BFES-SCEA-Association

Welcome to the BFES-SCEA-Association

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Updated 14 June 2018

news and photos added re Germany reunion June 2018

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Latest News - see also 'Noticeboard'
(drop down under 'Home')

Newsletter 39 has been added - click on link in welcome bar above

It is not yet 'behind' the members' password, because the file is too large for my clockwork Internet to upload; hence it is reached via a clickable link for now. Newsletters normally begin behind the members' password and become 'public' for non-members when the subsequent newsletter is uploaded.

News of our recent Germany reunion in June 2018 is on the 'events' page

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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.

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.

Your web-site editor thanks Tom and wonders what a suitable prize might be? Perhaps one of the fine boards on the left? Meanwhile, here on right is another school .... any takers?

Here above is #2 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?

Below: A picture found & enlarged!

INSPECTION AND ADVISORY SERVICE: EARLY 1990S: CHURCH HOUSE, LUBBECKE

Front Row: (left to right)
Maureen Elliot; Stuart Gill (Adviser); Peter Gaskell (Chief Adviser); Chris Ingham (Senior I/A); Tom Nielsen-Marsh (Staff Dev Officer)

Middle Row: (right to left)
Chris Webster (Secondary I/A); Jan Coates (Ad T); Cyndy Lancaster (I/A Early Years); Paddy Powell; Brenda Titley (cook); ???; Christine Caulfield (Ad T); Cheryl Williams (Ad T); ???; ???.

Back Row: (left to right)
???; Paul Rogers (Staff Dev Officer); Ian Forrest (Senior I/A); Richard Vaughn (Ad T); Jan Fisher (St Dev Off); Andrew Gavin (Ad T); Marian Jones (Ad T); Diana Batt (I/A Early Years); Oswin Hall (I/A Primary); David Harfield (I/A Secondary); Stuart Dyke (Staff Dev Officer).

1965 – “School Is Everywhere” – DVD

The original reel-to-reel version of this promotional film, showing the life and work of teachers and administrators with the British Families’ Education Service, is housed at the National Film Archive. A DVD version is held at the IOE but copies may be obtained from the Association’s Archivist at a cost of £5. All proceeds go the BFES/SCE Association’s funds. Below is a short 2 minute collection of clips from the original 20 minute reel to reel film.

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Closure of St George's School, Hong Kong, 1996

Merlin School, RAF Wildenrath, St George's Day 1975

Peter Hall's Memoires - now added to our Association's Archives at the IoE.

** Blankenhagen Primary School, previously named Andrew Humphrey School, closed in July 2016. The Headteacher, Ben Turner, invited all guests to a closing ceremony in June. **

(Photographs of the event are added to the Archives page and boxes of archives relating the history of the school will soon be on their way to the Association's archives)

Staff Photograph 1978

Staff Photograph 2016

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Brunswick Teachers' Course: 1949-50

St Andrew's Primary Staff: Hong Kong: 1983

Hanover School: 1948-49

POSTED!

This sculpture was created by the children of Ark primary School (JHQ), in 2013 and has been on permanent display at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, since 2016. Since November 2017 it has sported an explanatory sign and a 'QR' code' linking to a simple web-page.

Your new webmaster is trying to figure out how to create a hot-link. Meanwhile, here is the URL: https://postedark.wordpress.com/

See our 'noticeboard' page for details of planned dedication on 8th April, 2018

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The one Association for all who currently work, or have worked, with Service Children's Education abroad.

Are you currently working as a teacher or a locally employed member of staff (LET), have you recently left, or will you soon be leaving SCE? Have you worked for any of SCE's predecessors, such as SCS, SCEA or BFES? If so then you are eligible to join.
This is an opportunity to keep up with friends, present and former colleagues. It will allow you to keep up with what is going on in SCE around the world. There are also opportunities for you to enjoy professional and social functions. Please consider seriously joining the BFES-SCE Association! A copy of the quarterly newsletter is sent to every SCE school.

By joining the BFES-SCE Association you will be entitled and enabled to:

Maintain and revive friendships
Attend annual re-unions, local and national
Have access to the growing archive stored at the London University's Institute of Education.
Receive the termly Newsletter of the Association, and contribute to it.

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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 colleagies at Marlborough First School, Osnabruck; 1981 - 1884.

Marlborough Staff May 1982

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

Marlborough Staff May 1984

??, ??, 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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RAF Bruggen Schoolies Football Team 1978

Final Year of primary aged pupils at JHQ 2013

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Welcome to the Association's website! This site is designed to give you information about the Association easily and speedily. We are trying to update the site every month in order to attract non members to the Association and to ensure ongoing interest in its activities. Feel free to make contributions to the site through the Website Manager as it becomes more interactive.

