PUPILS at St Mary’s the Virgin Primary School, Gillingham, receive a Dementia Friendly Community award for their school.
Anne Kings from Dementia Friendly Gillingham visited the school to present a window sticker in recognition of the school’s efforts to engage with those in the community who live with memory loss and dementia.

Headmistress Sarah Willoughby says that making the pupils dementia aware from a very young age was vital, particularly as some may encounter the disease within their own families.
School groups sing to people with dementia.
The photo shows some of the children from the team ‘Water’, who through their in-school activities collected £10 which they chose to donate to Dementia Friendly Gillingham.