Health & Wellbeing @ NLPS
Coffee Morning – Wednesday 7th May!
Come along to our Coffee Morning on Wednesday 7th May at 8:55am to 9:30am, and enjoy a warm cup of coffee while connecting with our school community.
It’s a great opportunity to meet other parents, have a chat, and start the day with good company. Our community barista, Sheri will be serving her delicious Turkish coffee, so don’t miss out!
We look forward to seeing you there, so be sure to save this date!
Harmony Week
This year we celebrated Harmony Week from the 24th -28th March.
During Harmony Week we celebrated our differences and promoted the idea that ‘Everyone Belongs’ and should feel included. The students participated in activities ranging from creating personalised bookmarks highlighting their uniqueness, decorating the Harmony Tree with personalised hands, discussing differences and what they can do to make sure everyone feels included, and learning a Nigerian welcome song ‘Funga Alafia’. Some classes also welcomed guest speakers who shared their cultural stories, enriching our understanding and appreciation of diversity.
On Friday, the 28th March, we held a special assembly where we wore a touch of orange to show our support for inclusivity and unity. As a school, we came together to sing 'Funga Alafia', celebrating harmony and cultural diversity. Although Harmony Week has come to an end for this year, we are reminded that the spirit of harmony should be carried with us every day. Through acts of kindness, a willingness to learn from one another, and a wholehearted embrace of the rich diversity that surrounds us, we hope to maintain a harmonious culture at our school.
The Resilience Project
We are in the second year of our partnership with The Resilience Project. This commitment means that we are teaching positive mental health strategies to prevent mental ill-health and build our students' capacity to deal with adversity. Teachers and students will engage in weekly lessons and activities around the key principles of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM) and Emotional Literacy to build resilience.
You may like to check out The Resilience Project website:
You may also like to explore TRP@HOME; a place filled with inspiration and activities for the whole family, to help improve your wellbeing and build resilience.
Gratitude Activity to Try at Home
Working on gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focusing on what we don’t have or what we want. When we practise being grateful, we start to scan the world to look for positives - this only takes 21 days for it to become a habit! Practising gratitude every day increases our levels of energy, helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have a better sleep, lowers levels of anxiety and depression and we are less likely to get sick. So many benefits–let’s all try to be grateful for the things and people in our lives every day!
Whole Family Activity: Gratitude Scavenger Hunt
As a family create a scavenger hunt list of things that make you happy or you are grateful for, you can make your own list or use the examples below:
- Something that makes you happy
- Something you love to smell
- Something you enjoy looking at
- Something that is your favourite colour
- Something you like in nature
- Something that is useful for you
- Each member of the family uses the list and must find as many things as they can.
- You can hunt for things inside or outside, or both. You can hunt for real things, or you can also do this using magazines or pictures from the internet.
- After a set amount of time hunting, come back together, have a look at what each person collected and let them explain why they are grateful for each item.
Family Habit Builder
Every night at dinner, have each person talk about their favourite thing about that day.
Building resilience doesn't happen overnight, but small, consistent actions can make a big difference over time. By embedding activities like the Gratitude Scavenger Hunt or simple dinner-time reflections into your family routine, you’re helping your child (and yourself!) develop a stronger, more optimistic mindset. Together, we can nurture emotionally aware, resilient learners who are ready to take on life’s challenges with confidence and kindness.
Samantha Meddis
Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader