Gold Award
Getting young people to engage with the natural environment

Gold Award
List of Services
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Rope WorkList Item 1
* The learner can demonstrate how to tie a sheet-bend
* The learner can demonstrate how to tie a Clove hitch
* The learner can demonstrate how to hang a long rope
* The learner can demonstrate how to do a filipino diagonal lashing and its uses
* The learner can demonstrate how to do a square lashing and its uses
* Learners can demonstrate how to whip the end of a rope
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SheltersList Item 2
* The learner can construct a lean to shelter
* The learner can construct a heat deflector
* The learner can construct a raised bed
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FloraList Item 3
* The Learner can identify 9 tree
* The learner can find and identify 9 Plants
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FireList Item 4
* The learner can demonstrate how to create and amber using a flint and steel
* The learner can demonstrate how to create and amber using a bow drill
* The learner can demonstrate how to create and amber using polished drink can as a parabolic mirror
* The learner can demonstrate how to make and blow a tinder bundle to flame
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Weather
* The learner is to be able to explain the beaufort scale
* The learner to demonstrate how to make 2 weatherforecast instrument
* The learner to make and keep a weather log for a period of a week using weather symbols
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Fauna
* The learner will demonstrate how to make a tracking stick
* The learner we demonstrate how to follow a set of animal tracks
* Learner to do a sit spot for 30 minutes and report back to the group what they have see
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Camp Fire Cooking
* The learner to demonstrate how to cook a two course meal in a dutch oven
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Primitive Crafts
* The learner to demonstrate how to make a Woodland bow
* The learner to demonstrate how to make a birchbark pot
* The learner to demonstrate how to make a leather bag
* The learner to demonstrate how to make an A frame rucksack
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First-aid
* The learners can explain how to help somebody who is unconscious and not breathing
* The learners can explain how to help somebody who has heat exhaustion
* The learners can explain how to help somebody who is choking
* The learners can explain how to help somebody who has sprain or strain
* The learners can explain how to help somebody who has a broken bone
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Woodland Crafts
* The learner to demonstrate safe use of a crook knife
* The learner to be able to make a spoon
* The learner to make a mallet
* The learner to be able to demonstrate how to split wood using a froe
* The learner to be able to demonstrate how to make a buck saw
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Navigation
* The learner to be able to follow set of compass bearing
* The Learner to be able to take a six map reference
* The Learn to be able Pace 100mtr
* The learner will be able to navigate around a route with several changes of direction
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Conservation
* The Learner to demonstrate how to make a bat box
* The learner to demonstrate how to make a bug hotel