Hello, it’s been another really busy week with lots of sparkle being added to nursery and Christmas magic being shared.

Next week we have a few new children starting in both buildings and we look forward to welcoming them to our nursery community.

Thank you
We really appreciate the comments and suggestions some parents made during recent parent appointments. As always, we really value your contributions and hope that you see that we’ve listened and adapted plans to reflect suggestions.

Outdoor Christmas Sing-a-Long
We are so delighted to invite you to our school’s Outdoor Classroom to watch your child perform some Christmas songs. The children are practising really hard in preparation for their performance and will spread some Christmas joy while making you smile with pride. Our Outdoor Classroom is located opposite the Acorns Building. Please enter the playground via the Acorns Gate and turn right towards the staff car park.  We strongly request that you do not park in the staff car park please- the Pavilion Car Park is always available for you. There will be enough room for everyone to congregate near the Outdoor Classroom, socially distanced, to listen to the children sing. To ensure the safety of everyone, the numbers of adults are kept to a maximum of one per child at each performance. If your child does not normally attend on a Monday or a Wednesday we would love to invite them to join in (please speak to Mrs Greig or Mrs Kerr).  We’re really hoping that the weather is kind to us but it may be wise to wrap up well.

Saplings:Monday 13^th December 2021
Saplings: Wednesday 15^th December 2021
Acorns: Monday 20^th December 2021
Acorns: Wednesday 22^nd December 2021

Virtual Performance
If you are unable to attend our outdoor Christmas Sing a Long please don’t worry as we will be recording children performing some Christmas songs during week beginning 13^th December. This will be posted on Google Classroom on Monday 20^th Dec.  If you have not yet had the opportunity to log in to Google Classroom we’ll send out the login details next week.

Learning Links
Our special edition Christmas Learning Links is now available to read today on Google Classroom.

Christmas Cards
Should your child want to give cards to nursery friends we can hand these out for you. We ask that your child only sends in a few cards to children in the same building as them. There is absolutely no expectation to send cards and we understand that many families choose not to, due to environmental reasons.

End of Term Countdown
I have attached an “End of Term Countdown” which indicates some dates and events that are happening in Netherlee over the coming weeks. This can also be found down the left-hand side of the website.

Please remember that we are always here to help in any way that we can if you have any suggestions, questions or concerns at all.  Please just email us using the nursery email nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk and we will get back in touch with you.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Angela Kerr (PT)
Netherlee Primary School
East Renfrewshire
0141 570 7260

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Please see attached Newsletter, ahead of school reopening on Wednesday 18th August.

Hi everyone,

We’ve had another fun and busy week in our nursery hub with staff hosting the daily Google Meets and recording videos for our children – we hope that your child is continuing to enjoy taking part and seeing their keyworkers on line while learning at home.  Please be assured that we understand what home life is like for everyone at the moment, the nursery staff are, just like you, trying to juggle work with being a parent, grandparent, wife, husband or carer whilst also supporting their own children’s school work and caring for the needs of their own wee ones too. So, please don’t let the Home Learning Ideas or Learning Links we share and suggest to you put any extra pressure on your family just now while we all try to keep our children happy and safe. Everyone’s circumstances are very different and we really do appreciate this fact. This time will pass so please just do what you can and try to enjoy having this extra time with your wee ones, read a story, go for a walk or play a game – this is all learning for your child and they will love doing this with you.

We are pleased to advise that the new online Early Learning and Childcare application process is now live for new three or four year old children on the East Renfrewshire Council website: https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/nursery-places  Allocations are for 2 years at a Local Authority setting therefore parents/carers of children who are currently in their ante-pre year and those who have deferred their child’s school place will not require to apply for the pre-school year.  Applications require to be submitted by 28 February 2021.  If you have any enquiries please direct them to earlylearningandchildcare@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk

We would like to remind you that Fri 5^th Feb is an In-Service Day and Mon 8^th and Tues 9^th Feb are holidays and we won’t have any Google Meets or provide any Home Learning Ideas for these days.

Please get in touch if you need anything at all or if you would just like a friendly chat!  J

Have a lovely weekend with your family everyone.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Angela Kerr (PT)

The CCAF is Scottish Government fund, administered by Keep Scotland Beautiful, and 279 community-based organisations from across Scotland have been awarded more than £3.2 million of funding to tackle climate change. Further details from www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/ccaf

The next meeting of  Netherlee Primary School (& Nursery) Parent Council will take place on Thursday 3rd December at 7pm as a Zoom video conference.  In order to take part attendees will have to pre-register by sending an email to netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com.  [Read more here…]

Good afternoon everyone

I can’t quite believe that it is once again Friday with another week having gone by incredibly quickly.

