Hello everyone,

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Evaluating our Services
Care Inspectorate regularly visit services to observe the quality of children’s care, play and learning. As part of this, your feedback using the attached link would be appreciated. The online survey should take no longer than 10 minutes.  Please click here to share your views :Care Inspectorate Parent /Carer Survey

Yummy recipes!
We are looking for recipe books for our young cooks and for our role play area. If you are having a clear out, we would be happy to use your old recipe books in the nursery. Please just hand in during drop off or collection.

Pre-School Vision-Screening Programme
Children will be bringing home consent letters for the vision-screening programme. These require to be returned as soon as possible please.  The nursing team will be in nursery on Wednesday 23^rd April.

Community Events: Spring Holiday Camps / Swimming Intensive Lessons
Don’t miss out on Spring Holiday Camps! Enjoy All Star Sports Camps at Eastwood & Barrhead High Schools, Intensive Swimming Lessons in leisure centres & Art Workshops in Eastwood House. Spaces are selling fast – book now! There are so many options to choose from – search all camps, lessons & activities here: https://www.ercultureandleisure.org/spring-holiday-camps/

Community Event: Thrive Under Five
Grow, Cook, Inspire family learning opportunity open to Netherlee families with children under 5. Please see the leaflet for booking information. Hope to see you there!  As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Early Finish – Friday 4^th April
School will close slightly earlier than usual on this day. P1 and P2 will finish at 2.25pm and P3-7 will finish at 2.30pm. Nursery will be open until 6pm.  We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday when it comes and we look forward to welcoming everyone back on Tuesday 22^nd April.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Hello everyone,

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Bikes and Scooters in the Playground
To ensure the safety of all children, we kindly ask that bikes and scooters not be ridden inside the playground. Please ensure your child dismounts before entering to help prevent accidents and keep the area safe for everyone.

We appreciate your cooperation and support in maintaining a safe and enjoyable environment for all.

Jungle Jamboree – Show Programme Adverts for Sale
Do you have a business? We need you! We are looking to raise funds for our Primary 7 school show by selling advertising space within our programme. If you are interested, please read the  flyer and follow the link.

Come Fly With Me
In recent weeks at nursery there has been a lot of chat about making things fly, experimenting with different materials for making aeroplanes and measuring how far they can fly. So….we had a visit from a pilot to explain about his job, the skills and tools he uses, his flight log, safety checks and the exciting places he flies to.

Reading, reading and more reading
As always we would love for parents and carers to join us for Bookbug sessions. These sessions are great for exploring and enjoying stories, characters and settings, listening and spotting rhyming patterns and words. Here is a reminder of when these are:

Bookbug in the Acorns Building
Bookbug Tuesday 18/3/25 2pm with the Otter, Fox, Deer Groups
Bookbug Wednesday 19/3/25 9:30am with the Rabbit, Butterfly, Owl Groups
Bookbug Wednesday 19/3/25 2pm with the Badger, Squirrel, Hedgehog Groups

Care Plans
If you have recently been looking over your child’s Care plan documentation at home, we would appreciate if they could be returned with your comments. Thanks for your full involvement in this important information sharing.

Eid and Ramadan Celebrations
We are very fortunate to have such wonderful children who have met with Mrs Linn this week to start planning Ramadan and Eid celebrations. In addition to classroom activities and a special assembly, they have suggested that children wear their Ramadan or Eid clothes on Thursday 27^th March. This is completely optional and families do not need to participate if they would prefer not to. May we take this opportunity to thank the families who have already came into school to lead crafting and information workshops? All children and staff have been very grateful of your time. Many thanks.

Chatter Café
All nursery and school parents and carers are very welcome to come along to our Chatter Café on Friday 28^th March from 9:15am until 9:45am in our school Hub. This is an extremely informal opportunity to chat to members of the Leadership Team and to meet other parents and carers to share your thoughts and ideas about any aspect of Netherlee life! You will also be able to enjoy some tea, coffee and delicious home baking, made and served by a group of pupils too! Please do pop in if you can- we really look forward to seeing you.

Community Events: Spring Camps
East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure’s Spring Holiday Programme for kids is now on sale! Enjoy All Star Sports Camps at Eastwood & Barrhead High Schools, Intensive Swimming Lessons in leisure centres & Art Workshops in Eastwood House. There are so many options to choose from –  search all camps, lessons & activities here: https://www.ercultureandleisure.org/spring-holiday-camps/

Community Events: Clarkston Tennis Club Open Day
Clarkston Tennis Club are hosting an open day at the club on Saturday 29^th March. It is free to attend and all information can be found on the flyer.

