Hello everyone
Thanks to everyone who joined us at our Meet the Teacher Evening last night. It was so nice to see such a large turnout of parents popping in to put a face to a name and say hello to their child’s new teacher. Mrs Sweeney, Mrs Roberts and myself also thoroughly enjoyed chatting to many of you as you arrived and left the school too. Please remember that we, all school staff, are here at any time, you don’t need to wait for scheduled meetings to talk to us about any worries or concerns you have or if you are looking for some help with something. Please just get in touch with us at any time and we will do our very best to help.
Playgrounds Safety Before School
We are delighted that the children are settling back into school life and are coming into school calmly from 8.50am. We know you will appreciate that pick up and drop off times are busy and we would like to send out a reminder that all P2-7 children should be dropped at their school gates by their accompanying adult/s so that they can make their own way to their designated entry door. Parents and carers from P2-7 should not enter the playgrounds at drop off please. P1 parents and carers only can accompany their child to the P1 playground from 8.50am. As always, staff are placed at various gates and points to help children get to class safely. Also, please remember that the playgrounds should be not be used as a thoroughfare at any point during the school day from 8.50am. Access to the front of the school and the nursery buildings, from our Clarkston Road gate, should be made via Linnpark Avenue or Netherlee Court. We appreciate your support with this safety matter. Thank you. Mrs Sweeney (DHT)
Cultural Diet Form
To ensure that we have accurate and up to date records for all of our children, we are asking all parents, for whom this is appropriate, to complete the attached ERC Cultural Diet Meal Request Form, for your child. You can also find a copy of this form on our website at any time.
Cultural Diets Meal Request Form (website copy)
Maths Week Scotland
We are delighted to share with you that our school and nursery will once again be taking part in Maths Week Scotland from 26th September – 29th September. This year the focus is ‘Maths in Motion’. Our Maths Champions, Child Development Officers (CDOs) and class teachers are busy planning and organising a variety of exciting, engaging and fun activities to enthuse our children in all things maths, but we would really like to involve our Netherlee parents and carers and we need your help please.
We would like to invite volunteer parents, carers and relatives to speak with the children about how maths ‘makes the world go round’ and is crucial and relevant to all of our day-to-day lives and work. As always, we want to continue to promote a positive attitude towards Maths across our nursery and school.
If you feel that you could share how your life involves maths, we would very much appreciate you coming into school and /or nursery to share your expertise, experience and knowledge. As the theme is ‘maths in motion’ your knowledge could be about maths through travel, sports, space, film, technology, time, financial education, decision making, problem solving, budgeting, planning or timetabling… anything at all! Our children really enjoy seeing ‘real life adults’ out with our school and nursery staff, they gain so much from these experiences and are always very keen to ask lots of questions!
If you would like to talk to us about how you could help us during Maths Week, please simply contact us via email at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk by Wednesday 20th September. If you are unable to visit us in person but are keen to share your knowledge and experiences, we would be delighted to arrange for you to speak virtually to the children over Google Meet or to even send us any material that you feel we could share with them. Thank you very much for helping us and for volunteering in this way, if you can. Lynn Sweeney (DHT)
Netherlee Budding Minds Seed Library
Netherlee Budding Minds over the course of the year has worked hard to engage with the whole school and nursery community to build confidence and excite all about gardening. To help us to achieve our RHS Level 5 Gardening Schools award, some of our children who have attended previous gardening clubs and our parent volunteer Helen, have made our first Seed Library. This will give the school and community access to a wide range of seed and also encourage us to collect and save our seed. The Library is also a point to access gardening books which can be taken out on loan to help build knowledge and learn new things. The Library will be positioned at the main reception area for our whole school and nursery community to use. If you have spare seed packets at home or if you have collected your own seed, please feel free to share them with us to include in our seed library. Please read the information flyer attached for the seed categories. We are an EcoSchools Flag school and nursery so we hope that this will help to reduce, reuse and recycle seeds and increase the biodiversity growing in our school and community gardens. Many thanks for your continued support.
Parent Council Meeting Highlights
Thank you to the Parent Council for producing the latest PC Meeting Highlights Newsletter. The first meeting was very productive and you can find the highlights can here: Meeting Highlights
A Note from the Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
*Coming Together For Our School*
The PTA is getting ready for 2023/24. Start getting your pumpkins carved and ready for our Pumpkin Trail in October and we are looking forward to another smashing winter fair. We will keep you updated and the school calendar at will be updated with further events and activities.
*Offer a smile and lend a hand*
If you can pack a uniform, sort tombola, pour a cup of coffee, hand out sweetie bags, stuff a sausage in a roll, be a Santa or do any such tasks, there is a place for you. None of this will be possible without the invaluable support from our parents and carers. A special shout out to all our new parents and carers, and any grandparents who said they want to get involved. Email netherleepta@gmail.com with your contact details and let us know that you are here to help.
*Badged Uniform Sale*
We are pleased to let you know that our September uniform sale is now live until Monday, 25th September 2023. Please click https://www.pta-events.co.uk/netherleepta/ to place your order. The uniform samples will be available to view in the main entrance to the school from Friday, 8th September until Thursday, 22nd September. We recommend that you do try on items for size as we do not keep a stock and cannot exchange items. Netherlee PTA always strives to offer the best value and quality for our parents/carers, and we work closely with the school to ensure consistency. For that reason we would encourage you to purchase the school hoodie via the PTA. We appreciate your continued support in this.
We hope stock will be delivered the week of 9 October. If you are able to help with the packing of the uniforms then email us at netherleepta@gmail.com
Further uniform sales planned for the year are:
* 12 – 26 January 2024
* 06 – 24 May 2024
* 27 May – 26 June 2024 (tentative date)
Community Events: Libraries
East Renfrewshire libraries have a fantastic range of free events and activities throughout the month of September. Pease visit the website: East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure
Primary 1 Meet the Teacher and Information Session for Parents
Please see attached letter regarding P1 Meet the Teacher and Information Session on Thursday 28th September.
p1 info session letter 2023
Primary 4 and 5: After School Club
An after school P4-5 Gymnastics Club will be starting on a Wednesday from 3.30-4.30pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P4-5 Gymnastics Club (Williamwood High School)
Day and Time: Wednesday 3.30 – 4.30pm.
Dates: 04/10, 11/10,08/11 & 29/11
Venue: Williamwood High School (children must make their own way to and from the club)
Delivered by: Miss F Glen
No. of pupils: 10
Cost: Free
If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/ng4xMAEyJV
Have a lovely weekend.
Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class
