Author: Jacqueline Shaw

Value of the Month Family Challenge – Respect

As our value this month is respect, we are spending time thinking about how to be respectful. In school, we have identified the following ways we can show respect and we are working hard on this.

  • Being polite and kind to others
  • Treating others the way you want to be treated
  • Consider others’ feelings, wishes and rights

This month, we invite you to:

  1. Discuss with your family what things you can do to show respect at home and in your community. This might be making your bed, spending time with a family member or walking the dog.
  2. Carryout some things that show respect and fill the inside and outside of the house with pictures or words to show what you have achieved this month. You might need to ask an adult at home to help with this. Your teacher will give this out.
  3. You will be discussing how you have displayed respect in your home and community during week beginning Tuesday 26th September. We can’t wait to hear all about your experiences.

To support living by our values in school, at home and in our local community, we will be giving every family one of our values magnets to display in your home as a reminder.

Rascals Summer Playscheme

DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 3 AND 15 YEARS OLD WHO WOULD LOVE AN EVENTFUL
SUMMER HOLIDAY EXPLORING FROM OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY ALL THE WAY TO MILLPORT
AND MUCH MORE INBETWEEN FOR £22 PER DAY?

• BASED WITHIN NETHER ROBERTLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL
• OPEN 8AM TO 6PM
• CONTACT AINSLEY KYLE ON
RASCALS.MANAGER@GMAIL.COM
• CONTACT RASCALS’ PHONE ON 07949334945
• REQUEST A RASCALS LUNCH & SNACK FOR JUST £5

If the answer is yes, please take a look at the activities taking place over the summer by clicking on the document below.

RASCALS SUMMER PLAYSCHEME 2023 ITINERARY

 

Financial Support

Introducing our New Financial Inclusion Assistant

Nether Robertland Primary and the associated Schools and Early Childhood Centres now have the services of a Financial Inclusion Assistant, Scott Finnie from East Ayrshire Council. Scott is offering free confidential advice to all families and pupils

Scott can provide advice regarding-

  • Free School Meals/Clothing Grants
  • Education Maintenance Allowance
  • Best Start Grants
  • Scottish Child Payment
  • Wider benefit entitlement in general
  • Support and representation to challenge benefit decisions
  • Support with Debts.

Scott can check your entitlement with you and support you to make claims or check on claims that you may be having problems with. Scott can also support you to access help with multiple debts or advice on fuel provision and energy savings.

To find out a little more about financial support, please see the video below.

Click here to see video

This service is confidential and you can contact Scott directly by calling 07407115841 or emailing scott.finnie@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

New Safer Schools App

The new Safer Schools Scotland app gives empowering, current and informative information on current digital platforms/tools/apps in an accessible manner. Within the app there are different users. Please find below details about how to download the app and set everything up. The link below provided additional information to help.

– Go to your app store or Google Play and search for ‘Safer School Scotland’
– Set up your account
– In the school field type ‘Nether Robertland Primary’
– The code for Primary Parent/Carers is 2116
– To receive notifications we recommend enabling push notifications

Safer Schools Letter Parents March

We trust that you will find this information helpful. The new app has many beneficial features which we will highlight to you in due course.

Please ensure that you download the app and get it set up to continue receiving communication from the school.

Please note that the app will be launched for pupils next term.

Thank you,

Jackie Beveridge
Head Teacher

Our Scots Language Poetry Celebration

Our whole school focus on Scots language culminated with the sharing of poetry during our Scots Language Celebration Assembly. We are super proud of all of our children and young people who shared their learning in class and during the Assembly. They did this with confidence and demonstrated great skill in reciting poetry. Well done to every runner up and finalist.
Finally, here is the video with all of our young people. Can we please ask that you do not share this link thanks.

Our Scots Language Poetry Celebration

Our whole school focus on Scots language culminated with the sharing of poetry during our Scots Language Celebration Assembly. We are super proud of all of our children and young people who shared their learning in class and during the Assembly. They did this with confidence and demonstrated great skill in reciting poetry. Well done to every runner up and finalist.

We are working on the the video for this at the moment. 

Aristos Fitness – P6 Classes

Both P6 classes are looking forward to their health and fitness sessions delivered by Aristos Fitness in our Stewarton community. These will take place on a Monday in school and the plan is for our classes to visit the Aristos gym towards the end of the block of sessions.

#healthandwellbeing #communitylinks

Kids clipart Stock Photos, Royalty Free Kids clipart Images | Depositphotos

Please see flyer for Aristos Fitness below.

Aristos-Teens-Flyer-2023

Our House Mascots

Last session, our pupils took part in a competition where they were asked to design a mascot for their House. The winning designs were selected by last session’s House and Vice Captains. They decided that there would be a P1 – P3 and a P4 – P7 mascot for each House. The winning designs were announced last session. This session, we are now proud to share the digital designs. See the poster attached below. Well done to all the winning designs!

Winning designs for P1 – P3

  • Ash – Teddy Pow
  • Yellow for Beech – Archie Scott
  • Hawthy the Hawthorn Bear for Hawthorn – Erica Duffy
  • Chestnut – Eala Richardson

Winning designs for P4 – P7

  • Ashley the Phoenix for Ash – Flynn Dransfield
  • Buzzy for Beech – Rosie Herbert
  • Holly Hawthorn Berry for Hawthorn – Rose Havlin
  • Stanley Squirrel for Chestnut – Macaulay Gillespie

Math-a-thon Fundraiser

We are delighted to share that thanks to you, we have raised £2580. We will be busy over the coming weeks speaking to our children and staff, to decide on what Maths resources we are going to purchase.

