Ysgol Glan Clwyd

Ms. Pritchard was keen to set up a group to support any children/young people connected to the Armed Forces after experiencing her son joining the Royal Navy. Ms. Pritchard realised that there must be pupils at the school who were going through similar things with their family connections. She did some research and approached our team to see what support we could offer. The club has gone from strength to strength. Here Ms. Pritchard explains what her role as the Service Children School Champion (SCSC) entails, when they meet and what sort of activities the club has participated in...

'We meet once a week for 20 minutes during registration. Activities we have done so far this year (since September 2023) are: creating and presenting an assembly, sold poppies and other items for RBL in preparation for Remembrance day and meeting on Remembrance day. We prepared and sent Christmas care packages for serving sailors. We joined a Christmas assembly online by The Welsh British Army Regional Engagement Team (RET). Last year we also had visits from Forces Fitness, Celebrated 'month of the military child', had visits from some of our serving family member and had a workshop from RWF museum. We ran a stand at the schools open evenings, filmed with SSCE Cymru, celebrated Armed Forces Day with a sweet stall and raised money for RBL. The club members created and filled a notice board with information of our activities and started posting our activities on Instagram and 'X'. We have flagged our Service children/young people on our classcharts system, so we can collect data and work with SSCE Cymru to continue to support these pupils.'

A busy year for the members of Ysgol Glan Clywd club - da iawn!