Hello everyone

Free Bus Travel for Under 22s
As you may know, this scheme launched in January this year allowing children and young people aged 5-21 who live in Scotland to travel for free by bus with a valid National Entitlement Card (NEC) or Young Scot NEC. More information on the scheme and how to apply can be found on the website freebus.scot and has lots of information about free bus travel, how it works, how to apply, the benefits and some tips for travelling safely too. A poster with more information can also be found here.

Parent Council Meeting
Thank you to the Parent Council for producing the latest Meeting Highlights Newsletter.  We had a very productive meeting last week and the highlights can be found here meeting highlights newsletter.

PTA Update
The PTA would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported the pumpkin trail event and the recent discos. Please see message from the PTA below.

It has been lovely to get back to hosting fun events in the school. If you would still like to donate the link is Netherlee Primary PTA | Localgiving.

We are looking ahead to our winter event on the 1st of December which will hopefully be a super event for the whole school and nursery community – but we will need your help to make it a success. We want to bring back the very popular chocolate and bottle tombola’s and offer a variety of activities alongside the stalls. This will take lots of helping hands, both at the fair and on the dress as you please day too. If we all help a little, we can all have time to enjoy the fair with our families too. All the volunteer opportunities are listed here, please sign up so we can be confident the event will go ahead. Netherlee PTA (pta-events.co.uk)

Health and Social Care Partnership
Please see a letter from HSCP who are experiencing significant pressures in care at home and are progressing a winter recruitment campaign.

Scottish Child Payment
Please see the flyer on the Scottish Child Payment which is changing on 14^th November to include 6-16 year olds.

Primary 5 Gardening Club
An after school P5 Gardening Club will be starting on a Thursday from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will run for four weeks. Full details are as follows:

Dates: 24th November, 1st, 8th and 15th December
Venue: The Atrium Garden in Netherlee Primary School
Delivered by: Helen Cross (parent volunteer) and Class Teacher
No. of pupils: 14
Cost: Free

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/r/XSxNtDhJid  no later than 9^th November. In the event of oversubscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via Parents Portal.

Primary 6 Food Nutrition and Cooking in School
As part of our learning about the forthcoming World Cup 2022 in Qatar, the children will be exploring Arabic culture by baking ‘Arabic Bread’ with dip. Throughout the course of this term, every child will have the chance do this activity during our whole stage Hub learning slot on Tuesday mornings. The following ingredients will be used:

Arabic Bread
Flour
Yeast
Water
Vegetable Oil
Salt
Dip
Natural Yoghurt (non-dairy alternative will be provided where necessary)
Cucumber

New Arrival Coming Soon
I am sure all parents will wish to join me in saying very best wishes and good luck to one of our teachers, Mrs McGeachy, as she stops today to get ready for the arrival of her new baby.  Enjoy every moment Suzanne, rest up and make the most of a peaceful few days before your little bundle of gorgeous cuteness arrives!

We very much look forward to welcoming our P7 parents into school to join us for our Remembrance Service on Friday of next week.  Our P7 pupils and teachers have been preparing and practising a great deal for this and I am sure they will conduct a befitting, special service for us all. All of next week, P7 pupils will be taking poppies around classes.  If anyone would like to get one, it’s just a donation, if you wish.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

We hope you had a wonderful October holiday week. From now until the end of term, it is going to be a very busy time with lots of opportunities and experiences for the children.

We want to wish a Happy Diwali to those who celebrated this week. We hope you had a wonderful time with friends and family.

Parent and Child Improvement Plan
Our P7 Community Councillors worked together to create a pupil and parent version of our School and Nursery Improvement Plan for Session 2022-2023. You can read this here. Please note that this, along with the full version of the Improvement Plan can be found on our website under the School tab.

Halloween Menu Change
On Monday we are changing the menu for the options for school will be:
Tomato soup
Chicken tikka and pitta bread with salad or
Vegetarian sausage rolls, mashed potato and beans
Baked potato, sandwiches and baguettes will also be available.

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.

