A DEMENTIA group has been working with children to make their primary school the ‘first dementia friendly school in Witney’.

Witney Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) has been delivering information sessions to nearly 300 pupils and staff at The Batt Primary School over the past six months.

The Dementia Friends sessions are part of an Alzheimer’s Society project to create a dementia-friendly generation. Youngsters from the school have made a commitment to more dementia-friendly actions, which they put down on paper during the sessions.

The school also nominated Dementia Oxfordshire as its chosen charity for its May Dancing event this year, which raised £600.

A group of pupils recently attended the‘Golden Memories’ group, an Age UK support group for people living with dementia and their carers, to sing for them.

Witney DAA said pupils and staff have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to making their school dementia-friendly and will now continue to work to ensure that the status is sustainable.

Dementia Friends was launched in February 2013 by the Alzheimer’s Society.

It is an initiative that aims to help understand what it might be like to live with dementia and turn that into action.

Already more than 1.9m people have become Dementia Friends across the country.