Nursery Friday Newsletter 05.05.2023

Hello everyone,

Well done to Mrs Beattie, who took part in the Mighty Kilt Walk at the weekend to fundraise for the SSAFA Armed Forces charity. Super job Mrs Beattie!

This achievement features on our Nursery WOW Wall, alongside our children’s achievements.  Details of how to share wider achievements, including those of your child, are detailed below.

Family Focused: Questionnaire
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 12th May at 3pm.

Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee
Recognising and celebrating children’s achievements is an integral part to Curriculum for Excellence and what we do in Netherlee. We also understand that recognising the achievements of the special adults in our children’s lives help to inspire our children to reach their goals and model the importance of resilience.

As you will already be aware, we currently share and celebrate our children’s achievements through our Nursery WOW Wall. We would now love to showcase the achievements of parents, carers and our very own staff and include these with our children’s achievements on our WOW Wall for all to see! For example, this may include charity work, running a marathon or simply have learnt a new life skill.

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.  Pictures of children and parents and carer’s achievements should continue to be submitted via email to be included on our WOW Wall (nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk).
Wider Achievements Form

Stay and Play
Please be reminded of our stay and play sessions next week (Tue 9th May- Friday 12th May).These sessions are a fantastic opportunity to play with your child in nursery. Our children’s special books are available to look at any time on the playroom floor. Please feel free to read through these with your child during your visit and have a chat with them about their learning journey. If you still require a slot, please let a staff member know on pick up or drop off to book a suitable date/time.

Pre-school Gaelic fun day Sat 13 May
East Renfrewshire is opening its first Gaelic medium primary provision at Thornliebank Primary School in August 2023. Please see the flyer for a Gaelic family information and fun day on Saturday 13 May at Thornliebank Primary School.

Nursery Reports and Transition to Primary One
This is a very exciting time for pre-school children as we will soon be beginning our Nursery to Primary One transition process. All nursery reports for those starting school will be sent home via email on Friday 12th May. These detail your child’s progress and how you can help at home. We hope you thoroughly enjoy reading them!

Also, a letter containing key dates and information about our upcoming Nursery to Primary One transition events was sent home yesterday. We cannot wait to welcome your children in August!

Parents Appointments
Our Nursery parent and carer’s appointments will take place on the week beginning Monday 15th May.  These appointments will take place over two weeks (Monday 15th May- Thursday 25th May) with your child’s key worker in the nursery buildings. We hope that many of you enjoy the opportunity to talk with staff about your child’s learning. Signup sheets will be made available at the nursery doors from Tuesday 9th May.

King Charles Coronation: Artwork
To mark the King’s Coronation, 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 on white canvas and available in the nursery buildings for you to collect on your parents appointment. To raise money for the nursery 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 nursery fund, this is used to pay for items to support children’s play and learning experiences, such as ingredients for cooking and other perishable items (e.g. flour, shaving foam)

Bookbug Week
Bookbug Week takes place across Scotland from 15–21 May 2023. There will be special events both online and in your local area to celebrate the week. Full details can be found on our Bookbug Week webpage.

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.

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

Have a lovely long weekend.

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

Friday Newsletter 28.04.2023

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 2nd 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 5th 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 23rd and 24th May.

The first named contact on our system will receive a separate email from us on Friday 5th 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 19th 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 12th 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 31st 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 1st May (Bank Holiday) and Tuesday 2nd May (in-service) and will re-open on Wednesday 3rd May- thank you.

Have a wonderful long weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

NNC Friday Newsletter 28.04.2023

Hello everyone,

A big thank-you to Mrs Mitchell for coming to the Acorns and Saplings to show us Makaton signs last week. The children and staff loved having a go at making their names and learned some songs too!

It has been wonderful to start our visits to Linn Park again for our woodland adventures. The children have such fun engaging in lots of risky play in the outdoors. Risky play is an exciting and exhilarating experience, which allows children to explore boundaries and challenge themselves whilst learning about managing risks. Have a look at our photos on our school and nursery twitter for some action shots!

Family Focused Gold Award: Update
We have been working hard to prepare for our Family Focused Gold Award accreditation date on Friday 19th 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 12th May at 3pm.

Stay and Play
Our final stay and play sessions for this session will take place from Tuesday 9th May-Friday 12th May. These sessions are a brilliant way to play with your child in our nursery. Sign-up sheets will be made available from next week at our nursery buildings (Wednesday 3rd May).

King Charles III 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, on Friday 5th May, we would like to celebrate by creating a piece of artwork inspired by nature or conservation. Every child will take part and then sell their artwork to parents and carers at our parents appointments to fundraise money for cooking ingredients and perishable items, such as flour, shaving foam, food colouring. These resources help to support children’s play and learning experiences in nursery. Thank you for your support.

