Netball: Girls' Pre-Season Training for selected pupils at King's, finishes 5:00pm
Membership of the CCF is voluntary with pupils joining from the 4th Form. The Contingent at King’s Bruton has a ‘section’ from two of the services: Army and Royal Navy. The training syllabus is followed for the two years that pupils are in the CCF and this takes place on Friday afternoons. In the 4th Form pupils will follow a term of Army training and a term of Royal Navy training before choosing the section that most appeals to them for the summer term. and then take part in activities appropriate to that service. In the 5th Form pupils choose one service to follow for that year.
Throughout the year, extra activities including a termly Field Day are made available to all pupils in the CCF. The CCF is proud to enter several teams for the annual Ten Tors Challenge and runs its own NCO Cadre Leadership Course. Moreover, the CCF has its own shooting range, assault course and thirty acres of school land. There is so much on offer to a pupil who signs up for CCF at King’s Bruton.
The School based Army Field Days incorporate military skills, such as patrolling and section attacks, observations, map reading, first aid and command tasks. Army Field Days off site have included high ropes and leadership training, coasteering, sea kayaking and survival skills for the 4th Form cadets. The 5th Form cadets experience a live range day at Yoxter Ranges, Priddy, as well as a 24 hour overnight Military Skills Exercise.
The Royal Navy section experience coasteering, raft building, sea kayaking and paddle boarding. Pupils also go sailing at Cheddar Reservoir and visit HMS Raleigh for a firefighting and DRIU exercise.
King’s also offers cadets the chance to go on a summer camp, these are either run by the SWCTT or organised by the School CCF. These include trips to the Isle of Wight at Jersey Camp and to the outdoor adventure camp in Snowdonia, North Wales.
The Sword of Honour is an award at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst that is awarded to the Cadet considered to be the best out of the intake. It is presented by the Sovereign, or Sovereign’s representative, at the Sovereign’s Parade. Old Brutonian, Myles Jenkins, was awarded the Sword of Honour in 2023 as the best Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Sovereign’s Parade for Commissioning Course No. 222.
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The contingent is directed and managed by the Contingent Commander, Major Barrow, who oversees a dedicated team consisting of teaching staff who have been commissioned into the forces with officer status and trained specifically to serve the cadet force. We also have our own full-time School Staff Instructor, a former PTI. In addition to our own CCF officers, we are routinely visited by regular forces personnel who assist with the cadets training.
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