IN THIS ISSUE Party Planning Guide Education Parenting Easter and Summer Camps & Activities! Issue 127 March/April 2019 familiesonline.co.uk WATFORD BUSHEY RICKMANSWORTH M1 STANMORE M25 HATCH END NORTHWOOD EDGWARE HARROW WEALD HAREFIELD PINNER KINGSBURY HARROW WEST RUISLIP HENDON WEMBLEY ICKENHAM DOLLIS HILL SUDBURY PARK NORTHOLT BRONDESBURY PARK WEMBLEY UXBRIDGE A40 QUEENS PARK WILLESDEN KILBURN Welcome to the IN THIS ISSUE: March/April issue! 3. News 8. School Open Days 10. Spring Cleaning with Kids CONTACT US: www.facebook.com/FamiliesNWLondon 11. Mummy on the Edge Families North West 12-13.Party Planning @FamiliesNWLon London Magazine 16-21. What’s On Readership of over 60,000 local parents, carers Editors: and teachers every issue. 22. Easter and Summer Camps Heather Waddington and Janine Mergler Published seven times a year. For families from birth to twelve. P.O. 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If you would like to stock copies to give to contents, or any consequence thereof. parents, please let us know. 2 Families North West London familiesonline.co.uk New Self Empowerment Drama NEWS School opens in Wembley! Young A-Listers is live in Wembley! The first of its kind incorporating Personal Development, Drama and filmmaking. The school is run by actor Samuell Benta (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, Eastenders E20) with the purpose to educate, inform, teach and heal with acting and self-empowerment. The idea of the school is to transform children’s lives and strengthen them, making them performers with strong integrity and knowledge of TV and film business. The school deals with ages 9-17yrs with plans in the making for younger and older students. “I want to provide the youth with what I wasn’t given at school, I want to give them information that can literally save them years of trial and error and wasted time. Young A-Listers teaches them that they can be an A-lister in their own movie called ‘life’ and success is all a mindset.” – Samuell Benta. www.YoungAListers.com On ‘Yer Bike Celebrate Peppa Pig’s 15th anniversary (or scooter or just walk!) with Save the Children’s for The Big Pedal 2019 Muddy Puddle Walk Families across London are being invited to take up the Big Pedal 2019 – Fundraiser the UK’s largest cycling, walking and scooting challenge for schools. Last year families and nurseries Organised by the walking and cycling charity Sustrans, the competition that took part in the event helped will run from Monday 25 March to Friday 5 April and will encourage young to raise an incredible £225,000 people from across the UK to travel by bike, foot or scooter for their journey for Save the Children’s vital work to and from school. During the 10 days, participating primary and secondary and since its launch in 2017, schools will compete with one another to make the most journeys by bike, Peppa Pig’s Muddy Puddle Walk foot or scooter. The Big Pedal 2019 is open to individual classes as well for Save the Children has generated a fundraising total of almost half a million as whole schools, with hundreds of thousands of pupils expected to take pounds. This year the event is sponsored by The Entertainer (TheToyShop.com) part. Schools and classes will be entered into daily prize draws for rewards, and, to celebrate Save the Children’s centenary in 2019, the charity hopes including scooters, if more than 15% of a school cycle, walk or scoot on each that even more people will sign up, take part and donate. Peppa Pig’s Muddy day of the challenge. Puddle Walk for Save the Children will be taking place from 13th – 19th May Ask your child’s school to sign up to Sustrans Big Pedal 2019. 2019. For more information visit www.bigpedal.org.uk Sign up your nursery or family now at www.MuddyPuddleWalk.org to receive your free Fundraising Pack familiesonline.co.uk Families North West London 3 NEWS Places available for Year 6 and Ditch the Year 7 to start Sept 2019 at Chicken unique west London school The Sylvia Young Theatre Dippers! School is a specialist performing arts school offering excellent vocational Cooking classes and academic education for boys and girls (Year 6 - Year for Parents with 11) with a much valued family La Cucina Caldesi atmosphere. Students can start in Year Cookery School 6. The intake is small with Families Magazine was invited to an emphasis on individual try out one of La Cucina Caldesi attention. It is a great Cookery School’s new Italian introduction for children who cooking courses - ‘Cooking for have an interest in drama, Parents’ held at their Marylebone singing or dance. As the majority of students change schools in Year 7, Year location in Central London. 6 gives students a rare opportunity to ensure that this is what they really want before continuing their studies in Year 7. A very hands-on, relaxed and Sylvia Young says “In spite of a three-day academic programme (plus two friendly class, the course was day vocational) students are still able to achieve academically, (our 2018 designed for all skill levels. We GCSE results were excellent) whilst following professional opportunities. had fun squeezing the last drop of moisture out of the spinach, laughed as Currently Billy aged eleven appears in the new Feature Film “Blinded by we bashed the chicken breasts flat with a pan and smiled as we added the the Light” which will be released in the UK later this year and Harriet, also maybe-a-little-too-much brandy in our apples. eleven years will appear in Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd It’s a course designed to let parents and kids appreciate fresh ingredients, Webber’s “Cats”, four of our students are members of “Kidz Bop”, while be amazed by the vibrant colours of food, explore different flavours and others have lead roles in David Walliam’s “The Midnight Gang”, “Killing Eve, enjoy getting into the kitchen and having fun. As Katie said, we can ditch the and the “Four O’Clock Club”. chicken dippers and start to appreciate real, fresh, healthy food that kids and Other students appear at the RSC, National Theatre, Matilda, School of adults alike will enjoy eating. Rock, Annie etc. However successful our students are - we aim to keep La Cucina Caldesi Cookery School hold a wide variety of classes and their feet firmly on the ground.” corporate events in Marylebone in Central London, Bray in Berkshire and www.syts.co.uk Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire. http://caldesi.com/la-cucina-caldesi/ Local ‘Rapunzel’ is going Help Local School for a ‘Chop for Charity’ Children Break a and needs your support! Guinness World Record! Ruby, a local year 7 pupil at Parmiter’s School in Watford, is 12 To celebrate and has never cut her hair - it kept growing and growing until Shakespeare’s her nick-name permanently became Rapunzel! birthday on April 23rd, Once it had reached her lower back and people started the Henrietta commenting on the fact that she had never cut it, it gave her the Barnett School idea of using it to raise money for charity. She found the Little is attempting to Princess Trust who make real hair wigs free of charge for children set a Guinness and young people that have sadly lost their own hair due to World Record cancer treatment and other illnesses. Her quest began to grow for the largest her hair long enough to donate 13” to make a full wig. simultaneous Ruby has been personally aware of cancer from a young age as it Shakespeare has taken both her grandfathers and most recently her uncle and recital. she feels this is her opportunity to help in a very special way. They are looking She is asking for others to help achieve her goal by donating money to the charity toward the cost of for judges to making the wig.