Kinloss Primary School: The Moray Council

In Scotland, Kinloss Primary School (The Moray Council) will utilise an evidence base of research, experience and data, to embed previous learning and employ five pupil support workers to target the specific needs of Service children.

They will provide targeted, responsive one-to-one, emotional and social support to increase Service pupils’ learning, and to help ensure attainment is raised. Targeted group work with a clear focus on providing nurture, social interactions, developing emotional regulation, self-esteem and resilience will further enable Service pupils to cope with the additional challenges that Service children can face.

Parents and families will also benefit from the project with increased opportunities to celebrate dedicated events, whilst also enabling positive communications with the deployed parent. Families will also receive additional support through monthly drop-in sessions which will further enhance school and parent partnerships.

Further support will be provided to the families for the transition to the Curriculum for Excellence, the Scottish Curriculum, which not all families are familiar with, to ensure that all children continue to attain and achieve whilst living in Scotland.

Addressing the unique needs of Service children

This project will raise awareness of the unique needs of Service pupils across the school via training and resources, for pupils and staff, which will have a lasting impact. One Service parent said:

“As you can appreciate, leaving a young kid to go away for weeks/months is very hard, but I felt I needed to raise what an amazing job the school are doing to support the kids of serving parents locally. While this may be a normal thing for Garrison towns, I haven’t come across this type of extra support in small ‘standalone’ military bases and the experience/support Kinloss Primary provide is phenomenal!

I really hope other families can benefit from this for a long time as I can truthfully say it’s been a lifesaver for me! Deploying knowing my daughter is happy and supported in school with these extra initiatives makes my time away more enjoyable.”

Find out more

Discover more of the projects funded through the Armed Forces Families Fund programmes, here.