Hello everyone
This week we welcomed several new children and families into Netherlee Nursery. The new children have settled in well and are being looked after very closely by our wonderful staff team. Our nursery website has lots of useful links and information about our Nursery https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/nursery/about-our-nursery/. Please check it out if you have not already done so! I know that our existing parents will also look out for any new faces and help where they can too. Thank you for helping us to make Netherlee Nursery such a lovely, warm and welcoming community.
Netherlee’s 90th Birthday
We are all very excited to be celebrating the school’s 90th Birthday on Mon 6th February. The day will begin with a whole school assembly. After that, classes will be preparing for parties that will be held on Thurs 9th Feb. The PTA has generously provided lovely arts and crafts resources to make party hats and bunting. Each class will hold a talent show to celebrate the wonderful talents that the school has nurtured over its’ lifetime. Classes will also find out about the changes to the school and local area over the last 90 years. Our wonderful catering team have arranged a special birthday lunch of mince and tatties (vegetarian mince will be available too) and cake and custard. In addition, Mark Gibson has very kindly offered to take a special commemorative photograph. Weather permitting, all staff and pupils will go out to the playground so we can take a special aerial photograph.
Don’t forget the podcast, 90 Years of Netherlee that our tech team are producing to mark the birthday. The latest episode is out now featuring an interview with Mrs French, our longest serving member of staff. https://anchor.fm/netherlee-primary. We would love to hear from former pupils or staff so if someone you know went to the school or worked here please get in touch and let us know.
Family Focused at Netherlee School and Nursery: Going for Gold
At Netherlee, we prioritise working effectively with our families to ensure high quality learning experiences for our children. We make sure that all families feel very welcome and are involved in the life of the school and nursery.
To support early year’s establishments, East Renfrewshire Council introduced a self-evaluation framework explaining suggestions of good practice, particularly with regards to working with parents.
We have previously gained our Bronze Family Friendly award and our Silver Family Centred Certificate, both of which are displayed in our Saplings building. Over the next few months, staff will be working very hard, alongside parents, to gain our Gold Family Focused Award.
If you would like to be part of helping us achieve this or would like some more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch schoolmail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk.
Keep an eye out in our Friday Bundle for more information and updates in the coming weeks!
Upcoming Parent Council Meeting
Please see message below from our Parent Council:
The next Parent Council meeting will take place in person in the school Hub at 7pm on Wednesday 15th February 7pm. All parents and carers from the nursery and school are welcome and we hope to see as many of you there as possible. As always there will be the opportunity to have open discussions on a range of topics with other parents and members of the school leadership team. If you have any matters you would specifically like to be discussed please contact us at: netherleeparentcouncil@gmail.com.
Stay and Play: Week beginning 30th January-3rd February
We are very excited to welcome parents and carers to our nursery for our Stay and Play sessions next week! Please let us know if you still require a day/time slot by letting a member of staff know or dropping us an email nurserymail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk. Please be reminded that you can view all of our school and nursery events on our website by clicking here.
Recycled Donations
Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated recycled items to our nursery. This week we would gratefully receive any small world items and junk modelling 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: small toy cars and/or other vehicles, jungle animals and farm animals
- Junk modelling items: such as cardboard boxes e.g. delivery boxes, shoe boxes, cereal boxes, egg boxes cardboard tubes, juice cartons, plastic bottle lids etc.
Learning Links
Please click on the links to see the fantastic learning experiences happening in the Acorns and Saplings next week. This enables you to have fun doing some similar experiences at home if you would like to. The song of the week is ‘Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds’ (Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in French) which can be listened to and enjoyed by logging into your child’s Google Classroom https://sts.platform.rmunify.com/Account/SignIn/glow.
As always, please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions (no matter how big or small) or queries. We are always here to help in any way we can.
Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class