We understand that some parents may find it tricky to come along to the uniform rails due to work commitments so we are very happy to look out items for your child, please just send us an email detailing what you are looking for and we will see if we can help- we usually can.  We can either send items home with your child or leave them in the office and you can collect them at your convenience, please just let us know what you would prefer.

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated recycled items last week. This week we would gratefully receive any role play items from our wish list below. Role play is acting in various roles and often involves using props to help get into character. If you have, and are finished with, any of these types of items below, please place any donations into a bag and leave this in our Recycled Donations Box situated at the main school office entrance from the 31^st October. Many, many thanks.    *Hats, Old Jewellery, Small pieces of fabrics, Toy prams and Dolls

PTA Autumn Fun Night, Friday 28^th and Discos
The PTA have an Autumn event this evening, Friday 28th October from 6pm to 8pm to help raise funds. If you can come along and support we are sure you will have fun! We have a pumpkin 🎃 carving competition where you can bring your carved creation and enter it in our competition. You can enter online or on the evening for £2. Every entry will get a flameless candle to light up your creation before we put it on display and you can take it home at the end of the night to use at Halloween 🎃!

There will be some free refreshments and games alongside some games which will have a small charge, of 50p to £1 and of course to keep you in good spirits we will have a bar with beer and wine and some sausages on the BBQ to keep you all going.

The following week we have discos for the primary classes on 1st and 3rd November. Please see the autumn fun night poster, discos poster or go to pta-events.co.uk/netherleepta for more details. Funds raised go towards the PTA fund, which has a key focus this year on renewing outdoor PE equipment and updating ground markings including the addition of a multi sports court.  All volunteers and new members are welcome to come along and join the PTA, so if interested please email netherleepta@gmail.com.

Gaelic Education Information Session
Please see the link for information regarding an ERC Information Session for parents interested in Gaelic Medium Education

P4-P7 Support with Change and Loss
Change and loss are issues that affect all of us at some stage of our lives. At Netherlee we recognise that when changes occur in families through death, separation divorce or related circumstances, young people may benefit from learning how to manage these changes effectivity and sensitively.  We are therefore offering the opportunity to our pupils who have been affected by loss or bereavement of any kind to access some small group based support using an extensive range of appropriate resources and to practise new skills needed to be able to cope effectively.  The programme will focus on topics such as self – esteem, managing feelings, problem solving, decision making, and effective communication and support networks.  This programme will involve weekly sessions lasting approximately 30minutes and will be over the course of 5- 6 weeks. Our intention would be to start this group on week beginning the 14^th of November.

If you feel this may be something you would like your child to access, please use the link attached and complete the short form. https://forms.gle/A6jk9rskMvdR4TXJA  If you have any questions regarding this programme please feel free to contact Mrs Roberts or Mrs Donaldson either by email or call us at school. (570 7260)  Thank you.

P4 Nutrition and Cooking at School
Over the course of this term all P4 pupils will be making banana smoothies as part of their Hub learning. The children have been learning all about hygiene and being safe, and would like to consolidate this learning with this fun activity. The following ingredients will be used to make this:
Bananas
Milk
Honey

Please advise us if there are any changes to the allergy information we hold for your child or if you wish your child not to taste the smoothie. Many thanks for your support. P4 teachers.

P5 Football Club
Just a reminder of the upcoming P5 football club, starting on Wednesday 23^rd November from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will run for four weeks in the gym hall and delivered by a Giffnock Soccer instructor.  There would be a cost of £4 for the club

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/r/EnR6e3yQnv no later than Monday 31st. In the event of oversubscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.

P5d Food Nutrition and Cooking in School
On Wednesday the 2nd of November the children will be baking. The children have been learning all about Brazil and would like to consolidate this learning with a fun, learning activity. As a class, we have decided we would like to make a slightly healthier version of Brazilian Truffles (Brigadeiro). The following ingredients will be used to make this:

Porridge oats
Butter
Golden syrup
Honey
Cocoa powder
Coconut
Sprinkles

Please advise us if there are any changes to the allergy information we hold for your child or if you wish your child not to eat a truffle.  Many thanks for your support.