Please find attached a letter from our newly appointed Director of Education, Mr Mark Ratter. He includes in his letter some information around PE which, due to ERC being placed in level 4, will return to once again only being able to take place outdoors for the time being.  We will of course strive to continue to deliver as much outdoor PE as we can and I am very grateful to you for providing your child with appropriate clothing and footwear to allow us to do so.  However, I am sure you will understand if, on certain days due to extremely bad weather, PE cannot unfortunately take place on any given day.

As we find ourselves enjoying some very varied weather conditions right now, I have also attached our annual Winter Weather Advice letter.  Please take a few moments to consider the information contained within this letter so that you can have a plan for this if needed.  I’m sure you, like us will have your fingers crossed that this only ever stays as a plan and we don’t need to put this in place but it’s always better to be prepared just in case.

You may have heard that unfortunately, there was a very concerning and worrying accident last week in the pavilion car park.  Although the car park doesn’t belong to the school, I would ask all users of this carpark to be extremely careful and always mindful that young children are around this area at collection times.  It may be an idea, for example, to park in such a way that avoids the need to reverse out of car parking spaces.  Thankfully everyone is “ok” however this is a situation that we all want to avoid and therefore play our part in keeping all of our families and children safe- thank you.

I am really pleased that Mr Bryce has been able to arrange Bikeability for our P7 children, who were unable to participate due to lockdown.  We are just finalising the exact dates however this will take place in March 2021.  Mr Bryce is also trying to get this arranged for our current P6 pupils as well and this training will most probably take place for them around April/ May 2021.  We will of course let you know the exact dates for both P7 and P6 as soon as we can.  We would very much like all of our pupils to be able to take part in this safety training so please don’t hesitate to get in touch with either Mr Bryce or myself if we can be of any help at all with this.

I really hope you enjoy looking at and sharing your child’s stage newsletter which will either be included in your email Friday Bundle this week or next.  These newly introduced newsletters are hopefully an enjoyable way of keeping you up to date with some of the learning taking place in your child’s class whilst also letting you enjoy lots of photos from the stage too.  Please remember that you can also enjoy sharing lots of Netherlee learning that is happening across the school and nursery by visiting and following us on Twitter – https://twitter.com/sand_nc.  If you have limited your child’s photo permissions and you would like to amend these restrictions at any time so that your child’s photo can be included in our Twitter activity, please just get in touch with the school office and the staff will happily make these changes for you.

Click to read the P1-P7 Sway Newsletters.

Thank you for continuing to support the Scottish Government’s advice around children remaining at home if they have symptoms or are having to self-isolate and also with adults wearing face masks during collection and drop off times.  As we all appreciate that the pavements in the area surrounding the school and nursery are also very busy during these times, please continue to follow this advice in these surrounding areas too and until you are further away and in a quieter, less busy place.  Thank you for your help and support with this as we all continue to work together and support each other right now.  Hopefully, fairly soon, we will all no longer be living through this pandemic and will instead be able to talk about all of this in the past tense but, until then, thank you for all that you are doing to help me keep my dedicated staff and all of our precious Netherlee children as safe as possible.

The link to book your child’s Christmas lunch is here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKS3G7nj1NP9GlDh50WCWuPtURDczSjQ5NlZJQlVDVkJPMUJQUUNQWUxNNiQlQCN0PWcu – if you have not already completed this for your child to have their Christmas Lunch please do so by Monday 30^th November.

A note from the PTA – Thank you to everyone who made an order with the Card Project. All the cards and mugs and labels and wrapping paper have been delivered and sorted in the school and should be coming home with your child today.  We hope you have been enjoying the zoom socials for each year group. Looking forward to the P7, P5 and P3 events this week. Keep a look out on PTA Facebook for news about the forthcoming online Christmas Fair on the 5th and 6th of December.

Please find the joining link below for the PTA meeting this Monday 23rd November at 7pm.  Join the meeting here: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/98744137093?pwd=ZXpwOGJJNEd5eEhOK1NhZDdCM2VTUT09 (Meeting ID: 987 4413 7093 and Passcode: 236823).

The Parent Council meeting is to be held on Wednesday 25^th November at 7.30pm on the Zoom platform. Any parents wishing to attend as observers should e-mail NetherleeParentCouncil@gmail.com to be included in the meeting

Have a good, peaceful and safe weekend everyone.

