Hello everyone,
We have had a very busy and exciting week at nursery. The children very much enjoyed making and tasting homemade pancakes on Shrove Tuesday this week. We hope those that celebrated this enjoyed some yummy pancakes at home too!
Proposed Industrial Strike Action
We are confirming that Netherlee Nursery class will be open from 9am – 3pm to all children on Tuesday 28th February and Wednesday 1st March. This means children who normally attend on a Tuesday extended pattern (8am – 6pm), offered an alternative limited service of core hours (9am – 3pm) for this day only. Normal communication channels via phone call or email will remain unaffected on these days, should you need to contact the nursery during 9am – 3pm.
Diversity Month
As part of Diversity Month, the children in the school are researching a famous person from somewhere around the world. We would love the nursery to be involved too! We are very lucky in Netherlee Primary and Nursery that we have lots of different families with lots of different cultural experiences. To share this, we are inviting the children in our nursery to choose a family member that they love and bring a photograph of this person into nursery. The children can also tell us something about them e.g. their name, who they are or reasons why they love them. Our photographs will be displayed for our whole school and nursery to enjoy!
World Book Day – Thursday 2nd March
We are looking forward to marking World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March at Netherlee. Please see the letter with more information about our planned activities.
GIRFEC
Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) and young person is a national policy to help all children and young people flourish, progress and achieve their full potential. At Netherlee, we are committed to promoting and supporting our children’s wellbeing. Wellbeing is considered and assessed across eight wellbeing indicators: Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included (SHANARRI). More information can be found by clicking here.
Cosy Corner
As explained last week, we have created Cosy Corners within both of our nursery buildings. These are safe and nurturing spaces for our children, two of the wellbeing indicators from Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC). We have tried to ensure that our Cosy Corner replicates the home environment as much as possible and provides our children with a calm and cosy space to relax on their own or with their friends.
We would like to thank those who have donated pre-loved items to our nursery to support the creation of these spaces, including old lamps, cushions and throws. As stated last week, our children suggested adding some family photographs to the Cosy Corner to make it feel more ‘cosy’. We would gratefully receive some photographs to add to our space. Should you wish to include a family photograph in our Cosy Corner, please send these in to nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk
Parent Council Meeting Highlights
Thank you to the Parent Council for producing the latest Meeting Highlights Newsletter. We had a very productive meeting and the highlights can be found here: February Meeting
Book Bug
Sharing stories, rhymes and songs from an early age helps to promote early language and Literacy skills which allows children to achieve their full potential in later life. Bookbug encourages parents and carers to share books with their children inspires a love of reading in young children.
We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting termly Bookbug sessions at Netherlee Nursery. Each session will take place over two dates, with one morning and one afternoon session. For this term, please see dates and times for each colour group below:
Wednesday 15th March in the Saplings:
9.15: Blue and Purple
2.15: Pink and Yellow
Friday 17th March in the Acorns:
9.15: Red and Orange
2.15: White and Green group (Saplings staff will take Green group children to and from the Acorns).
We politely ask that a maximum of two adults attend the sessions. Younger siblings are also more than welcome to attend. Should the above days/times be unsuitable for this term, please be assured that alternative days and times will be provided for the sessions to follow. Book bug sessions also run in East Renfrewshire libraries. Please click here to view days and times.
Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee
Recognising and celebrating children’s achievements is an integral part to Curriculum for Excellence and what we do in Netherlee. We also understand that recognising the achievements of the special adults in our children’s lives help to inspire our children to reach their goals and model the importance of resilience.
As you will already be aware, we currently share and celebrate our children’s achievements through our Nursery WOW Wall. We would now love to showcase the achievements of parents, carers and our very own staff and include these with our children’s achievements on our WOW Wall for all to see! For example, this may include charity work, running a marathon or simply have learnt a new life skill.
In order to gather as many achievements as possible, we will now include an Achievement Microsoft Form Link in the Nursery Friday Bundle on the first Friday of each month. We would encourage you, along with your child, to complete this simple form if there is information about a recent wider achievement that you or your child have done and would like to share. Pictures of children and parents and carer’s achievements should continue to be submitted via email to be included on our WOW Wall (nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk).
We will also include a link to the form on our school and nursery website too. We look forward to hearing about you and your child’s achievements and celebrating them at Netherlee.
Learning Links
Please click to view the Saplings and Acorns Learning links. The song of the week is ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider’ which can be listened to and enjoyed by clicking on your child’s Google classroom: https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow.
Have a lovely weekend.
Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class
