​Welcome to the BFES-SCE Association (MoD Schools)​

This website has served its time and is closing soon, because our 
new website is now open
​BFES-SCE Association - Home (bfposchools.co.uk)

BFES-SCE Association has constructed a whole new website. 
This is now open - www.bfposchools.co.uk

The new website operates as a complement to the Association's relaunched (new) Facebook presence .... search 'BFES-SCEA Association' (on Facebook) - or cut and paste this link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/127517249321845/permalink/158389772901259/

Picture
files are gradually being removed from this old site !




Gutersloh Music Centre hosted a BFG Closing Celebration on Saturday 22nd June 2019

One of the highlights was this specially written song:
Sung here on June 2019 by choirs of Attenborough, Bishopspark, Bielefeld, Haig and John Buchan Schools .... Dave Reeves (Music teacher, Gutersloh Music Centre) composed this song especially .... the words give a pocket history of BFG and its schools. More than 90 known BFG and BAOR school locations are mentioned. 

We have a video - but we are not sharing this for now, until we are sure there are no issues regarding permissions.  However, we also have a great sound recording (thank you BFBS) .... click the 'go' triangle on the sound bar below. 


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Good homes wanted before they become firewood!

Your webmaster was able to liberate the plaques and boards below from the 'portacabins' at Upavon, late in 2015.  They are too large for our archives and good homes are sought.  Offers please to the web-master.  Delivery almost anywhere in UK may be possible.

stop press - the 'Alex Harvey opening of SCE in 1997' has been adopted - thank you Tom N-M

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​Here below is #1 of an occasional series ... 'Spot the school' !

Answers on email to webmaster, please (via link at bottom of this page ... scroll down)

​For a bonus.... what decade? 




We have a winner! 

Tom Jordan writes .... 
The school is Haig School, Gutersloh. I was therein the 80s. I think this may be 1990s?


It is indeed Haig School, but a few years later - this picture was 2003, I think.  The car mirror is my 2000 purple Skoda Octavia (still running in 2018, several registrations later & recently spotted with Spanish plates in Fuengirola).  

Haig's head from mid 90s until late 2003 was Brian Ashton.  Mike Chislett took the school on for most of 2003/4 and then Tony Berwick was appointed from UK (Milton Keynes).  Tony oversaw a major overhaul to the building, which included a new office and reception area where the blue sign and fir tree are in the photo. 
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​Your web-site editor thanks Tom and wonders what a suitable prize might be?  Perhaps one of the fine boards on the left?  Meanwhile, on right is another school .... any takers?



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Here above is #2 of the occasional series ... 'Spot the school' !

There were no winners to this one .... it is Hackedahl, in Detmold .... this picture dates from about 2005, long after the school and the housing estate it served had been handed back.  When the photo was taken, the building was in use as a youth centre. 



# 3 winner! 

Philip and Barbara Arrandale recognised this as Toucan School in 1999.  They are both in the picture.  Your web-master owes tthe winners a suitable prize !   (Nov 20)


#4 'Spot the School' .....

​our headteacher here has enticed Michael Fish (weatherman) to talk to the children & it is certainly a windy location ..... where and when (to the decade)?
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Staff Photograph 1978

Staff Photograph 2016
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Much of the information on this web-site and in the Association's Newsletters comes from the attics/albums of ex-teachers' own memorabilia which they have kindly donated. This history of our schools eventually makes its way into our archives held at the IoE at University College London.

Below are two examples of such donations, from Marian Andrews (Nee Riley) of her colleagues at Marlborough First School, Osnabruck; 1981 - 1884.
Peter Owens, Kate Johnson, Sheila McCafferty, Charlotte Wilkinsin, Marion Riley, Mary Brennan, Eileen Hilton, Glyn Pascoe.
Maria Wardlaw, Roisin Wellard, Patsy Hope, Eric Wilson,?, Anne Bull, Jinty Cowie
??, ??, Sheila McCafferty, Marian Riley, Paula Clarke, Lesley Bayley, Sue King, Dawn Turner, Patsy Hope, Viv Evans, Joan Hunt, Peter Owens, Jinty Cowie, Anne Robbins, Moira Nicholl.
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