Cosy Corner
As you will be aware, our nursery buildings have a Cosy Corner to allow children to relax in a safe and secure environment. These are safe and nurturing spaces for our children, two of the wellbeing indicators from Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC). We have tried to ensure that our Cosy Corner replicates the home environment as much as possible with soft furnishings and pictures from home. If you have a family photo you would like to include in the Cosy Corner, please email this to nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.

We are looking to develop our Cosy Corner space in the Saplings building further and are on the hunt for some pre-loved items to support us with this. We would gratefully receive any items to enhance this space, such as pillows, blankets, rugs and fairy lights. If you have, and are finished with, any of these types of items, please hand in to the Saplings building. Many, many thanks.

Parent and Carer Volunteers
Do you have a particular skill or interest? The children and staff would really love to learn from you!

We are welcoming parent and carers who would be willing to volunteer to come to the nursery to carry out an activity with our children based on particular skills or interests you might have, such as sewing, playing a musical instrument, dancing, gardening or woodwork.

Also, it is always interesting for the children to find out about various jobs such as any emergency or health care services so if you have a job you think you could share with the children please do let us know. For example, this may include a visit from a dentist to talk to children about looking after their teeth.

It would also be lovely to hear from parents and carers who would be willing to come in and share cultural or religious festivals or experiences with us too – for example, showing photos of celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi, teaching children how to use chopsticks or write numbers in Chinese, sharing stories in different languages or helping to teach the children Irish dancing.

If you are interested, please complete this form, which is also available on our nursery website.  Thank you!

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 2nd May. Many, many thanks.

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

Learning Links
Please click to view the Acorns and the Saplings Learning links this week. These are a fantastic way to provide opportunities to support and develop your child’s learning at home should you wish. This week’s song of the week is ‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a fish alive’ which can be listened to and enjoyed on your child’s google classroom:  https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

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

Have a wonderful long weekend.

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

NNC Friday Newsletter 21.04.2023

Hello everyone

It has been lovely welcoming back our children and staff after the holiday break. We have loved spending lots of time outdoors in the beautiful weather.

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 with friends and family.

Family Focused Gold Award Questionnaires (School and Nursery) – now live!
We are hoping to achieve our Family Focused Gold Award on Friday 19th May. Questionnaires for both nursery and the school are now live. 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 need at least an 80% return rate, so we would be very grateful for your responses- thank you.

Please click here to complete the nursery parent questionnaire

The questionnaires will close on Friday 12th May 3pm. Thank-you for your continued support.

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.

Self-Evaluation Forms: Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC)
You will also have received a Gathering Parent views paper form, which asks you to give your views of the nursery in relation to GIRFEC. Your views will help us to create our School and Nursery Improvement Priorities for next session. We kindly ask that you return these paper copies to our main school office or to either of our nursery buildings by Friday 28th April. If you did not receive this, please ask a member of staff at the nursery.

Care Plans and Special Books
Each child has a ‘Personal Care Plan’ which focuses on the wellbeing indicators (Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included) from Getting it Right for Every Child. Our Personal Care Plans allow parents to share information to identify next steps to support children’s learning and wellbeing within nursery or at home. These are sent home every six months. If you have recently received your child’s personal care plan to complete, please ensure these are returned to nursery as soon as possible- thank you.

Also, we kindly ask that children’s special books are also returned as soon as possible. We hope you enjoyed reading through them and discussing your child’s progress.

Sun Safety
As we approach the summer months, we ask that you provide your child with sun cream (in-date) and a sun hat (e.g. cap or similar) in bags please. These items should be labelled with your child’s name please. On particularly hot days, it would be helpful if you could apply sun cream to children before entering the nursery if possible. We will keep your child’s sun cream in nursery for re-application and safekeeping.

Learning Links
Please click here to view the Acorns and Saplings Learning Links. The song of the week this week is ‘5 Little Ducks’ which can be listened to and enjoyed by logging on to your child’s google classroom https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Friday Newsletter 21.04.23

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 12th 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 12th May at 3pm.

 Information to Support Parent/Carers
As you may be aware, we sent out a ‘save the date’ notification for Tuesday 25th 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

 

 

NNC Parent News 31.03.2023

Hello everyone,

Wow- what a busy and exciting term we have had! Diversity month was a great success. A very special thanks to those who visited our Nursery to talk to our children and staff about different countries, including Sweden, Spain, Italy and Africa. It was so interesting! The children also learned all about Sikhism from the Gurdwara and danced along to the beat of a Dhol drum played by Mrs Kaur’s son. Check out our pictures on our nursery and school twitter @sand_nc

Family Focused Gold Award: Update (School and Nursery)
As stated in last week’s Friday Bundle, we are hoping to achieve our Gold Award Accreditation on Friday 19th May.  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 need at least an 80% return rate, so we would be very grateful for your responses. Please click the links to access nursery parent and carer questionnaire and 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. The questionnaires will go live from Monday 17th April and will close on Friday 12th May 3pm. Thank-you for your continued support.

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.

Have a brilliant and well-rested Spring Holiday with friends and family.

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

Parent News 31.03.2023

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 17th April.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

NNC Parent News 24.03.2023

Hello everyone

Today we said goodbye to the wonderful Miss Jade Toner, who worked alongside Mrs Fiona Daley as a keyworker of the Green group in the Saplings. Jade has secured a post a Maidenhill Nursery Class and we wish her all the very best. We will all miss you so much- good luck Jade!

We are very excited to welcome back Mrs Amanda Hicks on Monday following her maternity leave. Amanda will take over from Jade and work with Mrs Daley and the Green Group. We are delighted to have her back!

Family Focused Gold Accreditation: Update
As you will already know, we are hoping to achieve our Family Focused Gold Award on Friday 19th 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 is 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 17th April. Thank you for your continued support.

Nursery: What to Bring
At Netherlee, we understand the benefits of allowing children to engage in risky play outdoors. This includes building resilience, managing risks and knowing their limits. Our children play outdoors in all weathers, so they can get a little wet or muddy sometimes! In order to support this, we kindly ask that children bring wellies and a change of clothes with them to nursery each day.

Infectious Diseases
If your child has an infectious disease e.g. chickenpox, scarlet fever etc, please contact our school office 0141 570 7260 or email SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk to inform us of this. Thank you.

Learning Links
Please click here to view the Acorns and the Saplings Learning Links. This enables you to have fun doing some similar experiences at home if you would like to. This week’s song of the week is ‘Sleeping Bunnies’ which can be listened to and enjoyed by accessing your child’s Google Classroom: https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

Comic Relief
A huge thank you for your generous donations, the school and nursery raised a total of £850.30 for Comic Relief.

Bookbug Sessions
A new fortnightly Bookbug session will be starting this week in Netherlee Pavilion library. Details are in the poster attached.
Bookbug poster

Easter Break
The Nursery will remain open until 6pm on Friday 31st March, and reopen on Monday 17th April.

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.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

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

Parents News 24.03.2023

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 21st 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 19th 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 17th 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 30th 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 30th 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 31st 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 29th 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, 31st 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 17th 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 18th 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:  18th, 25st 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 28th 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 31st 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

Parents News 17.03.2023

Hello everyone

Feedback Friday
Just a reminder that on Friday, it is Feedback Friday for all classes. Children should bring their home learning jotters/project work into school that day.

Living Streets Active Travel Parent survey
On Monday 15th – Friday 19th May, we will be taking part in the ‘Walk to School Week’ led by Living Streets. We will share more information about planned activities nearer to the time. In the meantime, we would like to gather more information about how our children travel to and from school and nursery to support us with compiling our School and Nursery Travel Plan. We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete the parent survey below. This information will help us to encourage more of our children and families to walk to school and nursery and support our families to be active each day.  Thank you for your support.  https://forms.office.com/e/buxVJWa1H7

Pupil Parliament Sharing session and P7 Leadership Groups
We are so proud of all of the fantastic learning on show at our second Pupil Parliament Sharing session this week. Our Primary 7 Leaders created a fun quiz for each committee to test their knowledge from across the term! All of our children were included in viewing each committee’s learning at our showcase. We also asked all children to share their views on the next steps for our Citizenship, Eco, Wellbeing and Safety Committees. Our Pupil Parliament will recommence after the Spring holidays and we are excited to share our final missions with you then.

Our Primary 7 Leadership Groups have been working incredibly hard this term to lead various initiatives across our nursery, school, and the wider community. We have created an informative and interesting Sway for you to view our pupil groups learning which can be viewed on our school Twitter account.

Parental Volunteers
We are the Netherlee Pupil Parliament, a pupil group dedicated to promoting pupil voice and positive health and wellbeing within our school.  As part of our role we want to help increase the number of extra-curricular clubs on offer at the school. To help us do this, we would love to invite you to volunteer and lead in our extra-curricular programme to build on the activities that are being led by teachers, staff and community clubs. If you have an interest, training or qualification in a particular sport or any activity we would love to hear from you.  This could be running, tennis, engineering, digital technology e.g. coding, art, cooking etc. If you are interested in volunteering or finding out more please complete the information form below.
Parental Volunteer: Extra-Curricular Clubs

The fundamental aim of Netherlee Primary is to offer all children opportunities and motivation to adopt active, fulfilling and healthy lifestyles, now and into adulthood.  We aim to do this by increasing opportunities before, during and after school, and in the wider community for our children to fulfill their potential in a wide variety of curricular areas.

We look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you as a volunteer!

