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Feedback Friday
Just a reminder that on Friday, it is Feedback Friday. Can all home learning jotters/project work be brought into school with your child.

Happy Hanukkah
Happy Hanukkah to all our families celebrating over the next 8 days. We hope you have a lovely time.

Winter Fayre
A huge thanks and well done to everyone who played their part in last night’s fantastic School and Nursery Fundraising Fayre. A very special mention to our fantastic PTA for their amazing help with planning and organising the event. A special mention to Mr Bryce, Miss Haughey and Mrs Gilchrist for all of their hard work with the admin and organisation beforehand. It was wonderful to see so many cheery, happy faces having such a fun festive evening. I have never seen a longer queue for a fayre stall than “Hit the Teacher with a  Snowball” had.  Finally, a huge well done to all the children who had made things, helped by wonderful staff and teachers. We are so proud of them – they were superstars! Continue reading →

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Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Work Home
Your child will bring home pieces of maths and literacy work today to share with you over the weekend. We hope you enjoy looking over the work with your child and discussing their learning. Please could we ask that jotters are sent back into school on Monday 4^th December. Thank you. Continue reading →

Hello everyone,

Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up.  This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.

Children in Need
We all had a fantastic time last Friday for Children in Need. All of the children looked amazing in their spotty uniforms and had great fun creating spotty artwork, completing the Bearpees challenge and learning about Children in Need. Check out all the posts on X to see examples of the amazing activities that took place in the school and nursery. Thanks to the hard work of the House Captains and your amazing generosity we raised £1,011.45 for Children in Need. Continue reading →

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Children in Need
A huge thank you for all your generous donations for Children in Need.  So far the school and nursery have raised £669.76 for Children in Need. If you would still like to make a donation, Parent Pay will be available over the weekend until Monday morning and we will confirm the total amount raised in next Friday’s newsletter.

We also took part in lots of fun experiences for Children in Need, organised by our Primary 7 House Captains. This included decorating our doors, wearing something spotty and doing some spotty artwork! We are very grateful for all of the donations we receive for this great cause.

St Andrew’s Day – Thurs 30^th November
To mark St Andrew’s Day the children will be participating in a variety of activities. On Thurs 30^th November children should come to school in their uniform as normal, if they would like to, they can add something tartan to it – scarf, tie, skirt, kilt etc.

Chatter Cafe
Due to unavoidable circumstances the Chatter Café on 22^nd Nov has had to be cancelled but we will look forward to the next one on 31^st January.

Equality & Diversity Parent/ Carer’s Group
Just a reminder to all our parents and carers that out first meeting will be on Wednesday 29 November, from 2.30pm until 3pm. We are looking for people who have ideas on how we can further enhance our school through a number of lenses: gender, race, culture, ethnicity or neurodiversity so please feel free to come along!

School Menu Change
Please find attached an altered temporary school catering menu which will come into effect from Monday 20th.  The temporary menu for Netherlee will be in place on a Wednesday only with the previously published menu being in effect on all other days.  This adapted menu will be in place until further notice.

Party Dates
To celebrate the end of Term 2, all our classes will have a little party during the school day. On your child’s party day, your child can ‘dress as they please’ (no football colours please) and also bring a small snack with them if they would like to- entirely optional. Please see all of the party dates below.

Primary 1 – Thursday 21^st December
Primary 2 – Tuesday 19^th December
Primary 3 – Wednesday 20^th December
Primary 4 – Wednesday 20^th December
Primary 5 – Thursday 21^st December
Primary 6 – Friday 22^nd December
Primary 7 – Friday 22^nd December

Early Finish on Friday 22^nd December
School will close slightly earlier than usual on this day. P1 and P2 will finish at 2.25pm and P3-7 will finish at 2.30pm.

Parent Teacher Association (PTA) – Coming Together for Our School
We are getting ready for our Winter Fayre that will take place on Thursday, 7 December 2023. Please note the Change of Date for the Tombola collection and ‘Dress As You Like Day’. It is now on Monday, 4 December. Donations can be handed to volunteers in the morning at drop off. We would also appreciate non-alcoholic donations. We appreciate your support in making our Winter Fayre a fantastic event.

Have a wonderful weekend,

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Winter Fayre Survey
The P6/7 Creative Group are hosting a stall at the Winter Fayre and would like to carry out some market research before starting to make our products. We are planning to make three items: slime, tree decorations and home baking.  We would like to find out if you would be willing to purchase these items and if so, how much you would be willing to spend on these. All responses are anonymous and we would ask that your response is posted by Friday 17^th November using the link following link: https://forms.gle/3AHx9WB44WUEJrG16.  If you have any further questions, please email Mrs Linn at school mail SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk. Thank you for your time.  P6/7 Creative Group

Please also see attached flyer from the PTA regarding the upcoming Fayre [removed as event has happened].

Celebrating Diwali
We hope all our families who celebrate Diwali have a lovely time celebrating this weekend. As you know, we are always looking for our Netherlee Community to share their beliefs, traditions and expertise with our children and we are very lucky that Mrs Kaur, one of our nursery Child Development Officers, is going to speak to everyone in the school and nursery about this important religious festival. Mrs Kaur has also very kindly said she will bring in a selection of delicious treats called Gulabjaman, Jalabi and Barfi to share with the children as part of the traditions if they wish to try these in school and nursery. The ingredients of these are:

• Semolina
• Butter
• Plain flour
• Sugar syrup
• Milk powder
• Food colouring

We have a note of your child’s dietary requirements however, if these have changed, please email SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk or NurseryMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk and we can update our records. Similarly, if you would prefer your child did not try the traditional treats or if you have any further questions, please contact Mrs Linn.

Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee
We would like to continue to invite you to share information about a recent wider achievement that your child has done by completing the Wider Achievements form below. We are always looking for ways to recognise and celebrate our children’s wider achievements out with Netherlee. As detailed in our Promoting Positive Behaviour Policy, during stage assemblies each month, certificates are awarded to pupils who have really tried to uphold the Netherlee Values, for Effort and Progress and for Achievements within and out with school. For example, many of our children take part in extracurricular clubs and competitions, charity work or simply have learnt a new life skill. We will check this form regularly so that we can celebrate as many children’s achievements as possible.
Wider Achievement Form

Parent Council Meeting
We are really looking forward to our next Parent Council Meeting which will take place on Wednesday, 22^nd November at 7pm in our school Hub. This is a great opportunity to meet other parents and carers and to also hear about and be involved in the life and work of our Netherlee school and nursery community. The agenda for the meeting is below:

• Minutes of previous meeting and taking of next meeting
• Head Teacher and Staff Team Update
• Communication – Consultation
• PTA update – Christmas Fayre
• SNIP Priority – Nurture and the Lighthouse
• Membership update
• School Report update
• AOB: RSHP & periods, ERC Citizen Panel, Connect update, Comms Newsletter support, parking details reminder.

We look forward to welcoming new and familiar faces along to the meeting at 7-8.30pm for a cuppa, biccy and chat!

Have a wonderful weekend,