Hello everyone

Early Collection from School
We understand that on very rare occasions children require to be collected early from school for example for hospital and other medical/ health appointments.  However, unfortunately we have seen a huge increase in the number of requests from parents to collect children early from school with, over the last month, nearly 60 children having left early to go on holiday or to go shopping or to miss the rush hour traffic etc.  All early collections require staff to collect children from class, disruption to the class as the teacher has to stop lessons in order to get the child to leave and clerical staff time away from their very busy office duties. We are now in the situation where the volume of these kinds of requests has, I’m afraid, become unmanageable for us and we will therefore no longer be able to accommodate these.  If you do require to collect your child early from school on any given day, we will of course still accommodate essential medical appointments only however for all other appointments these can only be facilitated at the start of lunchtime (12:35pm) from next week.  However, I do require to stress that any early collection should be avoided whenever possible.  I do hope you will appreciate this message in the way that it is intended and thank you very much for your understanding and support with this.

Family Focused: Gold Award Accreditation
We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have received our Family Focused Gold Award for both nursery and school. This award recognises our good practice, particularly with regards to supporting and working with our families. We could not be more proud of this huge achievement and would like to thank-you for your support in helping us to succeed.

Change of Menu: 15^th June
Please find attached our planned menu change for next Thursday 15^th June. The allergy information is included to enable your child to select a suitable option.  However, if you require further allergy or dietary information, please contact our catering team via the school office.
BBQ Schools Menu

Community News – Libraries
Please see the link below with upcoming free activities in the libraries throughout the month of June: Library Activities.

Primary 3
To celebrate the end of term and reward all the children’s hard work and effort, the primary 3 classes are going to have a picnic party on Monday 19^th June in the afternoon.

The children will be making a sandwich in class with a choice of fillings. The ingredients we will use are:
Bread
Butter or non-dairy spread
Cheese
Cooked chicken
Lettuce
Tomato

On the afternoon of Tuesday 20^th June, children will have an ice lolly as a special treat and thank you from their teacher.

We have taken note of any allergy information we have on record for your child however, please do get in touch if this information needs updated. Similarly, if you would prefer your child did not enjoy the food available, please let us know at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

We hope your child has enjoyed their year with us in primary 3 and enjoys both of their picnic parties!

Thanks for your continued support

Primary 3 teachers

Primary 4c’s Mini Enterprise Project Sale
Primary 4c have been working hard this term to create their own business to encourage others to grow fresh fruit and vegetables and to use reusable bags. On Friday 16^th June at 3.15pm at the Saplings school gates, some of the children will be selling sunflower kits, radishes, mint and tote bags. The children have decided that any donations received are to go towards our school gardens. We are looking forward to seeing you and we greatly appreciate any support.

If your child would like to be a part of the sales team with Miss Burns at our Primary 4c Mini Enterprise Project sale table on Friday 16^th June at 3.15pm for about 10 minutes at the Saplings school gate. Please get in touch via the school office if you would not like your child to take part. Many thanks for your support.

Primary 5: Titanic Cabins
Please find attached a letter regarding our P5 children having the opportunity to create a cabin in a shoe box.
Titanic Cabins

Primary 7 – Parent Pay Account
As your child is soon to leave Netherlee, we would like to ask you to please log into your child’s ParentPay School Meal account and check that it is up to date.

We would appreciate for any balances owed to be paid by 22^nd June 2023. Could we also please remind you to ensure that there are sufficient funds in accounts for the final week if your child is going to purchase a school lunch.

P7 children should use up any outstanding balances in their accounts before the end of term or you can give consent for these to be transferred to a sibling by Friday 16^th June.

We will issue a letter on Thursday 22^nd June giving details of money owing with a bar code at the bottom. This means that you will be able to make payments (including those under £5.00) at any establishment showing the PayPoint sign. You will no longer be able to access your child’s account for Netherlee online after the end of term.

As always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch confidentially if you would like to discuss your child’s ParentPay account and we will always try to help.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

We do hope you have enjoyed our Sports Week this week.  You will know, if you have had a look at our School and Nursery Improvement Plan which is on our website https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/ that throughout the session, one of our improvement priorities has been to find as many ways as possible to welcome parents and carers into school and to support families to take an active part in the life and work of the school.   We hope you feel that we have achieved this important priority and agree that there have been many opportunities throughout the school year where it has been really lovely to have you join us.  Sports Week this week has, I feel, ended a positive year of events in such a lovely way.  It was great to see many happy, smiling children and parent faces in the beautiful sunshine- thank you for supporting these events so enthusiastically.  Look out for many more again next year.  A huge thanks to Kelly Linn, Meg Sneddon, Emma Miller and all the staff who have been involved in planning and managing Sports Week, to have so many events running all week has been a mammoth task to organise so a very well done and thanks again to everyone.  Also, a special mention to our P7 Netherlee Sports Leaders as well as some current and former Williamwood pupils who helped throughout the week as well, not only supporting and encouraging everyone but also developing their own leadership skills too.

