Service Children's Education
Service Children's Education is an organisation of the United Kingdom government responsible for the education of the children of British Armed Forces families and Ministry of Defence 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.
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.
History
During the 1980s, the British Families Education Service was renamed Service Children's School. In 1997 it took its current name Service Children's Education. 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, Upavon, Wiltshire. The business support office are co-located with that of the Children's Education and Advisory Service since August 2012.SCE was headquartered in the Wegberg Military Complex in Wegberg, Germany, until 2012. It briefly moved to JHQ Rheindahlen, until that base closed, too, in 2013.
In addition SCE have offices in Bielefeld, Germany and Episkopi Cantonment, Cyprus.
Curriculum
Schools follow the English National Curriculum, 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 Germany and Cyprus 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.Cyprus
;Secondary- King Richard School, Dhekelia
- St. John's School, Episkopi
- Akrotiri School, RAF Akrotiri
- Ayios Nikolaos School, Ayios Nikolaos Station
- Dhekelia Primary School
- Episkopi Primary School
Other
- BFS Naples, Italy
- Hornbill School, Brunei
- Mount Pleasant School, RAF Mount Pleasant, Falklands
- SHAPE International School, Belgium
- St. Christopher's Middle School, Gibraltar
Former Schools
Germany
;Secondary schools- Cornwall School, Dortmund
- Edinburgh School, Münster
- Gloucester School, Hohne
- Havel School, RAF Gatow, Berlin. Closed 1994. Was also the primary school until the building of Gatow First school in 1977
- Kent School, Hostert, near Schwalmtal
- King Alfred School, Plön
- King's School, Gütersloh
- Prince Rupert School, Rinteln
- Windsor Boys' School, Hamm
- Windsor Girls' School, Hamm
- Windsor School, formerly Queen's School, Rheindahlen
- Alanbrooke Primary, Dortmund, BFPO20
- Andrew Humphrey School, WWildenrath
- Ark Primary School, JHQ Rheindahlen
- 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, Bielefeld
- Bishopspark First School, Paderborn
- Blankenhagen School, Gütersloh
- Brüggen School, Elmpt, formerly RAF Bruggen
- Buckeburg Primary School, Buckeburg
- Cambridge Infant School, Münster
- Cheshire Middle School, RAF Bruggen
- Charlottenburg First School – Its facilities was taken over by the newly founded Berlin British School in 1994.
- Churchill School, Verden. Closed 1993
- Dalton Middle School, Düsseldorf
- Derby School, Osnabrück
- Fleming Primary School, Enger
- Gatow First School Berlin, Headmaster John Hancock,
- Griffon School, RAF Wildenrath
- 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 Primary School
- Herford Primary School, Herford
- Hobart Primary School, Detmold
- Iserlohn Primary School
- Jerboa Primary School, Soltau
- John Buchan Middle School, Sennelager
- John Buchan School, Sennelager
- Krefeld Primary School – It is now the site of .
- Lancaster School, Minden
- Lippstadt Primary School, Lippstadt
- Lister Primary School, Herford
- Maas First school, RAF Laarbruch
- Marlborough School, Osnabrück
- Merlin School, RAF Wildenrath
- Möhne Primary School, Soest
- Montgomery School, Hohne
- Mountbatten Primary School, Celle
- Oxford Primary School, Münster
- 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
- Slim School, Bergen
- Spandau Primary School, Berlin
- St Andrew's Primary School, Rheindahlen
- 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
- Trenchard School, Gütersloh
- Wavell Primary School, Bergen
- Wellington First School, Osnabrück
- Wetter Primary School, Wetter
- Wildenrath Primary, Wildenrath
- William Wordsworth First School, Sennelager
- York Junior School, Münster
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 – The Australian International School Hong Kong uses some of its former facilities.,
- Victoria Junior School, Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong
Singapore
- 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 is now occupied by an art gallery, the NTU Contemporary Art Singapore, 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.
- 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
Malta
- Army Children's School St Andrew's Pembroke
- Royal Naval School Verdala
- RAF Luqa
- RAF School for Infants Safi
- St David's Mtarfa
- Army Children's School Tigne
- Royal Naval School Tal Handaq
Other countries
- Khormaksar School, RAF Khormaksar
- Emblem Primary School, Antwerp
- Toucan School, BATSUB
- BSCS Berakas
- BSCS Muara
- Bourne School, Kuala Lumpur
- Slim School, Cameron Highlands
- The Army School, Johore Bahru, Malaysia
- St George’s School, Bekkestua, Oslo
- Dharan school, Dharan camp