CADET UNIT

Sponsor: The Head Master

Master-in-Charge: Maj. Timothy Barden

SUO    Hayden Lammiman (12WJ)

The Unit stresses Adventure Training and offers a wide variety of training to cater for many interests – signals, survival courses and first aid courses, navigation and officer training.  Boys in Years 10 and 11 who remain in the Unit take courses in Leadership Training to prepare for various positions of responsibility in the following year. This aspect of the Unit is seen as its most important and valuable function within the whole School framework. The School uses a variety of different military training areas for its bivouacs and camps.

i)       General
Leave Policy in the Cadet Unit.  Because of the cumulative nature of the training programme, leave from the activity will only be granted if absolutely necessary. Only in exceptional cases will retrospective leave be granted. All leave requests should be accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Cadet’s parent or guardian, and submitted well in advance to the Officer Commanding (OC).

Friday Parades. The approving authority for all leave applications for Friday parades is the OC. Any Cadet who requires leave is responsible for ensuring that he provides a note from his parent or guardian and hands the application to the OC or the 2IC in person no later than the Wednesday before parade.  Failure to apply in this way is likely to result in a detention being issued.

Appointments to see dentists and doctors MUST NOT be made for Friday afternoons as this is compulsory co-curricular time and as such is regarded as being within School time.

Annual Church Parade/Bivouacs/Camps/Annual Ceremonial Parade. The approving authority for leave from all of the above Cadet activities, which are not Friday afternoon parades, is the Head Master. Common courtesy dictates that adequate advance notice be given. Cadets are required to check the entries in the Record Book at the beginning of the year, rather than discover clashes at the last moment.

ii)     Dress and Bearing
Cadets are reminded that the uniform they wear identifies them with the School and the Army. These organisations both have proud traditions, which it is the Cadets’ duty to uphold. Cadets should particularly note that headgear should be worn at all times while in public. Cadets are not to wear any shoes or boots other than Cadet boots when travelling to and from School.

Boys must look after equipment and clothing issued to them and report any loss or damage immediately to a staff member. All members of the Cadet unit are to wear the following uniform (this includes ironed uniform and polished boots in good order) to Friday parades:

a. Trousers DPCU                                    
b. Shirt DPCU
c. Hat KFF (with Cadet Badge) (all Cadets and Rank)
d. Boots (GP)                                            
e. Black belt with brass (Rank Only)

Parade Details:
Friday afternoon from 3:05pm to 4.50pm beginning and ending around the Quadrangle.