Of course, if you feel that you have any feedback that you would like to share about Sports Week or any of the events this session, please don’t hesitate to get in touch in the usual way via email schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk. We are always very grateful to hear any suggestions or feedback you can provide us with.

 King Charles III Artwork
Thank-you to those who have very kindly donated towards our school fund in return for your child’s artwork at the recent parent meetings. We are very grateful of your generosity and support.  We have raised over £1500 which will be put to very good use in our Hub when buying food ingredients and other consumables as part of the Food Technology programme.

Singing Games and Rhymes and Choral Groups Registration 2023-2024
To register your child for participation, from September 2023, in either our Singing Games or Rhymes classes for P2-P3 or our choral Groups for other pupils, please complete and return the following form either by using the link below:
Singing Games and Rhymes Registration Form

Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee
Recognising and celebrating children’s achievements is an integral part to the Curriculum for Excellence. We are always looking for new ways to recognise and celebrate our children’s wider achievements out with Netherlee. As detailed in our Promoting Positive Behaviour Policy, during Celebrating Success 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. To help us celebrate as many children’s achievements as possible.  If you wish to share information about a recent wider achievement that your child has done, we would encourage you to complete the form below.
Wider Achievements Form

Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Class Parent Council – Meeting and AGM.  7pm.  Wednesday 7th June.
Our last meeting of this session and our AGM will be held in Netherlee and Stamperland Parish Church at 7pm on Wednesday 7th June.  As usual the agenda will include the Head Teacher’s Report and we will discuss any other items affecting parents and our children.
We will also be electing new members and office bearers and will be saying thank you and good bye to some long standing servants of the parent council as their children move up to Williamwood.

Parent Council membership and office bearer positions are open to ALL members of the school and nursery’s parent and carer community and we would be delighted to welcome as many of you as possible on Wednesday.

For any more information or to raise any points for our agenda please email netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com.

P1 Health and Wellbeing
An email was sent home to parent/ carers of P1 children.

P2 Health and Wellbeing
An email was sent home to parent/ carers of P2 children.

P7 Graduation and Leavers’ Party
I just wanted to remind you about the final events for our P7 children and families this term. Our Graduation Assembly will be on Tuesday 20^th of June at 9:30 am, doors will open at 9:15am. Can we please ask for health and safety reasons that we are limited to 2 adults per child that day.

The P7 Leavers’ Party will take place on Thursday 22^nd of June in our Atrium and will run from 6:30 until 8pm. We look forward to seeing all the children in their ‘finery’ for a fun filled evening.

P7 Cooking
On Friday 9^th June (2 classes) and Friday 16^th June (2 classes), the children will be cooking. As a stage, we have decided we would like to make mini pizzas. The following ingredients will be used to make this:

Dough: 00 flour, Yeast, Salt, Water, Olive oil

Toppings (all toppings are optional):
Tomato sauce (base)
Mozzarella cheese
Cheddar cheese
Pepperoni
Sweetcorn
Onion
Pepper
Ham
Pineapple
Mushrooms

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 mini pizza.

Many thanks for your support.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class
East Renfrewshire
0141 570 7260

Hello everyone

It was so lovely to see all of our families in for the parents meetings this week.  We hope that you found these meetings helpful and informative. Please remember that we are here, at any time, for you to get in touch if you have any concerns or questions- we are only too happy to listen and help in any way we can.

Sports Week

Mrs Linn would just like to clarify and send a final reminder of the plans, that families are invited to participate in as part of our Sports Week activities next week.

You are more than welcome to attend when your child’s house or stage is participating however, please be reassured that your child will still be able to participate if you are not able to come along. We understand how busy everyone is.

Wednesday 31 May        9.15am- 11.15am               BLUE and RED house event

Thursday 1 June             9.15am- 11.15am               YELLOW and GREEN house event

Friday 2 June                  9.15am- 10.30am               P1- P4 races

11am- 12.30pm                   P5- P7 races

We hope you child enjoys the week and fingers crossed for sunny weather!

