Hello everyone

Book Fair
Please see the attached letter regarding our upcoming book fair, and a poster too.
Book Sale Letter

Water bottles
Please could we remind all parents and carers that children should be bringing a clear, named water bottle to school every day. We have noticed recently that many children are bringing juice into school in their water bottles. Please could we ask that water bottles are filled with water only and a reminder that these can be refilled at any of our water stations throughout the school day. Thank you for your support with this.

Dyslexia Awareness Week Scotland 1^st – 7^th November
The week beginning 30^th October we will be celebrating Dyslexia Awareness Week Scotland at Netherlee. Our main aim of the week is to raise awareness of dyslexia within our school and nursery community. Our Primary 7 Diversity Councillors will be speaking to each class about what dyslexia is and some learning strategies which can support people who have a dyslexic profile. Across the week, the children will be taking part in some activities around what makes them unique and discussing their strengths and differences. At both of our Parents Evenings we will have a Dyslexia Awareness table situated in the Atrium for families to pop by to look at some of our dyslexia resources or just to have a conversation with Mrs Ford, our Dyslexia Advisor. We will also have ‘Ellie’s Blue Dyslexia Ribbons’ available across this week for children and staff to wear if they wish. More information about the Ellie’s Blue Ribbons campaign and how to support people with dyslexia can be found here on the Dyslexia Scotland website. https://dyslexiascotland.org.uk/dyslexia-awareness-week/

P6 Art Club
An after school P6 Art Club will be starting on a Monday 13/11 from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P6 Art Club
Day and Time: Monday 3.15 – 4.15pm
Dates:  13/11, 20/11, 27/11, 04/12
Venue: Netherlee Primary
Delivered by:  S MacLean & Marion Gardyne  (Grandparent)
No. of pupils: 12
Cost: Free

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/AEVEDNvG3j  no later than Thursday 26^th October. In the event of oversubscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.

Primary 7: Change to PE Days
Please note that when we return from the October holiday there will be some changes to the PE days for P7 classes. The new days are detailed below.
P7a – Monday & Friday
P7b – Tuesday & Wednesday
P7c – Tuesday & Wednesday
P7d – Monday & Friday

October Break
The school and nursery will close this Friday for the October holiday and Monday 23^rd October is an In-service/ Training Day for staff only. We look forward to welcoming all of our Netherlee children back again on Tuesday 24^th October.

Have a lovely week.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Parent/Teacher Meeting Appointments
As detailed in our Calendar of Events, our upcoming Parent/Teacher Meetings will be held on Wednesday 1st November and Thursday 2^nd November.

The first named contact on our system will receive a separate email from us at 4pm, advising how to book an appointment. If you have any enquiries about this, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our office staff who will be happy to help.

Return of school reading books – we need your help please!
Every year we replenish and update some of our school reading scheme books and novels. To help us to keep track of our resources, we would really appreciate it if you can have a quick look at home to see if you have any books from the following school reading schemes which haven’t been returned to school: Oxford Reading Tree, Tree Tops, Big Cats, Rapid Readers and novels. All texts should have a Netherlee Primary School stamp on the inside cover. Please place these in our ‘Recycled Donations’ box at the main school entrance or place them in your child’s bag next week. We really appreciate your help!

Feedback Friday
Just a reminder that on Friday, it is Feedback Friday. Can all home learning jotters/project work be brought into school with your child- thank you.

Recycled Uniform Rails
Just a wee reminder that our recycled uniform rails are available each Friday, between 8.50am – 9am (P1-3 smaller items) and 3pm – 3.10pm (P4-P7 middle and larger sizes) at the Clarkston Road School Gate.  These items are free of charge so please do pop along and make use of this facility.  We have got a good number of our burgundy badged waterproof outdoor jackets available just now so, with the change in weather, please do pop by and help yourself.  Also remember that we are happy to look out items for you if you can’t make it along on a Friday, just email in to school using the usual link SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk, letting us know the item and size and we will have a look for you.

Uniform Items – Pop on a Name Please
Many of the uniform items found in lost property do not have children’s names on them which makes it really difficult to return them to their rightful owners. Please could we ask that all uniform items are clearly labelled with your child’s name and class so we can reunite any lost items with the correct child…thank you.

PTA “Coming Together for our School and Nursery” – Reminders
Cauliflower Cards: The forms for Cauliflower Cards orders are due to be returned on Thursday, 12 October. We look forward to seeing your children’s masterpieces

Pumpkin Festival: Start planning your pumpkin entries for display at our Pumpkin Festival on Friday, 27 October between 6pm and 8pm. Bring the whole family, and your neighbours.

