Chichester High School For Girls - Combined Cadet Force

Combined Cadet Force

Over the years Chichester High School Combined Cadet Force has gained many awards and built up a very good reputation of being one of the best in the country. Its aim is to "provide a disciplined organisation in a school so that pupils may develop powers of leadership by means of training to promote the qualities of responsibility, self reliance, resourcefulness, endurance and perseverance". It is not a pre-service organisation, although it acknowledges that one of its objectives is "to encourage those who have an interest in the services to become Officers of the Regular or Reserve Forces", and many previous cadets have. It has an Army section affiliated with the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment and an RAF section but no Navy section due to an agreement at the time of the formation with the local Sea Cadets. The Army section regularly goes to Longmoor and Browndown Battery for training exercises and the RAF section makes forays to MOD Boscombe Down and other local airbases for Air Experience Flying. The contingent uses the L98A1 Cadet GP Rifle, the L82 Cadet Target Rifle and the Lee Enfield Rifle No.8.