Returning school books

We need your help! At the end of each school session, we gather in all of our school reading resources. We would greatly appreciate it if you could have a check at home for any school reading books and drop these off in our ‘Returns Book Box’ at the main school reception before the summer holidays. We thank you for returning these books so that they can be read and enjoyed again and again.

Community News – Busby Foodbank
We have been asked to let all families know that the Busby foodbank is here to support families through this difficult time.  Opening hours at Busby Parish Church are a Tuesday from 1pm-3pm.

Community News – The Autistic Collective
The Autistic Collective recently announced the next event open to anyone who lives or works in East Renfrewshire.  On Monday 5th June at 11.00am, Dr Chloe Farahar, Aucademy and Ben Usher-Barrass, Autisticality are exploring “Autistic Wellbeing; What works?” More information can be found in the attached invitation.

Holiday

We would like to remind you that school is closed on Friday 26^th and Monday 29^th for the May weekend. We look forward to welcoming all our children back to school on Tuesday 30^th May.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Family Focused
The Family Focused Accreditation Team were out today visiting our school and nursery.

Thank you to everyone for filling out the questionnaires – we had an amazing response.  Also, a big thank you to our parents and carers who attended the focus group today.  The Accreditation Team will formulate a report and let us know the results of their visit in due course.  We will keep you posted! Thank you again for all your support with this.

Homework Feedback Thursday
Just a reminder that on Thursday, it is Feedback Thursday. Children should bring in their home learning jotters/project work please.

Parents’ Evening
We are looking forward to welcoming you for our last round of Parents’ Evening on Tues 23^rd and Wed 24^th May. To help appointments run to time, a bell will ring every 10 minutes to mark the start/end of each meeting.

Artwork
All children have created a piece of artwork to mark the King’s Coronation. Each child’s artwork has been framed and will be available outside their classroom for you to collect on Parents’ Evening. To raise money for the school fund, in return for the artwork, we would be delighted and very appreciative if you could make a donation of £3 in cash. All money raised will go towards the school fund, to help us pay for such things as ingredients for cooking, outdoor seeds etc. Thank you.

Home Learning
It has been almost a full school year since we launched our Revised Home Learning (Homework) Policy. Through ‘in person’ and virtual drop-in sessions, phone calls, emails and a feedback form, we have gathered parental views from across the school and we thank you for taking the time to share these with us. We have taken on board several suggestions and as a result of these, we have made some changes to the home learning grids throughout the year. As previously stated, the policy remained in draft this session and we will now be finalising this before we stop in June. If you have any further comments regarding the policy, please get in touch via schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk by Thursday 25^th May- thank you. (Mrs Sweeney and Mrs Roberts).

Supporting Diversity at Netherlee
At Netherlee, we understand that communication is key to making sure that the information we provide to parents and the community is accessible for all.  We have therefore made a small, but important, change to our school and nursery website.  Now, when you visit the website, you will see in the top right hand corner the new “select a language” feature which translates the content and information into many different languages.  We hope this is a useful development for our families.

Sports Week Arrangements
Sports Week is fast approaching and Mrs Lynn wants to share with families the final arrangements for the week.

House Family Mornings
Wednesday 31 May – 9.15am – 11.15am – Blue and Red House Family Morning
At 9.15am, the BLUE house children will leave the school by the Clarkston Road door. Parents can meet their children in the P2-5 playground before making their way to the Fitness Area (P2-5 Playground for A-M surnames) or Cheerleading (P6-7 Playground for N-Z surnames).

At 9.15am, the RED house children will leave the school by the Cage door. Parents can meet their children in the P6-7 playground before making their way to the pitch. (A-M surnames at the far end, furthest from the school) and (N-Z surnames closest to the school).

*Please use your child’s surname if parents/ carers have different surnames.

Parents and children will move round the 4 activity stations throughout the morning before finishing off with a picnic on the pitch at 11am.  The children will then return inside school at 11.15am.

Thursday 1 June – 9.15am – 11.15am – Green and Yellow Houses Family Morning
At 9.15am, the GREEN house children will leave the school by the Clarkston Road door. Parents can meet their children in the P2-5 playground before making their way to the Fitness Area (P2-5 Playground for A-M surnames) or Cheerleading (P6-7 Playground for N-Z surnames).

At 9.15am, the YELLOW house children will leave the school by the Cage door. Parents can meet their children in the P6-7 playground before making their way to the pitch. (A-M surnames at the far end, furthest from the school) and (N-Z surnames closest to the school).

*Please use your child’s surname if parents/ carers have a different surname.

Parents and children will move round the 4 activity stations throughout the morning before finishing off with a picnic on the pitch at 11am with the children returning inside school at 11.15am.

