Would you let your child’s school know if they achieved an award?

Email his form tutor.

I'm a secondary form tutor and I always like to know what they are up to. Some of my 'quiet' students do fab stuff out of school and I'm always dead chuffed for them. I would care.

Congrats to your son, by the way!

I don't think DofE outside of school is 'noteworthy' enough.

The 'external' things that get mentioned at DD's secondary school are things like winning medals at National Trampolining championships etc.

At primary it is different and they are happy to celebrate lots of things.

I was just thinking about it today! I’m not British (which means many things feel strange to me and I’m not one of those who’d feel free to email the staff about tiny little things that aren’t directly connected to school, if at all... Maybe because of my English or lacking the sense of belonging etc. I just wouldn’t. So today I was reading with my young daughter the school newsletter, and like every week I read about this girl who achieved merit in trombone grade 2, and the other one did some amazing charity with her brother, and I was thinking to myself that I’d never dare to tell school about my daughter’s achievements in all her after school activities. I would feel very embarrassed to do so (not that I wouldn’t like to show her off;). I’m not sure I’d feel different in my homeland, maybe it’s a matter of personality and not of mentality. Just some thoughts:)