Hello everyone

Thank-you to the two members of staff, Joanne Greig and Lynne Morton, who led the Bookbug sessions this week which were a great success. The children and families had a wonderful time singing songs and listening to rhyming stories. Thank-you to all who were able to attend! We look forward to welcoming you all again at our next sessions in Term 3.

A Message from our P7 House Captains- UK National Charity Event
We are the House Captains and one of our jobs is to organise events. We spoke to all of the school pupils and asked them to vote on a charity that we would support. The charity that we have selected is Guide Dogs UK https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/ .We think that this is a very important charity as it helps visually impaired people all over the UK.

On Friday 9^th December we have organised some activities and events to raise awareness of this important charity. We will visit the nursery buildings to talk to the children about guide dogs and carry out some fun activities with them.

Thank you, Noah and Millie (House Captains)

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who has kindly donated items they would otherwise be throwing out to our nursery. We are looking to set up a Cosy Corner in each of our nursery buildings. This week we would gratefully receive any cosy items to help us with this. Many, many thanks.

• Small rugs
• Blankets/Throws
• Cushions
• Small lamps

Learning Links
The children will be taking part in lots of festive learning experiences in the nursery. Click here to see all of the lovely experiences that will be taking place. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Adverse Weather Guidance
Please click on the link to read important information regarding this.

Chatter Café (Wednesday 21^st December 9.15am – 9:45am)
We always strive to have excellent ways for you to get in touch with us and we have therefore introduced termly drop in sessions for any parent from nursery or school who would like to pop in for a coffee and chat with the Leadership Team. This is a very informal opportunity to come along and chat to us.  Some of our pupils would also love to serve you a juice or a coffee/ tea and there may even be some of their delicious baking there too. On the 21^st, this will be our second time running the Chatter Café this session, and we thoroughly enjoyed chatting to lots of parents at our café in term 1. You maybe have an idea or a suggestion on any aspect of Netherlee life or you may have concerns or looking for some advice. Our PTA will also be with us so you can find out about the PTA or volunteering in school and nursery too or even if you just fancy a quick coffee and a chat with some other parents! We will also have the recycled uniform rails available to browse as well. We look forward to welcoming anyone who has a spare few minutes on the date and time above.

Everyone Matters
Thanks to those that have already volunteered to be involved in our ‘Everyone Matters’ partnership group.  We would be delighted to see more parents join us! If you would like to be a part of this group, simply please get in touch in the usual way or read more here.

Note of Thanks from the PTA
A huge thank you from the PTA for the brilliant support at the Winter Fair yesterday. Thank you to our lovely stall holders, to the raffle prize donors, to the PTA volunteers, to the nursery and primary staff, to the pupils who decorated windows, ran stalls, sang in the choir and made items for the fair. Thank you to everyone who donated pre-loved items, donated to the tombola’s and who came along to make such a lovely evening. Thank you to the facilities staff for cleaning everywhere ready for school again today. We hope you all enjoyed it, and thank you for making it a success.

I would also like to add my own thanks to the wonderful PTA.  Last night’s event was fantastic and it was very special being able to watch the Netherlee community attending these types of events in our school once again.  You have had a very busy and productive term PTA, thank you for all that you do for the school and nursery.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

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

Hello everyone

Winter is well and truly here! The children have been busy discussing the seasonal changes, including the very cold weather we have had lately. Brrr!

The children have been having lots of fun in their music lessons with Mr Watson our music teacher this week. They have been working on their rhythm and keeping to the beat whilst practising some festive singalongs.

Everyone Matters
Would you like to be involved in our ‘Everyone Matters’ partnership group? We would love it if you would join us! Please read more here.

P1 Catchment Applications
Please see the letter from the Director of Education regarding applying for a P1 primary school place for your child.

A Festive Message
As always I would like to thank all of our families for the continued support and feedback that you give us across the school and nursery.  Recent times, have brought various challenges to many and this includes experiencing various financial challenges too, even more so as we head into the winter months and the festive period. We would therefore like to reiterate the message we have shared over recent years.

Every year we are overwhelmed by the kindness extended to us by way of gifts. While we would never presume of course, what anyone does in this regard, we are very aware that this time of year can present many challenges for everyone.  Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to say that a kind word, in a homemade card made by your child or a little message via email, would be so lovely to receive and would be appreciated by us every bit as much as any bought gifts, particularly when everyone is facing such challenging financial times right now.

The message above is sent with kindness and gratefulness from all of the Netherlee Staff and we hope that you don’t mind us mentioning this to you.  Thank you.