P6 Karate Club
Just a reminder of the upcoming P6 karate club, starting on Tuesday 22^ndNovember from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will run for four weeks in the gym hall and delivered by a Japan Karate instructor.  There would be a cost of £4 for the club

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/r/FFb5yWt2fq no later than Monday 31st. In the event of oversubscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.

P6a Update
We would like to update you to let you know that Mrs McGeachy will be finishing on Friday 4^th of November to start her maternity leave. Miss Taylor MacInnes will be joining us to take over P6a. Miss MacInnes and Mrs McGeachy will have a detailed hand over to ensure continuity for the children.  Mrs McGeachy is looking forward to seeing you all on the 1^st and 2^nd of November for parent meetings.

For parents who are attending their parents night on the 1^st November, please be aware that there is a P1 disco going on in the Atrium and we would therefore ask you to wait in the school reception area when you arrive at school and someone will take you up to the P6a classroom at your allocated time to see Mrs McGeachy.

P7 Lochgoilhead Deposit Reminder
We would like to remind you that the deposit of £50 for Lochgoilhead is Sunday 30^th October.  The deposit will secure your child’s place on the residential this year we would require a deposit of £50 per child. Should you wish to discuss payment options or anything else to do with this trip, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

P7 Remembrance Service
With the falling of the leaves and the darkening of mornings we are all aware that Winter is just around the corner, and this also brings us to our Remembrance service in November. P7 pupils and staff work very hard on making this a very appropriate event and this year we would love for you to join us. Our service will be held in the school on Friday 11^th November. We would ask that you arrive at school for 9:15am for a 9:30am start and will last around an hour. Due to numbers we ask that a maximum of 2 adults per child attend the service. Please feel free to wear uniform if you are or have been a member of any of the Forces. The children will be delighted to see you all.

P7 Vision Screening
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. The School Nurses team will be in school on Tuesday 1^st November for the vision screening programme.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

School Uniform Update and Reminders
Our adapted uniform policy, which introduced children wearing our PE uniform to school on PE Days, is going really well.  Overwhelmingly, both children and teachers feel that it makes getting ready for PE much more efficient with no time being wasted on getting changed etc.   Combining this with outdoor learning time on PE days is also working out very well too, helping children to be appropriately dressed for being outdoors.

As we are at the end of the first term, I feel that this is an appropriate time to highlight a couple of important points:

• On PE Days, only PE uniform should be worn and children shouldn’t wear a combination of PE and non PE uniforms e.g. wearing a skirt over their shorts or joggers.  This makes the uniform policy less consistent, makes it more difficult for teachers to manage and also dilutes the policy’s effectiveness.   I would like to stress that this has been noticed in only a very small number of children however I do feel it is important to highlight this to you in order to continue to seek your support.
• On set PE days (2 days per week) children can come to school in PE trainers. On the three other, shirt and tie days, children should wear all black shoes or boots.  If your child has trainer type shoes as school shoes, this is absolutely fine of course as many school shoes in shops are now more of a trainer type shoe and these can be harder wearing however, on non PE Days shirt and tie days these should be all black including the sole as per the policy sent out and can be found again here.

Again, I would like to stress that the above points only relate to very small numbers of children and overwhelmingly our pupils come to school every day fully supporting the uniform policy in its entirety.  I do therefore hope you can see the reasoning behind these two points however, like always, I am happy to discuss this with anyone who would like further discussion- please just give me a call on 0141 570 7260. Thank you again for supporting myself, the teachers and the school with, what seems like a very positive, progressive step.

Book Week Scotland – Book Sale
Please see letter regarding Book Week happening in school between 14^th and 18^th November.

Congratulations to Miss Bell
All staff in Netherlee would like to wish Miss Jilly Bell a wonderful day tomorrow for her wedding.  We all hope you have a very special day Jilly, you will be a simply beautiful bride and we can’t wait to see the photos.  We look forward to you returning as Mrs Jilly Ford on 24^th after the holiday week.

