Pembrokeshire Service Pupil Promise

On Thursday 26th June Pembrokeshire County Council held the first Service Pupil Promise event in Wales. The event brought together 60 Service children from different schools across Pembrokeshire to take part in this pupil voice initiative for Service children.  

Prior to this main event, held at Wolfscastle Hotel, smaller school based workshops had been held at some schools in April. Information gathered during these initial workshops was used to support plans for the main event during which Service children had the opportunity to reflect on the impact of Service life, share their experiences and views, consider how their schools support and celebrate them whilst also identifying what more could be done to improve provision for Service children.  

During the event students enjoyed a range of creative and reflective tasks. This culminated in the creation of individual school pledges e.g. “We promise to look out for each other while our parents look after our country.” 

The event also gave the staff from schools (Service Children School Champions) the opportunity to network and share best practice.  

A massive thank you to all staff from Pembrokeshire County Council; Kelly, Susie, Kay, Nadine and Bethany, as well as Ben from the Army Welfare Service for working alongside colleagues from SSCE Cymru (Becca, Yazz and Jo) to make this event happen and taking the lead in Wales. And of course a huge thank you to the Service children and school staff for taking part.  

Next steps will be to use the Service pupil voice gathered to create a commitment from the local authority to support children from Armed Forces families, ensuring the LA listen to their voices, and strengthen their commitment to the Covenant.   

SSCE Cymru hopes this will be the first of many Service Pupil Promise events across Wales. If you are interested in running a Service Pupil Promise event in your local authority, please get in touch; sscecymru@wlga.gov.uk