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