Uniforms: Our uniform orders have been placed with our suppliers. Thank you for your support. We hope to deliver your orders before or the latest the week after the school holidays.  Our next sale will start on Friday, 12 January 2024.

If you want to chip in and help, please email netherleepta@gmail.com Thank you to everyone who has already done so. You will find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Give us a follow and stay up to date with all we are doing. Thank you!

Community Events/Information Please See Various Below:

Culture & Leisure
East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure have a wide range of activities on offer for children. Please see the attached leaflet with more information.

Community Events – Pro Judo
Pro Judo are delighted to host a free block of extra-curricular activity for the Williamwood Cluster primary schools. The sessions will held at Parklands Country Club, home of Pro Judo, led by the club’s coaches. The club will run on a Monday on the following dates: 30/10; 6/11; 13/11; 20/11.
5:45pm – 6:30pm (4yrs – 7yrs)
6:30pm – 7:15pm (8yrs – 12yrs)

You can sign-up using the following links by selecting book trial option and select the 30^th October start date.
Under 8’s – 5:45pm – 6:30pm – https://projudo.classforkids.io/info/1121
Over 8’s – 6:30pm – 7:15pm – https://projudo.classforkids.io/info/1148

East Renfrewshire Equalities Forum: Outside the Box is working with people and organisations in East Renfrewshire to create a community-led Equalities Forum. Please see the attached poster, this is a great opportunity for parents/carers to have a voice in wider Equality issues in East Renfrewshire Council.
Equalities Forum

Let’s Talk About Campaign: Please see the leaflets regarding the support that we have available to help with mortgages, debt and energy bills.

National Sleep Helpline: Please see information regarding a wonderful free resource that can help parents and children to learn more about their sleep and develop better bedtime routines. Sleep is essential to brain function, by helping children to sleep better, we can help them to succeed in school.
Sleep Helpline

Childcare NC Opportunity from West of Scotland: Please see the information regarding a National Certificate in childcare that takes place during school hours – 2 days in a placement and 2 days at college – 1 day online. More information can be found here: https://www.westcollegescotland.ac.uk/courses/childcare/nc-childhood-practice-school-hours-november-start

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Although it may seem a distant memory now, we hope you had a lovely September holiday weekend.

We want to thank you, most sincerely, for your support during the recent industrial action. We understand the challenges this situation may have presented for your family and your partnership and support has been invaluable – thank you.

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

Gaelic Medium Education Information Event
Please see attached information about an upcoming Gaelic Medium Education information event. Gaelic Medium Education is now open to all children entering P1 in East Renfrewshire and no prior knowledge of Gaelic is required.

P1 Meet the Teacher and Information Session for Parents
We look forward to welcoming our Primary One parents and carers at our Primary 1 Information and Meet the Teacher (click link to find out more) evening on Monday 9^th October 6.30-7.30pm.

Our wonderful PTA will be available from 6pm offering refreshments in our school Atrium. This will be a great way to find out more about PTA events and have a chat with other Primary 1 parents.  We will also have a slideshow playing at this time which has lots of lovely photographs of our P1 children enjoying life in P1 so far!

There will also be an opportunity to place badged uniform orders with our PTA at this time too. Rails with sample sizes will be made available.  Our pre-loved uniform rails will also be there for you to browse and help yourself to as well. We look forward to seeing you then.

Primary 5 Cooking at Netherlee Primary
On Tuesday 3^rd October all of Primary 5 will be tasting a slice of apple dipped in honey with a piece of bread in class. This activity links to the children’s learning about Judaism and in particular, Rosh Hashanah.

The ingredients are as follows
apple
honey
brown bread

Please advise us, before Tuesday morning, if there are any changes to the allergy information we hold for your child or if you wish your child not to try the food.

Primary 6 and 7 STEAM Event
Please see attached letter regarding an invitation to a STEAM showcase event on 5^th October at Williamwood High School.

Primary 7 Residential
Please find attached a letter regarding the residential with payment information and kit list.
Lochgoilhead Information letter September 2023

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

Feedback Friday
Just a reminder that on Friday 29^th September, it is Feedback Friday. Can all home learning jotters/project work be brought into school with your child.

Open Classrooms
Once again, we are very much looking forward to opening our doors and welcoming parents/carers into school on Friday 6th October for Open Classrooms. We invite P1-4 parents between 9.30am and 10.00am and ask that you enter via the Clarkston Road Gate. Please use the doors to the right of the ramp to both enter and leave the school. P5-7 parents, we look forward to welcoming you between 11.15am and 11.145am and we ask you to enter and exit via the main front door at reception. We request a maximum of two adults per child. Our children and staff are looking forward to seeing you then if you are able to join us.

