involves adventure training in Portsmouth, a blank firing exercise, and live firing on a range

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has seen another successful summer term with expeditions going off for all three award levels.

Over two weekends in May we had the 80 Bronze participants complete their Practice and Training weekend, before completing their Qualifying walk in Dorset They enjoyed glorious weather, a tough walk and a fun night out at a local campsite expedition was successful for all participants and we continue to enjoy partnering with Sherborne Girls for our Gold Expeditions

Rob Le Poidevin

CCF Contingent Commander & Housemaster of The Digby

During the penultimate week of term we had two groups of Fourth Formers undertake their combined Practice and Qualifying Expedition on Bodmin Moor and Exmoor which proved to be successful, with all boys completing their Silver Expedition The highlight of a year of preparation for the Gold Walkers, was their Joint-School Expedition, which, this year, took place in Snowdonia in North Wales Six groups of boys and Sherborne Girls navigated their way across the breath-taking Welsh countryside, wild camping next to beautiful Llyns and enjoying the fantastic summer weather while taking in sweeping vistas and mountain scenery The

In the first week of the Summer Holiday, we will be off on the Gold Canoeing Expedition with the Sixth Form participants from both Sherborne and Sherborne Girls We will spend a week paddling along The Great Glen Way from Fort W illiam to Inverness in Scotland Keep up to date with our trips on our new Instagram page @SherborneDofE

Well done to Carl Furthmann (U6e), Henry Kingsbury (U6f), Dorian Gottardello Bodnar (U6f), Sam Guo (U6b), James Livingston Booth (U6g) and Marcus Hinde (U6f) for completing their Gold Award this term We also had 17 boys complete their Bronze award and nine boys complete their Silver award this term

Thank you to everyone who supports the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and our trips and well done to all our boys on expeditions

Mark Stuart DofE and Outdoor Education Assistant

Ten Tors

Ten Tors continues to be a joint activity between Sherborne Girlsthis year, we entered two mixed teams - one in the lower Sixth and one in the Fourth Form. Rocco Taylor (l6b) and Angus Brewster (l6b), from Abbey House, joined four Sherborne Girls in the lower Sixth to complete the 45-mile challenge, covering 30 miles on the first day

Ivo Finney (4d) captained the joint team in the Fourth Form, joined by William Bennett (4e) from Wallace House There were two all-boys teams in the Fourth Form.

Jem Lye (4g) captained one team, including:

• Leo Mauleverer (4d)

• Harrison Fox (4g)

• Arthur Risso-Gill (4g)

• Ollie Morgan (4c)

• Jack Hunter-Inglis (4a)

William (4d) led the other boys’ team:

• Harry Stanley (4a)

• Caio Waters (4b)

• Theo Knott (4m)

• William Ferrier (4c)

• Henry Bishop (4d)

Congratulations to all pupils for completing the challenge within thirty-six hours