Hello everyone
Early Collection from School
We understand that on very rare occasions children require to be collected early from school for example for hospital and other medical/ health appointments. However, unfortunately we have seen a huge increase in the number of requests from parents to collect children early from school with, over the last month, nearly 60 children having left early to go on holiday or to go shopping or to miss the rush hour traffic etc. All early collections require staff to collect children from class, disruption to the class as the teacher has to stop lessons in order to get the child to leave and clerical staff time away from their very busy office duties. We are now in the situation where the volume of these kinds of requests has, I’m afraid, become unmanageable for us and we will therefore no longer be able to accommodate these. If you do require to collect your child early from school on any given day, we will of course still accommodate essential medical appointments only however for all other appointments these can only be facilitated at the start of lunchtime (12:35pm) from next week. However, I do require to stress that any early collection should be avoided whenever possible. I do hope you will appreciate this message in the way that it is intended and thank you very much for your understanding and support with this.
Family Focused: Gold Award Accreditation
We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have received our Family Focused Gold Award for both nursery and school. This award recognises our good practice, particularly with regards to supporting and working with our families. We could not be more proud of this huge achievement and would like to thank-you for your support in helping us to succeed.
Change of Menu: 15th June
Please find attached our planned menu change for next Thursday 15th June. The allergy information is included to enable your child to select a suitable option. However, if you require further allergy or dietary information, please contact our catering team via the school office.
BBQ Schools Menu
Community News – Libraries
Please see the link below with upcoming free activities in the libraries throughout the month of June: Library Activities.
Primary 3
To celebrate the end of term and reward all the children’s hard work and effort, the primary 3 classes are going to have a picnic party on Monday 19th June in the afternoon.
The children will be making a sandwich in class with a choice of fillings. The ingredients we will use are:
Bread
Butter or non-dairy spread
Cheese
Cooked chicken
Lettuce
Tomato
On the afternoon of Tuesday 20th June, children will have an ice lolly as a special treat and thank you from their teacher.
We have taken note of any allergy information we have on record for your child however, please do get in touch if this information needs updated. Similarly, if you would prefer your child did not enjoy the food available, please let us know at SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.
We hope your child has enjoyed their year with us in primary 3 and enjoys both of their picnic parties!
Thanks for your continued support
Primary 3 teachers
Primary 4c’s Mini Enterprise Project Sale
Primary 4c have been working hard this term to create their own business to encourage others to grow fresh fruit and vegetables and to use reusable bags. On Friday 16th June at 3.15pm at the Saplings school gates, some of the children will be selling sunflower kits, radishes, mint and tote bags. The children have decided that any donations received are to go towards our school gardens. We are looking forward to seeing you and we greatly appreciate any support.
If your child would like to be a part of the sales team with Miss Burns at our Primary 4c Mini Enterprise Project sale table on Friday 16th June at 3.15pm for about 10 minutes at the Saplings school gate. Please get in touch via the school office if you would not like your child to take part. Many thanks for your support.
Primary 5: Titanic Cabins
Please find attached a letter regarding our P5 children having the opportunity to create a cabin in a shoe box.
Titanic Cabins
Primary 7 – Parent Pay Account
As your child is soon to leave Netherlee, we would like to ask you to please log into your child’s ParentPay School Meal account and check that it is up to date.
We would appreciate for any balances owed to be paid by 22nd June 2023. Could we also please remind you to ensure that there are sufficient funds in accounts for the final week if your child is going to purchase a school lunch.
P7 children should use up any outstanding balances in their accounts before the end of term or you can give consent for these to be transferred to a sibling by Friday 16th June.
We will issue a letter on Thursday 22nd June giving details of money owing with a bar code at the bottom. This means that you will be able to make payments (including those under £5.00) at any establishment showing the PayPoint sign. You will no longer be able to access your child’s account for Netherlee online after the end of term.
As always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch confidentially if you would like to discuss your child’s ParentPay account and we will always try to help.
Yvonne Donaldson
Head Teacher
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class