Christmas Lunch
We will be having our Christmas Lunch on Thursday 8^th December. The nursery option will be soup, turkey and trimmings and ice cream.

Celebrating Scotland Lunch
There will be a change to the lunch menu on Wednesday November 30^th to Celebrate Scotland.  The menu will be cheese toasties, diced potatoes and salad.

Early Closing
We have been advised by ERC, that nursery will close at the same time as the school, 2.30pm, on the last day of term- 23^rd December 2022.

St Andrews Day – 30^th November
To mark St Andrew’s Day, we are inviting all children, only  if they wish to and already have something at home, to wear something tartan on Wednesday. This could be a hair bobble, badge, scarf etc.

Bookbug
Please be reminded of next week’s Bookbug sessions in the Nursery. Each session will take place over two dates, with one morning and one afternoon session. For this term, please see dates and times for each colour group below:

Tuesday 29^th November in the Saplings:
9:15am – Pink and Green Group
2:15pm – Blue and Purple Group

Thursday 1^st December in the Acorns:
9:15am – White and Yellow Group (Staff will take Yellow Group children to and from Acorns back to Saplings)
2:15pm – Red and Orange Group

We politely ask that a maximum of two adults attend the sessions. Younger siblings are also more than welcome to attend. Should the above days/times be unsuitable for this term, please be assured that alternative days and times will be provided for the sessions to follow. These sessions will last no longer than 45 minutes. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Parent Council Meeting- Change of Date
The date of the next Parent Council Meeting has been changed and will now be on Tuesday 6th December at 7pm on Zoom.  Please email netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com if you wish to attend or have matters you would like us to discuss.

Clothing Swap
MK Swap are taking/swapping children winter clothes & accessories, Christmas jumpers and party clothes. They also have a section for nativity costumes which may be of use to many parents in the coming weeks. More information can be found in this poster.

ASN Consultation
The Education Department’s final report on the ASN consultation was published on the Council’s website https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/children-with-asn.

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated recycled items last week. This week we would gratefully receive any items from our wish list below. If you have, and are finished with, any of these types of items below, please hand in to either of the nursery buildings. Many, many thanks.

• Jigsaws
• Junk modelling items (e.g. old cardboard tubes, boxes, tissue/shoe boxes etc.)

Learning Links
As stated in last week’s Friday Bundle, the learning links will now feature in the Friday bundle each week. Please click to view the Acorns and Saplings Learning Links. This week’s song of the week is Hickory Dickory Dock. The link to the song of the week can be listened to and enjoyed by logging in to your child’s Google Classroom via this link- enjoy. https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

Thank you, we hope all families have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone,

It was lovely to chat with all of our parents and carers this week regarding your children’s progress. Thank-you to all who attended over the past couple of weeks.

We would like to say a huge thank-you to Mrs Johal who led the Bhangra sessions in our Nursery. The children (and staff) had such a wonderful experience and learned some fantastic dance moves! You will see some pictures of the sessions on our school and nursery twitter @sand_c.

Proposed Industrial Strike Action
Following yesterday’s information about proposed Industrial Action, I am confirming that Netherlee Nursery class will be open from 9am – 3pm to all children on Thursday 24^th November.  This means children who normally attend on a Thursday extended pattern (8am – 6pm), offered an alternative limited service of core hours (9am – 3pm) for this day only.  Normal communication channels via phone call or email will remain unaffected on these days, should you need to contact the nursery during 9am – 3pm.

I hope this information allows you to plan ahead for next week.

New Arrival Coming Soon
I am sure all parents will wish to join us in saying very best wishes and good luck to one of our nursery staff, Mrs Pamela Montgomerie as she stops on Friday 2^nd December to get ready for the arrival of her new baby. Take the time to enjoy every minute of your maternity leave with your new bundle of joy. Jack will be such a wonderful big brother! Sending lots of love to you and your family. We can’t wait to see the photos.

What to bring to Nursery
It has been a little rainy recently- but that does not stop us! Whilst we do have some spare clothing items in nursery, we politely remind you that it is helpful if your child brings spare clothes to nursery each day, particularly extra socks to keep their little feet dry!

Christmas Party Times
As stated in last week’s Friday bundle, our Nursery Christmas party will take place in both buildings on Wednesday 21^st December. They should come to nursery in their party clothes for day. To confirm, the Christmas Party will take place between 9:15am-11:30am. If your child does not normally attend on this day, please just let us know as they are more than welcome to join the party!

Learning Links
As stated in last week’s Friday Bundle, the learning links will now feature in the Friday bundle each week. Please click to view this week’s Acorns and Saplings Learning Links. The song of the week is ‘Humpty Dumpty’. The link to the song of the week can be listened to and enjoyed by logging in to your child’s Google Classroom via this link- enjoy. https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated recycled items last week. This week we would gratefully receive any small world items from our wish list below (please note “small world” means very small items). Please put any donations into a bag and hand into either of our nursery buildings. Many, many thanks.

Small world items: dinosaurs, animals and farm animals

Have a lovely weekend.

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

Hello everyone

We hope you all enjoyed Bonfire Night last week. Lots of children were discussing the noises and colours of the fireworks and how “sparkly” they looked in the sky. As you can see below, we have a very busy but exciting time ahead in Netherlee.

Bhangra Dancing
Here at Netherlee, we strive to celebrate the diversity of cultures and religions of our families. On Thursday November 17^th, a parent from our school community is visiting the nursery to teach the children Bhangra dancing, a style of music and dance which originated from India. Keep an eye out on our school and nursery twitter @sand_c to see how the children get on!  We can’t wait.

Book Week Scotland – Book Sale – 14^th to 18^th November
Arrangements for our Book Week Book Sale will be a little different this time, than in previous sessions. To enable parents to have the opportunity to view the books on sale themselves, the Book Sale will be open for parents and families to visit, with their children. More information can be found in this letter.

Book Bug
Bookbug encourages parents and carers to share books with their children from as early an age as possible to inspire a love of reading in us all. We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting termly Bookbug sessions at Netherlee Nursery. Each session will take place over two dates, with one morning and one afternoon session. For this term, please see dates and times for each colour group below:

Tuesday 29^th November in the Saplings:
9:15am – Pink and Green Group
2:15pm – Blue and Purple Group

Thursday 1^st December in the Acorns:
9:15am – White and Yellow Group (Staff will take Yellow Group children to and from Acorns back to Saplings)
2:15pm – Red and Orange Group

We politely ask that a maximum of two adults attend the sessions. Younger siblings are also more than welcome to attend. Should the above days/times be unsuitable for this term, please be assured that alternative days and times will be provided for the sessions to follow.

Nursery Christmas Celebrations
We are very excited to invite you to our Nursery Christmas Celebration. The children will be performing some festive songs to get us in the Christmas spirit. All celebrations will take place in the Saplings building. Again, we kindly ask that a maximum of two guests per child attend the celebrations.  Please see dates and times below:

Saplings
Christmas Celebrations will take place over two dates. Parents and carers will be invited to attend over two dates:

• Blue, Purple and Yellow Group: Wednesday 14^th December 9:30am
• Pink and Green Group: Thursday 15^th December 9:30am.

Acorns

• All groups (White, Red and Orange): Friday 16^th December 9.45 in the Saplings building.

Staff will take children to and from the Acorns building for the Christmas Celebrations.

Party
We have organised a party for the children on Wednesday 21^st December.  They will have lots of fun dancing and playing party games. There will also be a very special guest appearance. Ho! Ho! Ho!

If your child does not normally attend on the days of the above events, please just let us know should they still wish to take part- they are of course more than welcome!

Message from the PTA: PTA Living Advent and Donations for Winter Fair
We look forward to welcoming you to the school for the first day of the Netherlee Living Advent with a winter fair in the school on the 1st Dec from 6-8pm. We will need lots of helping hands so if you can volunteer please follow this link Netherlee PTA (pta-events.co.uk). Please see the poster for this exciting festive event.

Message from the PTA: PTA Wear What you Want Day: 25^th November
On the 25th November we will be having a ‘Wear what you Want’ day in school and nursery, and if you are able to please bring along a chocolate or bottle donation which will be collected at the door/gates as your child goes into nursery. These will become probably the biggest tombola you have ever seen at the winter fair event! Please see the poster for more information.

Learning Links
As stated in last week’s Friday Bundle, the learning links will now feature in the Friday bundle each week. Please click to view this week’s Acorns and Saplings Learning Links. This week’s song of the week is Road Safety Week (To the tune of, ‘When the Saints Come Marching In’). The link to the song of the week can be listened to and enjoyed by logging in to your child’s Google Classroom via this link- enjoy. https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

If you have any questions about any of these events or of course any matter at all to do with nursery or your child, please just get in touch with us at any time, we are here and always happy to help.

Have a lovely weekend.

Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class

Hello everyone

What an exciting time we’ve had in Nursery this week! The Fire Service came to visit to talk with the children and staff about their job and also about firework safety.  The children even got a tour of the fire engine and got a shot of the firehose! Thank-you so much to the local Fire Station – the children (and staff!) had a wonderful time. Please keep an eye on our twitter feed @sand_c to see this in action!