Race Day – Friday 2 June
Children do not need to bring a bag to school on this day, just their water bottle and snack.
9.15am – 10.35am          P1-4 Races
11am – 12.15pm             P5-7 Races

Parents are invited to watch their child compete in three races this year before taking part, if you wish, in the most competitive race of all, the parents and carers race! Bring your trainers!

To finish off what will hopefully be a wonderful week, the children will be taking part in a Colour Dash Race on Friday afternoon. This has been generously funded by our PTA. For this, we will be using Holi Colour Powder Safety and Ingredients, which are EU certified. Your child is welcome to wear sunglasses for this event or, if you’d prefer your child did not participate, please email Mrs Linn at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk. You can also contact Mrs Linn if you have any further questions about Sports Week.

Children can wear their school P.E. uniform for the whole week and can wear their house colours on both Wednesday and Thursday for the House activities.

Bikeability
We are currently working to ensure that our current P6 children receive this training at the earliest opportunity in the next school year when they start P7. If any of our parents/carers are already Bikeability trained and could help us with this, please get in touch.

In addition, Bikeability Scotland are running training sessions in June to help parents/carers get involved and help deliver the Bikeability sessions. Please see below and attached for more information.

Bikeability Scotland Instructor Course (BSI): This is the standard training course for staff and parents to allow you to deliver Level 1 Playground Training and Level 2 On Road Training – for those who have never been trained previously.

Dates/Venues: Monday 12th June and Tuesday 13th June at Carolside Primary, Clarkston, 9am-12.30pm both days (Participants must attend both days). Further dates – TO BE CONFIRMED – Likely to be in Newton Mearns. Candidates attending should be comfortable doing some basic cycling in the playground and on road. A bike and helmet is required to take part, there may be a few bikes and helmets to borrow on the days, please let us know if this will be required.

We would be very grateful of any help received and if any parents/carers could participate with the training to help with future sessions.
Bikeability

Pro Judo
Pro Judo are inviting your child to a taster block that has been specially organised for Williamwood Primary students. The taster block is a great opportunity for your child to experience the martial art of Judo, which can help them develop essential skills like balance, coordination, and discipline.

The taster blocks run on a Monday.  The first class will be for students in P1-P3 and will run from 5:45pm to 6:30pm. The second class will be for students in P4-P7 and will run from 6:30pm to 7:15pm. Both classes will take place at the Pro Judo dojo in Parklands Country Club and will be led by experienced Pro Judo instructors.  To secure your child’s place in the taster block, please book their spot using the following links:
P1-P3 class: https://www.bit.ly/3Vz4vTA
P4-P7 class: https://www.bit.ly/3LAHjjh

Please note that spaces are limited, so we encourage you to book your child’s place as soon as possible. We believe that Judo is a fantastic way for children to learn important life skills while having fun and keeping active. If you have any questions about the taster block or Pro Judo, please do not hesitate to contact us at admin@projudo.co.uk.Thank you for your attention, and we hope to see your child on the mat soon!

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

A big congratulations to one of our school and nursery parents, Mrs Cross, who recently published her own book ‘Grow, Cook, Inspire’. Well done- this is a fantastic achievement.

Living Streets Walk  to School Week
As you know, on Monday 15^th till Friday 19^th May, we are taking part in the Walk to School Week led by Living Streets. The aim of this week is to help encourage as many children as possible to experience the benefits of walking to school and in day-to-day life. We had a special assembly this week to learn more about how to take part and each class has received a Living Streets challenge pack which includes an activity diary if children wish to record if they travel actively (walk/wheel, cycle, scoot or Park and Stride) to school during the week. Park and Stride involves parking or hopping off public transport at least ten minutes away from the school and walking the rest of the way. Our P4 Wellbeing Committee will be leading an active warm up on Monday morning to launch the start of the week alongside Strider the Living Streets mascot. Our nursery children will have a special visit from Strider too! We hope by taking part in this week we can raise awareness of the health benefits of walking and that it is fun! We would also like to say thank you for completing our Living Streets Active Travel parent survey earlier this year and for your continued support.

PTA AGM & Uniform Sale
The Netherlee PTA is having its AGM on Wednesday, 17 May 2023, at 7pm in the Hub at Netherlee Primary School. Anyone is welcome to attend. We are calling all our parents and carers who would want to volunteer some of their time, skills, talents or creative suggestions to get in touch with us. We are especially looking for volunteers for the Treasurer and Secretary functions. If you are willing to take on these roles we would not necessarily ask you to commit to every meeting and event. We can adapt and appreciate any time and support you can give to the PTA. We are looking to include all parents and carers in our wonderful school community. Being dads, mums, grandads, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, the list goes on. Please email netherleepta@gmail.com to let us know.