P1 Recycling Project
Primary 1 are delighted to be helping out our Primary 7 pupils with their STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) Recycling Project. The project involves using recycled materials to create a piece of clothing to wear at a fashion show at Williamwood High School. This will take place in the evening of Thursday 5^th October (time to be confirmed).

The Primary 1 pupils will be making a piece of jewellery out of recycled materials, which will be taken to Williamwood High School to be displayed as part of the fashion event. We are kindly asking for each child to bring a selection of recycled materials to create their piece of jewellery on Monday 2^nd October. These are items that you would otherwise be recycling or throwing away. This includes items such as bottle tops, cartons, cereal boxes, yoghurt pots, bubble wrap, plastic bottles etc.

Primary 6 and 7 STEAM Event
Please see attached letter regarding an invitation to a STEAM showcase event on 5^th October at Williamwood High School.
STEAM Letter

P7 Vision Screening
On Mon 2nd October NHS staff will be in school to carry out vision screening for your child.

As of yet, we have not heard any further updates in relation to the planned 3 days of industrial action next week and I would therefore ask you to please check ERC social media for any updates with regards to this.  If industrial action is called off later today, or over the weekend we will look forward to welcoming all children back to school on Tuesday.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Indoor/Outdoor PE- Little reminder from Mrs Linn
Just a gentle reminder to all our children/ parents, to keep everyone safe while participating in indoor and outdoor P.E., all long hair should be tied back. This can be done in the morning before arriving at school or you are welcome to bring a hair bobble and tie your hair up before going to P.E. Many thanks for your support with this everyone.

Diversity and Equality Parent & Carers Group
Our Primary 7 Diversity Councillors had our first, successful meeting on Wednesday and we are looking for adults with an interest or passion for celebrating Diversity and Equality here in Netherlee to join us. We are hoping to build on the success of our previous Diversity events, celebrating the wide range of religion, culture, gender and neurodiversity we have in our school community. We will meet the last Wednesday of each month, from 2.40pm- 3.10pm and you are welcome to come along to all or just some of the meetings. If you would like to be part of this group of if you have any further questions, please contact Mrs Kelly Linn at school mail SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

New Arrival Coming Soon
As you may be aware Mrs Vari Malone will be leaving us next Thursday to begin her maternity leave. Mrs Malone has really enjoyed her time with P5d this year and is sad to leave, but excited to know that the children will be in great hands with Mrs Sharin Nicolson who will be taking the class forward full time from Tuesday 26^th September. I’m sure you will join me in wishing Mrs Malone all the best on the next step of her journey.

Theme Day on 27^th September
Please find attached ERC’s planned menu change for Wednesday 27^th September. The allergy information is included to enable all children to select a suitable, safe option. However, if you require further allergy or dietary information, please contact our catering team via the school office.
World Travellers Day PS

A Note from PTA – Coming Together for our School and Nursery

Uniforms
Firstly thanks to those who flagged some challenges in ordering uniforms via our link and apologies for any inconvenience caused.  We have been able to resolve the issue and are open for uniform orders until 26th September, using the following link: https://www.pta-events.co.uk/netherleepta/

Save the Dates – Fundraising Activities
Some of you may be aware that the PTA, volunteers and everyone who participates in any of the events help raise funds that support some of the extra items beyond the core school budget. Last school year this included items like sumdog subscriptions, new playground markings, sports equipment and the colour dash. Without the support of everyone, whether you volunteer, donate or participate in the events none of this would be possible so a huge THANK YOU for all your support! We hope everyone can get involved in some way again this school year and look forward to enjoying the fun across the school community.

As we mentioned in last week’s bundle the PTA are getting ready for 2023/24 with some fundraising activities planned for autumn and winter and have provided some dates to save below. We will shortly be sending out lists of all the activities and events where you or other family members can get involved in supporting our school, however in the interim if anyone would like to note their interest please email netherleepta@gamil.com

• Design a card project – Please see the attached flyer and hopefully you will find a form in your child’s school bag.
• The Autumn Pumpkin Event is planned for Friday 27th October 6pm – 8pm  – Please see the attached flyer for a flavour of what to expect. More details of how you can get involved to follow in the next couple of weeks.
• The collections of bottles or chocolates for the Winter Event will take place on Friday 1st December with the actual event taking place on the evening of 7th December.

If you have any questions or wish to get involved in any aspect of the PTA please reach out to us at netherleepta@gmail.com.

