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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 (including its outlying bases).
Secondary
King's School, Gütersloh
Middle
John Buchan School, Sennelager
Primary
Blankenhagen School, Gütersloh
Bielefeld School, Bielefeld
Bishopspark First School, Paderborn
Haig Primary School, Gütersloh
Robert Browning School, Paderborn
St David's Primary School, Ramstein
William Wordsworth First School, Sennelager
Secondary
King Richard School, Dhekelia
St. John's School, Episkopi
Primary
Akrotiri School, RAF Akrotiri
Ayios Nikolaos School, Ayios Nikolaos Station
Episkopi Primary School
Dhekelia Primary School
BFS Naples, Italy
Hornbill School, Brunei
Mount Pleasant School, RAF Mount Pleasant, Falklands
SHAPE International School (British section), Belgium
St. Christopher's Middle School, Gibraltar
RAF Secondary School - Khormaksar - Aden
Secondary schools
Gloucester School, Hohne (closed July 2015)
Kent School, Hostert, near Schwalmtal (boarding school) (closed 1993)
Prince Rupert School, Rinteln (closed July 2014)
King Alfred School, Plön (closed 1959)
Windsor Boys' School, Hamm (boarding school)
Windsor Girls' School, Hamm (boarding school)
Windsor School, formerly Queen's School, Rheindahlen (closed July 2013)
Primary/middle schools
Ark Primary School, JHQ Rheindahlen (closed July 2013)
Bader First School, RAF Brüggen
Brüggen School, Elmpt, formerly RAF Bruggen (closed July 2015)
Cambridge Infant School, Münster
Cheshire Middle School, RAF Bruggen
Charlottenburg First School (closed 1990s) – Its facilities was taken over by the newly founded Berlin British School in 1994.
Derby School, Osnabrück (closed 2008)
Hannover Primary School
Heide School, Fallingbostel
Hemer Primary School
Iserlohn Primary School
Krefeld Primary School (closed in 2002) – It is now the site of Franz-Stollwerck-Schule.
Lancaster School, Minden
Lister Primary School, Herford (closed in July 2015)
Marlborough School, Osnabrück
Montgomery School, Hohne
Mountbatten Primary School, Celle
Oxford Primary School, Münster (closed in 2013)
Shackleton School, Fallingbostel
Sir John Mogg Primary School, Detmold (closed July 2014)
Slim School, Bergen
St Andrew's Primary School, Rheindahlen
St George's Primary School, Rheindahlen
St Patrick's Primary School, Rheindahlen
Suffolk School, Minden
York Junior School, Münster
BFES Germany RAF Borgentreich
St George's School (closed 1996) – The Australian International School Hong Kong uses some of its former facilities.
Gun Club Hill Primary School, Hong Kong
Secondary schools
Alexandra Grammar School. Later merged into Bourne School, it is now the site of ISS International School Preston campus.
Bourne School
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 Junior School
Pasir Panjang Junior School
Seletar Junior School
Tengah Junior School
Infants schools
Tanglin Infants School, Tanglin Barracks, Dempsey Road
Alexandra Infant School
