Service Children's Education (SCE) is an organisation of the

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responsible for the education of the children of British Armed Forces families and Ministry of Defence (MoD) personnel serving outside of the

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. They provide

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s and educational support services from

Foundation Stage Foundation Stage is the British government label for the education of pupils aged 2 to 5 in England. In Northern Ireland, it is also used to refer to the first two years of compulsory education for pupils aged 4 to 6. England Foundation Stage 1 ta ...

through to

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. They are headquartered at Trenchard Lines,

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.SERVICE CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2012-2013

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. Service Children's Education. PDF p. 3/62. Retrieved on 28 February 2015. "Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at Headquarters Service Children's Education, Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Wiltshire" It was previously an

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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 The British Families Education Service (BFES) was an organisation set up by the British Government in 1946 to run schools for the children of British military and government personnel serving in West Germany. History Prior to 1946, Army Educati ...

(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.

Management

Headquarters and offices

SCE are headquartered at Trenchard Lines,

. The business support office are co-located with that of the Children's Education and Advisory Service since August 2012.SERVICE CHILDREN'S EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2012-2013

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. Service Children's Education. p. 7 (PDF p. 8/62). Retrieved on 28 February 2015. SCE was headquartered in the Wegberg Military Complex in

Wegberg Wegberg (; li, Berk ) is the northernmost town in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Wegberg is situated between Mönchengladbach in the northeast and Erkelenz in the southeast; the town of Rheindahlen is to ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

, until 2012. It briefly moved to JHQ Rheindahlen, until that base closed, too, in 2013. In addition SCE have offices in

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

and Episkopi Cantonment,

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...

Curriculum

Schools follow the English

National Curriculum A national curriculum is a common programme of study in schools that is designed to ensure nationwide uniformity of content and standards in education. It is usually legislated by the national government, possibly in consultation with state or other ...

, administer national assessments and public examinations, and are inspected by Her 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

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where there is a significant British military presence. The schools are typically grouped by garrison (including its outlying bases). Schools are: ; Belgium * SHAPE Primary School (British section),

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the military headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) that commands all NATO operations worldwide. ACO's and SHAPE's commander is t ...

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

; Brunei * Treetops Early Years Setting and Hornbill Primary School (

Seria Seria () is a town in Belait District, Brunei, about west from the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The total population was 3,625 in 2016. It was where oil was first struck in Brunei in 1929 and has since become a centre for the countr ...

) ; Cyprus * King Richard Secondary School, Dhekelia * St. John's Secondary School, Episkopi *Akrotiri Early Years Setting and Akrotiri Primary School,

RAF Akrotiri RAF Akrotiri ( el, Βασιλική Πολεμική Αεροπορία Ακρωτηρίου) is a large Royal Air Force base on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. It is located in the Western Sovereign Base Area, one of two areas which compr ...

*Ayios Nikolaos Early Years Setting and Ayios Nikolaos Primary School, Ayios Nikolaos Station *Dhekelia Early Years Setting and Dhekelia Primary School *Episkopi Early Years Setting and Episkopi Primary School ; Falkland Islands *Mount Pleasant Primary School,

RAF Mount Pleasant RAF Mount Pleasant (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, Mount Pleasant Complex or MPA) is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The airfield goes by the motto of "Defend the right" (while the m ...

, Falklands ; Germany * Attenborough Early Years and Attenborough Primary School (

Sennelager Sennelager is a village in Germany that forms part of the City of Paderborn. It is notable for its association with the military since the 19th century. Location Sennelager lies around 5 km north of Paderborn city centre in the west of the ...

) * St David’s Primary School ( Ramstein) ; Gibraltar * Sunflowers Early Years Setting and St Christopher’s Early Years Foundation Stage ; Italy *BFS

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

Primary School ,

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

; Netherlands * AFNORTH Primary School ( Brunssum)

Former Schools

Germany

;Secondary schools *Cornwall School, Dortmund *Edinburgh School, Münster * Gloucester School,

Hohne Hohne is a municipality in the state of Lower Saxony in Germany, east of the county town of Celle. It includes the three former parishes of Hohne, Helmerkamp and Spechtshorn. It should not be confused with the British Army camp of Hohne (German: ' ...

(closed July 2015) * Havel School,

RAF Gatow Royal Air Force Gatow, or more commonly RAF Gatow, was a British Royal Air Force station (military airbase) in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin, west of the Havel river, in the borough of Spandau. It was the home for the only k ...

