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Survival – It’s a jungle out there
This is how we put it to new parents: picture the scene - your 15 year old son
or daughter nds themselves trapped
in an alien environment a long way from home – no mobile phone and no other way of seeking assistance. Since they started their adventure things have not worked out the way they expected. They are all alone and time is running out. The decisions they make in the next few hours will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Will they remain calm, and have the resilience to survive and succeed or will the challenge over-face them, and will they simply panic, give up and sit down to await their fate?
Would your child have the self-con dence and comprehensive training to enable them to cope with this nightmare scenario? We know that the leadership and personal development program offered by the CCF is focused on delivering exactly the sense of personal responsibility and self-reliance that enables young people to succeed in the face of this kind of adversity and the CCF cadets at Bromsgrove are testament to this.
This shock tactic seems to work and
with the strength of the contingent reaching over 300 for the rst time in many decades more and more students are enjoying the opportunities on offer. At Bromsgrove our pupils thrive on a challenge and this year, as always, the CCF cadets have engaged in a frenetic and rewarding whirlwind of activities. This year new uniforms have been a popular feature – all senior Army cadets have all been
issued Multi Terrain Pattern (MTP) uniforms as per their Regular Army counterparts. A new Bromsgrove School CCF Unit Patch has been created to be worn on MTP and was awarded to the cadets by Colonel Carruthers during The Biennial Inspection.
The Prime Minister’s of ce initiative to set
up 100 new CCF contingents has resulted in Bromsgrove School successfully welcoming 30 cadets from our local state comprehensives under a formal Cadet Partnership Agreement. The new cadets are fully integrated into the contingent and have engaged in all activities on offer including eld days, shooting competitions, RAF ying experience days, Bronze DofE training and summer camp.
The anniversary of The First World War gave special poignancy to the Remembrance Service this academic year and the CCF marked the occasion by completing this year’s Gold DofE expedition in the Ardennes in the area that the French and German Armies rst met – this was followed by a battle eld tour and ceremony at the Menin Gate to remember our fallen Old Bromsgrovians. Cadets
brought back some earth from the battle elds with bullet fragments which have been incorporated into a memorial garden, which owered into a beautiful display of bright red poppies over the summer.