Wooden Planters- What a Lovely Surprise- Thank You!
We would like to give a huge thank you to the 91^st Netherlee Cubs and Mr McHale for making and delivering two wooden planters to us. As part of their DIY badge, the children made the planters from recycled pallets. They look fantastic! The P4 Gardening Club are really looking forward to planting in them to brighten up our outdoor spaces! Thank you once again for this kind contribution.

Expressive Arts
Do you, or someone you know, have a skill in art, drama, music or dance, that you would be prepared to come in and share with our children? If you do, please get in touch with Mr Bryce who would be delighted to discuss this with you.

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated recycled items last week. This week we would gratefully receive any natural loose parts from our wish list below. Loose parts are any materials which can be combined, redesigned, lined up, taken apart and put back together in different ways. 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 from the 25^th October. Many, many thanks.

Acorns, Conkers, Feathers, Pine cones, Pebbles, Shells, Sticks, Small bits of wood, Small stones, Twigs….

Parent Council Meeting
The next Parent Council meeting will take place on zoom at 7pm on Thursday 27th October. Further details will be published leading up to the meeting but if you have any questions or would like to attend please email netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com. Items likely to be discussed include the new school homework policy, and physical activity for the children of Netherlee. We look forward to welcoming as many parents and carers to the meeting as possible.

PTA Events
The PTA have some events planned for the next few months with the next event being an Autumn Fun Night on 28th October, including a pumpkin carving competition. Please see the autumn fun night poster, discos poster or go to pta-events.co.uk/netherleepta for more details and how to enter!  Funds raised go towards the PTA fund, which has a key focus this year on renewing outdoor PE equipment and updating ground markings including the addition of a multi sports court.

All volunteers, new members are welcome to come along and join the PTA so if interested please email netherleepta@gmail.com.

P4-7 Cricket Club
Please see attached link regarding an upcoming Cricket Club, and how to register your child for the club.

P5 Football Club
Just a reminder of the upcoming P5 football club, please see attached link regarding how to register your child for the club.

P6 Karate Club
Just a reminder of the upcoming P6 karate club, please see the attached link regarding how to register your child for the club.

P6/7 Netball Club
Please see attached link regarding an upcoming Netball Club, and how to register your child for the club.

P7 Vision Screening Letters
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. The School Nurses team will be in school on Tuesday 1^st November.

We hope you have a wonderful holiday week. We look forward to welcoming our children back on Tuesday 25^th October (please note Monday 24^th is an In-service Day and therefore children should not attend that day).

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Open Classrooms
We are very much looking forward to welcoming parents into school on Friday 14^th October for Open Classrooms. As indicated in the Dates for your Diary previously issued we invite P1-4 parents between 9.30 and 10am 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 11.15 and 11.45am 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, but please don’t worry if you can’t make it along this time, there are other similar opportunities spread throughout the session.

Upcoming Event Reminders
Chatter Café: Wednesday 5^th October 9.15-10am
Save a Life Scotland Day: Friday 7^th October

Recycled Donations
As stated in a previous Friday Bundle, we are on the hunt for donations of any pre-loved items that you would otherwise have thrown away. Each week in our Friday bundle email, we will highlight any items we are looking for to enhance the children’s learning experiences. This week we would gratefully receive any creative and messy play items from our wish list below. Please put any donations into our Recycled Donations Box situated at the main school office entrance any time next week. Thank you very much.

Bubble wrap
Buttons
Bottle tops
Feathers
Cotton wool
Corks
Old catalogues or brochures
Newspapers
Ribbon
Scraps of material
Greeting cards
Unused straws
Wool, yarn, twine or string

Appointments
Could we please ask that wherever possible, if you have any change in pickup/collection arrangements for your child that you can let us know by 12noon or as early in the day as possible via email or by calling 0141 570 7260. This will help us to communicate with class teachers effectively.

P1/2 Planning Through Play
It was so lovely to see you all last week for our Parent Information Evenings and Meet the Teacher. We hope you found the sessions informative and valuable. As promised, please find a link below to the Triangular Planning Model Youtube clip. Triangular Planning Model.

