Hello everyone

The children have been engaging in lots of lovely experiences this week- noticing their environment, solving problems together and sharing their likes and dislikes.

Our staff are always seeking to develop their professional knowledge. Last week, Mrs Greig (Senior Child Development Officer) and Miss McCann (Principal Teacher) attended a two day early years workshop at the University of Edinburgh. They cannot wait to use what they have learned to enhance the children’s learning experiences.

Stay and Play: Extra days
To accommodate for school and nursery closures on Monday 19^th September and Friday 23^rd September (September Weekend), we are offering two extra days for Stay and Play sessions for those who cannot attend next week (Tue 20^th, Wed 21^st and Thurs 22^nd). These will be Friday 30^th September and Monday 3^rd October.  Should you wish to arrange a suitable day/time, please contact the Nursery by emailing NurseryMail@Netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or by phoning 0141 570 7260.

Donations
As stated in last week’s Friday bundle, the nursery are on the hunt for donations of any pre-loved items that you are finished with and would otherwise be throwing away. Each week in our Friday Bundle email we will highlight any items we are looking for to enhance children’s play experiences. This week, we are looking for:

Mud Kitchen/Home Corner Resources:

• wooden spoons
• cooking utensils (e.g. whisks, spatulas, no knives please J)
• pots and pans
• paint brushes

Our Community: Netherlee & Stamperland Church
Please see attached a flyer from Netherlee & Stamperland Church regarding an upcoming event.

Stepping Stones Support
Please see flyer for ‘Stepping Stones about support sessions for parents/carers of children and young people recently diagnosed with ASD or currently undergoing assessment.

Just a reminder that school and nursery will be closed on Monday.  We look forward to seeing everyone back in school again on Tuesday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

The children are settling in well and are becoming more confident with our daily routines. They have been enjoying playing and learning together, making lots of new friends and having some fun in the sun…. and rain! Mr Watson, Netherlee’s music teacher has also been visiting our nursery on a Wednesday afternoon. The children and staff have been loving singing songs and playing rhythm games.

Stay and Play Sessions
Please be reminded that our Stay and Play sessions are running week beginning 19^th September. 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 at both nursery doors next week (week beginning the 12^th) 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.

What to Bring to Nursery
We ask that parents supply sun cream (named and in date) for their child to be kept in nursery. On particularly hot days, it would be helpful to apply sun cream in the morning before nursery. Staff will then re-apply when needed. Children should have suitable indoor and outdoor shoes (possibly wellies) to wear every day in nursery please- thank you.

Consent Forms
You should now have received nursery consent forms. If you have not already done so, please ensure these consent forms are returned to the nursery as soon as possible.  You will also have received Glow log in details and information regarding our Nursery Google Classroom. If you have any difficulty accessing either of these, please do not hesitate to contact us.  NurseryMail@Netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk

Religious and Cultural Events
One of our school and nursery improvement priorities for this session is to celebrate and mark important religious and cultural events for everyone in our school and nursery community. If you would be interested in helping us with this, perhaps by sending in information, pictures and videos or coming in to the nursery to talk to the children please let us know. With that in mind, Rosh Hashanah is in a few weeks. If you would be happy to help us mark this occasion please do just get in touch.

Recycled Donations
The nursery are on the hunt for donations of any pre-loved items. Each week in our Friday Bundle email we will highlight any items we are looking for to enhance children’s play experiences. Of course, we are only requesting pre loved items that you would be getting rid of anyway.  This not only helps us in nursery but also helps the environment too.  Thank you, please do not hand anything in this week, more info to follow next Friday.

ASN Provision
Please find a letter from East Renfrewshire Council regarding ASN provision in East Renfrewshire.

Parent Council Meeting
Please see the meeting highlights newsletter from the Parent Council Meeting on 31^st August.

Maths Week
Please see a letter regarding Maths Week.

Getting in Contact and Absence Procedures
If your child isn’t coming to nursery on one of their allocated days, please inform our school office at the earliest convenience. We are available by emailing NurseryMail@Netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or by phoning 0141 570 7260. If need to pass on an urgent message such as changes to collection information after 4.30pm please call Acorns 0141 570 7272 or Saplings 0141 570 7271. These numbers should only be used after 4.30pm as we do not have clerical staff to answer the phone during the day.

In light of the news about the passing of the queen yesterday, I wish everyone a peaceful weekend.

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

Hello everyone

Website
This may also be a good opportunity to remind everyone that our website, as always, has a very good range of learning activities, organised into stages for the various areas of the curriculum, and includes resources our children should be familiar with.  This is always available on our website and can be found here. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/learning-at-home/

PTA Uniform Sale
If you need new badged uniform items they are now on-sale again from Netherlee PTA until the 12th September. Sample sizes are available in the school reception to check before you order. Please use the following link to make an order. Thank you.

Meet the teacher P3-P7 Tuesday 13^th September 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Please remember that the above event will take place and hope that many of you can join us then.  More information will be included in next week’s Friday Bundle email.

P4 Gardening Club
Please see attached link regarding an upcoming Gardening Club.

As always please do not hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher

Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Class
East Renfrewshire

Hello everyone

Stay and Play: Rescheduled Date Please note a change of date for our Stay and Play sessions, which will now take place on the week beginning 19^th September. 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 at the nursery doors on the week beginning 12^th September 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.

As always please do not hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
 Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

We’ve had a brilliant first week back as staff and children reconnect and also build relationships with our new families. We are taking time to get to know our new children and learn about their interests and unique personalities.

