Month of the Military Child at Ysgol Bae Baglan

Throughout the month of April, Ysgol Bae Baglan (Neath Port Talbot) have been busy celebrating Month of the Military Child with their primary and secondary phase children completing activities and competitions to celebrate themselves and their experiences.

Abby Challenger, Service Children School Champion at Ysgol Bae Baglan, shared:

"Our service children from Nursery- Year 11 have had the opportunity to enter an art competition where they produced a piece of artwork that displays their experiences of military life. A variety of fantastic artwork was produced which is displayed in the school for all to see.

The pupils were presented Easter egg rewards for their hard work in front of their peers which gave us opportunity to discuss MOTMC with non-service children in our school also.

Pupils and staff throughout our Primary and Secondary school have been provided with pin badges and stickers to celebrate MOTMC which have been worn with pride all month. We have displayed our MOTMC banner outside of the school to inform the wider community that we are celebrating MOTMC and to inspire others to do so also. In addition to this we have displayed our Armed Forces Friendly School zap stand in the reception of our upper school to remind visitors of our dedication to our Armed Forces families.

Our younger classes have enjoyed participating in Little Troopers colouring pages, whilst wearing their MOTMC stickers with pride. They have loved taking part in walks looking for dandelions and discussing how the flower represents the military child.

We have taken the opportunity to update parents and our wider school community with the work we are doing by adding images and updates to our school website throughout the month of April.

We then came together with other service children within the LA and participated in a fun day, which the children thoroughly enjoyed. Additionally, some of our YBB service children joined veterans in the Aberavon shopping Centre for a “street party” to celebrate VE Day. The pupils shared cards of appreciation they made for the veterans to thank them for their service."

Diolch/ Thank you for sharing these lovely photos with us Ysgol Bae Baglan. It looks like you've had a very busy month of celebrating and raising awareness of your Service children and their experiences.