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

. Closed 1994. Was also the primary school until the building of Gatow First school in 1977 * Kent School, Hostert, near Schwalmtal (boarding school) (closed 1993) * King Alfred School,

Plön Plön (; Holsatian: ''Plöön'') is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 8,700 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as o ...

(closed 1959) * King's School,

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 100,194 peo ...

(closed 2019) *

Prince Rupert School Prince Rupert School was a secondary school in Rinteln, Lower Saxony, Germany, and was operated by the Service Children's Education for children of military personnel and its employees of the former British sector of West Germany. Over the ye ...

Rinteln Rinteln () is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the banks of the Weser river above the Porta Westfalica. The town of Rinteln is in the broad valley between the hills of the Weserbergland and the North Lippe Bergland. In rela ...

(closed July 2014) * Windsor Boys' School, Hamm (boarding school) (closed 1983) * Windsor Girls' School, Hamm (boarding school) * Windsor School, formerly Queen's School, Rheindahlen (closed July 2013)
Virtual Tour of the Windsor School / Windsor Boys School Hamm, Germany
;Primary/middle schools *Alanbrooke Primary, Dortmund, BFPO20 *Andrew Humphrey School, WWildenrath (closed 2012) *Ark Primary School, JHQ Rheindahlen (closed July 2013) *Attenborough First School, Sennelager *Attenborough Primary School, Sennelager *Ayrshire Barracks Primary School, Mönchengladbach *Bad Salzuflen School, Bad Salzuflen *Bader First School, RAF Brüggen *BFES Germany RAF Borgentreich * Bielefeld School,

* Bishopspark First School,

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

* Blankenhagen School,

*Brüggen School, Elmpt, formerly

RAF Bruggen Royal Air Force Brüggen, more commonly known as RAF Brüggen, in Germany was a major station of the Royal Air Force until 15 June 2001. It was situated next to the village of Elmpt, approximately west of Düsseldorf on the Dutch-German bo ...

(closed July 2015) *Buckeburg Primary School, Buckeburg (now Immanuel Schule Schaumburg) Bünde Primary School *Cambridge Infant School,

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...

*Cheshire Middle School, RAF Bruggen *

Charlottenburg Charlottenburg () is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Prussia, it is best known for Charlottenburg Palace, the ...

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 Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...

(closed 2008) *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 *Hakedahl Primary School, Detmold *Hameln School, Hameln *Hampshire School, Monchengladbach. Closed 2001 *Hamm Primary *Hannover Primary School *Hastenbeck Primary School, Hastenbeck *Heide School, Fallingbostel *

Hemer Hemer is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Hemer is located at the north end of the Sauerland near the Ruhr river. The highest elevation, at 546 metres (1,791 ft), is in the ''Balver Wa ...

Primary School *Herford Primary School, Herford (split into Lister and Fleming) Hildesheim Primary School *Hobart Primary School, Detmold *

Iserlohn Iserlohn (; Westphalian: ''Iserlaun'') is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the largest city by population and area within the district and the Sauerland region. Geography Iserlohn is locat ...

Primary School *Jerboa Primary School, Soltau *John Buchan Middle School, Sennelager * John Buchan School,

(closed 2019) *

Krefeld Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...

Primary School (closed in 2002) – It is now the site o
Franz-Stollwerck-Schule
*Lancaster School, Minden *Lippstadt Primary School, Lippstadt *Lister Primary School,

Herford Herford (; nds, Hiarwede) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the lowlands between the hill chains of the Wiehen Hills and the Teutoburg Forest. It is the capital of the district of Herford. Geography Geographic locat ...

(closed in July 2015) *Maas First school, RAF Laarbruch *Marlborough School, Osnabrück *Merlin School, RAF Wildenrath (closed in 1991) *Möhne Primary School, Soest *Montgomery School, Hohne * Mountbatten Primary School, Celle *Oxford Primary School, Münster (closed in 2013) *Pegasus Primary School, RAF Wildenrath *Rhine Middle School, RAF Laarbruch * Robert Browning School, Paderborn *Scott School Fallingbostel *Shackleton School, Fallingbostel *Sir John Mogg Primary School,

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of t ...

