Hi Everyone

We’re really looking forward to sending home your child’s Special Book next week. Our Special Books are a really valuable way of sharing your child’s learning story across their time at nursery. We hope you thoroughly enjoy looking at the book together. We ask that you also update your child’s ‘Personal Care Plan’ (in Special Book) where needed, and then return the book to us. For children returning to nursery in August, these books will then continue to be added to by the children themselves and also their keyworker and staff. For children leaving nursery to start P1, Special Books are an important and very useful tool in our “transition to school” processes and these will be shared and discussed with your child’s new P1 teacher. These will then, once again, continue to be added to in P1.

We ask that, when dropping off or collecting your child from the Saplings building, you continue to only use the gate beside the Saplings building please. The gate beside the Acorns building is only for dropping off or collecting from that building. We respectfully ask you to remind any other adults involved in the drop off or collection of your child from nursery of these procedures as they should not be in the school grounds or crossing playgrounds during the nursery or school day. Many thanks for your help, support and understanding with this safety measure.

This week lots of children (and staff!) have had so much fun splashing in puddles or playing with the taps and this resulted in wet feet and therefore us having no spare socks! If you have any spare socks that we could use for changing children we’d really appreciate these. We would also be very grateful if you could please continue to put spare clothing in your child’s bag every day, as we often need to change wet, muddy or painted clothing. Thank you once again for your help with this too.

We hope you have a lovely weekend getting out and about with your family.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Angela Kerr (PT)

Hello again everyone,

SCHOOL UNIFORM
Thanks you once again for contributing to our uniform recycling processes. We are delighted with the response and would like to remind you that from next week, you can now begin to benefit and make use of the recycling system. I have re-attached the letter that Mrs Wharton sent out a couple of weeks ago which explains when and how you can drop by the school to look at what is available for you to take away for your child.

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC DAY 21^st June 2021 (P5-7 children who play a musical instrument only)
Throughout this past year and especially during the recent lockdown period, we appreciate that many children have been continuing to conscientiously practise their musical instrumental playing at home. We are also delighted that musical tuition in school is slowly being reintroduced and we are so proud of these children for their efforts and dedication. As such, we would like to recognise International Music Day on 21^st June this year. Please find attached a letter from Mrs Wharton and Mr Watson in relation to these exciting plans.

PTA MEETING WED. 19^th MAY 2021
Please find attached the agenda for the next PTA meeting. All parents and carers of Netherlee are very welcome, please see the attached agenda for details of how to join us.

“ACTIVE”ITIES WEEK (24^th – 27^th MAY 2021)
To continue our focus on outdoor learning and the importance of being active to stay well, both physically and mentally, we are delighted to share our plans for “Active”ities Week in the attached letter from Mr Bryce- lots of fun to look forward to.

BIKEABILITY – P7 ONLY
Please note that due to a clash of dates the full day Bikeability session for p7c has been moved from Friday 11th June to Friday 4th June.

GETTING IN TOUCH
We continue to respond very quickly to any phone calls or emails that we receive from parents and are very appreciative that many of you have, and continue to, get in touch with us about a range of matters. Please be reassured that we would never hesitate to give you a call if we wanted to have a very quick chat with you about anything at all- even if this was about, what may seem like, a very small, non-urgent matter or if we wished to arrange a meeting with you to have a more in depth discussion. Therefore, please don’t hesitate to take this approach yourself too. All you have to do is give the school office a quick call or drop us a line in an email if you would like to chat to myself or any member of staff. Please don’t ever feel that you would be taking up, or wasting, our time in any way… parent/ school partnerships and ongoing communication is something that myself and all of my staff are very committed to- therefore there is nothing, in relation to your child or the school, that could ever be a waste of time. Even the smallest matters can be really important to you, us or your child and are often very easily and quickly sorted for your child or yourself. (Phone: 0141 570 7260 or email: schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk).

HEALTH AND WELLBEING SWAY
And finally, I hope you enjoy the latest in our ongoing series of SWAY Newsletters- thank you to Mrs Roberts for putting this one together for us. As you know, a focus on health and wellbeing always plays a huge part in the life of Netherlee however, never before has this ongoing focus been so important than over this past year. Please click on the link to get a flavour of what this looks and feels like in school and nursery. https://sway.office.com/LUpCCR0sFEOU4Bk7?ref=email.

A warm Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrate the festival of Eid and… to all families… have a really lovely weekend.

Mrs Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher