Hello everyone,

We are celebrating Diversity during the month of March and learning about different countries from around the world. Each stage in the school and nursery is focusing on a different continent. Following on from our focus on France during Languages week in February, the Nursery will continue to learn about other countries in Europe.

As well as this, we would love to welcome volunteers into the nursery to enhance the children’s learning in traditional cultures, languages, traditions and religions from all over the world. If you were born in another country, have lived, worked, volunteered or have family members who live in another country, we would love to hear from you!

This might include teaching the children a traditional dance, or some simple greetings in another language.  If you think this is something you could help with, please drop us an email on netherleemail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or give Jennifer McCann (Principal Teacher) a call on 0141 570 7260 to discuss in more detail.

Also, we want to say thank-you to those who have provided family photographs for our Cosy Corners in our nursery buildings. The children just love to see some familiar faces to make this space really feel like home! Should you wish to add a family photograph to our cosy corner, please do not hesitate to email us a photograph nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

Comic Relief
Please see letter regarding our Crazy Hair Do fundraising event on Friday, 17^th March.

Family Focused Gold Award: Update
As you know, our school and nursery is hoping to achieve our Family Focused Gold Award on Friday 19^th May.  This award shows that we include and support all of our families in the life of the school and nursery. The award also shows that we uphold the principles of Getting It Right for Every Child, otherwise known as GIRFEC.
The accreditation process involves working together with staff, pupils and parents to create a Charter for the school and nursery. We met with our ‘Everyone Matters’ parent group this week to discuss and create our 10 charter statements and evaluate our school and nursery practice. We will share the final version of both our School and Nursery charters once complete! Keep an eye out on our upcoming Friday Bundles for more updates.

Family First
At Netherlee, we are always here to support our families in need of some help, whether that be a chat at the door, through telephone call or email (see above). Should you need further guidance, please click here to view a useful information resource from Family First, which offers support and advice on a wide range of family matters.

Stay and Play
Our next stay and play sessions will take place on the week beginning 20^th March. These sessions are a fantastic opportunity to play together with your child and see our wonderful spaces and experiences. Sign-up sheets will be made available next week (week beginning the 13^th March) for you to choose a suitable date/time. We kindly ask that a maximum of two adults accompany each child. If at all possible, younger siblings should not attend the sessions.

Eye Tests
Please be reminded of eye screening tests which are taking place on Thursday 23^rd March 2023 for pre-school children. These will take place in the Saplings building. If you do not attend nursery on this day, you will receive a separate hospital letter. We kindly ask that eye screening questionnaires are returned to nursery as soon as possible.

Playground Crossing: Reminder
In order to minimise footfall, we kindly ask that you use the gate nearest the Acorns and Saplings when dropping off our collecting your child and refrain from crossing the school playgrounds. Thank-you.

Diversity Evening- A date for your Diary
On Wednesday 29 March 2023, a culture evening will be held in our school atrium to celebrate and share all the different cultures within Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Class.

The PTA and school are inviting all families to share their cultural heritage through a range of ways such as:

• Having a small display / exhibition on your country and culture (can include food tasting and demonstrations);
• Showcasing traditional music;
• Recital in other languages; or
• Dancing

You may even have other creative ways to share your heritage with the Netherlee community, which you are welcome to do.

Of course, you can simply come along to enjoy the evening. There will be refreshments, entertainment, free workshops and activities to enjoy on the evening too!

If you or your family would like to host a display or showcase something, please contact Mrs Kelly Linn at nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or contact the PTA at netherleepta@gmail.com.

I hope you agree this will be a wonderful evening of culture. We look forward to seeing you there.

Learning Links
Please click here to view the Acorns and Saplings learning links. This song of the week this week is ‘The Days of the Week Song’ which can be listened to and enjoyed by clicking on your child’s Google classroom: https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow.

East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Holiday Camps
We’re running All Star Sports Camp, All Star Activity Camp, Play In A Week, World of Art Camp & intensive swimming lessons during the spring holidays.

Our All Star Sports Camp & All Star Activity Camp are led by our Active Schools & Sports Development Team and delivered by our fantastic team of coaches and tutors! Our Play In A Week & World of Art Camps are delivered by our expert arts and drama tutors! Finally, our intensive swimming lessons are ran by our highly skilled swimming instructors!