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Hello everyone,

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

‘For the Love of Reading’ Open Library Thursday 6^th March 2025
As part of the celebrations for World Book Day, the Librarians would like to invite families to come along to enjoy a read in the school library! We have comics, novels and a plethora of fiction and non-fiction titles to explore!  Open Doors from 3.15 pm to 4.15pm- feel free to pop in for 5 minutes or stay the hour!  Hope to see you there!

Designs
At nursery we have been talking and thinking about what Netherlee Nursery means to us and how this is reflected by our Logo.  We are looking for your ideas to help us with this design. Please add any ideas that you and your child may have to the display board in the foyer of the nursery. We have been discussing possible images with the children already but always welcome views from parents/carers.

Food Glorious Food!
Netherlee Nursery Class provides a hot lunch for the children.  The 3 weekly rolling menu can be accessed using the following link: Nursery Lunch Menu.

If you wish to provide your child with a packed lunch please have a look at https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes which provides nutritious lunch ideas and inspiration. We would also request that you place an ice pack in the packed lunch to keep cold foods at low temperature. If providing grapes or cherry tomatoes please ensure that, they are quartered to minimise choking incidents.

Cooking Skills and Recipes
The children learn skills of counting, weighing, measuring, chopping and mixing when following recipes for many healthy, tasty breads and scones. We want to have bread making as part of our routine in nursery. We would appreciate if you would share any favourite bread recipes you use at home with us. Please share them at drop off/collection or email them to nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

Netherlee Nursery Lending Library
We hope that you are enjoying the books from the lending library available in the foyer from 2:45pm. Please let us know if you have any special requests for titles and we will try our best to find you the perfect read!

Sleep
We often have chats with families about sleep patterns. The following link might be of interest to you: www.nhsggc.org.uk/kids/life-skills/sleep

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Hello everyone,

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

The Joy of Reading Together
We are pleased to offer fantastic books from our Netherlee Nursery Lending Library. These will be available for you to browse and choose a title or two to take home and enjoy with your child. They will be set out in the foyer of the nursery from 2.45 p.m. each day to give you time to browse when collecting your child for 3.OO p.m. We hope you find the tips for encouraging reading useful. Click here Parent Zone Reading.

Scottish Book Trust   This link also has some useful tips on the importance of reading together for pleasure.

Mid Term Break
The school and nursery will close for the mid-term break and re-open on Thursday 20^th February. We look forward to welcoming all of our Netherlee children back again on Thursday.

World Book Day: Thursday 6^th March
As always, we encourage parents and families to participate in all aspects of nursery life. If you would like to share your skills as an illustrator, author or storyteller, please let the staff know at drop off or collection or by email to school mail.

Ramadan
With lots of our families looking forward to the beginning of Ramadan on Saturday 1 March, our P7 Diversity Leaders have already made a start on planning learning experiences for the children in school and nursery. We are also fortunate that one of our parents has also volunteered to come into school to lead some crafting activities in Primary 1!

Mrs Linn would welcome your input on how best to celebrate this special festival. If you have suggestions of what we can do in school, please email at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or, you are welcome to pop into the school office at morning drop off or pick up time to discuss your ideas with Mrs Linn. Many thanks for your continued support.

Community Events: FREE Golf Taster Sessions
Mearns Castle Golf Academy are offering free golf taster sessions for children aged 5-12 during the February holiday.  They have 1hr long sessions running 10am-3pm from Saturday 15^th – Tuesday 18^th February. All information can be found in the flyer.

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Hello everyone,

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Childhood Illness
NHS Scotland guidance on infectious diseases has recently been updated and can be found here.

School and Nursery Photographs
We will be welcoming Jane Henderson back into our school and nursery from Monday 24^th February until Friday 7^th March. She will take:

• class, individual and sibling photographs of children in P1 and P7
• class and individual photographs of children in P2-P6
• our nursery children will have individual photographs taken

The photographs will be taken indoors so we don’t have to worry about the weather!  As always, we will do our very best to include all children in the photographs but this may not be possible if a pupil is absent during Jane’s time at school and nursery.

Nursery children can wear their normal nursery clothes.

Please see attached timetables, which details the days and times your child’s photograph is due to be taken. We hope the photographs will be a lovely memento of your child’s year in school and nursery.

Community Events: Dyslexia Scotland Meeting
Please find attached information regarding Dyslexia and Apprenticeships Meeting on Wednesday 19^th February.

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Hello everyone,

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Photos
To help create a homely atmosphere in the nursery setting, it is good to have photographs of family members in our role play and dining areas as you perhaps would have at home. Please send in any family photos that you would be happy to have on display in this way and look out for them in nursery.

