Service Children's Champion

As a school, Brize Norton serves many service families from RAF Brize Norton. We are proud of our links with the RAF base and warmly welcome all service families within our school community.   On average, 25% - 30% of our school community is made up of service families. We are committed to upholding the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We do this through promoting the armed forces through employment, communication, engagement and the education and support we offer the children of servce families.  

We take the time to understand and better appreciate service life of our young people and recognise the impact it can potentially have, especially during times of parental deployment. “Deployment” refers to the Service person being away from home, either on an operation or a long term training exercise, (but not necessarily to an area of conflict). During deployment children and young people can be separated from one (or sometimes both) of their parents for long periods of time and this can cause anxiety for children and young people. Military deployment can be a time of uncertainty and high emotion for all involved. As a result, we have a dedicated member of staff, Mrs Sutherland, who is our Service Children’s Champion.  Mr Ian Griffiths is our link Services Governor.