If you have not already done so, please click on the link for more information about our Nursery Class at Netherlee https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/nursery/

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Hello everyone,

What a busy and exciting week we have had in the nursery- lots of fun had by all! We have a few changes to staffing this session and so we would like to share who the children’s keyworkers are and their locations.  Although each keyworker has an allocated group of children, all nursery staff are on hand to support all of the children in nursery.

Acorns
Miss Mellissa Dorran- White Group
Mrs. Jo-Anne Welsh/ Mrs Lyn Gemmell- Orange Group
Mrs. Harjeet Kaur/ Mrs. Lynne Morton- Red Group
Clare McAndrew

Saplings
Mrs. Mary Nimmo-Yellow Group
Mrs. Susan McBride/ Mrs. Sarah Mackie-Pink Group
Ms. Jade Toner/ Mrs. Fiona Daley-Green Group
Miss Pamela Montgomerie- Blue
Mrs. Debbie Heron- Purple
Elizabeth Beattie/ Lynne Stoll

You can see photos of our staff team in our Welcome Sway here https://sway.office.com/boYOb7qzRu2piboy

Our teacher, Mr Lewis Strang-Roy and our Senior Child Development Officer, Mrs Joanne Greig will alternate between both Nursery buildings. Our Principal Teacher, Miss Jennifer McCann will alternate between both Nursery buildings and the school.

Rhythm of the Day
We are being very flexible with nursery hours to meet children and family needs. If your child has been allocated 8am-6pm you are free to drop off your child any time before 9am and pick up any time before 6pm. Children who attend from 9am -3pm should be dropped off at 9am, or after, and picked up by 3pm please, when their session ends

Lunch this week has also been a great success! It is helpful to talk through the choices with your child before each day to support their independence at lunch time. You can view the nursery lunch menu by clicking the link below: https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/nursery-menu

Dates for your Diary
It is with great pleasure that I share the calendar of events in school and nursery for the 2022/23 session. For your ease please see attached PDF, however please note that going forward all calendar updates will be made via the electronic website calendar which will be available from Monday afternoon. We are so delighted that we can welcome you into school and nursery at regular points throughout the session.  I hope you find that having these dates at the start of the session helpful.  Thank you for your understanding if any dates require to be changed due to unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances.  If this needs to happen we will of course give you as much notice as possible.

Linguascope- Thank You Netherlee PTA
We would like to say a huge thank you to our PTA who have very generously funded our yearly subscription to Linguascope for all nursery and primary classes. Your ongoing support for PTA events allows the PTA to fund this excellent online programme that supports and enhances Modern Languages (French) learning and for our children. Merci beaucoup à notre PTA! J

Message from our Parent Council (PC) Chairperson
PC Meeting Date and Time: Wednesday 31st August at 7pm in The Hub
We are pleased to hold our first Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Class Parent Council meeting of the new school year at 7pm on Wednesday 31st August. The meeting will be held in the Hub in school. You can find the agenda here.

Getting in Contact and Absence Procedures
If your child isn’t coming to nursery on one of their allocated days, please inform our school office at the earliest convenience. We are available by emailing NurseryMail@Netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or by phoning 0141 570 7260.

If need to pass on an urgent message such as changes to collection information after 4.30pm please call Acorns 0141 570 7272 or Saplings 0141 570 7271. These numbers should only be used after 4.30pm please as we do not have clerical staff to answer the phone during the day before this time.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Class

Hello everyone

It has been a busy and exciting year here at Netherlee Nursery and we have made so many happy memories together. We want to thank each and every one of you for all of the support you have given us throughout the year. We also want to thank every child for all the fun, memories and the learning that we have shared over the year. We are so proud of every one of them.

As this session draws to a close, we approach the last day of nursery for many of the children. Another door is opening for the children starting school as they embark on the next stage of their educational journey. We wish you all the luck in the world.

We are also so excited to welcome back those who are returning to Netherlee Nursery and children and families who are joining us for the first time.  We are going to have a fabulous year of fun together!

Nursery Fundraising
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to everyone that donated to our Nursery Fund. Donations from our sponsored fun walk and strawberry plant sales totalled a whopping £718.20! This will help us to provide additional, fun resources and play equipment to enhance the children’s learning experiences within the Nursery. The school also raised an amazing £2,029.25. We are blown away by your tremendous generosity and cannot thank you enough.

RSPB Wild Challenge Award
We have been connecting and learning about nature through lots of activities in our Nursery. As a result, we have achieved a Gold Wild Challenge award from the RSPB for all of our efforts. Well done everyone!

Parent Council (PC) Meeting Highlights
Thank you to our Parent Council for compiling the latest edition of the PC Meeting Highlights Newsletter which you can read here.

New P1 Save the date from the PTA!
On the w/c 29th August we plan to host a mixer for P1/2/3. We don’t have details yet but will when school resumes.  Please keep this in mind and if anyone happens to be a DJ or the like then please get in touch as looking for a hand with it. Have a great Summer! Netherlee PTA

Last Day
Please be reminded that the last day of Nursery is Tuesday 28^th June.  The Nursery remains open until 6pm, however we are of course flexible should you wish your child to finish earlier on this day. Please be reminded that if your child has medication in the Nursery, this should be taken home on your child’s last day. If you have not already done so, please also return your child’s Special Book- thank you.

Have a wonderful and well deserved Summer. Stay safe and take care.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT), Lynn Sweeney, DHT, Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class