Family Cross Country
Next term we are going to introduce a family cross country run/ jog J, after-school club. This fun activity will run for four weeks, every Tuesday from 3.15pm until 4pm on the following dates:

Tuesday 16 May
Tuesday 30 May
Tuesday 6 May
Tuesday 13 May

In the event of over subscription, we will need to run a ballot. We will get back in touch if you have been successful in getting a place.  If your family would be interested in taking part, please complete the following link. https://forms.office.com/e/uE2NBxth1V.

I hope you agree that this is an exciting opportunity for your family.  If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Primary 1: Transition Feedback
At Netherlee, we are constantly seeking ways to improve our practice. We understand the importance of giving parents a voice with regards to policies and procedures which impact their children. We will soon be creating a ‘Transition to School’ policy. We would love to hear your views with regards to your child’s recent experience to support us in the creation of this policy. Please click here to submit your views. We kindly ask that responses are submitted by Friday, 24th March at 3pm.

Primary 2: Diversity Month
As part of Diversity Month, one of our lovely dinner ladies has kindly agreed to come in to help the Primary 2 children make salsa. This will be happening on Monday 27 March 2023.

The ingredients we will be using are:

  • Tomatoes
  • Peppers
  • Onions
  • Tomato puree
  • Mixed herbs
  • Tortilla wraps

Children can participate in making and tasting the salsa however, this task is completely optional. If you would prefer your child did not take part, please let us know. We have taken into account any allergy information we hold for your child. Please let us know if this information needs updated. We hope the children enjoy this experience as part of their learning in Diversity Month.

Primary 3a: Update
It is with mixed emotions that we share with you that Miss McLauchlan will be leaving Netherlee on Wednesday 22nd March. We’re sure you’ll agree that she has done a wonderful job teaching your children whilst Mrs Allan has been on maternity leave. Thank you, Miss McLauchlan, for all your hard work and we wish you all the very best for the future!

Mrs Allan will return to Netherlee to teach the class starting on Monday 27th March. She will work every Monday, Tuesday and alternate Wednesdays. Your child will continue to be taught by Mrs Malone on alternate Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming Mrs Allan back into school and know she is excited about her return and working with your children.

Primary 3: Diversity Month
As part of Diversity Month, one of our P3 parents has kindly agreed to come in and share her experience of living in Canada. This will be happening on Thursday 23 March 2023.

As part of the visit, the children will have the opportunity to enjoy pancakes with maple syrup, a traditional Canadian food however, this task is completely optional. If you would prefer your child did not take part in the tasting session, please let us know. We have taken into account any allergy information we hold for your child. Please let us know if this information needs updated. We hope the children enjoy this experience as part of their learning in Diversity Month.

Primary 3/4: Girls Football Club
An afterschool Girls Football Club/ P3/4 will be starting on a Wednesday 17th May from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P3/4 Girls Football Club
Day and Time: Wednesday 3.15 pm– 4.15pm.
Dates:  17th, 31st May, 7th,14th June
Venue:  Gym Hall
Delivered by:  Busby Football Coaches
No. of pupils: 20
Cost: Free

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/ZFpRtRyP7J no later than Thursday 23rd 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 4-7: Cricket Club
An afterschool P4-7 Cricket Club will be starting on a Friday 19th May from 3.15pm-4.15pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P4-7 Cricket Club
Day and Time: Friday 3.15 pm– 4.15pm.
Dates:  19th May, 2nd, 9th, 16th June
Venue:  Netherlee Primary
Delivered by:  Chris Cox
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/ng4xMAEyJV later than Thursday 23rd 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 5: Baking Club
An afterschool P5 Baking Club will be starting on a Thursday 18th May from 3.15pm-4.15pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P5 Baking Club
Day and Time: Thursday 3.15 pm– 4.15pm
Dates:  18th, 25th May, 1st, 8th June
Venue:  Netherlee Primary
Delivered by:  Mrs Andrews
No. of pupils: 15
Cost: £4.00

If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/Q5nGMZ01Nb no later than Thursday 23rd 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 5: Trip

An email was sent to parents  about  Primary 5 Trip.

Primary 5a: Visit
An email was sent to parents  regarding  a local area trip.

Primary 5b: Visit
An email was sent to parents  regarding  a local area trip.

Primary 5c: Visit
An email was sent to parents  regarding  a local area trip.

Primary 5c: Class Update
I am sure your children may have told you that Miss Bolger will be leaving us shortly.  We all wish her the best of luck in her new job with the RSPB.  Miss Bolger’s last day with us will be next Friday, 24th March.  From this date, the children will be working fulltime with Mrs Pollock until we stop in June.

Primary 5d: Visit
An email was sent to parents  regarding  a local area trip.

Primary 7: Rugby Club
An afterschool P7 Rugby Club will be starting on a Thursday 18th May from 3.15pm-4.15pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P7 Rugby Club
Day and Time: Thursday 3.15 pm– 4.15pm
Dates:  18th, 25st 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 Thursday 23rd 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.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class