Dear Families,

We were delighted to welcome nurses from the Dementia Team at Hillingdon Hospital to our whole school assembly this week. Our pupils are going to create designs that can be used to decorate memory bags, which will help people in hospital and the community who have Dementia. Our pupils conducted themselves so well, asking insightful questions and sharing their own experiences of dementia in such a lovely way. The team were extremely impressed. 

As part of our continuing stepping down of Covid measures, we will be resuming whole school assemblies in person from next week. This will be the first time we have gathered as a school in this way for over two years. Where there are groups, or individuals, staff feel are not ready for this step we will be working with them towards the goal of them joining part or all of the assembly sometime this term. Next week will mainly be focused on getting people in and out of the hall safely to their assigned positions with a small presentation about Passover, Eid and Easter when we are all together.

Our first Duke of Edinburgh expeditions took place this week. I hope you saw the lovely photos on Twitter @MeadowSch showing how much the groups were enjoying themselves despite having to walk such a long way!

I would like to thank and congratulate Mrs Sugden for supporting the Signalong Group to develop their award system and for being one of the first schools in the world to achieve the GOLD Signalong Friendly status.  Signalong is used to support communication and can be especially useful when pupils do not understand or are upset.

May I take this opportunity to wish all our Muslim families Eid Mubarak for this weekend and to remind all families that we return to school on Tuesday 3rd May at 9am.

Mrs J Rigby
Headteacher