Combined Cadet Force

The CCF is available to pupils at the age of 15. They choose one of three services or 'arms': the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force. All three services offer the pupils chances to practice marksmanship skills, to develop leadership skills and to work as part of a team. However each arm also offers the cadet additional opportunities unique to the individual service. Each year cadets have the opportunity to partake in several trips, camps etc. which are heavily subsidised by the MOD. These include summer camps to practice and develop the skills they have learnt that year, expeditions including Mr Spowart's famous winter Cairngorms trip, and courses such as scuba diving, kayaking, mountain walking, sailing, power boating, shooting etc. which all lead to a civilian qualification.

Community Service

CSO provides pupils with the opportunity to develop their skills and broaden their experience by contributing to worthy activities beyond the confines of the school campus. Through contact with organisations and institutions which deal with the general public it provides an insight to the workings of the adult world and helps to develop a sense of team work, responsibility and initiative. It is a hugely popoular activity.

Duke of Edinburgh

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme at MCS aims to provide an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development through a variety of activities. There are three separate awards - Bronze, Silver and Gold - and at each of these three levels there are four sections: service, skills, physical recreation and expeditions. There is a huge range of activities from which you can tailor a programme to suit yourself. The expeditions are always popular and during the last two academic years we ran camping trips to the New Forest, the Lake District, the Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, the Ridgeway, the Brecon Beacons and the Cotswolds. Our Gold group participated in expeditions to the North York Moors and Arran.