PTA and Primary 1 Information and Meet the Teacher Evening
We look forward to welcoming our Primary One parents and carers at our Primary 1 Information and Meet the Teacher evening on Thursday 28^th September 6.30-7.30pm.

Our wonderful PTA will be available from 6pm offering refreshments in our school Atrium. This will be a great way to find out more about PTA events and have a chat with other Primary 1 parents.  We will also have a slideshow playing at this time which has lots of lovely photographs of our P1 children enjoying life in P1 so far!

There will also be an opportunity to place badged uniform orders with our PTA at this time too. Rails with sample sizes will be made available.  Our pre-loved uniform rails will also be there for you to browse and help yourself to as well. We look forward to seeing you then.

Primary 1: People Who Help Us
Children’s ideas and interests are a key consideration when planning for our classroom and Open Area. The children were discussing the adults who help them in school, at home and the wider community. As we have stated in our previous Friday Bundle, ‘People Who Help Us’ is our current context for learning within Social Studies.

We are on the hunt for pre-loved role play and small world items (please note “small world” means very small items) related to this topic to support imaginative play. These are items that you would otherwise be throwing away that we can use to refresh our resources in the Open Area. For example, this may include police hats, stethoscopes, fire service helmets to name but a few!  In addition, we are also looking for any donations of emergency service small world toys, such as small police cars, fire engineers, life boats etc. If you have, and are finished with, any of these types of items, please place any donations into a bag and leave this in our Recycled Donations Box situated at the main school office entrance or in a carrier bag and given to the class teachers. Many, many thanks.

In addition, it is always interesting for the children to find out about professions in a real life context. We are welcoming parent and carers who would be willing to volunteer to come to the school to share information about their job and how they help the community. If you have a profession you think you could share with the children please do let us know. For example, this may include a visit from the fire service to discuss their role in keeping our community safe. If you think this is something you could help with, please drop us an email on schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or give Jennifer McCann (Principal Teacher) a call on 0141 570 7260 to discuss in more detail.

Primary 6 Library Club
An after school P6 School Library Activity Reading & Book Club at Netherlee will be starting on a Monday 30th October 2023 from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will be Miss Irving  and will run for 4 weeks. Full details are below: If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/M7BkxEmxQN no later than 21/09/2023. In the event of oversubscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.

Activity: P6 School Library Activity Reading & Book Club
Day and Time: Monday 3.15 – 4.15pm.
Dates:  30/10, 06/11, 13/11 and 20/11
Venue: Netherlee Primary
No. of pupils: 20
Cost: no cost

Primary 6/7 Dance Club
An after school P6/7 Dance Club at Williamwood High School will be starting on a Tuesday 31^st October 2023 from 3.30-4.30pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are below.  If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/Me1zcS4TAP no later than 21/09/2023. In the event of oversubscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.

Activity: P6/7 Dance Club
Day and Time: Tuesday 3.30 – 4.30pm.
Dates:  31/10, 07/11, 14/11 and 21/11
Venue: Williamwood High School (require to make your own way to and from the club)
Delivered by:  Miss A. Glen
No. of pupils: 10
Cost: no cost

Primary 7 Netball Club
An after school P7 Netball Club at Netherlee Primary will be starting on a Monday 30th October 2023 from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will be Miss Williams and will run for 5 weeks. Full details are below.  If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here:  https://forms.office.com/e/uib8tvLEbJ no later than 21/09/2023. In the event of oversubscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.

Activity: P7 Netball Club
Day and Time: Monday 3.15 – 4.15pm.
Dates:  30/10, 06/11, 13/11, 20/11 & 27/11
Venue: Netherlee Primary
No. of pupils: 20
Cost: no cost

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Thanks to everyone who joined us at our Meet the Teacher Evening last night.  It was so nice to see such a large turnout of parents popping in to put a face to a name and say hello to their child’s new teacher.  Mrs Sweeney, Mrs Roberts and myself also thoroughly enjoyed chatting to many of you as you arrived and left the school too.  Please remember that we, all school staff, are here at any time, you don’t need to wait for scheduled meetings to talk to us about any worries or concerns you have or if you are looking for some help with something.  Please just get in touch with us at any time and we will do our very best to help.