Collection Times
If your child has a core attendance pattern of 9.00 a.m. to 3.00p.m. you will have seen that this can be a very busy transition time.  We appreciate your help to ensure that our children are calm and kept safe by ensuring that you collect your child by 3pm sharp please.  This ensures that the playrooms continue to run smoothly with ongoing learning through play for the rest of the children and that staff are available to share relevant information with you if needed etc.   Thank you.

It has been another busy week at nursery with many of you participating in Stay and Play sessions. We thank you for your feedback and we hope you enjoyed your time with us playing, learning and even making new friends!

Head Lice
It is always a good idea to periodically check your child’s head for any little creepy crawlies. We have lots of useful information on this in our website so please click this link if it would be of help to you.

Community Events: Sports Classes
Participating in sport can have many positive impacts on children’s lives including developing life skills such as respect, responsibility, confidence, compassion and friendship- all in an active environment!

East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure run over 100 sports classes for children each week from Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Football, Gymnastics, Netball & Tennis!  Book a FREE taster session here: https://ercl.classforkids.io/term/2

Our super popular Beginners Gymnastics classes now have a limited number of spaces available, book here: https://ercl-gymnastics.classforkids.io/term/1

Community Information: Family First
At Netherlee, we are always here to support our families if they need help, whether that be a chat at the door, through telephone calls (0141 570 7260) or by email (schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk). Family First is another useful source of support as well, please click here to view useful information about this service.

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a nice weekend.

Hello everyone,

Another fantastic week in nursery!

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Stay and Play week beginning 27th January
Sign up sheets will be available for your convenience in the foyer from Monday 13th January. There are opportunities to come in each day. We encourage only one person per child to attend if possible. This helps to ensure there is a safe and enabling environment for all children.

Nursery Application for New Session 2025-26
The early learning and childcare application for session 2025-26 is currently open online but will close at the end of this month. This application is for children who will be 3 years old or over from the 1^st of March this year.  The initial deadline for submitting an application is 31 January 2025 when it will close for approximately 8-12 weeks while applications received are processed thereafter it will reopen for late applications. If you have a child who will be entitled to a nursery place in session 2025-26 and you haven’t already applied, please ensure you do so before the end of this month. Applications are due to be checked and confirmation will be issued from the Early Learning and Childcare Team in due course.

Parent/carers of children who already have a placement and who wish to apply for a change of setting or provision can also submit an application, however a change to a child’s current allocation is not guaranteed.

Please complete the form at the following link while reading the guidance within the application: https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/apply-for-a-nursery-place-for-3-or-4-year-olds-2025-26

Diversity Month and Diversity Evening
Monday 13 January marked the start of our school’s Diversity celebrations with Diversity Evening being held on Thursday 30 January from 6.30pm -8pm.

We already have some visitors organised to come and speak to the children however, there are still opportunities for more parents/carers to come in a share with the children about their home language, culture and religion as well as any particular skills you have i.e. cultural cooking, dance, sport. If you have experience of a neurodiversity or you work in a workplace that is typically dominated by one gender, Mrs Linn would really love to hear from you.

Space for stalls at Diversity evening are also available- you could be selling some homemade cooking, crafts or sharing information about you religion or heritage. The possibilities are endless! Please email Mrs Linn at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk if you are able to help or if you have any further questions.

Netherlee Chatter Café
All nursery and school parents and carers are very welcome to come along to our Chatter Café on Friday 31^st January from 2:45pm in our school Hub. This is an extremely informal opportunity to chat to members of the Leadership Team and to meet other parents and carers to share your thoughts and ideas about any aspect of Netherlee life! You’ll also be able to enjoy some tea, coffee and delicious home baking, made and served by a group of pupils too! Please do pop in if you can- we really look forward to seeing you.

Parent Council Meeting: 7pm Wednesday 22^nd January in The Hub
The next meeting of the School and Nursery Parent Council will be at 7pm on Wednesday 22^nd January.  This will be in the Hub in the school.  We hope to see as many parents and carers as possible and as ever will hear from the school leadership team on a number of topics, with the opportunity for free and open discussion.  If there is anything you would particularly like us to raise at the meeting then please email netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com. The agenda for the meeting is below:

• School Update
• Recruitment training update
• Constitution update
• PTA update
• SNIP item: Supporting Pupils Policy (consultation questions)
• AOCB

Loose Parts
Thank you to those who have donated loose parts already. We are still happy to receive donations of; Corks, old CDs, milk top lids, buttons, cotton reels, wool, fabric book samples, leather offcuts.

