link attached with a newsletter from NDT.
P1 2016 – 2017 Welcome
Welcome to Neilston Primary School
Please click on our Power Point presentation for new pupils
Uniform orders
Please find a form attached for uniforms orders. To guarantee delivery before end of term complete and return by Friday 13th May. Orders after this date will be available on the August In- Service days if not before.
Primary 5
P5a have taken charge of some caterpillars recently. They plan to study the caterpillars as they grow into beautiful butterflies. You can follow their progress here Primary 5 Butterfly Blog or by clicking on the class blogs link at the top of the page.
Parent Equalities Forum
All are invited to attend the final Parent Equalities Forum of this session which will take place on
Thursday 12 May in Mearns Primary School at 7pm.
This will take the form of a ‘showcase’ event with some schools presenting on the work they have been doing around equalities.
Walk to School week
JRSO are promoting walk to school week Monday 16th May – Friday 20th May.We are running a competition to promote Walk to School Week. The class with the most children walking at the end of the week(including park and stride) will receive an extra break that Friday
DYSLEXIA PARENTS GROUP
Dyslexia Scotland Glasgow East Ren Branch
Parents, Pupils and Teachers Are welcome to our
OPEN MEETING
Thursday 5th May 2016
VISUAL STRESS
Presented by NADIA NORTHWAY
7.15pm-8.15pm Mearns Castle High School, Newton Mearns G77 5GU
http://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/your-branch/glasgow-east-ren Email Address is dyslexiascotland.er@gmail.com
MacMillan Cancer Support
As you may remember, last November we held an Rights Respecting Schools awareness day and part of this day included a fun run involving our school and St Thomas Primary. Our school raised £314.30 for MacMillan Cancer Support which was presented to Emma Connor today at assembly. Many thanks for all your support with this and all our charity events this year.
Education Psychological Service
Please find our latest newsletter attached March Newsletter 2016
Tesco Bags of Help
Neilston Primary has bagged a share of a £11.5 million carrier bag charge fund
We are delighted to announce we have bagged £12,000 from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.
The supermarket teamed up with Green Space Scotland to launch its Bags of Help initiative, which saw grants awarded to local projects – all raised from the 5p bag charge.
Almost a million shoppers voted in stores up and down the country. And it can now be revealed Neilston Primary has been awarded £12,000.
The results have been announced and we will now begin work on bringing our project to life.
We are absolutely thrilled to have been chosen by Tesco to receive such a tremendous amount of money to spruce up our school grounds. The children have such beautiful scenery surrounding their school therefore we want to maximise our outdoor learning space. It is very exciting and we still cannot believe we have been awarded £12,000. We are sure the children will enjoy spending the money!
The Eco Committee.
90 kg Rice Challenge Update
As you are aware we are currently undertaking the 90kg Rice Challenge as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. To date we have sold 20 bags of rice so we are still quite a bit off of our target of 90 bags sold. The bags will continue to be on sale from 1.05 – 1.25 pm each day this week. If we have an excess of bags left then we will continue with the challenge during our Parent/Carer Evenings on Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st March. Each bag of rice is £3 and if we sell 90kg then we can allow a farmer in Malawi to send a child to secondary school for 1 year. We appreciate all of your support to date and would encourage you to continue to support us in this challenge.
More information is available at www.jts.co.uk
Making Maths Count
I am asking on behalf of SPION (Scottish Parental Involvement Officers Network) for parents to complete the questionnaire in the link below.
The Education Secretary, Angela Constance, has been brought together an expert group to look at how enthusiasm for and participation in maths can be increased. The group is currently carrying out a call for evidence to find out what negative attitudes people have for maths to inform its work.
The project is about maths skills for everyone, but there is a particular emphasis to hear from parents about how they feel about maths and supporting their children with maths. There are online questionnaires in link below as part of this – www.gov.scot/makingmathscount.
Fair Trade Rice Challenge
Just Trading Scotland (JTS), a not-for-profit fair trade organisation, has challenged schools, as well as churches, colleges and other organisations, to sell 90kg of rice – which is the amount of rice sold that would enable a Malawian farmer to pay for a year’s basic secondary education for one child. As you may have heard, Neilston Primary have decided to take on this 90kg Rice Challenge!
We will be selling rice for £3.00 during lunchtime for the duration of Fairtrade Fortnight – Monday 29th February to Friday 11th March 2016. If you have any questions or would like more information regarding JTS or the Challenge, please feel free to visit www.jts.co.uk, emailing info@jts.co.uk or calling 0141 887 2882.
Click link to see email that was sent home: Letter for Parents rice challenge
Tesco Bags of Help
Our Eco Committee recently applied for funding from Tesco’s Bag of Help initiative. We are delighted to inform you that we have been successful with this and have secured a minimum of £8000 for school grounds work. We now have the chance to increase that £8000 to £12 000 with a public vote in Tesco Barrhead, Newton Mearns or Clarkston from Saturday 27th February until Sunday 6th March. There are 3 awarded grants of £12 000, £10 000 and £8000. The project with the most votes receives the £12 000 award while 2nd place receives £10 000 and 3rd place £8000. Shoppers will be given a token with every transaction and encouraged to vote for the project they would like to see receive funding.We would please encourage as many of you as possible to pop into Tesco Barrhead, Newton Mearns or Clarkston between Saturday 27th February and Sunday 6th March and vote for Neilston Primary. We will be notified what level of grant we have been awarded by the end of March. As soon as we know what we have been awarded, we will let you know. Thank you for your help and support.
Further information about Tesco Bags of Help is given below and there is also information at the website
“Tesco has teamed up with greenspace scotland to launch its Bags of Help initiative in Scotland. The scheme will see three community groups and projects in each of these regions awarded grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag charge.
Bags of Help offers community groups and projects in each of Tesco’s regions across the UK a share of revenue generated from the five pence charge levied on single-use carrier bags. The public will now vote in store from 27 February until 6 March on who should receive the £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 awards.”
@Tesco_Scotland
#bagsofhelp
Child Sexual Explotation
The Scottish Government has today launched a website dedicated to supporting everyone worried about child sexual exploitation.
There is information available for children, young people, friends and families.
There will also be TV ads over the next few days to support this campaign.
National Parent Forum of Scotland
The National Parent Forum of Scotland has been working with Skills Development Scotland as part of the programme of work underway in Developing the Young Workforce.
We are pleased to have produced some tailored information for parents, as part of our successful “in a nutshell” series, which covers the new Careers Education Standard launched at SLF 2015.
This new nutshell will supply parents with basic information about the initial role of this programme in schools and signpost them to where they can get some more information if they need it.
The link to the nutshell on the NPFS website is
http://www.npfs.org.uk/career-education-a-world-of-possibilities/
Dyslexia Scotland
OPEN MEETING Wednesday 3rd February 2016 TRANSITIONS Primary to Secondary school PRESENTED BY MEARNS CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL Suitable for PARENTS AND PUPILS 7.15 pm -8.15pm Mearns Castle High School, Newton Mearns, G77 5GU
http://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/your-branch/glasgow-east-ren
Equalities Forum – Reminder
Listed below are the dates and venues for the Equalities forum for Session 2015/16, please note that all meetings will commence at 7.00pm.
If you wish to put forward an item for the agenda, please e-mail me atpauleen.smith@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Equalities Forum
| Date | Venue |
| Thursday 14 January 2016 | Woodfarm High School |
| Thursday 12 May 2016 | St. Luke’s High School |