Playgrounds Safety Before School
We are delighted that the children are settling back into school life and are coming into school calmly from 8.50am. We know you will appreciate that pick up and drop off times are busy and we would like to send out a reminder that all P2-7 children should be dropped at their school gates by their accompanying adult/s so that they can make their own way to their designated entry door. Parents and carers from P2-7 should not enter the playgrounds at drop off please. P1 parents and carers only can accompany their child to the P1 playground from 8.50am. As always, staff are placed at various gates and points to help children get to class safely.   Also, please remember that the playgrounds should be not be used as a thoroughfare at any point during the school day from 8.50am. Access to the front of the school and the nursery buildings, from our Clarkston Road gate, should be made via Linnpark Avenue or Netherlee Court. We appreciate your support with this safety matter. Thank you.  Mrs Sweeney (DHT)

Cultural Diet Form
To ensure that we have accurate and up to date records for all of our children, we are asking all parents, for whom this is appropriate, to complete the attached ERC Cultural Diet Meal Request Form, for your child.  You can also find a copy of this form on our website at any time.
Cultural Diets Meal Request Form (website copy)

Maths Week Scotland
We are delighted to share with you that our school and nursery will once again be taking part in Maths Week Scotland from 26^th September – 29^th September. This year the focus is ‘Maths in Motion’. Our Maths Champions, Child Development Officers (CDOs) and class teachers are busy planning and organising a variety of exciting, engaging and fun activities to enthuse our children in all things maths, but we would really like to involve our Netherlee parents and carers and we need your help please.

We would like to invite volunteer parents, carers and relatives to speak with the children about how maths ‘makes the world go round’ and is crucial and relevant to all of our day-to-day lives and work. As always, we want to continue to promote a positive attitude towards Maths across our nursery and school.

If you feel that you could share how your life involves maths, we would very much appreciate you coming into school and /or nursery to share your expertise, experience and knowledge. As the theme is ‘maths in motion’ your knowledge could be about maths through travel, sports, space, film, technology, time, financial education, decision making, problem solving, budgeting, planning or timetabling… anything at all! Our children really enjoy seeing ‘real life adults’ out with our school and nursery staff, they gain so much from these experiences and are always very keen to ask lots of questions!

If you would like to talk to us about how you could help us during Maths Week, please simply contact us via email at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk by Wednesday 20^th September. If you are unable to visit us in person but are keen to share your knowledge and experiences, we would be delighted to arrange for you to speak virtually to the children over Google Meet or to even send us any material that you feel we could share with them.  Thank you very much for helping us and for volunteering in this way, if you can.  Lynn Sweeney (DHT)

Netherlee Budding Minds Seed Library
Netherlee Budding Minds over the course of the year has worked hard to engage with the whole school and nursery community to build confidence and excite all about gardening. To help us to achieve our RHS Level 5 Gardening Schools award, some of our children who have attended previous gardening clubs and our parent volunteer Helen, have made our first Seed Library. This will give the school and community access to a wide range of seed and also encourage us to collect and save our seed. The Library is also a point to access gardening books which can be taken out on loan to help build knowledge and learn new things. The Library will be positioned at the main reception area for our whole school and nursery community to use. If you have spare seed packets at home or if you have collected your own seed, please feel free to share them with us to include in our seed library. Please read the information flyer attached for the seed categories. We are an EcoSchools Flag school and nursery so we hope that this will help to reduce, reuse and recycle seeds and increase the biodiversity growing in our school and community gardens. Many thanks for your continued support.

Parent Council Meeting Highlights
Thank you to the Parent Council for producing the latest PC Meeting Highlights Newsletter. The first meeting was very productive and you can find the highlights can here:  Meeting Highlights

A Note from the Parent Teacher Association (PTA)

*Coming Together For Our School*
The PTA is getting ready for 2023/24. Start getting your pumpkins carved and ready for our Pumpkin Trail in October and we are looking forward to another smashing winter fair. We will keep you updated and the school calendar at will be updated with further events and activities.

*Offer a smile and lend a hand*
If you can pack a uniform, sort tombola, pour a cup of coffee, hand out sweetie bags, stuff a sausage in a roll, be a Santa or do any such tasks, there is a place for you. None of this will be possible without the invaluable support from our parents and carers. A special shout out to all our new parents and carers, and any grandparents who said they want to get involved.  Email netherleepta@gmail.com with your contact details and let us know that you are here to help.

*Badged Uniform Sale*
We are pleased to let you know that our September uniform sale is now live until Monday, 25^th September 2023. Please click https://www.pta-events.co.uk/netherleepta/ to place your order.  The uniform samples will be available to view in the main entrance to the school from Friday, 8^th September until Thursday, 22^nd September. We recommend that you do try on items for size as we do not keep a stock and cannot exchange items.  Netherlee PTA always strives to offer the best value and quality for our parents/carers, and we work closely with the school to ensure consistency. For that reason we would encourage you to purchase the school hoodie via the PTA.  We appreciate your continued support in this.

