Service Children's Education

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Service Children's Education
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Agency overview
Formed1997 (under current name)
Preceding agency
Parent agency Ministry of Defence
Website SCE

Service Children's Education (SCE) is an organisation of the United Kingdom government responsible for the education of the children of British Armed Forces families and Ministry of Defence (MoD) personnel serving outside of the United Kingdom. They provide schools and educational support services from Foundation Stage through to sixth form. They are headquartered at Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Wiltshire. [1]

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It was previously an executive agency of the MoD, but this status was removed on 31 March 2013 following the reduction of service personnel based abroad. However, it continues to operate under the SCE name as part of the MoD's Directorate Children and Young People (DCYP).

History

During the 1980s, the British Families Education Service (BFES) was renamed Service Children's School (SCS). In 1997 it took its current name Service Children's Education (SCE). Despite the various changes to the name and administration, it continues the mission of its predecessors: providing education for the children of British Armed Forces personnel. Former teachers who taught in SCE schools or under its previous incarnations the BFES and SCS may join the BFES/SCE Association. [2]

Management

Headquarters and offices

SCE are headquartered at Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Wiltshire. [1] The business support office are co-located with that of the Children's Education and Advisory Service since August 2012. [3]

SCE was headquartered in the Wegberg Military Complex in Wegberg, Germany, [4] [5] until 2012.[ citation needed ] It briefly moved to JHQ Rheindahlen, [3] until that base closed, too, in 2013.[ citation needed ]

In addition SCE have offices in Bielefeld, Germany and Episkopi Cantonment, Cyprus. [6]

Curriculum

Schools follow the English National Curriculum, administer national assessments and public examinations, and are inspected by His Majesty's Inspectorate, via Ofsted. Teachers have recognised UK professional qualifications and the majority are recruited specially from the United Kingdom through the Civil Service.

Schools

The agency operates primary and secondary schools in Europe and Asia and also provides educational facilities in territories such as the Falklands and Gibraltar where there is a significant British military presence. The schools are typically grouped by garrison (including its outlying bases).

Schools are: [7]

Belgium
Brunei
Cyprus
Falkland Islands
Germany
Gibraltar
Italy
Netherlands

Former Schools

Germany

Secondary schools
Primary/middle schools
  • Alanbrooke Primary, Dortmund, BFPO20 [12]
  • Andrew Humphrey School, WWildenrath (closed 2012)
  • Ark Primary School, JHQ Rheindahlen (closed July 2013) [13]
  • Attenborough First School, Sennelager
  • Attenborough Primary School, Sennelager
  • Ayrshire Barracks Primary School, Mönchengladbach
  • Bad Salzuflen School, Bad Salzuflen
  • Bader First School, RAF Brüggen [14]
  • BFES Germany RAF Borgentreich
  • Bielefeld School, Bielefeld [15]
  • Bishopspark First School, Paderborn
  • Blankenhagen School, Gütersloh [16]
  • Brüggen School, Elmpt, formerly RAF Bruggen (closed July 2015) [17] [18]
  • Buckeburg Primary School, Buckeburg (now Immanuel Schule Schaumburg)

Bünde Primary School

  • Cambridge Infant School, Münster [19]
  • Cheshire Middle School, RAF Bruggen
  • Charlottenburg First School (closed 1990s) – Its facilities was taken over by the newly founded Berlin British School in 1994.
  • Churchill School (with annex in Kiel), Verden. Closed 1993
  • Dalton Middle School, Düsseldorf
  • Derby School, Osnabrück [20] (closed 2008 [21] )
  • Fleming Primary School, Enger
  • Gatow First School Berlin, Headmaster John Hancock (1977-1994), (school closed on 4 November 1994)
  • Griffon School, RAF Wildenrath (became Andrew Humphrey School in c1992)
  • Haig Primary School, Gütersloh [22]
  • Hakedahl Primary School, Detmold
  • Hameln School, Hameln
  • Hampshire School, Monchengladbach. Closed 2001
  • Hamm Primary
  • Hannover Primary School
  • Hastenbeck Primary School, Hastenbeck
  • Heide School, Fallingbostel [17]
  • Hemer Primary School [23]
  • Herford Primary School, Herford (split into Lister and Fleming)

Hildesheim Primary School

  • Hobart Primary School, Detmold
  • Iserlohn Primary School [24]
  • Jerboa Primary School, Soltau
  • John Buchan Middle School, Sennelager
  • John Buchan School, Sennelager (closed 2019)
  • Krefeld Primary School (closed in 2002) – It is now the site of Franz-Stollwerck-Schule.
  • Lancaster School, Minden
  • Lippstadt Primary School, Lippstadt
  • Lister Primary School, Herford (closed in July 2015) [25] [17]
  • Maas First school, RAF Laarbruch
  • Marlborough School, Osnabrück
  • Merlin School, RAF Wildenrath (closed in 1991)
  • Möhne Primary School, Soest
  • Montgomery School, Hohne [17]
  • Mountbatten Primary School, Celle
  • Oxford Primary School, Münster (closed in 2013) [19] [26]
  • Pegasus Primary School, RAF Wildenrath
  • Rhine Middle School, RAF Laarbruch
  • Robert Browning School, Paderborn
  • Scott School Fallingbostel
  • Shackleton School, Fallingbostel [17]
  • Sir John Mogg Primary School, Detmold (closed July 2014) [17]
  • Slim School, Bergen [27] [17]
  • Spandau Primary School, Berlin
  • St Andrew's Primary School, Rheindahlen [28]
  • St Barbara's Primary School, Wulfen
  • St Christopher's Primary School, Rheindahlen
  • St Clements Primary School, Wickrath
  • St David's Junior School, Rheindahlen
  • St David's Primary School, Ramstein
  • St George's Primary School, Rheindahlen
  • St Patrick's Primary School, Rheindahlen
  • St. Peter's Primary School, Lübbecke
  • Suffolk School, Minden
  • Talavera Primary School, Werl
  • Tower School, Dülmen
  • Trenchard School, Gütersloh
  • Victoria School, Dortmund
  • Wavell Primary School, Bergen
  • Wellington First School, Osnabrück
  • Wetter Primary School, Wetter (Ruhr)
  • Wildenrath Primary, Wildenrath
  • William Wordsworth First School, Sennelager
  • York Junior School, Münster [29] [19]

Gilbraltar

Hong Kong

Singapore

Secondary schools
  • Alexandra Grammar School. [35] Later merged into Bourne School, it is now the site of ISS International School Preston campus.
  • Bourne School [36]
  • Alexandra/Gillman Secondary Modern School – later merged into Bourne School, the former compound (including Gillman Barracks) is now occupied by an art gallery, the NTU Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA), and other small businesses. [37]
  • St John's School. [38] In 1971, the United World College of South East Asia, then known as the Singapore International School, was established at St John's former campus; it adopted its present name in 1975. [39]
Primary schools
  • Alexandra Junior School
  • Changi Junior School
  • Nee Soon Primary School
  • Pasir Panjang Junior School
  • Seletar Junior School
  • Tengah Junior School
Infants schools
  • Tanglin Infants School, Tanglin Barracks, Dempsey Road
  • Alexandra Infant School

Pasir Panjang Infant School

Malta

Infants schools
Secondary schools

Other countries

Colony of Aden (now in Yemen)
Belgium
  • Emblem Primary School, Antwerp
Belize
Brunei
  • BSCS Berakas
  • BSCS Muara
Malaysia
Norway
  • St George's School, Bekkestua, Oslo
Nepal
  • Dharan school, Dharan camp

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