Service Children's Education

Service Children’s Education (SCE) is an Agency of the MOD and is dedicated to the education of the children of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, MoD Personnel and sponsored organisations stationed overseas.

SCE seeks to provide a first class system of schools and educational support services and aims to provide an effective and efficient education service, from Foundation Stage through to sixth form, and to enable children to benefit from their residence abroad.

Our schools follow the National Curriculum (England), administer national assessments and public examinations, and are inspected by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate (HMI). Teachers in SCE schools must have recognised UK professional qualifications and the majority are recruited specially from the United Kingdom for service in our schools.

We are pleased to say that our examination and assessment results place us among the leading Local Authorities in the United Kingdom. Reports by the Office for Standards in Education (OfSTED), which provides an independent inspection service for our schools, have been consistently good and compare very favourably with those made on UK schools. The work of schools is backed by our own Inspection Advisory Service which provides the necessary in-service training facilities to ensure that our schools are conversant with developments in the United Kingdom.

Mission

To provide an effective and efficient education service, from Foundation Stage through to sixth form, for dependent children residing with MOD personnel serving outside the United Kingdom, and to enable those children to benefit from their residence abroad.

Ethos

Excellence, Respect, Integrity and Commitment

Vision

SCE aims for excellence, both as a provider of educational services to the children and families that it serves and as an employer. It therefore aims to:

• be the best
• do the best for all pupils and students by seeking to ensure that all achieve their full potential in every aspect of school life whilst with SCE
• do the best for our teaching, support and office staff in all locations by offering comprehensive, relevant and timely training opportunities for their own professional and career development to enrich their work with children or in support of the Agency
• raise aspiration as well as achievement

Directorate for Children and Young People

The MoD has now established a Directorate for Children and Young People (DCYP). The Directorate is the focal point for all matters relating to children and young people who belong to the Armed Forces community, at home and overseas.For more information on DCYP please follow Related pages link on right hand side.