We hope stock will be delivered the week of 9 October. If you are able to help with the packing of the uniforms then email us at netherleepta@gmail.com

Further uniform sales planned for the year are:
* 12 – 26 January 2024
* 06 – 24 May 2024
* 27 May – 26 June 2024 (tentative date)

Community Events: Libraries
East Renfrewshire libraries have a fantastic range of free events and activities throughout the month of September. Pease visit the website: East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure

Primary 1 Meet the Teacher and Information Session for Parents
Please see attached letter regarding P1 Meet the Teacher and Information Session on Thursday 28^th September.
p1 info session letter 2023

Primary 4 and 5: After School Club
An after school P4-5 Gymnastics Club will be starting on a Wednesday from 3.30-4.30pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:

Activity: P4-5 Gymnastics Club (Williamwood High School)
Day and Time: Wednesday 3.30 – 4.30pm.
Dates:  04/10, 11/10,08/11 & 29/11
Venue: Williamwood High School (children must make their own way to and from the club)
Delivered by:  Miss F Glen
No. of pupils: 10
Cost: Free

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/ng4xMAEyJV

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

Calendar of Events
Due to unforeseen circumstances, there have been a few small date changes to the calendar of events sent out last week.  An updated copy has been attached for your attention and the online school calendar, on the website, will be updated next week to reflect all events.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2023-2024 v2

Chatter Café
All nursery and school parents and carers are very welcome to come along to our Chatter Café on Wednesday 13th September from 9:10am until 10am 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.

Flu Vaccination Programme
Just a kind reminder that if you have not yet returned your child’s consent form, to please have this returned to the school office asap.

Uploading Homework to Google Classroom
Please find a helpful link to a document which gives step by step instructions regarding how to upload Home Learning tasks to Google Classroom. This is a fast and easy way to upload your child’s digital work in time for Feedback Friday!  The upload feature on Google Classroom should only be used for any digital items such as PowerPoint presentations, videos, photographs etc.

Like last session, Home Learning jotters will be provided for all children to record, gather and evidence their work. The jotters should be used to detail all learning that has taken place at home and will be a record of all home learning produced.  Could we kindly ask, in order to prevent our school email system from clogging up with large attachments, that any digital presentations be uploaded via Google Classroom only as detailed above, and not emailed to the school. Thank you for your continued support with this.

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

Primary 1 and 2 Child smile Tooth Brushing
Please find attached the Childsmile tooth brushing consent letter for the upcoming academic year. Your child will be enrolled in the tooth brushing programme automatically. You do not need to do anything. However, if you do not want your child to take part in the Childsmile tooth brushing programme please contact us via email (schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk) within two weeks of receiving this letter (Friday 15^th September 2023). Childsmile

P7 Residential Trip 2023-2024: Information Evening
One of the exciting aspects of being in P7 is our annual Residential Trip. With that in mind I would like to invite you and your child to an information evening in our atrium at 7pm on Tuesday 19^th September to share the details of this.

We have made a booking with Scout Adventures Lochgoilhead (LGH) for 28^th– 31^st May and Liam from LGH will be joining us to lead a presentation and answer any questions you may have.

Children are welcome to come along to the meeting to find out about the residential week. We would ask that all children refrain from having their mobile phones out (if they have one) during this meeting.

After the meeting we will send further information in relation to the trip. We look forward to seeing you on 19^th September.

Primary 7 Vision Screen/Health Check
Just a kind reminder that if you have not yet returned your child’s consent form, to please have this returned to the school office.

Have a lovely, sunny weekend, I think Summer is going to arrive at last! J

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Dates for your Diary
It is with great pleasure that I share the calendar of events in school and nursery for the 2023/24 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. These will be updated on the calendar by the end of next week.  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.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2023-2024

Water Bottles
We would like to remind all parents that children should bring reusable water bottles to school and can refill these at our water machines located throughout the building.

Flu Vaccination Programme
Children will be bringing home consent letters for the Flu Immunisation programme today. Please check their schoolbags. These require to be returned by Friday, 1^st September please.

MMR Vaccines
Please see attached letter regarding children being fully vaccinated against measles.
MMR vaccine letter

Parent Council Meeting
We are really looking forward to our first Parent Council Meeting of the new session which will take place on Wednesday, 30^th August at 7pm in our school Hub. If you are a new or existing parent, we would love to welcome you along! 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
Head teacher report – including School and Nursery Improvement Plan (SNIP) review
PTA update
PC cluster collaboration
Parking Clarkston Road
Mobile phone community action
Update: Communications – Constitution review
Communication to PC members (WhatsApp group – Minute taking volunteers)
Membership update: Election of any new members, Resignations according to the constitution (non-attending members).