P2 Cooking
On Thursday 6^th October, our P2 children will be cooking. As a stage, we have decided we would like to make pumpkin soup. The following ingredients will be used to make this:
Pumpkin
Carrots
Cumin seeds
Coriander seeds
White onion
Red lentils
Olive oil
Salt and pepper

The children will also be tasting Beetroot Hummus. The ingredients for this are: Beetroot, Chickpeas, Lemons, Garlic and Tahini. Please advise us if there are any changes to the allergy information we hold for your child or if you wish your child not to try the soup and/or beetroot hummus.

P7 Residential
Please find a letter regarding the residential with payment information and kit list.

P7 Vision Screening Letters
Just a kind reminder that consent forms for P7 vision screening require to be returned by Friday, 7^th October please.

P7c Thank You
Can we please say a great big thank you to Mrs Mann for starting P7c on their P7 journey this year.  Mrs Callaghan will be taking over on the 4^th October and we are sure that the relationship between class and teacher will continue to be great for everybody!

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Home Learning Letter
Please see letter regarding the Home Learning Policy.

Introducing Netherlee’s NEW Chatter Café (Wednesday 5^th October 9.15- 10am)
We always strive to have excellent ways for you to get in touch with us and we have therefore introduced termly drop in sessions for any parent from nursery or school who would like to pop in for a coffee and chat with the Leadership Team. Some of our pupils would love to serve you a juice or a coffee/ tea and there may even be some of their delicious baking there too. This is a very informal opportunity to chat to us. You maybe have an idea or a suggestion on any aspect of Netherlee life or you may have concerns or looking for some advice.  Our PTA will also be with us so you can find out about the PTA or volunteering in school and nursery too or even if you just fancy a quick coffee and a chat with some other parents!  We will also have the recycled uniform rails available to browse as well. We look forward to welcoming anyone who has a spare few minutes on the date and time above.

Gardening and Cooking
Our school gardening and cooking exploits have hit the ground running this term and we are very grateful to a number of businesses for providing us with their invaluable support, providing us with both kind donations and materials. A big thank you must go to Robert Findlay Stone Masons, Greensleeves, Ocean Plastic Pots and Kilduff Farm. We are all very appreciative.

Jubilee Books
All ERC schools ordered the Queen’s Jubilee books some time ago.  These are a free gift to all children and have now arrived, coming home with your child today.

Save A Life Day
Many of you will be aware that we have held very successful and enjoyable Save a Life Scotland events in previous sessions, aimed at equipping our children with basic cardiac resuscitation (CPR) skills. Save a Life Scotland supports the training of people of all ages in “bystander CPR” techniques, which can make a vital difference in emergency situations. We now plan to reintroduce this as an annual event. This year’s Save a Life Scotland Day will take place on Friday 7^th October.  Once again, it will be led by one of our parents (a consultant in emergency medicine) and a team of fully-trained NHS professionals; we are deeply grateful to them for their dedication and expertise.

Children in Primaries 5 – 7 will use NHS dummies for the CPR training. Younger children manage better when using smaller models, and for this reason we would like to request that on the day of the event, Primaries 1 – 4 bring one soft toy into school (if possible). There are no restrictions on the type of toy but, ideally, the toy should be approximately 30 – 40 cm in length.

We are delighted that our nursery children will also have the opportunity to take part in this event too, led by some of our senior pupils, who will be able to share their learning from their training that day.  Nursery children do not need to bring in any soft toy though.  You can find more information about Save a Life Scotland on the website.  http://www.savealife.scot/

Whilst we feel that these skills are important for our children to experience and develop, we also recognise that some of our children may potentially, for personal reasons, find this activity upsetting.  If you therefore wish to discuss this in relation to your own child, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us so that we can help and work this out together.

P2 Maths Week
As part of Maths Week Scotland, Primary 2 are going to explore sound and music and how different sounds can be made by adding different volumes of water. If possible, can your child please bring a small pot or pan to school on Wednesday 28^th September, along with a wooden or plastic spoon? These will be returned home of course.

P5 Food Tasting
The children in Primary 5 have been learning about Rosh Hashannah. As a class, we have decided we would like to taste apples drizzled with honey, which is a popular dish served during this time.

