The Russian Embassy School in Notting Hill educates the children of diplomats and spies, as well as a small number of children whose parents are not Russian officials, including those who hold British citizenship.
Lesson plans for the 2025-26 academic year seen by The Times show that Year 10 pupils — aged 15 and 16 — were given an hour-long lesson last month in the “basics of technical preparation and communications” for combat drones.
Other classes taught last term included one on fortifications engineering; two on first aid on the battlefield; and another on how to protect oneself against radiological, biological and chemical weapons.
The teaching is part of a course called Fundamentals of Security and Protection of the Motherland, known as OBZR, which was introduced across Russian schools at the start of the 2024/2025 academic year.
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The Times reported previously that as part of the Fundamentals of Life Safety course children at the embassy school were being taught how to assemble Kalashnikovs and were throwing tennis balls around the playground to simulate grenade use.
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tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I would be a little grouchy about my benefits package if I were a Russian spy and one of my state-provided perks was an education for my kids and it wound up being aimed at peacetime instruction in general infantry skills.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Maybe the kids were playing to much wiki/America’s_Army and alike :D.
/s