The winning sponsor forms were shared at today’s assembly. Well done to Finlay Morton in P1W and Thomas Jones in P7H.

The Official Website of the 2019/2020 RG Kids and Planet Math Mathathon - RG Magazines

P5M – Exploring Textiles and Technology

As part of our exploration of textiles and technology, P5M have taken a keen interest in how we can link sustainability into all aspects of our lives. For our first task, we took one of our old t-shirts and recycled it by using it create a shopping bag. By making a few simple alterations using a sewing machine, we have repurposed something old into something new and exciting. We will continue with this project before moving on to look at how nature can play a role in enhancing new projects with textiles.

 

 

Lost Property

At the end of last session, there were several jackets left in the cloakroom. Please see the photos below to see if one of them belongs to your child. If it does, please call the school and we can arrange to get it returned.

Welcome to session 2022/2023

 

 

 

We are excited to welcome back all of our young people and families to this new session. We hope that you have had a lovely summer and are looking forward to getting back to school this week.

Please see below for information about our start of session arrangements. You can also download the letter by clicking on the link below.

Welcome letter to Parents-Carers

 

Welcome to session 2022/2023

We are excited to welcome back all of our young people and families to this new session. We hope that you have had a lovely summer and are looking forward to getting back to school this week.

We are delighted to welcome our new members of staff this week; Miss Caldwell (P5C), Miss Wallace (P6W), Miss Barrett and Miss Fyvie.

Start of Session Arrangements

  • Wednesday 17th August – Staff in-service day
  • Thursday 18th August – Pupils return
    • School starts at 9am and finishes at 3.15pm
    • There will be a ‘soft’ start’ between 9am – 9.30am for our new P1 pupils
    • Photo opportunity – There will be balloons in the playground for you to take a photo alongside of your child
  • Entry/Exits points for classes
    • Please see the plan below for where your child will enter and exit their classroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Pupils are encouraged to come to school prepared to learn with stationery and a gym kit. We also ask that gym kits be kept in school. Please see your child’s gym days below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • We would like to offer our parents/carers an opportunity to come into school to meet their child’s teacher and to receive some important information about the class routines etc. If you can make it along, please come to the main reception on the date and time below for your child’s class.

 

 

 

Communication

As a school, we communicate in the following ways:

App – To provide instant information which includes diary dates, messages, news items and ways to communicate with the school.

Blogs – Whole school Blog provides information about all aspects of our school. Our P1 and P2 classes have their own class Blogs and you will find the link to these from the whole school Blog in the menu tab.

Teams – Pupils in from P3 to P7 will be part of a class Team and this is where you will find class information including homework, class updates etc.

Twitter – To share successes and learning. Our Twitter handle is @NetherRob_ps

ParentPay – We operate an online payment service called ParentPay, allowing you to pay for trips, school meals, uniforms and much more. This will be set when you child starts school.

Rascals

Rascals is available before and after school for those who require childcare out with the school day. You can contact Ainsley on 07949 334945 and rascals.manager@gmail.com.

 

Over the summer holiday, the infant end of the school has been refurbished and it is looking great. We can’t wait for you to see the improvements. The first opportunity for this will take place during our ‘Meet the Teacher’ sessions.

I would like to take this opportunity to inform the school community that Mrs Shaw is now Mrs Beveridge.

 

Ayrshire Schools Snowsports Championship

Is your child a keen skier? Would they like to take part in the Ayrshire Schools Snowboard Championship?

The Ayrshire Schools Snowsports Championship is on Saturday the 28th May at Newmilns dry ski slope. The day consists of dual team slalom races made up of teams of four skiers. If your child would like to join the team, they would need to able to use the poma lift independently and ski from the top of the big slope with linked turns and controlled speed.
Prior to the day skiers would need to be able to attend one practice sessions at the slope but the date and time will be confirmed once we have interested participants. There is a £15 entry fee per skier for the event.
If you are interested, please contact Jenny Pennington on 07725 001022.

Values Logo Competition

The Pupil Council have been busy organising a whole school values logo competition. We had lots of entries and they were all super, so choosing 4 winners was a difficult task. We are delighted to share that that the following pupil designs were chosen and will now be logos for each of our four values.

Teamwork – Eilidh Ward (P4)

Responsibility – Grayson McRoberts (P4)

Respect – Freya Collins (P6)

Determination – Boyd McRoberts (P7)

Their wonderful designs have been made into digital images and we are delighted with the results.

Pilot of a Parent Meeting Booking System

We would like to pilot a new Parent Meeting Booking System. This would make organising Parents’ Evenings faster and easier, enabling you to select a specific slot. This would be done through the ConnectUs Parent Meeting Service. We already use ConnectUs as they provide us with our School App.

To help us move forward with piloting this service, we require your permission for your personal data to be shared with ConnectUs. This will include your name and email address only.

We feel that this service will provide the school and our parents with a simplistic and easy to use service which will make the booking of parents’ evening appointment more effective. It will also help us on our journey in becoming a paperless school.

If you would like more information about ConnectUs and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please click on the link below.

www.connectustech.com/connectus-and-gdpr/

Please complete the Form below to give permission for ConnectUs to hold your personal data which includes your name and email address. Please note that if you have more than one child at our school, you only need to complete the Form once.

Please click here to complete the Form