P5b and P5d will try this on Tuesday 27^th September.
P5c will try this on Friday 30^th September.
P5a will try this on Monday 3^rd October.

Please advise us if there are any changes to the allergy information we hold for your child or if you wish your child not to try this. Many thanks for your support.

P7 Vision Screening Letters
Children will be bringing home consent letters for P7 vision screening today. Please check their schoolbags. These require to be returned by Friday, 7^th October please.

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

Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Netherlee PTA Card Design Project
The school and PTA have organised an exciting Card Design Project for this term! Your child will bring home an A4 sheet of paper on which to create a card design along with an order form to order a range of products, which your child’s design can be added to. In Netherlee we embrace and celebrate our diverse population and encourage the designs to reflect this. The card design can be for any occasion you wish including thank you cards, Christmas cards, Eid, Ramadan, Hanukkah or simply family cards for keeping in touch. It will be lovely to see the variety of designs.

The order form included allows for you to have the design professionally printed and purchased on a range of products including Cards, Tags, Wrapping Paper and Gift Mugs. A portion of the cost will benefit the PTA fundraising efforts. You don’t have to make an order of course – you can just enjoy creating a wonderful design.  Please return the form and design by the 30th September to school.

Recycled Donations
As a proud Eco School, we would be very grateful to be able to make use of any pre-loved household items by recycling them. Each week in our Friday Bundle email we will let you know of any items that we would particularly appreciate.  Of course, we are only requesting pre loved items that you are finished with and would therefore be getting rid of anyway. This not only helps us in school but also helps the environment too.  Thank you, please do not hand anything in this week, more information to follow on Friday 30^th September and going forwards too.

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.

P1/2 Childsmile Tooth Brushing Programme
Please see the letter regarding the tooth brushing programme for our primary one and two children.

P4/P5 Karate Club
Please see attached a link regarding an upcoming karate club.

P6 Rugby Club Reminder
Just a reminder, of the upcoming Rugby club. Please see attached link with dates and how to show your child’s interest in the club.

P7 Football Club Reminder
Just a reminder, of the upcoming Football club. Please see attached link with dates and how to show your child’s interest in the club.

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

Hello everyone

Religious and Cultural Events
One of our 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 school or nursery to talk to children, classes or year groups please contact Mr Bryce via the usual email, who would be delighted to discuss this further with you. With that in mind, Rosh Hashanah is in a few weeks, if you can help share your knowledge in any way at all, please do get in touch. Thank you.

Extra-curricular Clubs
Do you have a skill or passion that you would like to share with our pupils at an after school club? If you do, please contact Mr Bryce, who would be delighted to discuss this further.

Plea for Parent Helpers
We are looking to update our parent volunteers list. If you are able to help at school events and trips and this is something that you are interested in, please complete this form
https://forms.office.com/r/PWUznD75Cd. Our office staff will then be in touch to discuss your availability etc.

PTA Meeting, Uniform Sale & Badges
Just a short reminder to advise that if you need new badged uniform items they are on-sale from Netherlee PTA until the 12th September.  Please use the following link to make an order. To continue to support families with the cost of the school day, easy to use, iron on uniform badges are now also available from the school office for the cost of just £1.

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

P1 Info Sessions
Please see a letter regarding the P1 Information Session on 20^th September.

P2 Info Sessions
Please see a letter regarding the P2 Information Session on 21^st September.

Meet the Teacher P3-P7 Tuesday 13^th September 6.30pm – 7.30pm
We hope you have been hearing lots about your child’s new classroom and teacher. We are delighted to welcome you back into our school for our first in person ‘Meet the Teacher’ since 2019. As this is an informal event, with no presentations, we would ask that you do not request an update on your individual child’s progress at this time.  Our staff are very much looking forward to this opportunity for you to drop in to say hello and put a face to a name. Please feel free to bring your child(ren) with you so that they can show you around their classroom.

On the evening, please come to the main school entrance at any point between 6:30pm and 7:30pm where there will be staff to direct you to your child(ren)’s classroom if needed.

