Elson Heroes is a club for all children who have serving or veteran parents from the Armed Forces. The group meets every Tuesday lunchtime with Mrs Hull. By coming together every week the children have the opportunity to celebrate their identity as Service Children and provide a powerful support network for each other.
Festival Of Friends
We are the lead primary school for the Gosport and Fareham Hub of the Hampshire Festival of Friends Project.
Festival of Friends is a year-long model of collaborative, peer-supported activity for supporting Service children across an area, in association with a local university and supported by the Local Authority.
It aims to develop and share good practice, upskill staff, and encourage Service children (and their parents) to consider the benefits that Further and Higher Education can have post-16.
We are supporting other schools in our community to use the SCiP Alliances Thriving Lives Toolkit to promote best practice. Elson Junior School is a case study of embedding practice for ‘Wellbeing is supported’ in the Thriving Lives Toolkit.
As our Festival of Friends school Improvement project we will be creating a Service Child and Family handbook.
Useful Resources for Service Families
Deployment Support offered by Elson Junior School
https://elsonjunior.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Deployment-support-pack-information.pdf
Naval Families Federation
Army Families Federation
RAF Families Federation
Naval Children’s Charity