Our Spring, Summer & October Holiday Camps are on sale now, for more information and ways to book, please visit: https://www.ercultureandleisure.org/sports-arts/holidaycamps/

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

It has been a sunny and bright week this week. The children have had lots of fun playing outdoors with their friends. Spring is really in the air!

This week we enjoyed a lovely visitor from Linn Park Court Sheltered Housing. Olive, who is 93 years young, came to our nursery to read with our children as part of World Book Day. She also enjoyed a tour of our nursery buildings and having some cake, a cuppa and a chat with our staff. We look forward to future visits with the residents later in the year. Please have a look on our school and nursery twitter @sand_c to see how they got on.

School and Nursery Photographs
As you are aware the school photographer has been in school and nursery and we would like you to note that due to the Industrial Action this week she will be in school on Tuesday and Wednesday next week to capture photographs, for any individual and siblings not yet taken. Due to the logistics, we cannot guarantee that the children will not be in their PE uniform for these pictures. Therefore, one sibling may be in their shirt and tie and another sibling in their navy polo shirt and PE uniform. As always, purchasing these photographs is entirely optional.

Please could we ask that the PE uniform policy is fully adhered to at all times and also for these photographs eg navy branded polo shirt, plain navy bottom items and that these items do not have visible branded logos, stripes, ticks or naming (eg Nike). Thank you for your continued support with this.

Nursery children can wear their normal nursery clothes.

Learning Links
Please click here to view the Acorns and Saplings learning links. The learning links give an insight of children’s interests, learning focus and any seasonal or cultural events being celebrated.  This week’s song of the week is The ‘Alphabet Song’ which can be listened to and enjoyed by logging in to your child’s google classroom: https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow.

Menu Change: 9^th March
Please find attached our planned menu change for next Thursday 9^th March. The allergy information is included to enable your child to select a suitable option.  However, if you require further allergy or dietary information, please contact our catering team via the school office.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

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 28^th February and Wednesday 1^st 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 15^th March in the Saplings:
9.15: Blue and Purple
2.15: Pink and Yellow
Friday 17^th 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.

Wider Achievements Form

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

Hello everyone,

It has been lovely catching up with the children and staff this week after our February weekend. The children were very excited to share what they had been up to with the staff! We hope you had a brilliant and well rested weekend with friends and family.

The staff were very busy at our in-service day on Friday. The school and nursery staff had the opportunity to share all of the great practice with each other as part of our development work for our School and Nursery Improvement Plan. It’s really important to have opportunities such as In-Service Days where all staff can share expertise and ideas across the whole team. This also reminds us that, although we may have a school and two nursery buildings, we are very much one big Netherlee community!

Cosy Corner
At Netherlee Nursery, we try hard to ensure our spaces mirror the home environment where possible. In order to meet our children’s needs, we have established a ‘Cosy Corner’ in both our Nursery buildings. This space allows children the time and space to relax in a calm, comfy and safe environment. We asked the children for some suggestions as to how to make these spaces even ‘cosier’. They came up with the lovely suggestion of adding some family photographs. Should you wish to include a family photograph in our Cosy Corner, please send these in to nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

Pick Up Procedures: Reminder
For those whose children attend nursery for core hours (9-3pm), please ensure that children are picked up promptly by 3pm please. If, in an emergency situation, you are running late for any reason, please let us know by phoning 0141 570 7260.

Menu Change
On Wednesday 22^nd February there will be a slight change to the lunch menu. The option will be fish fingers, potato and peas.

Learning Links
Please click here to view the Saplings and Acorns learnings links. This enables you to have fun doing some similar experiences at home if you would like to.The song of the week is ‘Pop a Little Pancake into a Pan’ which can be listened to and enjoyed by clicking on your child’s Google classroom: https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

Upcoming Courses for Parents/Carers
Please see the flyer regarding free parenting courses available. Further information can also be seen in the Sway.

