Hello everyone,
We would like to extend a very warm welcome to all new children and families who have recently joined our Netherlee community. We are looking forward to meeting several more children and families over the next year.
Staff News
We have a few changes to staffing and would like to share who the keyworkers are. These are the keyworkers that will be responsible for administration and gathering information about your child. Our staff support all of the children in nursery, not just their own group, guiding them through their early learning journey. aYou can see photos of our staff team in our Welcome Sway https://sway.office.com/6m7kj08V8TTg0Niq?ref=Link
Acorn Building
Red Group: Mrs Donna Flower/Mrs Sarah Mackie (Mon)
Blue Group: Miss Pamela Montgomerie/Mrs Jo-Anne Welsh
Purple Group: Mrs Amanda Hicks/Mrs Debbie Heron
Playworker: Elizabeth Beattie
Sapling Building
Yellow Group: Mrs Mary Nimmo/Mrs Lynne Morton
Pink Group: Mrs Susan McBride/Mrs Harjeet Kaur
Green Group: Mrs Fiona Daley/Mrs Joanne Greig (Thurs & Fri)
Orange Group: Mrs Lyn Gemmell/Mrs Sarah Mackie (Thurs & Fri)
White Group: Mrs Joanne Greig/Miss Melissa Dorran
Playworkers: Mrs Lynne Stoll/Mrs Clare McAndrew
Our teacher, Mr Lewis Strang Roy and Principal Teacher, Mrs Angela Kerr alternate each week between the two nursery buildings.
School and Nursery Improvement Plan
We are always very interested to listen to the views of our parent community and, in line with our new School and Nursery Improvement Plan 2021-2022 (SNIP) which is available to view on our website: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/. Please do get in touch if you feel that you could help us in any way in relation to our priorities this year. This session our nursery has a particular focus on Food and Health, reviewing ‘Gender Equal Play’ and embracing diversity.
Rhythm of the Day
We are being very flexible with nursery hours to meet children and family needs. If your child has been allocated 8am-6pm you are free to drop off your child any time before 9am and pick up anytime before 6pm.
Children who attend from 9am -3pm should be dropped off at 9am, or after, and picked up by 3pm please, when their session ends.
When children arrive at nursery they change into their indoor shoes and then wash their hands, ready to play. Our outdoor areas are opened at 9.15am and children are free to choose to play indoors or out. At around 9.30am our snack area opens and children are able to choose from a selection of freshly cut vegetables/fruit and milk/water. Children can choose when to come to snack and are encouraged to have a try by our lovely playworkers, Mrs Stoll, Mrs Beattie and Mrs McAndrew. After snack children are free to play inside or out again until lunch. Our lunch starts at 11.30am in both buildings. Lunch is a relaxed, unhurried, sociable time where children sit together round the table with a familiar adult on hand to help. The children choose when they want to eat, can sit with their special friends and are encouraged to eat their delicious two course lunch. After lunch children can choose where to play again. At around 2.30 everyone is encouraged to tidy up the indoor and outdoor areas. Children then have together time where they will have a story, sing some songs and share what they have been learning about during their nursery session. At 3pm some children go home, for those staying later they continue to play after their together time. At around 3.30pm children have their snack (please provide a small snack for this time) and are able to play inside or outside until their collection time.
We will be making a ‘Day in the Life’ video over the next week or so and look forward to sharing this with you.
Childsmile Toothbrushing Programme
Please find attached information regarding Childsmile Toothbrushing programme. Should you require any further information please speak to Mrs Gemmell or Mrs Mackie, our Toothbrushing Leads.
Getting in Contact
At Netherlee we really value our partnership with parents, carers and members of the community very highly. We are always keen to hear your views and to find out if we can provide any additional information.
Should you require to contact us we are available by emailing NurseryMail@Netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or by phoning the school office on 0141 560 7260.
If need to pass on an urgent message such as changes to collection information after 4.30pm please call Acorns 0141 570 7272 or Saplings 0141 570 7271. These numbers should only be used after 4.30pm please as we do not have clerical staff to answer the phone during the day before 4.30pm.
Consent Forms
Over the next week we will be sending out some Consent Forms for all of our children. We ask that you complete these when you have the opportunity and return these at your earliest convenience.
We hope you have a lovely weekend, making the most of the dry, beautiful weather.
Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Angela Kerr (PT)
