Hello everyone
We want to say a huge congratulations to two of our Netherlee staff team, who are graduating from the University of Strathclyde next week. Well done to Miss Dorran for earning her BA in Childhood Practice and Mr Strang-Roy for achieving his Master’s in Education. Your dedication and hard work has certainly paid off- we are very proud of you both!
Volunteers – We Need You
We are always looking for new ways to involve our parents, carers and families in our school and nursery events. To support us with gathering a list of regular volunteers we would like to share this new volunteers Microsoft Form with you. Some of our regular opportunities involve local walks, serving teas and coffees, parental speakers to visit classes, helping to keep our outdoor spaces and gardens tidy and helping in our new school library. If you would be happy to volunteer at one of our upcoming or regular events then please complete the form below and we will be in touch with you. There will always be a member of staff present with you and the children. There will also be QR codes located at the school office and near to our school gates where you can access the form too. Alternatively, our volunteers form can be found on our school and nursery website. Thank you so much for your continued support. We really appreciate it!
Netherlee Library – parents, carers, grandparents and family members get involved!
We opened our Netherlee Library at the start of term to support our children’s love for learning and reading for pleasure. Our library is home to a range of fiction books across all age ranges which our children can borrow on a weekly basis. The children have a reading log to keep a record of their personal reading books. There are also a variety of nonfiction books, a listening corner with audio books, an area with a selection of dyslexia friendly texts and a range of new diversity themed stories. All of these ideas were suggested to us by our children so we have really try hard to action their feedback! We have a fantastic group of P7 Librarians who meet every Wednesday to help to run our library and lead reading activities.
We are really excited to welcome our families and wider school community in to enjoy our library. Over the year we have a range of Literacy events which we would love for you to get involved with such as reading a story during Book Week Scotland. In addition to this, we would love to invite any ‘Library helpers’ from our school community to help throughout the year to organise and enhance our library. If you would like to volunteer to help in our library or join in with one of our Book Week Scotland events, please complete the volunteers Microsoft Form and we will be in touch with you.
School Flu Immunisation
The School Nurses team will be in school on Tuesday 7th November to immunise the children.
Change of Menu: Tuesday 31st October
On Tuesday there is a change to the menu for Halloween. The items on offer will be:
Roasted Pumpkin Soup
Mild Chilli with Pitta Fingers and Sweetcorn or Melted Cheese Croissant with a Red Cabbage Slaw
Sandwiches/Baguettes and Baked Potato also available
Ice Cream and Strawberry Sauce for dessert.
Book Week Scotland
Please find an information letter attached about Book Week Scotland.
Book Sale Letter
Remembrance Day
From 30th October until 10th November, during Remembrance month, poppies will be available in school throughout the normal tuck time to allow any children who would like to make a donation for a poppy to do so at this time.
For our nursery children, poppy’s will be available at each nursery building door and parents can again make a donation at drop off or pick up times. All money raised will go to Poppy Scotland and is very much appreciated.
Primary 1: Recycled Donations
We are always on the lookout for opportunities to make use of any old items that may otherwise be thrown away. These are items which we can use to support and enhance the children’s play and learning experiences in the Open Area. We would therefore kindly ask for any of the following items if you have them and are just about to dispose of them. Donations can be placed in the large red donations box at our main entrance or given in a plastic bag to the class teacher. Thank you for your continued support.
- Large, old shirts (to be used for art overalls)
- Coat hangers
Primary 3b: Halloween Apples
On Tuesday 31st October, P3B are going to be making some healthy Halloween apples. The following ingredients will be used to make this:
Apples
Low sugar chocolate
Chocolate: https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-30percent-less-sugar-chocolate-bar-85g/
Please advise if there are any changes to the allergy information we hold for your child or if you wish your child not to eat the apples. We will eat them in class but please bring a container for any child who wishes to bring theirs home instead. Many thanks for your support.
Primary 7: Bikeability
An email was sent to all P7 parents regarding the upcoming Bikeability Training in March.
Primary 7: Remembrance Assembly
We would like to invite you along to our short (approx. 30minutes) Remembrance Assembly on Friday the 9th of November to pay respect to the Armed Forces through art, poetry and music. If you are able to join us, doors will open at 9:15am for a 9:30am start. If you are able to join us, we look forward to welcoming you to Netherlee then.
Primary 7: Halloween Hub
As part of our spooky Halloween Hub morning on Tuesday 31st October, children will have the opportunity to pop and top their own sweet or savoury popcorn. The ingredients are listed below. If you would not like your child to participate or eat the popcorn, please let us know via the School email address.
Ingredients:
Popcorn Kernels
Vegetable Oil
Zero-calorie sweetener
Cinnamon
Small pinch of salt
Paprika
Parent Teacher Association (PTA) – Coming Together for Our School
Autumn Event – Pumpkin Trail
We hope to see many of you at our Autumn Fundraising Event tonight, between 6pm – 8pm!
You can come to just admire our creations, but it would be wonderful if you bring your carved pumpkin 🎃 and enter it for free into the trail and receive a free LED candle to light up your creation! The P7’s will be selecting their favourites for various categories across the year groups, with some small prizes for our ‘P7 picks’. All our pumpkin creations will feature on our social media pages.
You can take your pumpkin home after the event along with the candle!
All our events are free and there are lots of free activities for the children – young and old.
- We look forward to welcoming our Animal Man’s Creepy Corner with creatures to see and touch!
- Some beef and vegan sausages will be on sale as will soft drinks, beer and wine
- There will be LED items on sale to light up these dark nights along with a pumpkin 🎃 trick or treat style tombola. (All paid activities and refreshments will cost between 50p to a maximum of £3). As always there will be free tea, coffee and biscuits
- Colour in your world with our wonderfully talented face painters. You may know some of them.
We could only take cash at the last few events but we now have our card reader working for you to buy tokens to use in the evening.
We do hope you can join the fun!
Our fundraising target for this event is to raise £1,000. This will help fill our brand new shed in the P6/7 playground. Please read our attached leaflet for more information and if you want to support this event, please click on the link: https://localgiving.org/charity/netherlee-primary-pta/. No matter how big or small, every penny is appreciated and all money raised will go towards our school.
Last year we used funds to get new playground markings, (which you can view whilst visiting the pumpkin trail in the main playground), support end of year events along with covering subscription fees for items like Lingascope and SumDog.
This year we aim to support similar funding needs and your support helps us deliver these for our children, and by doing so maybe just adds a little fun! Thanks for your support and hope you can come along and enjoy the event!
GHA Rugby Club fireworks display
The Council has confirmed that after discussions with a number of partners, including Police Scotland, over public safety, there will be no access to Muirend pavilion playing fields during GHA Rugby Club’s fireworks display on November 5. Temporary fencing will be put up at the pavilion car park, which will be closed, and at the pedestrian access at Whitton Drive. Full information about this can be found on the Council’s website.
Have a lovely weekend.