Please see below information regarding 2 courses run locally in Barrhead with West College Scotland, each programme will last approximately 12 weeks.  If you would like to register your interest in these courses or find out more info please email adult.learning@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Getting Started in IT: enrolment date 22^nd Feb 9.30am-12pm, starting 1^st March 9.30am-12pm
Exploring Wellbeing: enrolment date 28^th Feb 1.30pm-4.30pm, stating 7^th March 1.30-4.30pm

We hope you have a nice weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

90^th Birthday
This week we celebrated Netherlee’s 90^th birthday. We started off the week with a special assembly.  Myself and some of our pupils told stories all about what Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Class was like all those years ago! The children were fascinated to hear the stories from former pupils and members of the local community who had very kindly got in touch with us to share their memories.  We also made some fantastic party decorations, including bunting and party hats to prepare for the parties to celebrate the occasion. We had lots of fun playing party games and dancing to our favourite songs. Everyone at the school and nursery would like to say a huge thank you to everybody that has given up their time to make it such a special occasion. Please look at our school and nursery twitter.com/sand_nc_c.to see all the fun we had, including our amazing whole school and nursery 90^th aerial photograph. Please remember to also listen to our Netherlee podcasts too. Here’s to another 90 years of Netherlee!

Parent Council Meeting:  7pm Wednesday 15th February in The Hub in School A quick reminder that our next parent council meeting is at the above time and we welcome all parents and carers from Nursery Class to p7, to have an open discussion on a range of topics concerning the children of Netherlee.  As always members of the School Senior Leadership team will also be there and we will also hear from some P7 pupils about the work of the Pupil Parliament and how we as a group can help them fulfil their parliament priorities.

If you have any topics you would like us to discuss please email netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com and we hope to see as many of you there as possible.

Absence Procedures: Reminder
If your child is going to be absent for any reason, please let us know by calling (0141 570 7260) or emailing us (nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk). In order to stop the spread of infection, if your child has been sick or has diarrhoea they should stay at home for at least 48 hours after the last bout. Children with unexplained rashes should be considered infectious until assessed by a medical professional. We use guidance from NHS Scotland and Care Inspectorate regarding exclusion periods for infection prevention.

School and Nursery Photographs
As you will be aware, our school photographer will be in school and nursery from Wednesday 15^th February until Friday 3^rd March. As promised in last week’s Friday Bundle, the timetables for whole class, individual, sibling and nursery photographs are attached for your information. A reminder that school children should wear their shirt and tie uniform on the day/s their whole class and individual photos are due to be taken as we have timetabled these sessions to avoid PE and outdoor learning days. Siblings photographs will be taken during week commencing the 27^th February and, due to the logistics around timetabling, we cannot guarantee that the children will not be in their PE uniform for these pictures. Therefore, one sibling may be in their shirt and tie and another sibling in their navy polo shirt and PE uniform. As always, purchasing these photographs is entirely optional.

Please could we ask that the PE uniform policy is fully adhered to at all times and also for these photographs eg navy branded polo shirt, plain navy bottom items and that these items do not have visible branded logos, stripes, ticks or naming (eg Nike). Thank you for your continued support with this.

Nursery children can wear their normal nursery clothes.

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.

Photo Timetable

Diversity Month
Thank you so much to all our parents and carers who took time to come in during International Languages Week. The children really enjoyed having you in and the staff were so grateful for all your input.

During the month of March we are celebrating Diversity Month and we would love to welcome even more volunteers into the school to enhance the children’s learning in traditional cultures, languages, traditions and religions from all over the world.

If you were born in another country, have lived, worked, volunteered or have family members who live in another country, we would love to hear from you! If you think this is something you could help with, please complete the attached link to the Google Form below by Friday 24 February 2023. This should take no longer than a few minutes of your time.

Diversity Month Volunteer

Thank you for your continued support. Please do get in touch if you have any further questions. I look forward to hearing from you.

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated recycled items last week. This week we would gratefully receive any items from our wish list below to support our Literacy and Numeracy rich environment. If you have, and are finished with, any of these types of items below, please hand in to either of the nursery buildings. Many, many thanks.

• Milk bottle lids
• Corks
• Measuring scales (e.g. kitchen scales)
• Old telephones (landline)
• Recipe books and magazines

PTA Family Quiz Night 22nd February
Please come along to join in a friendly family quiz night at 6.30pm on the 22nd Feb. The excellent Gavin Pearson will be our quiz master and we will have fun prizes.
Book your quiz spot here! Netherlee PTA (pta-events.co.uk).

