Hello everyone,

Winter Fayre Survey
The P6/7 Creative Group are hosting a stall at the Winter Fayre and would like to carry out some market research before starting to make our products. We are planning to make three items: slime, tree decorations and home baking.  We would like to find out if you would be willing to purchase these items and if so, how much you would be willing to spend on these. All responses are anonymous and we would ask that your response is posted by Friday 17^th November using the link following link: https://forms.gle/3AHx9WB44WUEJrG16.  If you have any further questions, please email Mrs Linn at school mail SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk. Thank you for your time.  P6/7 Creative Group

Please also see attached flyer from the PTA regarding the upcoming Fayre [removed as event has happened].

Celebrating Diwali
We hope all our families who celebrate Diwali have a lovely time celebrating this weekend. As you know, we are always looking for our Netherlee Community to share their beliefs, traditions and expertise with our children and we are very lucky that Mrs Kaur, one of our nursery Child Development Officers, is going to speak to everyone in the school and nursery about this important religious festival. Mrs Kaur has also very kindly said she will bring in a selection of delicious treats called Gulabjaman, Jalabi and Barfi to share with the children as part of the traditions if they wish to try these in school and nursery. The ingredients of these are:

• Semolina
• Butter
• Plain flour
• Sugar syrup
• Milk powder
• Food colouring

We have a note of your child’s dietary requirements however, if these have changed, please email SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or NurseryMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk and we can update our records. Similarly, if you would prefer your child did not try the traditional treats or if you have any further questions, please contact Mrs Linn.

Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee
We would like to continue to invite you to share information about a recent wider achievement that your child has done by completing the Wider Achievements form below. We are always looking for ways to recognise and celebrate our children’s wider achievements out with Netherlee. As detailed in our Promoting Positive Behaviour Policy, during stage assemblies each month, certificates are awarded to pupils who have really tried to uphold the Netherlee Values, for Effort and Progress and for Achievements within and out with school. For example, many of our children take part in extracurricular clubs and competitions, charity work or simply have learnt a new life skill. We will check this form regularly so that we can celebrate as many children’s achievements as possible.
Wider Achievement Form

Parent Council Meeting
We are really looking forward to our next Parent Council Meeting which will take place on Wednesday, 22^nd November at 7pm in our school Hub. This is a great opportunity to meet other parents and carers and to also hear about and be involved in the life and work of our Netherlee school and nursery community. The agenda for the meeting is below:

• Minutes of previous meeting and taking of next meeting
• Head Teacher and Staff Team Update
• Communication – Consultation
• PTA update – Christmas Fayre
• SNIP Priority – Nurture and the Lighthouse
• Membership update
• School Report update
• AOB: RSHP & periods, ERC Citizen Panel, Connect update, Comms Newsletter support, parking details reminder.

We look forward to welcoming new and familiar faces along to the meeting at 7-8.30pm for a cuppa, biccy and chat!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Hello everyone

We hope that children who celebrated Halloween this week had a spooktacular time! It was lovely to hear about what or who they were dressing up as, the jokes they told and all the yummy sweets they ate.

It is almost time for another exciting event this weekend- Bonfire Night! For those of you planning to attend a display, we hope you have a brilliant time. Remember to wrap up, stay safe and enjoy the show!

Thank you again to our parents and carers who attended parent’s appointments this week. We look forward to welcoming those with appointments next week to discuss your child’s progress.

Book Week Scotland
Please see the information letter about Book Week Scotland.

Book Sale
Our Book Sale will be available to visit on Wednesday 8th November 3.10-7pm in the Hub. This will be the final opportunity to visit. Please remember it is cash only. Thank you so much to all our families who have visited so far. We really appreciate it!

Children In Need
Please see attached a letter from our House Captains regarding our Children in Need Charity Event on Friday, 17^th November.

School Flu Immunisation
The School Nurses team will be in school on Monday 6^th November to immunise the children.

Mother Tongue Other Tongue Competition
Our wonderful P7 Equality and Diversity Councillors have visited all classes over the past week to tell them all about the 10^th anniversary of the multi-lingual poetry competition, Mother Tongue Other Tongue.

This year there are two categories: one for children who have English as an additional language, and speak another language at home (Mother Tongue) e.g. Mandarin, Urdu or Polish and another for children who have English as a first language and are learning an additional language (Other Tongue) e.g. Spanish, Italian or Arabic. There is also a special prize for Spanish entries being presented by the Instituto Cervantes!

Entries can be written or spoken and should be submitted by Friday 1 December to Mother Tongue Other Tongue. For more information, you can visit the website https://scilt.org.uk/MTOT/tabid/5841/Default.aspx or contact Mrs. Linn at school mail SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 21 February 2024 (International Mother Language Day). Good luck!

Parent Teacher Association (PTA) – Coming Together For Our School and Nursery
Pumpkin Trail Roundup (Autumn Event)
Thank you to everyone who came along to support the school at our autumn event on Friday, 27 October. What a wonderful turn out and the sense of community was heart-warming. We did learn that at our next event we will have more drinks and food! Do come again! With your generous support, including the Localgiving donations, a total of £900 was raised. Thank you very much! On that basis there are now funds available for the immediate expenses we need:

• £500 for the shed. We hope to supplement this amount with monies raised through the uniform sales.
• £210 to book a silent disco for the house awards, and
• £300 for a curriculum based trip to the Science Centre.

