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Bright Ideas for families with children aged 5-19
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Good to know
Children returning to Primary School
Health information for parents and carers
Camden and Islington's Public Health team has produced a leaflet that includes answers to common questions, like:
- Should I be sending my child to school?
- What steps will schools take to keep children safe?
- What happens if someone has symptoms of COVID-19?
- What can I do to keep everyone safe?
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Islington Town hall lit purple in memory of George Floyd and in support of black lives matter
Read the statement from Richard Watts, leader of Islington Council, in response to the tragic death of George Floyd.
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Activities at Home
"Loso na madesu": Congolese rice and beans
This week’s recipe is from Families for Life community champion, Bakadila Minsende.
Serves 4 portions
Ingredients
- 250g dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight and cooked in water for 45 mins to 1 hour until soft or 2 tins of red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- ½ small red onion, sliced thinly
- ¼ green bell pepper, sliced thinly
- 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped or minced
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp salt
- 3 bay leaves
- 3 plantains (or 4 green bananas)
- 2 cups rice, rinsed
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Method
- Put the oil in a medium pan and cook the onions on a low heat until translucent. Add the garlic and green pepper and keep stirring for another minute or two.
- Add the nutmeg, 3 tbsp water and tomato puree to the pan with the onion and pepper. Gently cook for five minutes.
- Put the drained beans, salt and bay leaves in the pan and stir to mix. Cover the pot and continue to cook on a low heat for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add water if it is at risk of burning on the bottom.
- Meanwhile, boil the plantains, in their skins, in a pan of water. Cook until the skins start to split, about 15 minutes, then remove from the water and let cool. When cool enough to handle, remove the skins and slice into bite-sized pieces.
- Put the rinsed rice in a medium pot with a well fitted lid. Cover the rice with 4 cups of water. Bring the water to a rapid boil. Turn the heat down to its lowest setting and put the lid on the pan. Allow the rice to cook slowly until all the water is absorbed, about 16 minutes. Do not uncover during cooking time. Cover the pan with a tea towel and let it sit for 5 minutes or until ready to serve. When ready, remove the lid and fluff up the rice with a fork.
- Serve the beans over the rice with the plantains on top.
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Super Movers: fun activities from TV favourites
The BBC has created a number of follow along physical activity videos using celebrities and themes from some of their biggest programmes including Match of the Day, Doctor Who and Blue Planet to get children running, jumping and dodging and keeping active.
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Home Learning Highlights
The Islington School Improvement Service has some fabulous resources for you to use whilst you're at home. sign up to their newsletter and see more resources on their website and some highlights below.
This week’s highlights: The Ancient World
- Find out about life in the middle stone age by watching this video. Draw a picture of you as someone from the Stone Age. Think about clothes, food and your house. What would you be called? Do not forget to label your drawing.
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Read/Listen to Arthur and the Golden Rope. What do you notice about the way this book is organised? Do you know any other books like this? Why do you think the author has chosen to present it like this? Do you think the story would have been different if somebody else had gone to find Thor?
- Find out what archaeologists do. Watch this video to start. Write a job description for an archaeologist. What skills would you need to have?
- The Anne Frank Trust’s vision is a world free from prejudice and discrimination. They are looking for creative writing inspired by Anne Frank that helps them to achieve that vision. To take part you must be aged between 10 and 15.Your piece of writing can be factual or make-believe, about yourself or about other people or events. Find out more (PDF).
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Helping your child build resilience and manage their emotions as they return to school
Three resources to help children aged 7+ understand and
manage their emotions and feelings, and stay calm and in
control in the classroom.
- A coping skills wheel, to give children different strategies for coping with difficult situations
- A strengths and weaknesses chart and control circle, to help children understand their own strengths and weaknesses and identify areas for development
- A focus plan, to help children stay calm and focused in the classroom.
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Developing resilience - help for adults
Mind have produced some useful and practical tips for adults on how to develop resilience and learn to cope with stressful situations.
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ThinkNinja a wellbeing app for children and young people 10 - 18
Empowering children and young people to build resilience, manage their emotional health and fulfill their potential
ThinkNinja approved by NHS England is available to all 10-18 year olds for free during the coronavirus crisis.
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A new online project for Islington Mums
Thinking about your future after lockdown? Get ready for work can help!
Build your confidence, get a £20 data boost, CV and interview skills, childcare advice, GRoW online, start a course, get a job, set up a business.
For more information and to reserve your place starting on 22 June please email us:
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Women's Resilience Awareness Programme (WRAP)
The Women’s Resilience Awareness Project offers a variety of free courses and groups for women in Islington who have experienced domestic abuse and have children.
During lock-down WRAP groups will be delivered online on Zoom.
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Yoga – Mondays at 10am (until 29 June)
Join our yoga group for all abilities – no experience needed
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General Chat – Tuesdays at 12.30pm:
Break the isolation of lock down and join us for a social chat -everyone welcome and you will be under no pressure to chat if you’d rather just listen to others.
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Stress Rescue with Yadiksha – Saturdays at 11am:
Our new volunteer Yadiksha will be running an online stress relief session. You will receive tools and techniques to support you in your life and create change that could impact your future thoughts, words and actions. All you need is the zoom App , a pen and paper.
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Meditation – Sundays at 11am
Join our online meditation session with our wonderful volunteer Yadiksha - reduce stress, relax your body and mind and learn other benefits of meditation
For all these workshops you will need to have downloaded Zoom on to the device or laptop you will be using. You can choose to have your camera switched on or off
To book your place: contact Anat on 7717 707 157 or email
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Find Things to Do on the Family Directory
The Family Information Service has information and advice for families, including a regularly updated list of Things to Do.
Follow IslingtonFIS on Facebook for all the latest news and updates!
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