We hope you have a wonderful and relaxing February weekend. School and nursery will reopen on Wednesday 15^th February.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Bonjour! This week we celebrated languages week with a focus on French. The children had lots of fun participating in French games and learning some French vocabulary.  Magnifique! Check out our school and nursery twitter to see this in action @sand_c.

Thank-you so much to those that were able to attend our Stay and Play sessions this week. They are such a fantastic opportunity to catch a glimpse into your child’s life here at Netherlee Nursery, meet our lovely staff team and see all of our amazing indoor and outdoor spaces.

A big thank-you to those who gave feedback on our Stay and Play sessions. It was just lovely reading all of the positive comments- we are so glad you enjoy them as much as we do!

Netherlee’s 90^th Birthday
Please note that on Monday 6^th February there will be a special lunch to mark the school’s birthday. The menu will be mince and potatoes, vegetarian mince will  also be available. There will be cake and custard too.

The children will also be making decorations using resources funded by our wonderful PTA (Thank-you!) for a celebration on Thursday 9^th February. The children will be taking part in lots of party games, music and fun!

School & Nursery Photographs
Please click on this link regarding class, sibling and individual photographs of your children.

Learning Links
Please click on the links to see the fantastic learning experiences happening in the Acorns and Saplings next week. This enables you to have fun doing some similar experiences at home if you would like to. The song of the week is Les Petits Mains (The small hands) which can be listened to and enjoyed by logging into your child’s Google Classroom https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow.

February Weekend
A little reminder that the school and nursery is closed on Friday 10^th February (in-service day) and Monday 13^th and Tuesday 14^th February. Enjoy!

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

This week we welcomed several new children and families into Netherlee Nursery. The new children have settled in well and are being looked after very closely by our wonderful staff team. Our nursery website has lots of useful links and information about our Nursery https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/nursery/about-our-nursery/. Please check it out if you have not already done so!  I know that our existing parents will also look out for any new faces and help where they can too.  Thank you for helping us to make Netherlee Nursery such a lovely, warm and welcoming community.

Netherlee’s 90^th Birthday
We are all very excited to be celebrating the school’s 90^th Birthday on Mon 6^th February. The day will begin with a whole school assembly. After that, classes will be preparing for parties that will be held on Thurs 9^th Feb. The PTA has generously provided lovely arts and crafts resources to make party hats and bunting. Each class will hold a talent show to celebrate the wonderful talents that the school has nurtured over its’ lifetime. Classes will also find out about the changes to the school and local area over the last 90 years. Our wonderful catering team have arranged a special birthday lunch of mince and tatties (vegetarian mince will be available too) and cake and custard. In addition, Mark Gibson has very kindly offered to take a special commemorative photograph. Weather permitting, all staff and pupils will go out to the playground so we can take a special aerial photograph.

Don’t forget the podcast, 90 Years of Netherlee that our tech team are producing to mark the birthday. The latest episode is out now featuring an interview with Mrs French, our longest serving member of staff.  https://anchor.fm/netherlee-primary.  We would love to hear from former pupils or staff so if someone you know went to the school or worked here please get in touch and let us know.

Family Focused at Netherlee School and Nursery: Going for Gold
At Netherlee, we prioritise working effectively with our families to ensure high quality learning experiences for our children. We make sure that all families feel very welcome and are involved in the life of the school and nursery.

To support early year’s establishments, East Renfrewshire Council introduced a self-evaluation framework explaining suggestions of good practice, particularly with regards to working with parents.

We have previously gained our Bronze Family Friendly award and our Silver Family Centred Certificate, both of which are displayed in our Saplings building. Over the next few months, staff will be working very hard, alongside parents, to gain our Gold Family Focused Award.

If you would like to be part of helping us achieve this or would like some more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

Keep an eye out in our Friday Bundle for more information and updates in the coming weeks!

