Going live for Remembrance
Has your school signed up for the Royal British Legion’s latest teaching materials? It now includes brand new live lessons, a poetry project and a special live Remembrance assembly, adding to its existing ran...
Extra funding for service children
There's still time to get applications in to the MOD Education Support Fund, a programme that awards grants to schools to help address the additional challenges that children from armed forces families may face...
Book Club: Service children rate Trains, Trains, Trains!
In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, service youngsters tell us what they thought of Trains, Trains, Trains! by Donna David and Nina Pirhonen…
ARCHIE (3) AND MUM
It’s Archie’s new cho...
Youth group champion is forces families awards winner
The Celebrating Forces Families awards took place earlier in the year to give thanks for the huge contribution that UK military families provide to the armed forces community.
Ellie O’Gorman won the Young Pe...
Military young carers urged to get support
Young carers from military families have launched a campaign in Fife schools to raise awareness and encourage greater numbers of young people with caring responsibilities to get support.
A group of young c...
Service children in the Catterick community get clued up on Nepalese culture
Children in Catterick are enjoying a taste of Nepalese culture and language with regular meet-ups in the garrison.
Neil Brimer, Community Development Worker (CDW), and Radha Gurung, Gurkha Support Worker (GS...
Families make memories on short break
A group of service families took to the great outdoors during the first short break of the year organised by SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity.
Calvert Trust in the Lake District was the destination for 22 ser...
New exhibition: Tales of service children
A new exhibition will tell the stories of service children and their experiences of life in the military community.
Running from 2 June to 24 November at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, the exhi...
Devolved nations – key differences in education
If you're an army family posted to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (NI), you’ll find that schooling is slightly different in each nation as their governments make the decisions on education. Emma Perrin, ...
Your guide to the Overseas Nursery Authority
You may find that you accrue hidden childcare costs whilst living overseas, however, there are mechanisms in place to help offset some of these. AFF’s Education & Childcare Specialist Anna Hutchinson, tel...