Our May 2023 new badged uniform sale is on! https://www.pta-events.co.uk/netherleepta.
The uniform samples will be available to view at the Saplings building from Tuesday, 9 May, until Friday, 26 May, from 8am – 6pm. We recommend that you try on items for size as we do not keep 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 to help further our fundraising efforts. We are also looking forward to welcoming all our new starts. Email netherleepta@gmail.com if you need any assistance.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Coronation Artwork
To mark the King’s Coronation, today all children have created a piece of artwork with a nature/conservation theme, two areas that are very important to King Charles. Each child’s artwork will be framed and available in the atrium for you to collect on Parent Evening. To raise money for the school fund, in return for the artwork, we would be delighted and very appreciative if you could make a donation of £3 in cash if possible. All money raised will go towards the school fund, to help us pay for such things as ingredients for cooking, outdoor seeds etc. Thank you.

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.

Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee
Recognising and celebrating children’s achievements is an integral part to the Curriculum for Excellence. We are always looking for new ways to recognise and celebrate our children’s wider achievements out with Netherlee. As detailed in our Promoting Positive Behaviour Policy, during Celebrating Success 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. To help us celebrate as many children’s achievements as possible.  If you wish to share information about a recent wider achievement that your child has done, we would encourage you to complete the form below.

Wider Achievements Form

Bank Holiday
Please be reminded that the school and nursery will be closed on Monday 8^th May and will re-open on Tuesday 9^th May- thank you.

Have a lovely, long weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who has kindly donated recycled items so far. This week we would gratefully receive any large 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 large items, please contact the school office beforehand to discuss a suitable drop-off time. If you have any of the smaller items then please place these in our Recycled Donations Box situated at the main school office entrance from Tuesday 2^nd May. Many, many thanks.

Hardwood plywood sheets
Wood / timber planks
Crates
Pipes
Gutters
Small Tree stumps
Ropes

Bikes and Scooters in the Playground

With the recent nice weather, we have noticed a lot more children cycling and scooting to school, which is great to see! Please could we ask that, on entry to the school playgrounds, that all children (and adults) dismount from cycles and scooters and push them to their location. You’ll understand that the gates are very busy in the mornings and at collection times, and we want everyone to stay safe. Thank you for your support with this.

Coronation
As you know, the Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort will take place on Saturday 6th May, 2023. At Netherlee, as we know that King Charles is passionate about art, nature and conservation on Friday 5^th May, we would like to celebrate by creating a piece of artwork inspired by these themes of nature or conservation. Every child will take part and then we hope to sell their artwork (for a small price only) to you, their parents and carers, at our next Parent Meetings.  This fundraiser will help us to restock our hub cupboards with cooking ingredients and kitchen resources for the Hub for next session. The money raised by the Primary 7 children’s art will contribute towards funding their P7 leavers’ dance. Thank you so much for your support.

Parent/Teacher Meeting Appointments
As detailed in our Calendar of Events, our upcoming Parent/Teacher Meetings will be conducted via In Person meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday 23^rd and 24^th May.

The first named contact on our system will receive a separate email from us on Friday 5^th May, advising how to book an appointment. If you have any enquiries about this, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Family Focused Gold Award: Update
We have been working hard to prepare for our Family Focused Gold Award accreditation date on Friday 19^th May. Our nursery, please click here Acorns and Saplings and school Family Focused Charters are finalised and are visible at the entrances to our buildings. Thank-you again to Freya in Primary 6 who came up with the winning design! Please see again our charter statements included within the charter which were created with our Everyone Matters parent group. These statements uphold our school and nursery values and underpin the principles of family centred approaches.

Only if you haven’t filled in the form already for the school or nursery, please could you do so by clicking on the links below.

• nursery parent and carer questionnaire
• school parent and carer questionnaire.

If you have a child in both school and nursery, we kindly ask that you complete the nursery questionnaire only, if at all possible.

Access to the questionnaires will close on Friday 12^th May at 3pm.

Save the Date for Sports Week
Exciting plans are being put in place for our Sports Week this year, which will be held from Tuesday 30 May until Friday 2 June.