Upcoming Parent Council Meeting
Please see message below from our Parent Council:
The next Parent Council meeting will take place in person in the school Hub at 7pm on Wednesday 15th February 7pm. All parents and carers from the nursery and school are welcome and we hope to see as many of you there as possible. As always there will be the opportunity to have open discussions on a range of topics with other parents and members of the school leadership team.  If you have any matters you would specifically like to be discussed please contact us at: netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com.

Stay and Play: Week beginning 30^th January-3^rd February
We are very excited to welcome parents and carers to our nursery for our Stay and Play sessions next week! Please let us know if you still require a day/time slot by letting a member of staff know or dropping us an email nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk. Please be reminded that you can view all of our school and nursery events on our website by clicking here.

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated recycled items to our nursery. This week we would gratefully receive any small world items and junk modelling items from our wish list below (please note “small world” means very small items). Please put any donations into a bag and hand into either of our nursery buildings. Many, many thanks.

• Small world items: small toy cars and/or other vehicles, jungle animals and farm animals
• Junk modelling items: such as cardboard boxes e.g. delivery boxes, shoe boxes, cereal boxes, egg boxes cardboard tubes, juice cartons, plastic bottle lids etc.

Learning Links
Please click on the links to see the fantastic learning experiences happening in the Acorns and Saplings next week. This enables you to have fun doing some similar experiences at home if you would like to. The song of the week is ‘Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds’ (Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in French) which can be listened to and enjoyed by logging into your child’s Google Classroom https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow.

As always, please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions (no matter how big or small) or queries. We are always here to help in any way we can.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Another busy week here at Netherlee Nursery! The children have enjoyed playing outside with their friends this week and have been very excited about the icy weather. They have been discussing how it feels and noticing the frost on the ground and trees. Brrr!

Proposed Industrial Strike Action
Netherlee Nursery Class will be open from 9am – 3pm to all children on Tuesday 24^th January. This means children who normally attend on a Tuesday from 8am-6pm, will be offered an alternative service of core hours (9am – 3pm) on this day. Should you need to contact the nursery during 9am – 3pm- normal communication channels via phone call or email will remain unaffected on this day.

Nursery WOW Wall
Thank you to all of you who have shared your children’s little achievements from home. We love celebrating these as well as their achievements in nursery too. Please do let us know of any new or ongoing achievements for example swimming, dancing shows, riding a bike themselves etc. Simply drop us an email to nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or bring in a photograph at drop off and collection times, we would love to display this on our Nursery WOW Wall.

Crossing Patroller
We have been notified that on Wednesday 25^th, there will be no crossing patrolling in the afternoon at Clarkston Road.

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who has kindly donated recycled items that they would otherwise be throwing out. This week we would gratefully receive any items to help create Literacy and Numeracy resources many, many thanks.

• Wrapping paper cut-offs (very small pieces even most welcome)
• Used greetings cards
• Unwanted card, envelopes
• Newspapers/magazines/catalogues
• Sweetie papers/food wrappings e.g. packed lunch items wrappers
• Buttons
• Ribbon

Learning Links
Please click on the links to see the fantastic learning experiences happening in the Acorns and Saplings next week. This enables you to have fun doing some similar experiences at home if you would like to. The song of the week next week is ‘Petit Pouce’ which can be listened to and enjoyed by logging into your child’s Google Classroom https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

As always, we hope you have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

Netherlee Podcast – 90 Years in 90 Minutes
Our P7 Tech Team are proud to announce the first episode of our podcast to celebrate Netherlee’s upcoming 90^th birthday on 6^th February!

We have started by interviewing Mrs Donaldson, and will be interviewing lots of different staff members, ex pupils and staff, and community members over the coming weeks. It can be listed to on Spotify and on Anchor FM by clicking these links. Find out more about the project here.

Everyone Matters: Nursery Parents Wanted
Would you like to be involved in our ‘Everyone Matters’ partnership group? We are really keen for Nursery parents to join us. This would involve looking at different ways to celebrate culture and diversity, reaching out to our school and nursery community to gather views and work towards achieving our Family Focused Gold Award.  Want to know a little more? Please do not hesitate to drop us an email on schoomail@netherlee-e.-renfrew.sch.uk . More information can also be found here.