There will be a formal Parents’ Evening in November where you will receive detailed information about your child(ren) and you can of course continue to get in touch with us at any time if you have any concerns or particular questions.

We will also be holding a drop in opportunity for any parents who have not been able to join us for the virtual new Home Learning Policy question sessions. We will be in the Hub from 7pm until 7:30pm. Please join us there if you have any queries.

P4 Lunchtime Running Club
Please see attached link regarding an upcoming lunchtime club.

P4d Cooking
P4d have been busy in the garden digging potatoes. On Thursday 15^th September, the children will be cooking. As a class, we have decided we would like to make potato wedges. The following ingredients will be used to make this:

• Potatoes
• Oil
• Salt
• Pepper
• Tomato Sauce

Please advise us if there are any changes to the allergy information we hold for your child or if you wish your child not to try a potato wedge. Many thanks for your support.

P5 Karate Club
Please see attached link regarding an upcoming karate club.

P6 Rugby Club
Please see attached link regarding an upcoming rugby club.

P7 Football Club
Please see attached link regarding an upcoming football club.

P7 Residential – Information Letter
Please find a letter regarding our P7 residential information evening.

As always please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions or concerns.  We are here to help and support in any way we can and no matter or question is ever to small, please do just get in touch.

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

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher

Dear parent/carer

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.

Homework Policy
Please see attached letter detailing our new Homework Policy, starting on Monday 29^th August.

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.

Recycled Uniform Items
We are delighted that many families have made good use of our recycled uniform stock and we have managed to pass on many items throughout this week to families who have been in touch.  I am delighted to say that this means we can now resume collecting any donations of uniform items you may have at home that your child has outgrown in particular, larger sized items for P5-7.  You can pop up anytime to the main school door where you will find our “Big Red Box” and your uniform donation items can be placed in there.  This box is available at all times- many thanks

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, 2^nd September please.

Annual Consents
All annual consents will be available for completion via ParentsPortal.  If you haven’t already registered, please click the LINK to do so.

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.

PTA P1-P3 Mixer
The PTA are hosting a P1- P3 mixer in the school on Thursday 1^st Sept from 6:30pm until 8pm, please see poster. All activities and refreshments will be free of charge with the exception of our raffle.  Any parents and carers who would like to get involved in helping with the event would be very welcome and can volunteer at the following link: Netherlee PTA (pta-events.co.uk).  Further events will be announced in September and again anyone who would like to get involved as a member of the PTA or as a volunteer for future fundraising events please feel free to contact the PTA on: netherleepta@gmail.com

P3 Outdoor Visit
To support class work in the context for learning of ‘Buildings in Our Local Community’, an outdoor Educational Visit has been organised for our Primary 3 classes. The date for this visit for will be Thursday 8^th September. Pupils will leave Netherlee at 9.15am and will return by 10:40am.

The parental consent forms for local visits, should be completed via ParentsPortal and this will cover this visit. If you haven’t already registered, please click the LINK to register. If you are available to help accompany the class, please telephone or email the school office as soon as possible. Your help with this would be very much appreciated.  If you have any issues or difficulties getting registered with ParentsPortal please do not hesitate to contact the office

East Renfrewshire Council (ERC) P4-7 Choral Groups
To register your P4-7 child for participation in East Renfrewshire’s Choral Groups, please complete and return this form as soon as possible and by no later than Tuesday 30^th August. https://forms.office.com/r/j3i6BHuZXs

P6/7 Bikeability
We will be running Bikeability training for P7 and P6 this session. If you have been trained as a Bikeability instructor in the past and would be happy to help deliver the training again please contact Mr Bryce. If you have not been trained, but are interested in helping out, there will be training for this in Feb/Mar 2023, look out for more information nearer the time.

P6/7 Choir
Please click to read the letter regarding the arrangements for the P6 and P7 choir.

P7 Residential
Please find a letter regarding our P7 residential information evening.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Class

Hello everyone

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

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

Hello everyone

Netherlee Times
We present to you, the Netherlee Times! A wonderful group of Primary 6 pupils have been working very hard to create the first issue of our school newspaper. We hope you enjoy having a read of all the fantastic things that have been going on in the school this term. Myself and Miss McLauchlan would like to say a HUGE well done and thank you to the pupils involved in creating this newspaper.

