Hermitage Primary School

The Little Troopers website is full of useful information for parents and for schools supporting children of military families. Registration is free and enables you to access a range of resources and information. 

Little Troopers (formally My Daddy is a Soldier Adventures) is a registered charity supporting children with parent(s) in our British Armed Forces, these children face unique daily challenges due to their parents career choice especially when they experience repeated separation of varying lengths of time from their serving parent(s) due to exercises, training, operations and other service commitments.

As a charity we ensure all Little Troopers have fundamental resources available to help ease and aid the separation period, that support can be reached self-sufficiently from wherever you are based, events are made available to promote reconnection of parent and Little Trooper and there is a community celebrating how special all the Little Troopers out there really are!

The Department for Education introduced the Service Pupil Premium (SPP) in April 2011 in recognition of the specific challenges children from service families face and as part of the commitment to delivering the armed forces covenant.  The SPP is given to schools so that they can offer support during challenging times and to help mitigate the negative impact on service children of family mobility or parental deployment.  For more information and eligibility criteria read the Government's guidance 'The SPP - what you need to know.'

The Army Welfare Service is the Army’s professional welfare provider; it delivers a comprehensive and confidential welfare service responsive to the needs of individuals and families and the Chain of Command in order to maximize the operational effectiveness of our service Personnel. The Army Welfare Service has 4 key delivery pillars: Personal Support, Community Support, Information (HIVE) Support and the Joint Service Housing Advice Office.