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Service Children - Your Views Project at Ysgol Y Ddraig

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Service Children - Your Views Project at Ysgol Y Ddraig

November 2024

Our Participation Lead Officer, Jo was kindly invited to the launch of the Service children – Your Views Project, that the Learning Links Team from the Vale of Glamorgan local authority has been working on with the Little Troopers Club at Ysgol Y Ddraig. 

This wonderful project has been developed to gather the voices of Service children within the Vale, to help schools and the local authority continue their support of Service children/young people on their educational journey. If your school is based in the Vale and you have Service children/young people on role, please ask them to complete the survey or get in touch with the Learning Links Team to learn more about it and how you can get involved. 

Diolch / Thank you to the Little Troopers Club at Ysgol Y Ddraig, it was lovely to meet some of you and see your brilliant artwork. Also, thanks to Liane Mawson, the newly appointed Service Children School Champion (SCSC) at Llantwit Major High School for coming along and a BIG thanks to the Learning Links Team for inviting us to the launch and for your continued excellent support of Service children across the Vale. We look forward to seeing the results of this survey and working with you on future projects.  

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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