EDUCATION
Respect and Discipline
The Historic Military Academy, The Duke of York’s Royal Military School, has been asked to help improve standards in the State schools of Kent. Petra Coveney reports.
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he Duke of York’s Royal Military School is a full boarding school, founded 200 years ago to educate
the orphans of soldiers of the Napoleonic wars. In recent times it
has been awarded Academy status. The school is sponsored by the MoD and is overseen by the Department for Education. With its outstanding performance the school has been asked to advise on the setting up of a student military cadre at Astor College, a State High School in a deprived part of Dover. The aim is to raise standards of achievement and develop the Government’s ‘Respect Agenda’.
Astor school is located in a disadvantaged part of Dover, a once prosperous garrison town, which has suffered rising unemployment. Despite the closure of the Dover and Deal garrisons, many Astor College students still have connections with the garrisons at Hythe, Folkestone and Canterbury and the area is steeped in military tradition.
This exciting programme starts this academic year and will see a group of
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Astor College girls and boys aged 11-19 put through their paces in Combined Cadet Force (CCF) and ceremonial training. The students will also undertake a BTEC in Public Service, adventurous training and the Duke of Edinburgh Award as part of a Collaborative Partnership Agreement between the two schools.
So far, fifty students have signed up to join the military cadre and will wear their uniforms at their own school twice a week in classes. The group will learn to handle weapons, navigate, fly aircraft and will be kitted out in ceremonial uniforms to take part in drill practice at school in preparation for parades in Dover. This will all be under the close supervision of the School’s Regimental Sergeant Major.
It is hoped that by undertaking similar military training to the students at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School, the Astor College students will develop the same leadership skills and self-discipline that has
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