There will be two opportunities for you to come along and participate or spectate with your family. These dates are as follows:

Blue and Red House Families: Wednesday 31^st May from 9am- 11.15am
Green and Yellow House Families: Thursday 1 June from 9am- 11.15am

P1-4 Children (Race Day): Friday 2 June from 9.15am- 10.40am
P5-7 Children (Race Day): Friday 2 June from 11am- 12.30pm

There are also opportunities for you to come into school to share your experiences of competing in sport or, for leading an active session with a class or stage. If you are able to volunteer, please contact Mrs Linn through School Mail at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.  Many thanks for your continued support.

Bank Holiday and In-Service Day
Please be reminded that the school and nursery will be closed on Monday 1^st May (Bank Holiday) and Tuesday 2^nd May (in-service) and will re-open on Wednesday 3^rd May- thank you.

Have a wonderful long weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

On behalf of the school, nursery and Netherlee community, we would like to wish all families, who celebrate Eid, a very happy Eid Mubarak. We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating with friends and family.  Please accept my apologies that this important day coincided with our Open Classrooms this morning which meant that some families didn’t get the opportunity to come along.  I am sure you will understand that planning out the whole school year’s calendar ready to share with parents in August is a huge undertaking but I will try my very best to avoid this clashing next session.

On that note though, it was wonderful to once again open the doors to the school and classrooms- thank you so much for taking the time to come along.  These opportunities mean so much to both the children and staff and we know how much you as parents appreciate them too.  There was such a lovely, happy buzz everywhere- in classes, corridors and the school gardens.  Thank you also for returning the GIRFEC questionnaires.  We have hundreds of responses so thank you for filling these out.  If you didn’t make it along to school today, there is a box lying at the front door school reception, please pop up anytime next week and drop your form off in the box if you would like to complete it.

Over the coming weeks, I will collate all responses and will of course share the emerging themes and data around this with you.  Your comments will also be used to shape our School and Nursery Improvement Plan for next session too.  Thank you again.

Family Focused Gold Award Questionnaires (School and Nursery) – now live!
As part of our upcoming Gold Award accreditation, school and nursery parents and carers are required to complete a questionnaire containing a series of reflective statements about both settings. We require at least an 80% return rate, so we would be very grateful for your responses.

Many of you will have filled out this form this morning when you visited our school for the open classrooms- thank you. We’re sure you’ll all agree that our P6 and P4 children did a wonderful (and very thorough!) job asking for the forms to be filled in! Only if you haven’t filled in the form already for the school or nursery, please could you do so by clicking on the links below.

nursery parent and carer questionnaire
school parent and carer questionnaire.

If you have a child in both school and nursery, we kindly ask that you complete the nursery questionnaire only, if at all possible.

Access to the questionnaires will close on Friday 12^th May at 3pm.

If you have a child in both school and nursery, we kindly ask that you complete the nursery questionnaire only, if at all possible.

Access to the questionnaires will close on Friday 12^th May at 3pm.

 Information to Support Parent/Carers
As you may be aware, we sent out a ‘save the date’ notification for Tuesday 25^th April for a parent/carer workshop evening.

As we have hosted many different daytime and evening events over the session, we feel it would be more beneficial for you to make the information that was due to be shared, accessible for all, by placing it onto our school website instead. We would like to reach as many of our families as possible and understand that not all parents and carers would be able to attend in the evening. Therefore, the information evening will not take place as scheduled but we will be in touch, in due course and before the end of the term, to let you know when and where you can find this on the website.

Foodbank Donation Drive
We are joining other establishments in East Renfrewshire to support the East Renfrewshire Foodbank, The Trussell Trust. More information can be found in this letter.

P4c P.E Days Update
P4c P.E days will now be a Tuesday and Friday. Can all children please remember to wear kit on these days.

Primary 7: Beauty and the Beast- Collection Arrangements & Show Tickets
We would be grateful if you could please complete the form below to allow us to ensure that all pupils are dismissed safely at the end of our Primary 7 school productions on the evenings of the 3rd and 4th of May 2023.
Collection Arrangements Form

We also want to remind you that the show tickets are available to purchase via ParentPay.  We are incredibly excited about our show and being able to share all that we have been learning and rehearsing and would love it if you were able to spare some time to come along to see us!  Tickets are £2 and there is a maximum of 2 tickets per child per show. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and we are anticipating this to be popular, so please get your tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.  Please see the official invite below with more information about dates, times and how to purchase tickets.
Beauty and the Beast Invite

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

Breastfeeding Policy
We provide a warm and welcoming environment for breastfeeding families in our school and nursery. Our Family Room, situated near the front door of the school, provides a comfortable and quiet space where breastfeeding can take place without interruption or intrusion. Our staff are trained to offer support to breastfeeding parents and are aware of the aims and principles of our School and Nursery Breastfeeding Policy. Please note that this policy is available to view on our website too. You can access this policy, and others, through clicking on this link.

