Today, we had a special visitor delivering some workshops. Chad Miller, an Olympian who has represented Great Britain. The children loved meeting him and practicing the drills for sprinting. Chad done a warm up, some simple running exercises and finished with a relay race. The children were trying to be just as fast as him. Children from Minet would like to wish Chad Miller good luck in his try outs for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Year 2 enjoyed some squash taster sessions today. They learnt how to balance the ball, practiced hitting the ball in the air and on the ground and played against each other. Thank you Trevor from Hillingdon squash team for a fun, engaging session.

Well done to all the bronze certificate winners who achieved 100% attendance this half term. Their names were entered into the Attendance Raffle and winners were chosen from each year group.

Let's see who will get silver certificates next half term for 100% attendance for the Summer term and gold certificates for 100% attendance for the WHOLE year!

Please click on the link below to access the Summer 1 newsletter:

Newsletter - Summer 1

GLL/ Better Health has partnered with NHS Northwest London to promote a health and wellbeing app to families called GRO HEALTH.

With a vision and ambition of addressing childhood obesity in NW London and combating long-term health issues or conditions stemming from an inactive or unhealthy lifestyle, we want to start by programming healthy behaviours from childhood and work with families to achieve a healthy future for generations to come.

Find out more on GRO HEALTH at: https://www.grohealth.com/. Through NHS NW London the app is available FREE to local families for 12 months from sign up. Eligibility for FREE registration is determined by at least one adult over 18 years old and at least one child between 5-18 years old living in the same household.

Registered users will have access to:

• Thousands of healthy recipes and meal plans; starting from £1.50 a meal and tailored specifically to dietary requirements and preferences.
• Workout videos; suitable for the whole family, from easy seated exercises through to more active
• Mindfulness activities
• Sleep advice and much more...

Please contact jiggy.trivedi-gardner@nhs.net or claire.olsen@napc.co.uk if you have any questions about the content or for further information.

All children and staff at Minet Infant and Nursery School took part in International Day on the 14^th of May. The day was filled with learning about facts, customs and dances of different countries and continents. Thank you to parents/ carers that came into school to perform and share their culture with the children.

Children enjoyed taking part in all the different activities planned on the day and here are some of their comments: -

"We get to learn about different cultures. I learnt that India is in the continent of Asia which is the biggest continent.”

“I liked using the chopsticks. It was hard but lots of fun.”

“We tasted Greek yoghurt, it’s thicker than normal yoghurt because all the water is squeezed out.”

“I liked looking at everyone’s clothes in the fashion show.”

“I liked learning the games from Indonesia and l learnt that the biggest temple is 2000 years old.”

"International Day is all about the world and other countries. Austria is an amazing country because of the dances. I come from Afghanistan. I have been there."

Our Year 1 children visited Botwell Library where Emma explained the rules of the library and how it works. Did you know you can now borrow up to 14 books! We spoke about our favourite characters and looked around the library.

Year 2 had fire safety workshops delivered by the London Fire Brigade today. They learnt how firefighters prepare and train what to do in an emergency. The children now know that they should always crawl in the event of a fire and touch the door handle with the back of their hand to see if it safe to exit a room. Thank you London Fire Brigade!