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. 

As our P7 residential to Inverclyde is fast approaching, we would like to provide as much information as possible to help with the preparations. Please find the information shared at the parents information session below. If you have any additional queries, please get in touch.

Inverclyde Information 2023

Please find the Parent Council AGM and November meeting minutes in the parent zone menu above.

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

Please see flyer for Aristos Fitness below.

Aristos-Teens-Flyer-2023

Please see the newsletter page in the menu to access our January newsletter.

Please join us for a festive breakfast or lunch with Santa.

Click here to book tickets

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

Please find the October newsletter below.

NRPS October Newsletter

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.

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.

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.

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 17^th August – Staff in-service day
• Thursday 18^th 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.

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

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.

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

Please find below the Parent Council Minutes for the AGM and the meeting dated 09.11.21. You will also find these in the Parent Council menu of our Blog.

AGM Minutes 2021

PC Minutes 09.11.21

We are super excited to share our Nativity with you.

Please find below the link. We kindly ask that you do not share this. The Nativity will be available to watch until the week after Christmas and then it will be deleted from YouTube. It is a private link so only people with the link will be able to access it.

We hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/G8NfgTnt52Q

As part of our Rights Respecting Schools work, every class has worked together to create a Class Charter. Each Charter shares the agreement made on shared values and relationships for a Rights Respecting classroom which is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

The Class Charters are very creative and we are delighted to share a video of them below.

What better way to celebrate the countdown to Christmas than giving back to the local community! 

Nether Robertland will be running a Reverse Advent Calendar between 1st December – 17th December. The Rights Respecting Schools’ group came up with a general theme for each week and suggested items that can be donated each day as shown in the calendar. All donations will be given to East Ayrshire Foodbank. If you can donate anything, please send these in with your child to be collected in class. Please do not donate any perishable items. Thank you for all your support. 

Thank you very much to everyone who completed the Inclusive Practice Questionnaire. Your views are welcomed and valued.

Here is some of the data gathered along with the following:

• What is working well
• What things could be improved?

What is working well

• Almost all of you felt your child enjoys being at school and is well supported
• Staff are approachable and friendly
• Most parents/carers know who to contact if they have concerns
• All parents/carers agree that bullying is not an issue at our school

How things could be improved?

Communication

• P1 and P2 classes have their own Blog and this will be used to communicate class news and homework
• All pupils in P3 to P7 use Teams and this will be used to communicate class news and homework
• We are introducing a new whole school Blog which will include a range of whole school information
• Within the Blog, there will be a page with photos of our staff team
• Twitter is used regularly to share successes and class learning
• You can make contact with the school at any point by calling the main office or emailing the school mailbox on: eanetherrobertland.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk
• We have evaluated the use of the app and made adaptations
  • Dates section updated regularly
  • News section linked to Twitter and will now include our new Blog
  • Information section decluttered – Only contains vital information needed and this includes a link to the school email

Inclusive Practice

• There will be an Inclusive Practice page on the Blog which will contain information about what Inclusive Practice is, what it looks like and how we are promoting this in our school

Concerns

• Mrs Lindsay is our Additional Support Needs (ASN) Coordinator. If your child has an ASN or if you have concerns regarding your child’s learning, please do not hesitate to contact her. You can call in to the school or you can email her on: debbie.lindsay@eastayrshire.org.uk

Thank you for your continued support

Jackie Shaw

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