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Service children voice: SSCE Cymru network webinar

Date: 6th July 2022

Time: 14:00-16:30

Platform: MS Teams

AGENDA

1. SSCE Cymru

  • Participation Lead Officer
  • Service children ambassadors

2. Network member presentations/workshops:

  • SCiP Alliance: Listening to learn
  • Never Such innocence: Voices of Armed Forces children
  • Little Troopers: Squad podcast, Forces Life Club

3. Good practice examples

  • Haverfordwest High School, Pembrokeshire
  • Mount Street Junior School, Powys
  • Llantwit Major High School, Vale of Glamorgan
  • VC Gallery & Pembrokeshire County Council

4. Funding opportunities

  • MOD: Education Support Fund (ESF)

5. Panel Q&A

Seeing how other schools support the voice of service children was really beneficial.

Informative, Positive, Inspiring.

We are excited to start working towards our Armed Forces Friendly School status.

1. SSCE Cymru support

Service children ambassadors

Joanna Wolfe, Participation Lead Officer

2. Network member presentations/workshops

SCiP Alliance: Listening to learn

Phil Dent, Director

Never Such Innocence: Voices of Armed Forces children

Will Dalziel, Programmes and Engagement Manager
Clive Sanders, NSI Poet in residence and Army Veteran

Little Troopers: Squad podcast, Forces Life Club

Millie Taylor (on behalf of Louise Fetigan, Operations Manager)

3. Good practice examples

Haverfordwest High School, Pembrokeshire

 

Mount Street Junior School, Powys

 

Llantwit Major High School, Vale of Glamorgan

 

VC Gallery & Pembrokeshire County Council

 

4. Funding opportunities

MOD Education Support Fund

Andrew Malcolm, Senior Education Officer

5. Panel Q&A

See more case studies here

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