Should we, as the phrase goes, "take our place within the pattern of the local education authority", or should we, on the other hand, go independent?

The first is whether the past history and present nature of a school fits in with the overall structure of the pattern of the local education authority for children in the Dulwich area.

A long-established grammar school, annually recruited to carry out what has for long been recognised by a substantial number of LEAs as its specific academic purpose, does not easily transform itself overnight into a comprehensive school to serve a limited catchment area.

Even if it could do that, with extraordinary metamorphoses of staff and objectives, there is no evidence whatever that any local education authority would be prepared to absorb it.

These Cadet Force adult volunteers have a range of military, civilian or teaching backgrounds.

The Alleyn's CCF offers a JNCO CADRE, a unique leadership and advanced infantry training programme, as well as visits to European Battlefields, military bases in England and Wales, and recent courses in Northern Sweden and Cyprus.

For Remembrance Sunday 2022, Alleyn's was invited to provide a stair party of cadets from the Army Section for the arrival of HM the King at the Cenotaph in London.

DofE is also offered, with students taking part in volunteering, skills based activities and a final expedition at the end of the year.