KIDS at Corwen Day Nursery showed their gratitude to our country's soldiers by packing up and sending goodie boxes to troops on deployment last week.

As an act of kindness before Remembrance Sunday, the children stacked their boxes full of goodies as they learnt more about our soldiers and what they do.

The children made also made a lovely poppy display and decorated stones with poppies which they placed in front of The War Memorial Gates in Corwen.

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Each year, the nursery lends a helping hand to the Support our Soldiers charity and this is how they displayed that support this time around.

The parcels sent out are seen as a valuable contribution in boosting and maintaining morale amongst those on overseas duties with the Armed Forces.

Carmen Roberts Davenport, owner of Corwen Day Nursery said: “Our work on promoting fundamental British values is part and parcel of daily life in our setting and links in with Health and Well Being and Humanities within The Curriculum for Wales.

"We hope that by teaching children these British values from a young age they will become ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the World and grow into adults who are tolerant and accepting.”

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Carmen’s cousin Edward Vaughan Jones served in the army for 24 years. He said: “There’ s nothing more to help give you a big lift than receiving a goodie box when away from home on operations and makes us soldiers realise that what we are doing is appreciated by the people back home - It’s definitely a great morale booster.”

The Welsh Guards usually take time out of their busy schedule to visit the nursery each November to say Thank You for all their support, however due to the pandemic a visit could not be arranged this year.

Last year, the nursery sent 25 Christmas Goodie boxes and the children have enjoyed receiving personal letters of thanks from some of the soldiers who received them.

Carmen said: “The letters of thanks are heart warming and it touched me that one soldier wrote to us on Christmas Day from Iraq. As a team we decided to spend the money that we would normally spend on secret Santa presents on goodies for the soldiers because they are so deserving of these boxes. Members of the community and parents have also been very kind in bringing donations to us for the boxes.”

Nia Lloyd Jones, Manager at Corwen Day Nursery commented: “The children have enjoyed picking out items to put in the boxes and took pride in their drawings for the soldiers. One of the children said that they would miss chocolate and filled a box with a selection of chocolate goodies.

"I was really touched when I answered the phone at nursery at the beginning of the year to the wife of a soldier who had received a goodie box from us and she told me that her husband had been overwhelmed when he had received the box. It was an emotional conversation and made me appreciate the sacrifices that these soldiers make."