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.
Reporting your Child’s Absence- Before 9am please
This is a gentle reminder that if your child is going to be absent from school or nursery, please contact the office by phone on 0141 570 7260 or by email before 9am please, including a brief reason for your child’s absence eg sick overnight, temperature, sore throat etc. This information helps us monitor patterns of illness within the school and nursery and allows us to be alert to any potential infectious conditions such as chickenpox. Your support helps us keep our school and nursery community healthy and ensures we can account for all children safely and quickly each day.
Feedback Friday
Just a reminder that on Friday, it is Feedback Friday. All home learning jotters/project work should be brought into school with your child on or before that day.
Open Classrooms
We are very much looking forward to opening our doors and welcoming parents/carers into school on Friday 7th March for Open Classrooms. We invite P1-4 parents between 9.30am and 10.00am and ask that you enter via the Clarkston Road Gate. P5-7 parents, we look forward to welcoming you between 11.15am and 11.45am and we ask you to enter and exit via the main front door at reception. We look forward to seeing you then if you are able to join us.
Jotters Home
We hope that you enjoy looking at your child’s literacy jotter and discussing their progress with them. Please remember to pop it back in their schoolbag as they will need it on Monday in school. Thank you.
World Book Day – Thursday 5th March
We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5th March across the school and nursery. The aim of the day is to have fun whilst reading and so on the day we are inviting children to dress up as a character from a book (no masks please). As a proud Eco Green Flag school and nursery, we kindly ask our families to have fun and be creating by create their costumes or props using items already at home, recycling materials or by adapting everyday clothing. For example, costumes can be a simple dress using clothes from home or made from recycled or reused materials (cardboard, paper, fabric). Some children may prefer to simply wear their school uniform or normal nursery clothes and just bring in an interesting prop from a favourite book instead. We can’t wait to see what the children come up with. Thank you for supporting this and for helping us make World Book Day both fun and environmentally friendly too. On the day each child will also receive a £1 World Book Day book token which can be used at participating bookshops and supermarkets. We are looking forward to having lots of fun whilst celebrating reading for pleasure on this day.
Welly Donations to help us Improve our outdoor Learning Experiences
As the weather begins to (hopefully) improve and we look ahead to the months beyond winter, you may find that your child has outgrown their “wellies” over the past year. If this is the case, or if you have any spare wellies at home (any sizes) that are no longer needed, we would be very grateful to receive them as donations. We are aiming to maintain a supply of wellies in school to support pupils when learning outdoors. Donated wellies will be stored in our outdoors secure containers and will be available for children to wear when learning outside if needed. This helps to ensure that all children are able to participate fully in outdoor learning activities and remain comfortable and dry in all weathers. Any donations, in clean and usable condition, would be greatly appreciated. Please hand them in at the school office from Monday next week. Thank you so much.
Menu Change: Thursday 26th February
Please find attached our planned menu change for next Thursday 26th February. 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 your catering team via the school office. If you have completed a lifestyle meal request form a suitable alternative will be provided.
Celebrating Children’s Achievements
We always enjoy celebrating our children’s achievements, both in and out of school however, this session, we are making some changes to this process after speaking to groups of children and getting feedback from them.
Any out of school and any in-school achievements will now be displayed proudly on our lovely new House display boards. Please drop by to have a look any time you are in school, these are located in the link corridor leading off the atrium. These achievements can be big or small as we recognise that even what may appear as a small achievement to one person can be a huge success to another e.g. Learning to ride a bike or gaining a badge at swimming. In order to submit the information about your child’s out of school achievements, please complete the Google Form using the link below. Please note the link will feature each week in our Friday newsletter and you are welcome to send in achievements at any time.
Achievements Outside of School Google Form
No photographs are required. We will display your child’s name, details of their achievement and their house colour on the House Boards which we hope to fill with lots of wonderful achievements as we know so many of our children do fabulous things out with school. As always, we would be very grateful for any feedback from parents/ carers in relation to this.
Community Event: National Gaelic Week Celebrations
We are pleased to share details of a Gaelic Café taking place this Saturday, 28th, at Thornliebank Primary, home of our Gaelic Medium Provision in East Renfrewshire. Families are warmly invited to drop in, enjoy a cuppa and some home baking, and learn a few Gaelic words and phrases in a relaxed and friendly setting. There will also be activities available for children throughout the morning, making it a lovely opportunity for everyone to get involved.
Community Event: Parental Hub
The Parental Employment Support team will be at Cart Mill Family Centre on 25th February from 9am-1pm. The team will be on hand to support with all aspects of finding work, upskilling, accessing training and finding roles that work with the school day.
The team will also be there to support with applications for School Age Payment Grant. This is a grant worth £319.80 for each child to help with the cost of preparing for school. The payment helps carers and families facing additional costs at a key stage in a child’s development. The money can be spent on anything a child needs for school, including clothes, school trips, and stationery.
Part of the Best Start Grant package, which is unique to Scotland, School Age Payment is available for children born between 1 March 2020 and 28 February 2021. Parents and carers can receive the payment for multiple children born during this time and there is no requirement to take up a place at school. The closing date for this application is 28th February 2026 – please drop into the Hub and the Parental Employment Support team can help you with the applications and also ensure you are receiving the benefits you are entitled too.
The team can also give you information on supports for Lone parents, along with access to upcoming training. Please drop into Cart Mill on 25th February if you wish to have a chat with the team.
Due to previous busy Hubs, if you wish to speak to an adviser- we ask that you allow enough time and would consider arriving no later than 12.30.
P2c Junk Modelling Materials
As part of our upcoming learning activities, we will be creating cavemen habitats in class on Monday, 23rd February. To support this, we would be very grateful for any junk modelling materials you may have at home. We are particularly looking for cardboard and plastic items of any kind—boxes, tubes, trays, clean containers, or anything similar that could help the children build their models. Thank you in advance for your support and contributions.
P7 Fundraising Fun Run Reminder
To help raise funds for our upcoming production of The Lion King, Primary 7 pupils will be taking part in a sponsored fun run on Friday 27th February.
The children will run for 20 minutes around the pitch and playground, challenging themselves to complete as many laps of the course as possible. Sponsorship forms have already been given out and should be in your child’s bag. We would greatly appreciate your support in helping them raise money to contribute towards props, costumes and other production costs.
Please return all completed sponsorship forms by Monday 2nd March. Cash donations can be sent in an envelope to the class teacher, clearly labelled with your child’s name and the total amount enclosed. Alternatively, donations can be made via for those who wish to donate digitally.
As always, we are always here to help in any way we can, whether that be about your own child or a more general matter in relation to the school or nursery. We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time.
Have a wonderful weekend.
