{"id":14597,"date":"2022-04-13T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=14597"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:45:51","slug":"supporting-service-students-in-secondary-schools-new-free-resources-from-charity-little-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/supporting-service-students-in-secondary-schools-new-free-resources-from-charity-little-troopers\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting service students in secondary schools: new free resources from charity Little Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little Troopers, the military children\u2019s charity, has expanded its range of free resources to help teachers support service pupils aged 11+. Any secondary school with one or more service students can access the materials online at\u00a0www.littletroopers.net\/little-troopers-at-school<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Released as part of the charity\u2019s Little Troopers at School programme, the new resources include worksheets to accompany the charity\u2019s new teen podcast (SQUAD); new activities as part of the Little Troopers Forces Life Club pack and an online toolbox of videos for teachers. More than 700 schools have already signed-up to and are using resources from Little Troopers at School.<\/p>\n

Louise Fetigan, founder of Little Troopers, comments: \u201cBefore we created these resources, there was nothing out there specifically for military teens in school. Feedback from students and parents was that they wanted to see military life better recognised and supported in education settings. Now teachers have access to a substantial range of evidence-based resources that they can use with any children who have parents serving in the British Armed Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

From discussion-led sessions about military life, to CV workshops, community-focused activity ideas and even a military child wellbeing course, schools can pick and choose the free resources to best suit their needs and the needs of their service pupils.<\/p>\n

New for 2022\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

SQUAD podcast worksheets<\/i>: In September Little Troopers released series one of SQUAD \u2013 a podcast for military teenagers. Presented by broadcaster Katie Thistleton and professional rugby player Thom Smith, the podcast (available on all major podcast platforms) hands the mic to 15 military teens who share their experiences of military life. Now Little Troopers has worked with an Educational Psychologist to add a series of worksheets to accompany each episode so that schools can make the most of listening to the podcast in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Online toolbox:\u00a0<\/i>The Little Troopers online toolbox is a series of short videos showing schools how to use Little Troopers resources in classroom. The toolbox also features an interview with an Educational Psychologist who explores some of the unique challenges that military life can bring and shares expert advice for all education settings. In another video a group of military parents discuss their views on how they\u2019d like to see schools better support their children through their military journey.<\/p>\n

Forces Life Club, new resources:<\/i>\u00a0The Little Troopers Forces Life Club Pack encourages schools to regularly bring their service pupils together as a unique group of students. The charity has added eight new activities to the pack with topics including \u2018military community\u2019, \u2018everything you need to know about me\u2019, \u2018peer cooking skills\u2019 and \u2018family military life\u2019.<\/p>\n

Resource Hub:<\/i>\u00a0Little Troopers continues to add new activities to its online Resource Hub for secondary schools. The new activities include \u2018how to host a school dinner\u2019, \u2018how to write a good CV\u2019, \u2018how to organise a virtual mountain challenge\u2019 and \u2018how to writing a letter to your MP\u2019.<\/p>\n

Little Troopers is a registered charity supporting service children who have parent(s) serving in our British Armed Forces, regular or reserve.\u00a0For\u00a0more information about the Little Troopers at School programme and resources available visit\u00a0www.littletroopers.net\/little-troopers-at-school<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little Troopers, the military children\u2019s charity, has expanded its range of free resources to help teachers support service pupils aged 11+. Any secondary school with one or more service students can access the materials online at\u00a0www.littletroopers.net\/little-troopers-at-school Released as part of the charity\u2019s Little Troopers at School programme, the new resources include worksheets to accompany the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,83,4,135,53,82,97,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-charity","category-community-engagement","category-news","category-resources","category-secondary-schools","category-social-issues","category-support-materials","category-teaching-resources","category-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14599,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions\/14599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}