Please have a look by clicking this link.

Arrangements for Final Day of Term – Tuesday 28^th June 2022
Please note that there will be an alteration to lunch time on the final day of session as follows:  Lunchtime will be 11.30-12.30pm. Lunch will be available to all pupils who wish it on that day, with a restricted menu is being offered of soup and sandwiches only.  Also a little reminder that school closes early on the last day, P1-2 12.55pm and P3-7 1pm.

School Uniform
Uniform deliveries are being received over the next few days. The PTA are working hard to get them sorted and these will be distributed to bring home via your child.  If you would like to make alternative arrangements to get the uniform to you, please email schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.  Our Office Manager, Alyson will also be in school from Wednesday 29^th to Tuesday 5^th July between the hours of 10am and 3pm to arrange collection, and also from week commencing 8^th August, between 10am and 3pm.

A few parents have asked us to resend a link here to our uniform policy to help them when picking up grey, navy or other uniform items over the holiday.

Sports Week Fundraising
We had a fantastic Sports Week last week, the finals events were a great success and everyone really enjoyed their ‘fun walks’ in Linn Park. It was fantastic to see all the amazing crazy hair styles too.  We would like to take this opportunity to say an enormous thank you for your very generous donations, we smashed our target of £1,000, raising an amazing £2,029.25 for the school and £718.20 for the nursery. Thank you very much, we really appreciate your support.

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.  I would like to thank the PC, on behalf of myself and all school and nursery staff, for its support and work throughout the past year.  We very much look forward to another very successful partnership in the coming session.

P1/P2 Save the Date- a Message from the PTA!
On the w/c 29th August we plan to host a mixer for P1, P2 and P3.  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 knows someone who could offer this service, please get in touch.

Primary 3 End of Year Celebrations
The Primary 3 pupils have been working towards an end of term reward and we are pleased to announce that due to their hard work they have achieved it! On Monday 27^th June, the pupils are welcome to bring in a teddy bear, blanket and some extra snacks for a Teddy Bears’ Picnic on the pitch. The teachers would like to provide them with a low sugar ice lolly. If you do not wish your child to have an ice lolly then please inform us by email.

Primary 5 End of Year Celebration
On Monday 27^th June, Primary 5 are having an end of year celebration. Can your child please bring in a snack and drink to enjoy at our ‘Picnic on the Pitch’.

Primary 6 End of Year Celebration
P6 will be having a summer ‘End of year’ celebration on Monday 27^th of June. This will involve a movie rated ‘U’ and an ice lolly as a little treat! Please note that the ice lollies being provided are made with real fruit juice and free from preservatives. If you would not like your child to take part, please send an email to their class teacher before Monday. We wish you all a restful summer holiday!

P7 Final days
P7 have had a busy week with their Graduation Assembly and Leavers party. Thank you to all parents and carers who arrived and enjoyed the Assembly despite our technical hitches! We have added the Lockerbie Video to the children’s Google classroom and they will be able to access this until next Tuesday. Access to Google classroom ceases when they leave Netherlee.

We also wanted to say a big thank you to the PTA for their generous donation of £450 towards the P7 Party. The children and staff had an amazing time and the Band were fab. A night to remember.

The P7 staff have added some Prom photos to the Google classroom as well and again these will be available for the children to access until next Tuesday.

P7a Eco Elephants
As part of our Pupil Parliament, P7a Eco Elephants have an outing. Details have been emailed to parents.

And finally… I would like to sincerely thank all pupils, staff and parents for all of your continued support and dedication towards our school.

I hope that everyone enjoys the long summer holidays and that the sun shines for us all whether here or abroad. Children, please keep safe when you are out and about having lots of fun with your friends.  Parents, as always, just remember that in six and a half short weeks your children will be safely back at school again and will be off your hands!

I look forward to welcoming all children back to school on Wednesday 17^th August 2022.

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

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class