Charlotte Mason, Languages Teacher & Connecting Forces Group Lead

Meet Charlotte, she’s joint-Head of Languages at a secondary school in Portsmouth. We catch-up with her just before her husband goes back to sea with the Royal Navy and hear about the importance of having her own identity and career, whilst being proud to be a military wife.

As a mum to three kids under ten, she’s been home-schooling through Lockdown as well as supporting the children of key workers still attending school. As Lockdown restrictions are changing, we hear about re-organising the school to enable reopening with social distancing. 

In addition to teaching, Charlotte set-up the ‘Connecting Forces’ support network and after school club for Service kids, with which Company of Makers ran sewing workshops a while back, linking-up with The Sewing Soldier’s ‘Flags of Thanks’ nationwide project to celebrate Armed Forces Day.

We also find out how the military lifestyle and separation affects family life, with deployments and ‘weekending’. With 1,000+ Service kids at school locally, Charlotte aspires to extending Connecting Forces across Portsmouth and beyond; with Service kids offering peer support and sharing their resilience and ability to adapt.

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