Keeping In Touch (Services)

With almost a quarter of our school community being a military family, supporting both the children and parents is a key consideration for us.

For Our Parents
For our parents, we know there is lots of support available to you but it can be tricky finding it, so we hope the following links are useful;

• Making Sense of the Emotional Cycle of Deployment for Children
• The Overlooked Casualties of Conflict
• Living in our Shoes
• Voice of Schools Survey Report

Hampshire County Council have put together a resource for schools and families which focusses specifically on supporting pupils from service families. Please click here for the document.

Our Family Liaison Officer, Lisa Noice, works closely with our military families providing support all year round. More details including her contact information, is available on Family Liaison page.  

Visit the Naval Families Federation website here.
Our Families Engagement Officer is: Nicola Thompson

For Our Children 
‘KIT kids’ (Keeping in Touch) is a lunchtime group which runs weekly at lunchtime in the ‘Ward Room’ (from 12.40-1.10pm) as a support for children who have parents in the Services or whose parents work away e.g. on the oil rigs.

The group is run by Mrs Nash who understands first-hand the impact this can have on the children having a husband in the Navy when her children were growing up. The group plays games and complete activities together and has formed its own support network.

If you feel your child would benefit from attending these sessions please talk to your child to encourage them to participate.

Years 3 and 4 meet on Mondays

Years 5 and 6 meet on Wednesdays

Mrs Nash works all week, so children can also ‘check in’ with her.

The Ward Room:

 

Keeping in Touch board (KIT): 

To celebrate and recognise our service families we encourage children to complete a slip for the display (below) and bring in a photo to add to the display. We recognise that through deployment sometimes parents can miss out on parent engagement opportunities e.g performances, parent consultations, read with your child events, open sessions etc, after deployment if wanted children can tour their parent around the school and share their work.

Remembrance Day:

On Remembrance day we always stop as a community to reflect and remember.