Microsoft Office Pro Plus (Free Office Suite Download for Staff and Pupils)

This allows all staff and pupils free access to the Office Suite: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, OneNote etc.  Remember with the holiday period approaching and new devices being bought, as part of the Education Department’s annual Microsoft agreement, all staff and pupils can download and install 10 instances of Microsoft Office Pro Plus on personally owned devices.  Please note that this includes 5 installs for desktop, laptop and netbook and 5 mobile installs for phones and tablets for each staff member and every pupil.  It might be worth adding this information and the instructions below to your final newsletter of 2015 and indeed to your website.

Disclaimer In order to qualify for this benefit, you must be an East Renfrewshire employee with a Glow account or a pupil attending an East Renfrewshire school. You must understand that you are entering into an agreement with Microsoft and not East Renfrewshire Council.

 To access the Office Pro Plus installation file please follow the steps below:

1. Login to Glow.
2. Click the Office Pro Plus tile located on the Shared Launch Pad.
3. The next window will display the Install button.

Well done to Paddock for winning our latest trauchle –  ‘Rights Respecting School Creativity Challenge’.  Each pupil had a RRS balloon to create around a RRS article.  Each house had to then display all of their balloons in a creative way… don’t they look fabulous!

11^th Dec 2015 RRS Balloons

Mill – 45 points                  4th

Cart – 49 points                 3rd

Viaduct – 56 points          2nd

Paddock – 59 points         1st

If your child will be aged 5 between 1^st March 2016 and end of February 2017 you should register your child at your catchment school during the week of – Monday 11^th – Friday 15^th January 2016 between 1.45pm – 3.30pm

Please click here to confirm the documentation you must provide to complete enrolment.

If you have any questions please do not hesistate to contact the school office.

Many thanks.

A forum has been arranged for Thursday 10th December from 1:45pm until 2:45pm in Netherlee Primary.  The focus of the Forum is Resilience and Positive Psychology, including Mindfulness and sharing supportive strategies to develop the resilience of our pupils.  Parents from Busby Carolside, Netherlee Primaries and Williamwood High School are all invited to attend. 

More information available here.  

Latest newsletter from the Nursery Parents Group

parents newsletter november 2015

Final arrangement for the P2 – P4 school show.

click here for drop and collection arrangements
we are all looking forward the show and hope
you can join us.

Cluster Early Years Workshops – Nursery & Primary 1 parent/carers welcome tonight from 6.30pm.

The kitchen will be selling pudsey bear cookies on Friday 13th November priced at 35p – this must be paid in cash and not via Payment 4 Schools.

All profit going to Children in Need.

Thank You………..

As you may be aware East Renfrewshire Council are currently  reviewing  admin/clerical processes across the department and also looking to improve upon the current online payments system.

Given the obvious link between both they have created a short survey for parents/carers which they hope will capture your views on both preferred methods of general (admin type) communications with schools/pre-five establishments and also your thoughts on the online payment solution.

If you could spare a few minutes to complete the survey it would greatly appeciated.

https://getinvolved.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/education/4bfdfa85

Many thanks

Well done to our P7 representatives who won an award for thier robot submission at the recent Williamwood High School Stem Fair.

We are currenlty waiting on a link from the high school of the video feed from the night.

The school have been offered the chance to apply for tickets for this event.  We must apply no later than Friday 30th October.  If you wish tickets please contact the school office.  Many thanks.

Would your family like to attend the finals of the 2015 Scottish Open Badminton Championships? Please provde the office your name, number of tickets you would like & the best means of collecting the tickets.  This year’s open will be held in the Emirates Arena in Glasgow and will feature some of the world’s top Badminton players who are attempting to reach the 2016 Rio Olympics. Come & see Scotland’s hopefuls. The event runs from Wednesday 18^th November with finals on Sunday 22^nd.

 Event Details for which we have been offered tickets:-

Date: 22^rd November 2015

Venue: Emirates Arena, Glasgow

Time: Finals Commence at 1.30pm with pre-final activities from 11.00am

Parent Council Halloween discos.

Tuesday 3rd November 2015

P1 – P3 – 6.15 – 7.30pm
P4 – P7 – 7.45pm – 9.00pm

If you can help please email info@busbyparents.co.uk