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Coningsby St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Believe. Aspire. Succeed.
Children of the Armed Forces
Children of the Armed Forces
What is a service child:
A person whose parent/s or carer serves in the regular armed forces or a reservist or has done at any point during the first 25 years of that person’s life.
Welcome to our children of the armed forces page, I am Miss Williams the Pastoral Learning Mentor here at Coningsby St Michaels and part of my role is to support our Service children and their families with deployment, moving school and moving home and any other issues or concerns you may have. I also run our MKC Heroes Club after school where we do lots of different activities and the children get to share stories and talk about loved ones being away from home. Over the past year I have been working with several people on camp to build connections, who alongside school will help me in supporting the children.
RAF Coningsby
RAF Coningsby is located just 5 minute walk from the school, it is one of 2 RAF quick reaction alert stations. Home of 2 frontline, combat ready squadrons and the training station for Typhoon pilots. There are around 3,000 service personnel, civil servants and contacts that work on base.
Service Pupil Promise
Deployment Form
MKC Heroes
On Monday nights after school, we hold our MKC Heroes club which all service children are invited to attend. This is a time for the children to talk to one another if a loved one is deployed and a time for the children to have a bit of down time. Activities for the term are decided by the children and range from movie nights, baking, arts and crafts to visits from for personnel on camp. We also have our deployment bears which the children can take home and love to take care of.
MKC Council
This is something new here at Coningsby St Michael's, we are looking forward to getting it up and running. MKC Council is a group of children who all come from Military backgrounds and will be leading Collective Worship to share about their lives and gaining fellow service children's voice to determine f how we support the children in school and their families.
Lincolnshire Festival of Friends
Here at Coningsby St Michaels, we have been asked to be part of a very special project called the Lincolnshire Festival of Friends. Miss Williams and Mrs Liley have been working with schools across Lincolnshire to promote service children in education and further education. Through our hard work we have been asked to lead one of the 3 areas and can’t wait to share all our best practice with not just our children and their families but with the 10 school we are working with. In June we will be able to celebrate this in special day with some of our children at BGU in Lincoln and fingers crossed with even more of our children with another celebration at RAF Coningsby.
Watch this space for more details!
Useful links
- www.littletroopers.net
- www.raf.mod.uk
- raf.mod.uk/community-support/documents/20230405-fam-fed-sciss-deployment-resource-pdf/
- https://www.military.com/spouse/military-deployment/emotional-cycle-of-deployment-military-family
- Support for RAF personnel and families < RAF Families Federation (raf-ff.org.uk)
- https://theripplepond.org/
- RAF Benevolent Fund
HIVE Information Centres are provided by the Army, Royal Navy and RAF to provide information and support to all members of the Service community. Your local HIVE can provide information about relocation, your local unit and civilian facilities, as well as places of interest, schools and further education, housing, healthcare facilities, employment and training opportunities in your location. Your local HIVE details can be found at: https://www.raf.mod.uk>hive-finder
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help
SSAFA provide support for the serving men and women in today's Armed Forces and for those who have served - even if it was only for a single day. They also care for their families and dependents.