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Month of the Military Child 2024 activities

A visit from a military parent at Ysgol Cefn Meiriadog (Denbighshire)

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Ysgol Cefn Meiriadog are a school in Denbighshire, North Wales, with one Service child. Please see below a quote from Headteacher, Laura Martin, and some lovely photos of what they got up to in April to celebrate Month of the Military Child!

Celebrations at Haverfordwest High VC School (Pembrokeshire)

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Haverfordwest High VC School are a secondary school in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, with 60 Service children.

WOW days at Ysgol Penygloddfa (Powys)

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Ysgol Penygloddfa, a primary school in Powys with 4 Service children, had a busy month full of Month of the Military Child celebrations during April. Service children and their peers took part in hosting charity bake sales, sporty activities such as zumba and wheelchair basketball, arts and crafts sessions which included creating dandelion art sculptures and a banner for purple up day to name a few! 

Dandelion artwork at Ysgol Pen y Bryn (Conwy)

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Service children at Ysgol Pen y Bryn (Conwy) enjoyed experimenting with watercolours and painted some fantastic pieces of dandelion artwork during Month of the Military Child this year.

Purple ribbons at Ysgol Glan Clwyd (Denbighshire)

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Serving young people from Ysgol Glan Clwyd (Denbighshire) made purple ribbons and added notes about what it meant to them to be a part of an Armed Forces family. 

A busy month at Baglan Primary School (Neath Port Talbort)

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Baglan Primary School in Neath Port Talbot had a busy month celebrating Month of the Military Child with their Little Troopers and wider school community!

Service children’s quotes

"As soon as we get used to a house, you get moved - I’ve been to four schools and moved six times."

Aiden

"I lived in Nepal, then we went to Brunei, then Malaysia."

Ashim

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Chloe

"I’m used to moving now and mixing with the children... I’ve done it so many times, it’s just a normal thing now."

Chloe

"It's ok talking over skype and that, but sometimes you just want a hug when Dad is away."

Georgia

"I’ve enjoyed going around to lots of places around the world, it's adventurous and exciting."

Harry

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Ieuan

"My mum got a chalk board and it says how many sleeps on it with chalk, every minute it’s getting closer for him coming home."

Mia

"I don’t want him to get promoted... I want him to get promoted but I don’t want to leave."

Oliver

"I might be going to boarding school so that I don’t change schools every few years."

Ryan

"I've been to seven different schools; I’ve not stayed put in one school long enough."

Shana

"He has been away for six months and he is back for two weeks, then he goes away again."

Sianed

"My parents were in the Army. My mum is a like a nurse and my dad went to the war in Afghanistan. I actually didn’t really know what he was doing so I was like, ‘Cool Dad, go there,’ but then I found out and thought, 'Thank God he came back alive.'"

Sanjog

"He signed off last week, so he will be done by the end of this year. He’s done 24 years. I find that better because he will be around a lot. He likes watching us playing rugby, so he will get to see us more."

Lewis

"I’m going to a new place entirely. They don’t know anything about me and that’s a big restart and that’s really good for me."

Piaras

"I moved to Wales because my dad was posted in the Army. I thought I would get bullied and I was shy when you meet new people, but I made some friends."

Dan