If you require to use our Family Room to enable you to breastfeed, please don’t hesitate to ask, our office staff will be able to help by showing you where the Family Room is.

Next Parent Council Meeting – Wednesday 19th April at 7pm in the school Hub
The next meeting of the school and nursery Parent Council will be at 7pm on Wednesday 19th April.  This will be in the Hub in the school.  We hope to see as many parents and carers as possible and as ever will hear from the school leadership team on a number of issues, with the opportunity for free and open discussion.  If there is anything you would particularly like us to raise at the meeting then please email netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com.  We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you after the holidays.

Easter Service
Thank you to Reverend Blythe, and the Netherlee and Stamperland Church Community, for welcoming our P4-7 pupils and staff into the church for our wonderful Easter Service. A huge well done to our amazing young people who read, sang and played instruments so beautifully. Below is a link to the recording of the service.
https://youtu.be/Ah-EYqwNNcM

Primary 3a: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 3b: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 3c: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 7: Beauty and The Beast Tickets
Primary 7 are extremely excited to officially invite you to purchase tickets for our school show Beauty and The Beast. We are thrilled to be able to put on a full production P7 show this year in May, something that sadly Netherlee has not been able to fully do since before Covid. The show is not only giving us the opportunity to work on our drama, music and dancing skills, but also our art (painting sets and designing costumes), technology (building sets and creating costumes) and I.C.T (taking responsibility for all the microphones and lights).

We are incredibly excited about our show and being able to share all that we have been learning and rehearsing and would love it if you were able to spare some time to come along to see us!

Tickets are £2 and there is a maximum of 2 tickets per child per show. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and we are anticipating this to be popular, so please get your tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Please see attached an official invite with more information about dates, times and how to purchase tickets.
Beauty and The Beast Invite

Happy Holidays
I would like to wish all children, staff and families a really lovely, well-earned holiday fortnight. Please keep safe and enjoy some downtime. We will all be here, looking forward to seeing all of our children back again, on Monday 17^th April.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

Comic Relief
A huge thank you for your generous donations, the school and nursery raised a total of £850.30 for Comic Relief- thank you so much for supporting this very worthwhile cause.

Open Classrooms
We are very much looking forward to welcoming parents into school on Friday 21^st April for Open Classrooms. As indicated in the Dates for your Diary previously issued we invite P1-4 parents between 11.15 and 11.45am 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 9.30 and 10am 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.

School Uniform
As we are heading into Term 4, I thought it would be a good point to share how our uniform policy is going in Netherlee.  We are very pleased with how the adaptation of our school uniform to now include a PE Uniform is going this session.  This is proving to be a very positive adaptation as it ensures children have the longest time possible for PE as they no longer have to spend time getting changed in school, their privacy is also maintained as, like most primary schools, we don’t have designated changing rooms in Netherlee and they are also comfortable and prepared when spending time outdoors during their outdoor learning lots each week.

Whilst the vast majority of our pupils come to school each day dressed in full school or PE uniform unfortunately, we have noticed an increasing number of children, mostly from the senior classes from P5-P7 who are no longer fully following the policy in terms of the non- wearing of obvious branded clothing to school e.g. Nike branded hoodies indoors and/ or striped Nike/ Adidas branded bottom half items for PE.  Can I please therefore strongly request that our uniform policy is fully adhered to at all times. As a reminder of what the items are you can see the uniform policy here by clicking this link.

For your ease, the main point is in relation to:

• PE Uniform bottom half items e.g. leggings, shorts or joggers should be plain navy in colour and not have any branded logos on show.  This is an important part of our policy and one that, during the consultation, was seen as an important point by all groups of stakeholders.

Thank you and as always if you have any questions about this, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

In relation to the above, our uniform recycling rails go out weekly at the Clarkston Road Gate at the following times. 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 all completely free of charge and include badged uniform items as well as non-badged grey and navy items.  We are also very happy to source items from these rails ourselves for you if you can’t make it to view the rails on a Friday, please just call or email and we will be happy to help. A reminder too that EVERY DAY our red Uniform Donations Box is available at the main school reception area for you to drop off any unwanted, pre-loved uniform items that your child has outgrown (badged, grey or navy). Thank you VERY much for your support and continued attention to this.

Upcoming Change to Weekly Emails
We want to let you know that the Friday Bundles will look slightly different after the upcoming holiday fortnight. Our Friday Bundle will now be known as the Friday Newsletter and will contain all school news. A separate email will be issued, if applicable, detailing any upcoming trips or clubs which are relevant to only your child/ren stage(s).