Community Event: STEM Event at Barrhead Foundry
Come along with your family and friends to our interactive, inspiring exhibitions with some fantastic companies in the amazing world of STEM. From robots to VR and even electric cars!  Insp-Hire is an initiative geared towards targeting parents and carers of children and young people from ages 4-14 to learn about industry 4 and how this will impact their children. This event is FREE to attend, it’s great for a family fun day and lots for everyone to join in with some amazing prizes to be won throughout the day!  More information can be found here: Insphire Event and the attached flyer.
Insp-Hire Poster

Primary 1: Annual Data Check
Our annual data checks have been sent home with your child today, we would be grateful if you could please have a look over and update (if required) and return to the school office.

We use a digital system for data checks and consent forms for school trips and visits.  We would appreciate if you register with ParentsPortal.  Please note that you need to input the details used when registering your child with Netherlee Primary.  We would be grateful if you could sign-up by Friday 1^st September.   If you have any issues, please contact the office via email to SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk with as much information as possible, or screenshots of any issues.

Primary 1: People Who Help Us
Children’s ideas and interests are a key consideration when planning for our classroom and Open Area. The children have been discussing the adults who help them in school, at home and the wider community. As such, ‘People Who Help Us’ will be the context for learning within Social Studies.

We are on the hunt for pre-loved role play items related to this topic to support imaginative play. These are items that you would otherwise be throwing away that we can use to refresh our resources in the Open Area. For example, this may include police hats, stethoscopes, fire service helmets to name but a few! If you have, and are finished with, any of these types of items, please place any donations into a bag and leave this in our Recycled Donations Box situated at the main school office entrance or in a carrier bag and given to the class teachers. Many, many thanks.

In addition, it is always interesting for the children to find out about professions in a real life context. We are welcoming parent and carers who would be willing to volunteer to come to the school to share information about their job and how they help the community. If you have a profession you think you could share with the children please do let us know. For example, this may include a visit from the fire service to discuss their role in keeping our community safe. If you think this is something you could help with, please drop us an email on schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or give Jennifer McCann (Principal Teacher) a call on 0141 570 7260 to discuss in more detail.

Primary 2 – Primary 7: Meet the Teacher
We are very much looking forward to welcoming our families to our P2-P7 ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Thursday 7^th September from 6.30-7.30pm. This is a very informal opportunity for you to drop in, say hello to your child’s teacher and ’put a face to a name!’

Our teachers are looking forward to introducing themselves to you and will be available from 6.30-7.30pm so please feel free to drop in for two minutes or to stay longer. Please note that due to the informal nature of the evening, teachers won’t be able to discuss your individual child in any detail, however you will of course be able to do this at our one to one parent/ teacher meetings in November.

The Leadership Team will also be available in the Open Area and/ or Atrium so please come along if you have anything that you would like to talk about.

Primary 3c: Art/Gardening Activities
We would be grateful if the children could bring into school a painting shirt (an old, oversized shirt or t-shirt) to protect their uniform during art/gardening activities, which will be kept in school.  Many thanks.

Primary 7: Vision Screening
Just a kind reminder that consent forms for P7 vision screening are coming with your child today and require to be returned by Friday, 1^st September please.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

We’ve had a fantastic first week back as staff and children reconnect and build relationships with our new children and families. It has been wonderful to see all the smiling faces coming into school each morning. Our amazing staff team are taking the time to get to know your child, learn about their likes and dislikes and settle them into their new routines.

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to all new children and families who have recently joined our Netherlee community. I know that our existing parents will also look out for new faces and help where they can too.  Thank you for helping us to make Netherlee School & Nursery such a lovely, warm and welcoming community.

The roads and car parks are very busy at the start and end of each school day, please remember when dropping off or collecting children, to be mindful of other adults and children, use official parking spaces and be respectful of any school or council staff.

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

PE Timetable
Please see attached the PE/ Gym Day Timetable. 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.
Gym Timetable

Emails to School
Thank you for using our efficient email system to communicate with us.  Please ensure you include your child’s name and class in the subject bar so that your email can be passed on to the appropriate person very quickly- thank you.

Parent Council Update
Our first Parent Council Meeting of the new session will take place on Wednesday, 30^th August at 7pm and we would love to welcome new and existing parents/carers along. The School & Nursery Improvement Plan will be shared at the first meeting, and we trust everyone is keen to hear about the exciting plans for the year ahead at Netherlee.

