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.
Children in Need
We all had a fantastic time last Friday for Children in Need. All of the children looked amazing in their spotty uniforms and had great fun creating spotty artwork, completing the Bearpees challenge and learning about Children in Need. Check out all the posts on X to see examples of the amazing activities that took place in the school and nursery. Thanks to the hard work of the House Captains and your amazing generosity we raised £1,011.45 for Children in Need.
Book Week Scotland Highlights
Book Week Scotland at Netherlee Primary and Nursery was a huge success! Our P7 Librarians were blown away with the creativity shown by our children’s Story Jars. It was very difficult for them to choose a winner for each stage! All of our children had the opportunity to listen to a range of storytellers across the week such as their teachers, play workers, authors, writers or librarians. It was wonderful to hear that some of our children have been inspired by their Book Week visitors with their own literacy endeavours. Thank you again to all of our visitors. Our nursery class thoroughly enjoyed learning new nursery rhymes across the week and our P1, P2 and P3 classes received their Bookbug bags and Read, Write and Count bags as well. At our Scholastic Book Sale we raised over £2700 which we will soon be able to use to buy a variety of texts for our school and nursery through Scholastic Rewards. Thank you very much if you were able to contribute to this. We hope to use our new school library to further promote a love of books and increase children’s motivation for reading for pleasure. Thank you again to all of our families who supported across the week.
Reading at Home
Reading for pleasure and enjoyment at home with children of all ages is really important to foster a love for reading and develop literacy skills. We have attached an ERC guidance sheet and video link with some tips on how to read together with your child at home. Read to your Child Guidance Sheet Read at Home
Chatter Café
At our next Netherlee Chatter Café on Wednesday 31st January our LT and some of our Literacy Champions will be there to provide any further support and advice with reading at home. Please come along if you are interested, we would love to see you then.
Parent Council
Thank you to the Parent Council for producing the latest Minutes for 30th August which can be found here: Parent Council Page.
PTA Winter Fayre
Please see the flyer regarding the upcoming Winter Fayre as there are a few stalls available for the event.
Community Events: Free Netball Session – ERC Culture and Leisure are offering children, aged 5-11 an opportunity to participate in a free netball taster session, which will be held on Friday 1st December at Williamwood High School. More information can be found by clicking on the link, and typing in ‘Netball Taster Session’ in the search tool. Please get in touch with Mrs Linn at school mail SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk if you require any further information.
Primary 2 Book Advent Calendar
Please find a letter regarding a book calendar for our P2 classes.
Primary 3a: St Andrew’s Day
To celebrate St. Andrew’s Day, P3a will be making shortbread biscuits, on Thursday 30th November, using the following ingredients; plain flour, butter and caster sugar. The children will bring their baking home for parents/carers to admire!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Yvonne Donaldson (HT)