Parent Appointments
Please remember that parent’s appointments begin next week (week beginning the 7^th  November) and the following week (week beginning the 14^th November). If you have not already done so, please choose a suitable date/time on the sign-up sheets at both nursery buildings – we really value being able to discuss your child’s progress at nursery with you during these meetings.

Learning Links
As you know, we currently share weekly Learning Links on your child’s Google Classroom. The Learning Links give an insight of children’s interests, the learning taking place in nursery and any seasonal or cultural events being celebrated.  The activities on this, enable you to have fun doing some similar activities at home if you would like to. To make this easier and more accessible for you the Learning Links grid will now also be issued via the Friday Bundle each week. Please click the links to view this week’s Learning Links for the Acorns and Saplings. The song of the week is ‘Dingle Dangle Scarecrow’. The link to the song of the week can be listened to and enjoyed by logging in to your child’s Google Classroom via this link- enjoy.  https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow

Nursery Fund
We have regular fundraising events at Netherlee. These events help to raise money for our School and Nursery Funds. Our Nursery Fund helps to provide additional fun, “special” items as well as some toys and games to enhance the children’s learning experiences. As well as having regular fundraising events, we also welcome voluntary payments from parents to our Nursery Fund.  Ideally, a voluntary donation of £30 for this session would be most welcomed. This donation can be paid at any time via ParentPay. This could of course also be given in three termly instalments of £10. However, we fully understand that these are difficult times for all families right now and as such, any smaller donation of your choice would also be greatly appreciated, again made through ParentPay. Many thanks.

Nursery WOW Wall
Thank you to all of you who have shared your children’s little achievements from home. We love celebrating these as well as their achievements in nursery too. Please do let us know of any new or ongoing achievements for example swimming, dancing shows, can ride a bike themselves etc. Simply drop us an email or bring in a photograph at drop off and collection times, we would love to display this on our Nursery WOW Wall.

Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who has kindly donated recycled items that they would otherwise be throwing out to our nursery. This week we would gratefully receive any cosy items for our story corner, many, many thanks.

• Small rugs
• Blankets/Throws
• Cushions

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

Parent Council Meeting
Please see the meeting highlights newsletter from the Parent Council Meeting on 27^th October.

PTA Update
Netherlee PTA would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported the pumpkin trail event and the recent discos. It has been lovely to get back to hosting fun events in the school. If you would still like to donate the link is Netherlee Primary PTA | Localgiving.

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

Have a lovely weekend

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

Hello everyone

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

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

Fire Brigade Visit
Bonfire Night will be celebrated on 5^th November.  On Wednesday 2^nd November, a member of the fire service will be visiting the Nursery to discuss fire safety. They will also show the children a real life fire engine and equipment! Please keep an eye out for pictures on our school and nursery twitter @sand_nc .

Parent and Carer Appointments
Please be reminded that our parent’s appointments begin week beginning 7^th and 14^th November. Sign- up sheets are now available at both nursery buildings for you to choose a suitable date/time.

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

Halloween Menu Change
On Monday we are changing the menu. the options for nursery will be:
tomato soup, vegetarian sausage roll, mash and beans and fruit salad

Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) Consultation Survey
East Renfrewshire Council (ERC) are required to consult with families every 2 years on the delivery of early learning and childcare.  This helps inform the models that children are able to access in nurseries and family centres so that ELC remains flexible, affordable and accessible. The link to access the survey is https://forms.office.com/r/LAn7MpRDMN. The survey will be open until Sunday 30^th October it only takes about 5 minutes. Thank-you for your support.

Autumn Fun Night
The PTA have an Autumn Event this evening, Friday 28th October 6pm to 8pm.  Please see message from the PTA below.

If you can come along and support we are sure you will have fun! They will have a pumpkin 🎃 carving competition where you can bring your carved creation and enter it in our competition. You can enter online or on the evening for £2. Every entry will get a flameless candle to light up your creation before we put it in display and you can take it home at the end of the night to use at Halloween 🎃!

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

Please see the autumn fun night poster, or go to pta-events.co.uk/netherleepta for more details. Funds raised go towards the PTA fund, which has a key focus this year on renewing outdoor PE equipment and updating ground markings including the addition of a multi sports court painted on the playground.

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

Nursery WOW Wall
Here at Netherlee, we love celebrating children’s achievements both in and out of nursery. A gentle reminder that we would love to see your child’s recent achievements for example swimming, dancing show, can ride a bike themselves etc. Please let us know by sending us an email and/or bring in a photograph as we would love to display this on our Nursery WOW Wall.

Have a lovely weekend.

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