We took part in Comic Relief 2023.  We raised the sum of £231.50!  We had a fun day and  we had lots of activities.  Mac in P6 guessed the number of sweets in the jar – 283 and Mia in P4 guessed the birthday of the teddy – 12th June.  Thank you to everyone who donated!

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. 

Stewarton Annick girls are looking for girls born 2013 and 2014 to join our U10s 7-a-side team.

Come along join our family and have great fun. No experience necessary, although being able to pose for team photographs is a must!

contact the club on social media or James Taylor on 07545264231.

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.

P7 BRING AND BUY SALE – DONATIONS WELCOME!

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.

A big thank you to everyone who bought a poppy

this year. As you can see we raised £100.17.

Please see the poster below for information about upcoming events in the Book Nook!

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.

Mental Health Awareness Week takes place this year from 9th – 15th May. The theme for 2022 is loneliness, its effect on our mental health and how we can play a part in reducing loneliness in our community.

Children will be taking part in a variety of activities over the week to explore this theme and learning will be shared via Twitter.

Please see attachment below for more information and support.

Loneliness Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Please find below information for Parent/Carers and children about The Exchange service within East Ayrshire.

The Exchange Primary information for parents & carers

The Exchange Primary information for children

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

Lost Property – please get in touch if this jacket belongs to your child.  Thank you.