Dear Parent/Carers

This is the last ‘Learning Links‘ to be emailed as part of the Nursery Friday Bundle. In future ‘Learning Links’ will be in your child’s Google Classroom for Monday morning. If you require help with accessing Google Classroom or require the login details please let us know.

We continue to work hard to ensure that the children play together in groups, and that these groups are consistent, and are looked after by the same staff members. By working in zones in the Sapling building we have avoided children coming into contact with too many people at once and allowed staff the space to socially distance from one another.

As the number of children and staff continues to grow and we near our full capacity we will be moving to have the children in two separate zones from Monday 7th December in the Acorn Building. This will mean that across the two nursery buildings we will have four separate play and learning zones with each zone having its own resources, book corner, role-play house, wooden blocks, creative area, outdoor area, constant staff team and designated snack/lunch space.

Netherlee Living Advent is back this year and we are asking the local community get involved. Our school and nursery will be joining in the festive fun by unveiling windows on 15th December. Please click on the link http://www.netherleelivingadvent.co.uk/ for more details or have a look at the attached map and route.

A big thank for your contributions to our Nursery Fund  which has helped pay for all of the crafts, presents from Santa, snacks and activities we have planned during the festive period. We also thank Netherlee PTA for treating all of the children in school and nursery to a ‘virtual’ pantomime. Although we can’t have a theatre group in this year we are very fortunate to be able to watch a virtual performance, filmed in Eastwood Park Theatre, of ‘Mc Dougall’s Christmas Party’.

Every year we are overwhelmed by the kindness extended to us by way of the giving of Christmas gifts from families to staff. While we would never presume, nor wish, to dictate what anyone does in this regard, we are aware that this time of year can present many challenges, even more so in the current circumstances we all find ourselves in.  Therefore, the Netherlee staff would like to take this opportunity to reassure you that a kind word in a card or email would be so lovely to receive right now and would be very much valued and appreciated by us all, particularly at this time when so many families are facing challenging financial times.  We hope you don’t mind us mentioning this to you but just wanted to express our thoughts to you.

Parent Club offers up-to-date guidance from the Scottish Government on your child’s health and education. It’s full of hints and tips from other parents and carers who’ve been there before. It also has advice to help you look after your own wellbeing, information about Coronavirus and to point you in the direction of support available. Click on the link to read more: https://www.parentclub.scot/

Have a lovely weekend with your family.

Mrs Donaldson and Mrs Kerr