Stay and Play
We are very excited to welcome parents and carers into our Nursery once again for our next round of Stay and Play sessions. These will take place from Monday 30^th January – Friday 3^rd February. These sessions are a fantastic opportunity to play together with your child and see the wonderful spaces and experiences we have to offer. Sign-up sheets will be made available at both nursery doors next week (week beginning 16^th January) for you to choose a suitable date/time. We kindly ask that a maximum of two adults accompany each child. If at all possible, younger siblings should not attend the sessions.

Pick Up and Drop Off Procedures
We ask that you always use the gate nearest the Acorn or Sapling building when dropping off or collecting children at nursery. In the interests of health and safety, we politely request that nursery parents and carers do not cross the school playground when doing so.

Cost of Living Support in East Renfrewshire
We know that many East Renfrewshire families may be struggling with rising costs of living, especially as we emerge from the festive period, so we want to let you know that help is available. A good place to start is the council’s website, where there is a range of support and advice: www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/cost-of-living-support.

If you’d like free, expert and confidential advice, you can speak to ERC’s Money Advice and Rights Team by calling 0141 577 8420 or emailing mart@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk.

The Community Hub can also connect you with groups, organisations and services that can provide the support you need. Get in touch on 0141 876 9555 or hello@va-er.org.uk.

Learning Links
Please click on the links to view the Acorns and Saplings learning links for this week. The song of the week is ‘Ally Bally Bee’ which can be viewed on your child’s Google Classroom: https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow. We hope you enjoy.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

A very happy new year to all of our Netherlee families.  I hope 2023 is a healthy, happy, peaceful and successful year for everyone. It has been a short first week back but it has been lovely to see all the children and staff again, well rested after a much needed holiday.

Yesterday, we once again welcomed several new children and families into Netherlee.  We realise moving schools is a significant event for anyone- both children and parents and I am delighted that the children who joined us yesterday have said they were looked after really well by their new friends in class and by their teachers and staff too.  I know that as parents new to a school it can also be difficult sometimes to meet other parents.  However, I know that our parent body will look after our new parents too, reaching out to any new faces you see standing at the gate etc.  Thank you for helping us to make Netherlee such a fantastic, inclusive and welcoming community.

Celebrating and Promoting Languages at Netherlee – Languages Week, Scotland 30^th January – 6^th February 2023
We have been busy in school and nursery preparing lots of interesting learning experiences for our children to enjoy during Languages Week, Scotland. As part of our Languages Week, we are really keen to involve our parents, carers and our wider Netherlee community including local businesses. We would love to hear from anyone who speaks another language in their day-to-day life and would be willing to share their skills and knowledge with us. If you would be able to volunteer during Languages Week to visit a class or group of classes to speak about another language then please complete the Microsoft Form below. Thank you in advance for making our Languages Week extra special! https://forms.office.com/e/ckx9mePM6j

Proposed Industrial Strike Action
Following yesterday’s information about proposed Industrial Action, I am confirming that Netherlee Nursery class will be open from 9am – 3pm to all children on Tuesday 10^th January.  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.

I hope this information allows you to plan ahead for next week.

School and Nursery Photographs
Please be aware that the scheduled date for school and nursery photos has been moved slightly earlier in the school/nursery calendar.  This year, there will be options of class, sibling and individual photographs.  The new date period is from Wednesday 15^th to Friday 24^th February 2023.  Additional information will be sent home nearer the time.

ELC Applications 2023-24
Please be advised that the new online application for 3/ 4yr old placements for new session 2023-24 is available on the East Renfrewshire Council website at the link https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/article/5616/Apply-for-a-nursery-place-for-3-or-4-year-olds-2023-24.  The deadline for submitting an online ELC application is 31^st January 2023.

Finally, a little reminder that the next PTA Meeting will be held in our school Hub next Wednesday at 7pm- all parents/ carers are very welcome.  New parents, this is an ideal way to meet other parents too.  PTA meetings are very informal with lots of laughter and great sharing of ideas for working together to put on school and nursery events.  Some of the main points that we will be chatting about on Wednesday are the upcoming Chinese New Year Celebrations, Diversity Community Month in March and also a very special birthday happening very soon- Netherlee Primary’s 90^th Birthday!  Do please come along if you have an hour to spare.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class