Resources for schools
This page is intended to provide resources that might be useful for schools with Service children.
Lincolshire Festival of Friends Booklet
Portsmouth Festival of Friends Booklet
Oxfordshire Festival of Friends Booklet
This is the link to the SCiP website which schools often find useful, in particular the Thriving Lives toolkit that you can sign up to https://www.scipalliance.org/thriving-lives-toolkit. There are also some case studies on the website and you can sign up to join your local SCiP hub.
You don’t need to be signed up to the Toolkit to access the SCiP CPD materials. There are 7 self-directed narrated PowerPoints, one per Principle. When you click on each of the Principles to expand it. For example, for Principle 1 -Our Approach is Clear
The narrated powerpoint slides for Principles 2,4 and 7 are probably best for staff training. All can be downloaded as ‘read-only’ and played with the sound off – using a print out of the ‘notes’ under the slides as a script for the presenter – this is the best way for whole staff training sessions.
This is the SCISS (Service Children in State Schools) website – https://www.sciss.org.uk/
This is a Scottish website but has some useful links and information regardless of location – https://forceschildrenseducation.org.uk/educators
The following links relate to Service Pupil Premium best practice and give some ideas as to what others do to support service children.
Army Families Federation – Service Pupil Premium
Naval Families Federation – Guide for Primary and Secondary School
RAF Families Federation – Service Pupil Premium
Headteacher Update – Service Pupil Premium
If you’re not already aware of them, a couple of great charities to look at for more ideas are Little Troopers (https://www.littletroopers.net/) and Reading Force (https://www.readingforce.org.uk/).