Designing homes for the next generation
 Ten and 11-year-olds in Havering have been using their gaming skills to road-test and improve the design of one of the capital’s biggest regeneration projects.
The Leader of Havering Council, Cllr Damian White, spent a morning with fifteen pupils from Rainham Village Primary School using the computer game Minecraft to explore and redesign the Napier House and New Plymouth House sites. A total of 12 estates are being redeveloped by Wates Residential and Havering Council as part of the borough’s £1bn plans to create thousands more homes for local people.
 Veggie Run, the first Council-created app in England to educate children about healthy eating, has officially partnered with the West Ham United (WHU) Foundation.
Earlier this month ten pupils from Havering primary schools visited the West Ham United Stadium in their new Veggie Run printed WHU home kits and met the club’s players Xande Silva and Angelo Ogbonna to officially launch the collaboration.
Veggie Run has been downloaded more than 20,000 times since the app was launched by the Council’s HES Catering Service in April 2018. Last week Veggie Run, won ‘Best Healthy Eating initiative’ at the Food Matters Live awards.
 To mark the 25th anniversary of National School Meals Week earlier this month, Havering Council gave 13 of its longest serving kitchen supervisors a chance to put their feet up and let someone serve them instead.
Collectively the supervisors pictured have been cooking schools meals for nearly 400 years and racked up nearly 23.3 million meals between them.
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