Service Children's Education

Service Children's Education was 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 provided 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 continued to operate under the SCE name as part of the MoD's Directorate Children and Young People.
At one point the organization's mission was taken over by DCYP, which was created in 2010. In 2021 DCYP was separated into two organisations: Defence Children Services and Armed Forces Families and Safeguarding.

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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.
In 2001 the records of the British Families Education Service / Service Children's Education Association were deposited at the Institute of Education, University College London. The papers chart the establishment and development of the BFES. Since then numerous additions have been made to the collection and material is continuously being acquired.

Management

Headquarters and offices

SCE were 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 had 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 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.
Schools are:
; Belgium

SHAPE Primary School, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Belgium

; Brunei

Treetops Early Years Setting and Hornbill Primary School

; Cyprus

King Richard Secondary School, Dhekelia
St. John's Secondary School, Episkopi
Akrotiri Early Years Setting and Akrotiri Primary School, RAF Akrotiri
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, Falklands

; Germany

Attenborough Early Years and Attenborough Primary School
St David’s Primary School

; Gibraltar

Sunflowers Early Years Setting and St Christopher’s Early Years Foundation Stage

; Italy

BFS Naples Primary School, Italy

; Netherlands

AFNORTH Primary School

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

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;Primary/middle schools

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

Bünde Primary School

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

Hildesheim Primary School

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 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
Wildenrath Primary, Wildenrath
William Wordsworth First School, Sennelager
York Junior School, Münster

Gilbraltar

St. Christopher's Middle School, Gibraltar

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

;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 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.

;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

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

;Secondary schools

Royal Naval School Tal Handaq

Other countries

;Colony of Aden

Khormaksar School, RAF Khormaksar

;Belgium

Emblem Primary School, Antwerp

;Belize

Toucan School, BATSUB

;Brunei

BSCS Berakas
BSCS Muara

;Malaysia

Bourne School, Kuala Lumpur
Slim School, Cameron Highlands
The Army School, Johore Bahru, Malaysia

;Norway

St George's School, Bekkestua, Oslo

;Nepal

Dharan school, Dharan camp