To everyone that took part in the pumpkin trail, we were spectacularly spooked by all the amazing creations. A loud three cheers to the indispensable volunteers who have made things happen: our P6 and P7 volunteers who stepped in and helped us on our merchandise stand and a special thanks to our team of judges who helped with organising our pumpkins and our team who helped with tidying up; Mrs Donaldson, Mrs Edgar, Mrs Andrew, Mrs Linn, Miss Centola, Miss Qasim, Miss Maclean and Mrs Ford who helped at the bar, witches hat, face paints and pumpkins; Mr Martinez and the cleaning staff for their support; Andy and Mick Jaffrey for running front of house at the food stand; Linda and Collette McLean for being there from the beginning to the end; Iain MacDonald, Mick Jaffrey, Julie Bell for keeping us hydrated in a suitably spectacular fashion; Danny McKay for looking after the doughnut gam; Marie Macintyre for keeping us right at the witches hats and Dave McCulloch for negotiating our soccer skills; Jo Atkinson for once again making sure there was a fun craft table and to Paul for bringing order to the messy tombola pumpkins.

Winter Fayre
Save the date! The Winter Fayre is taking place on Thursday, 7 December 2023. (See the attached leaflet.) The choir will start the festivities at 6:20pm, and will lead us through the door when it opens at 6:30pm. The tombola collection and “dress as you like” is due on Friday, 1 December. More details to follow. If you are able to help on 1 December with the collection and the sorting of the tombola, and / or you are able to assist at the Winter Fayre, then please email netherleepta@gmail.com.

Uniform sales:
You should have received your September / October orders that were distributed in school, last week. Again, thank you for your support. “Many hands  make light work” very much applies to the packing of these uniforms.

• Thank you to Suman, Gaby and Fiona who very kindly helped us to sort and pack the orders.
• To Alyson and her team in the office, who delivered the parcels to the classes, thank you.

Our next sale is scheduled to start on Friday, 12 January 2024.
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Primary 7 Remembrance Assembly
We refer to last week’s bundle where the incorrect date was detailed.  We would like to invite you along to our short (approx. 30minutes) Remembrance Assembly on Friday the 10^th of November to pay respect to the Armed Forces through art, poetry and music. If you are able to join us, doors will open at 9:15am for a 9:30am start. If you are able to join us, we look forward to welcoming you to Netherlee then.

Bikeabiltity – We Need Your Help
At Netherlee we deliver cycling proficiency, Bikeability, training to all of our pupils, normally during P6, as part of the PE curriculum. To do this we require between 3 & 4 adults per class and over the years we have been very fortunate to have had a group of parents that were able to give up some time and come along and help. Unfortunately, most of these families have now moved on from Netherlee and their children are at high school. We are planning to deliver Bikeability for P6 in Term 4, April/May, however, if we do not manage to get more adults to come and help this may not prove possible.  If you would be able to spare some time in April and May to help deliver Bikeability please get in touch. As well as coming to the school to deliver Bikeability in April and May, you would need to attend two training days on Thursday 1^st February and Friday 2^nd February 9am-12.30pm at Carolside Primary School. If you think that you would be able to help, or would like more information, please get in touch via Email- thank you.

A leaflet can be found here with more information.

Hello everyone

I hope you have had a really lovely Summer and enjoyed spending time with your children, family and friends.  We have had a fantastic first week back with all staff working really hard on the two In-service Days, getting ready to welcome all of our children back to school.  All children have been settled and seem very happy and enthusiastic to be back and our adorable “new P1 cuties” seem as if they have been coming to school for months instead of days!  They are in a fantastic routine already and it is a joy to watch them coming in first thing in the morning, then making their way to the cloakroom and then on to their classrooms to find their friends- chatting and laughing all the way!  A huge welcome also to all the other new children and families who have joined us, spread throughout all stages of the school from P2-7.  Your children have quickly slotted right into their new class and it will be lovely to get to know them and you in the coming weeks and months.

PE Timetable
As promised, the PE/ Gym Day Timetable can be found here. On these days children should come to school in their PE uniform.  Our uniform policy can be found here which details, as a reminder, the Netherlee’s School Uniform List.  Our children have returned to school looking extremely smart in their school uniform and I would like to thank you for the commitment and support with this. The gym days are also on our website calendar for ease.  Our fantastic Uniform Recycling Rails will return next Friday 26^th (smaller items 8.45-9.05am and larger items 2.55-3.10pm) at the Clarkston Road Gate.  Please do come along at this time any Friday morning and help yourself to uniform items that you can make use of.  A huge thank you for all of your donations in June, we now have a vast selection of school burgundy jackets, hoodies and other items of uniform.  These are free of charge so please do help yourself.   Please hold off donating any more uniform items for a little while as we have so much right now and I will let you know when we are ready to start collecting again- thank you. Continue reading →