Toys
We would appreciate your help with discouraging the children from bringing toys to nursery. This can sometimes result in their precious toys being broken or misplaced and we would want to avoid any disappointed children. We have plenty of materials and toys available in the nursery.

Achievements
We invite all families to send in by email or bring in news or photos of achievements that we share on our WOW display. The children and staff love to celebrate achievements and they are excellent, relevant talking and listening contexts. These could also be added to the ‘special books’ as and when they are celebrated. Look forward to sharing your success!

Languages
If you speak more than one language, we would love to learn from you. Please share your skills with us!

Poetry Focus
Please let us know of any budding poets that would be willing to share their work with us. Look out for some fabulous poetry on display in the next few weeks.

Community Events: Mini Kickers Trial Sessions
Kick Start Your Child’s Football Journey With ERCL! Our Mini Kickers classes provide a great introduction to this fantastic sport! Weekly classes cost £20 per month, with lots of options across East Ren. Plus, you can book a free taster session now! Book Here: https://tinyurl.com/MiniKickersERCL

Community Events: WorkER
Please see attached leaflet with regards to parental employment support and in work training grants.

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a happy weekend.

Hello everyone,

We hope you all enjoyed quality family time over the holidays. A warm welcome to our new and returning children and a heartfelt wish for a happy and healthy 2025!

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Telephone Lines Next Week
We have been advised that the telephone lines may be intermittently unavailable next week due to essential works by East Renfrewshire Council.  If you cannot get through via telephone, we would recommend that you get in contact with us via email to nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.  We will send an update when the phone services have resumed.

Diversity Month
We would love to learn from and with you! We will be exploring different cultures, languages and traditions, as always, but we would appreciate if any families would like to share skills, languages or talents. If you would like to teach us something, please just let Mrs Greig or Mrs Toman know when you are here for drop off or collection.

Loose Parts
We would appreciate your donations of loose parts to support creativity and woodwork activities.  If you already have any of the items below, and would like to donate them, please drop them in to nursery next week.

Corks, old CDs, milk top lids, buttons, cotton reels, wool, fabric book samples, leather offcuts

Stay and Play- week beginning 27^th January
Sign-up sheets will be available for your convenience in the foyer from Monday 13^th January. There are opportunities to come in each day.  We encourage only one person per child to attend please. This helps to ensure there is a safe and enabling environment for all children.

Parent Council Meeting Highlights
Thank you to the Parent Council for producing the latest Meeting Highlights Newsletter.  We had another very productive meeting last term and the highlights can be found here: Meeting Highlights 20.11.2024

Community Events: East Renfrewshire A Place to Grow
A new East Renfrewshire Community Planning Partnership vision – East Renfrewshire A Place to Grow – has been launched. The vision sets out the shared hopes and aspirations between now and 2040 so that East Renfrewshire is a place where everyone can flourish, thrive and grow. Find out more about the vision and watch a fantastic video of the area at eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/placetogrow

Community Information: Occupational Therapy Advice Line
Please see poster for the Occupational Therapy Advice Line. The Advice Line is open on Tuesdays 1.30pm-4pm and Fridays 9.30am-12noon.

Community Events: Free Family Cooking Sessions from Thrive Under Five

Option 1: Family cooking sessions at Busby Parish Church, 20 Church Rd, Busby, G76 8EB on Fridays, 3:30-4:30pm, for 6 weeks from 17th January 2025 (17th Jan, 24th Jan, 31st Jan, 7th Feb, 14th Feb, 21st Feb).

Option 2: Family cooking sessions at Mearns Library, 45 Mackinlay Place, Newton Mearns, G77 6EZ on Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30pm, for 6 weeks from 25th February 2025 (25th Feb, 4th Mar, 11th Mar, 18th Mar, 25th Mar, 1st Apr)

For further information about the Thrive Under 5 projects click in the link Thrive Under 5

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery.  We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a good weekend.

Hello everyone,

We enjoyed the nursery sing along sessions and we hope you did too!

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up. This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Friday 20th December
Although the school closes at 2.30pm on Friday 20th December, the nursery will remain open for routine hours until 6pm

Parent Council Meeting Update
Please note that the date of the next Parent Council meeting has been changed from what was originally in the calendar at the start of the school year and this will now take place on Wednesday, 22 January 2025. It would be lovely to see some new parents/carers join us for school and nursery updates and improvement priorities.

Festive Wishes
As we approach the end of term, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your family.  At Netherlee we learn about many religions and traditions and know that some of our families will be celebrating Hanukkah soon too. So Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate these joyous festivals!

Our nursery and school will open the doors again on Monday 6^th January, ready to welcome our wonderful children back. Until then, we hope you have a peaceful holiday surrounded by family and friends.