Moving forward, the Parent Council and PTA will be working closely together therefore the PTA will update on activity at all PC meetings.  We look forward to welcoming you all on 30^th Aug.

Recycled Uniform
Just a wee reminder that our recycled uniform rails are available each Friday, between 8.50am – 9am (P1-3 smaller items) and 3pm – 3.10pm (P4-P7 middle and larger sizes) at the Clarkston Road School Gate.  These items are free of charge so please do pop along and make use of this facility.

Working in Childcare Units
East Renfrewshire Adult Learning Service, in partnership with West College Scotland, will be offering 2 Units (‘Working in Childcare’ and ‘Play’) at SCQF Level 5, in The Foundry, Barrhead
Please see the attached flyer with more information.
Working in Childcare – Childcare Unit

P3-P7 Healthy Tuck Shop
We are once again able to provide our Primary 3-7 pupils the opportunity to purchase from the Catering Team’s Tuck Shop at morning interval. For more information please read here.

As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general school matter.  Please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery

Hello everyone

Netherlee Staff News
Next Friday (23^rd June), as well as saying farewell to our wonderful P7 children, we will also say goodbye to some of our wonderful staff members here at Netherlee. We wave farewell to two of our amazing Child Development Officers from our nursery, the amazing Mrs Debbie Heron and Mrs Jo-Anne Welsh, as they move on to other nursery classes. Your creativity, dedication and sense of fun will be so greatly missed by us all in Netherlee. Next, we say a big congratulations to Mrs Alison Di Paola and Mrs Vanda Carlin in their retirement- you have both been fantastic, invaluable support assistants- helping, caring for and supporting many children over the years.  You have most certainly earned your right to a long, healthy and happy retirement.  We also want to say good luck to three of our teachers Mrs Julie McCahon, Mrs Catherine Williamson and Miss Rosalind Burns as they continue their careers in teaching, any school will be very lucky to have you.

A massive “thank you” to each of you, thank you for being part of our Netherlee team and for the kindness you have shown to the children in your care. We will miss you all very much and wish you all the very best.

We are also delighted to welcome in August, a new Principal Teacher to Netherlee, Mrs Jackie Toman. We are certain that Jackie will be a real asset to the Netherlee Community. Jackie is looking forward to getting to know all of our wonderful Netherlee children and families after the summer holiday.

And finally, …. here comes the bride….. the very lovely Miss Catherine McMillan, currently one of our P2 teachers, is getting married over the Summer and she will return as Mrs Anderson.  You will be a beautiful bride Catherine, enjoy every moment of your special day.  We can’t wait to see the photos when we return in August.

P.E. Code of Practice / Health and Safety Guidance
With the summer holiday approaching we thought it would be a good time to remind you of East Renfrewshire Council’s P.E. Code of Practice / Health and Safety Guidance, particularly in relation to piercings.

As children require to remove all piercings to participate in P.E. lessons, we would like to gently suggest that the start of the summer holiday would be a good time for them to get any new piercings.  This will mean that they can then participate in all PE lessons and activities once school restarts in August.

Medicines
All medicine held in school require to be collected before the end of term, as set out in the Administration of Medicines Guidance for Educational Establishments. Medicines should be collected from the office please or alternative arrangements made by email. When the medicines return after the holidays, a new Administration of Medicine form should be completed and medicines should be in date. A copy of our medicine form can be found here: Administration of Medicine Form

Lunch arrangements– Friday 23^rd June
As school finishes at 1pm on Friday 23^rd June, please be advised that lunchtime in school will be from 11.30am until 12.30pm on this day.

Netherlee Times
We present to you, the Netherlee Times! A wonderful group of Primary 6 and 7 pupils have been working very hard to create the latest issue of our school newspaper. We hope you enjoy having a read at all of the fantastic things that have been going on in the school this term. Please have a look by clicking here: Netherlee Times.

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: Meeting Highlights

Recruitment Fair
Please see the attached recruitment flyer for Cleaning, Catering and School Crossing Patrol positions.
Recruitment Fair

Community Garden Drop Ins 
Our parent volunteer, Helen who leads the Netherlee Budding Minds gardening clubs is organising some community garden drop ins. All are welcome to please come along to any of the dates (see attached poster) if you can to help in our Acorns garden across the summer months. Many thanks for your support.

Class Teachers Next Session & Useful Information for Parents
Please find attached the class list for next year along with useful information.
Teachers and classes
Useful Information for Parents August 2023

Also a little reminder that school closes early on the last day, P1-2 12.55pm and P3-7 1pm.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class