Mrs Donaldson

Dear Parents and Carers

The staff have had really positive parent conversions on the phone this week as they completed your Child’s Plan. We are continuing the 10 minute appointments after 4pm this week with:

Monday: Orange and Green groups
Tuesday: Purple, Pink and Blue groups
Wednesday: Purple, Pink and Red groups
Thursday: Red group

Please click on the link to read our latest SWAY where we share some of the Learning Experiences for October and November:

https://sway.office.com/WwO5Dg0vrQ1xdQlE?ref=Link

Please don’t forget that our latest Scholastic Book Club is now online at https://schools.scholastic.co.uk/netherlee-primar-sch/digital-book-club. There are hundreds of fantastic children’s books to choose from, and every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club will earn 20p for our school in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by November 29th, 2020.

We ask that when using the car park at Netherlee Pavilion you are mindful of other car park users. We were shocked to hear that there was a ‘near miss’ last Friday in the car park. Please park in the designated spaces and leave pedestrian walking routes clear.

As always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at any time.  We are here to help in any way that we can if you have any questions or concerns at all.  Please just email us using the nursery email nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk and we will get back in touch with you.

Please find attached ‘Learning Links’ for next week.

The Parent Council meeting is to be held on Wednesday 25^th November at 7.30pm on the Zoom platform. Any parents wishing to attend as observers should e-mail NetherleeParentCouncil@gmail.com to be included in the meeting.

Also attached to this email is a Letter from our newly appointed Director of Education, Mark Ratter, along with our Winter Weather advice.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Mrs Donaldson & Mrs Kerr

The school lunch menu can be found on the East Renfrewshire Council website here: https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/primary-menu

Welcoming all new P1s to Netherlee Primary.

As this years journey from Nursery to P1 is a little different, some of the staff have created a video for you all to watch and get to know your new school. Click on the link below to visit Netherlee.

Welcome Video

A handy hints guide for Numeracy and Mathematics.

Below is a leaflet giving you information on the Netherlee Virtual Sports Day, on 17th June.

Virtual Sports Day

Please click on the link below to see a fantastic Stop Motion Animation made by the pupils who were in school on the 29th April.

They worked hard with Mrs Edgar to put this together for all and to say Thank You to the NHS.

https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/gw09edgarclaire_glow_sch_uk/EeS-aBCtZGxIisA0rMvBRDABG1InCHYJwgFnUV1EuNz8wg?e=gXSmZd

During this time of distance learning we continue to be aware of  Internet and Cyber safety and keeping our children safe online.

Please find attached a support leaflet with links to support Online Safety in relation to setting parental filters, Google Safe Search and several more helpful links.

We hope this is helpful.

Keeping safe online at home

Please see below a link to updated Health and Wellbeing information from ERC.

We hope you are all well and safe and find helpful information included in this link useful.

Health and Wellbeing Update 2

Please find below a helpful leaflet from ‘Childline First’ detailing information on a Parentline that is open to all if required.

Parentline Leaflet

Please access the link below with lots of  Health and Wellbeing information for families, including advice and suggestions for staying mentally and physically active when isolating at home.

Enjoy  

Health and Wellbeing Update

Some Useful Websites for Home Use

BBC Learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/

This site is no longer updated but there’s so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Blockly

https://blockly.games

Learn computer programming skills – fun and free.

Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/

Creative computer programming

National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/

Activities and quizzes for younger kids.

Duolingo

https://www.duolingo.com

Learn languages for free. Web or app.

Nature Detectives

https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/

A lot of these can be done in a garden or Park

Oxford Owl for Home

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

Lots of free resources for Primary age

DK Find Out

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/?fbclid=IwAR2wJdpSJSeITf4do6aPhff8A3tAktnmpaxqZbkgudD49l71ep8-sjXmrac

Activities and quizzes

Twinkl

https://www.twinkl.co.uk

This is more for printouts, and usually at a fee, but they are offering a month of free access to parents in the event of school closures.

Dear Parents/Carers

Please find below our weekly email with information for parents.

Our pupils have been using their presenting and digital technology skills to produce short films detailing the exciting learning that will be happening in each stage from P1 to P7 this term. We hope you enjoy this new method of sharing your child’s learning with you – https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/Netherlee/2020/01/30/sharing-our-learning/

For information – Our school offers a Halal choice each day to pupils who require this. The Halal option is offered alongside our meat dish of the day, so for example, if there is steak pie available, there will also be Halal steak pie for the pupils who have registered to have this option. When the children order their meals – they still select their choice in the same way on the class whiteboard and their option is filtered to the kitchen where this is checked and ordered on their behalf. If the child has ordered a Halal option, they receive a different coloured band to the rest of the children, allowing the Kitchen to easily identify what they have ordered.

Have a lovely weekend.

Netherlee Primary