We oversee many reunions throughout the year, where there are opportunities to enjoy conversation, comradeship and good food with similarly minded people with BFES-SCEA experiences.

If you already belong to the Association, then please feel free to contribute to the site by contacting Glyn Pascoe, our Chairman & Website Manager. If you do not already belong, contact our Membership Secretaries, Hugh & Christine Ritchie who will send you all necessary details. Tell your friends and former colleagues about the Association and this website, and please consider contributing to the Association's activities. Details of the many re-unions appear on this site - for details please see the Events Page.

The Association has several hundred members, the vast majority being former or still serving teachers, but also including some former advisors, administrators and educational psychologists. Most members now live in the UK but many are elsewhere in the world.

Summer 2015 saw the closures of the schools in Hohne/Fallingbostel Garrisons.

A significant quantity of memorabilia, documents and photographs were collected and sent to the Association's

archivist. Much of this has now been sorted, annotated, catalogued and deposited in the Association's archives at the

Institute of Education, University College London.

The final box of material from Gloucester School, Hohne was deposited on in November 2015.

Some examples are included on our Archives page.

Staff of Gloucester School, Hohne, 1996

Association President

For health reasons Mr Nolan Clamp has stood down as our President. We would like to use this opportunity to thank him for his tremendous support for the Association and his unstinting support of schools during his many years as Director of BFES.

Association Committee

For a range of health reasons, a number of committee members submitted their retirement from the Association's Committee but will remain as supportive members of the Association. They are Dr. Michael & Christine Ford, Gareth Morgans and Joan Hunt. All members attending the AGM unanimously acknowledged the good work which these Committee Members have contributed over the years.

The following members were nominated, seconded and unanimously elected to the Committee in Autumn 2016, to serve for the next twelve months:
Chairman - Ken Jones
Vice-Chair - Walter Lewis
Events Co-ordinator - Sue Adams,
Treasurer - Janet Bradley,
Secretary - Lynn Marshall,
Archivist - Walter Lewis.
Website Manager - Mike Chislett,
Membership Secretaries - Hugh & Christine Ritchie,
Newsletter Editor - Tom Nielsen-Marsh

Ladies Teachers' Mess, Hohne, Germany 1964

This photograph, and some others displayed on the Archives pages, is taken from " Tommy Atkins' Children" - the story of the Education of Army's Children, 1675 - 1970, by Colonel NT St John Williams BA. HMSO 1071

John Trevelyan, the founding Director of BFES is quoted in 1946 as follows:-

'Never in the history of education endeavour have people chosen so bad a time and so bad a place to begin an entirely new venture with so little to meet so many possibilities.'

This statement is made on the establishment of the British Families Education Service, BFES, Germany, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.

" The new Director of BFES was John Trevelyan who was a brilliant administrator and very capable of handling Commanding Officers to secure buildings on army sites which would make satisfactory schools. We were able in the first year (1947) to establish, with the help of the army, having schools form Flensburg on the Danish border to Frankfurt in the south and Berlin in the east." - extract from the brief memories of Arabella Kurdi (nee Pallister). More on the Archives page.

The Association's Archive Page, updated July 2016,

- contains multifarious items, including documents, photographs, records, memorabilia and artefacts. This archive is constantly being added to and is proving of great interest to historians as well as to members of the Association.
With a number of schools currently closing due to the reduction of bases we would ask staff in those schools to send log books, photographs, documents etc to the Association's Archivist as part of your close-down procedure. This material has a significant historical interest for the future.

The final staff of Windsor School Rheindahlen on its closure in 2013.

Pictured below: An early group of SCE teachers undertaking the NPQH in 1999
Can anyone add more details? It looks like Cyprus.
Your web-master suggests anti-clockwise from right, identities could be:
Martin Woods (Windsor), Sue Marshall (PRS) ??, ??. Jane Clarke-Dyke (then Naples), Wilma Simpson (then Bishopspark), ??, Lynda Donaldson (then IAS)

Association's Annual Reunion 2014 - Liverpool City Hall

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St John's Comprehensive School, Singapore, 1969

Staff and Pupils of Charlottenburg School, Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate 1990s

Headteacher - Sue Adams (with hat) & deputy Malcolm Brooke (back left)

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Schools operating today - Go to the 'Schools' Page and open the link to give you access to all the schools websites showing how they operate today and catch up with their day to day activities. All the schools in the Hohne/Fallingbostel area closed in July 2015. They have contributed a significant amount of material to the Association's Archives. Much of this has been deposited with our professional archivist colleagues at the Institute of Education, University College, London.
New announcement - The link to Bourne School on the links page has now been amended.