Family Focused Gold Accreditation: Update
As you will already know, we are hoping to achieve our Family Focused Gold Award on Friday 19^th May.   A key focus of the Family Focused Gold Award is the creation of a Charter. The school took part in a challenge to come up with a design for our School and Nursery Charter. Well done to Freya in Primary 6 who came up with this fantastic design, which will also feature our Nursery teddy bear.

We worked alongside our parent group to create the charter statements.  These statements underpin the award itself and reflect the values and ethos of Netherlee. Our Family Focused Charter’s will now be created and situated within the school and nursery entrances, so keep your eyes peeled next time you are in for a visit!

As part of the Gold Award accreditation, parents and carers are required to complete a questionnaire containing a series of reflective statements about our school and nursery. We would be very grateful for your responses as having a high response rate id part of the accreditation. The link to complete the questionnaire will be sent in next week’s Friday Bundle and will go live from Monday 17^th April. Thank you for your continued support.

Netherlee Budding Minds Seed Sale
Our Primary 6 and Primary 7 Gardening club members will be hosting a seed and plant sale on Thursday 30^th March at 3.15pm at the main school gates, as they work towards completing their Level 5 award for the RHS Schools Gardening Campaign. This event will also be part of the RHS Big Seed Sow and you will also have the opportunity to sow your own seeds to take home. Mrs Cross, our parent helper will also be providing tea, coffee, juice, and cake. Any donations would be welcome which will contribute towards the Netherlee Budding Minds garden funds.

Diversity Event
We are looking forward to a lovely event sharing the culture of our Netherlee community. We still need volunteers to help make it all happen. Please click on the following link to sign up to help us with setting up, tidying up, or to help in the refreshment area.
Thank you.

Church Service
On the morning of Thursday 30^th March, P4-7 will attend Netherlee Church for our Easter Service. As space is limited within the church, unfortunately, we will only be able to accommodate two family members from the children who are reading, performing in the choir or playing their instrument. Separate information has been sent to these families already, please only attend the service if you have received confirmation that your child will be performing. The service will be recorded and a link to the recording will be emailed out in the Friday Bundle on the 31^st March. We hope that you are not too disappointed with these restrictions. If you would prefer your child not to attend for religious reasons, please email the school office by Wed 29^th March at the latest.  For safety reasons, we cannot accommodate any further withdrawal requests on Thursday morning.

Easter/ Spring Break
School will close slightly earlier on Friday, 31^st March P1 and P2 will finish at 2:25pm and P3-7 will finish at 2.30pm.  School and nursery will reopen to all children and staff on Monday 17^th April.

Primary 4a: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 4b: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip .

Primary 4c: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip .

Primary 4d: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child ‘s trip.

Primary 6a:  Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 6b: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 6c:  Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 6d: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 6/7: Sexual Health
Please see letter regarding the above lessons for your child.

Primary 6/7 Rugby Club
An afterschool P6-7 Rugby Club will be starting on a Thursday 18^th May from 3.15pm-4.15pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P6-7 Rugby Club
Day and Time: Thursday 3.15 pm– 4.15pm.
Dates:  18^th, 25^st May, 1st, 8th June
Venue:  Netherlee Primary
Delivered by:  Mr Aitken
No. of pupils: 24
Cost: Free

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/CdfSh31SMi  no later than Tuesday 28^th March. 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: Trip
An email was sent to parents regarding their child’s trip.

Primary 7: Sports Event
An email was sent to parents regarding our Primary 7 sports event.

Primary 7: Beauty and the Beast – Thank You
Primary 7 would like to send a huge thank you to everybody who came along to our Tea Party and a great big ‘cheer’ for all the very generous donations that we have received. It was brilliant seeing so many people there and we greatly appreciate your generosity. We have raised an incredible £940 from this event and this will go towards tech, costumes and set design for the show.

Primary 7: Prop Donations
As you know, Primary 7 are working extremely hard on their school show, Beauty and The Beast. For the show we require quite a lot of different props and the attached list shows some items that we are still looking for. So we are sending out this plea to see if there are objects/ items/ treasures lingering at the back of cupboards that we might be able to borrow or could be donated. We will gratefully receive anything from the list that you already have at home (PLEASE DO NOT BUY ANYTHING).  If you could please drop in off any donations at the school office, or via your child, by Friday 31^st March that would be much appreciated. If you would like your item back after the show, please just let us know when it is handed in and we will make sure it gets back to you.

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class