Children at Minet have been celebrating Soccer Aid this week by doing the daily challenges in the playground and dressing up in their Sports Clothing to raise money for UNICEF. Their goal celebrations were very creative, and the children were very competitive across the week. Thank you to all parents and carers for making a big effort!

Thank you to our Year 1 parents and carers who attended the Year 1 Maths Family Friday, we hope you found it beneficial.

Minet Infant and Nursery School has achieved Rights Respecting GOLD accreditation and is now one of only two schools in Hillingdon to have achieved this. It is a fantastic acknowledgement of everyone's hard work to promote the rights of children at Minet everyday. A particular thank you should go to Mrs Vallijee who leads the school's rights respecting work and the children who act as Rights Respecting Ambassadors - without them this would not have been possible.

You can visit the school's RSSA page to find out more about the school's rights respecting work and to read the school's gold accreditation report - click here to access. 

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.