(closed July 2014) *Slim School,

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

*Spandau Primary School, Berlin *St Andrew's Primary School, Rheindahlen *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 *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

Gilbraltar

*St. Christopher's Middle School,

Hong Kong

* Gun Club Hill Primary School, Hong Kong *Minden Row Junior School, Kowloon, Hong Kong *Sek Kong Primary School, New Territories, Hong Kong * St. Andrew's Primary School, Kowloon, Hong Kong *Stanley Fort Primary School, Hong Kong * St George's School (closed 1996) – The

Australian International School Hong Kong The Australian International School Hong Kong (AISHK, ) is a private co-educational international school in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Established in 1995, the school provides education for children from Preparatory to Year 12 pl ...

uses some of its former facilities., *Victoria Junior School, Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong

Singapore

;Secondary schools *Alexandra Grammar School. Later merged into Bourne School, it is now the site of ISS International School Preston campus. *Bourne School *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. *St John's School. 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. ;Primary schools *Alexandra Junior School *

Changi Changi () is a planning area located in the geographical region of Tanah Merah in the East Region of Singapore. Sharing borders with Pasir Ris and Tampines to the west, Changi Bay to the southeast, the South China Sea to the east and the Seran ...

Junior School *Nee Soon Primary School *Pasir Panjang Junior School *

Seletar Seletar is an area located in the north-east of Singapore. Its name can also refer to the Seletar Planning Area (as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority), situated in the North-East Region of Singapore. The place name was derived from th ...

Junior School *

Tengah ''Tengah'' is an Indonesian and Malay word meaning "Central". It can be found in topography, e.g. *Kalimantan Tengah * Tengah Islands or Central Archipelago. *Tengah, Singapore Tengah is a planning area and future HDB town located within the ...

Junior School

= Infants schools

= *Tanglin Infants School, Tanglin Barracks, Dempsey Road *Alexandra Infant School Pasir Panjang Infant School

Malta

;Infants schools *Army Children's School St Andrew's Pembroke *Royal Naval School Verdala (now the Liceo Guzeppi Despott Junior Boys Lyceum) *

RAF Luqa Royal Air Force Luqa was a Royal Air Force station located on the island of Malta, now developed into the Malta International Airport. It hosted aircraft of Air Headquarters Malta (AHQ Malta) during the Second World War. Particularly during ...

*RAF School for Infants Safi *St David's Mtarfa *Army Children's School Tigne ;Secondary schools *Royal Naval School Tal Handaq (now the Liceo Vassalli Junior Lyceum)

Other countries

;

Colony of Aden Aden Colony ( ar, مستعمرة عدن, ), also the Colony of Aden, was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963 located in the south of contemporary Yemen. It consisted of the port of Aden and its immediate surroundings (an area of ). Prio ...

(now in

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

) *Khormaksar School,

RAF Khormaksar Royal Air Force Khormaksar or more simply RAF Khormaksar was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Aden, Yemen. Its motto was "Into the Remote Places". During the 1960s, it was the base for nine squadrons and became the RAF's busiest-ever station ...

;Belgium *Emblem Primary School, Antwerp ;

Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...

*Toucan School, BATSUB (closed 2011) ;Brunei *BSCS Berakas *BSCS Muara ;Malaysia *

Bourne School Bourne School was a secondary school established in May 1954 in Rifle Range Road, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (present day Peninsular Malaysia); it closed in July 1965. The school was administered by the British Families Education Service, which prov ...

Kuala Lumpur , anthem = ''Maju dan Sejahtera'' , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Malaysia#Southeast Asia#Asia , pushpin_map_caption = , coordinates = , sub ...

*Slim School,

Cameron Highlands The Cameron Highlands ( ms, Tanah Tinggi Cameron, , ta, கேமரன் மலை) is a district in Pahang, Malaysia, occupying an area of . To the north, its boundary touches that of Kelantan; to the west, it shares part of its border with ...

(1951–64, re-opened in Malacca in 1965 at Terendak Camp) *The Army School, Johore Bahru, MalaysiaMy father was Headmaster in 1969 ;Norway *St George's School, Bekkestua, Oslo ;Nepal *Dharan school, Dharan camp

References

External links

Official websiteBFES/SCEA Association
– association for former BFES, SCEA, SCS and SCE teachers and alumni
SCE Schools
(Archive)
SCE connected Learning community
(SCEcLc)

- IOE * *
Recollections & Photographs of former SCE schools
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