{"id":1522,"date":"2024-01-15T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T10:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2024-02-02T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:48:04","slug":"nps-friday-newsletter-12-01-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/nps-friday-newsletter-12-01-24\/","title":{"rendered":"NPS Friday Newsletter 12.01.24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family.\u00a0 It has been a delight to welcome all the staff and children back to school. As we begin a new year, we are excited to see your children continue to be happy, settled and make good progress here at Netherlee Primary. Here\u2019s to another year of fun and fantastic learning!<\/p>\n

Upcoming Events
\n<\/strong>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. \u00a0This link will take you straight there https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diversity Month
\n<\/strong>Building on the success of last year\u2019s Diversity events, all children in our school and nursery will be participating in Diversity Month during the month of February. We were incredibly lucky last year that lots of our parents and carers came in to share their cultural background with cooking, music, languages, dance and so much more and we would love to welcome even more of you again this year.<\/p>\n

We have been looking at all themes of diversity during our Pupil Parliament time: race, gender, socio-economic, neuro, ethnicity and religion and wish to develop our Diversity Month even further to include more of these throughout the month.<\/p>\n

If you feel this is something you would be able to help with, please contact Mrs Linn through school mail: SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk<\/a> . You are welcome to speak to individual classes or whole stages about your experiences and\/or lead active sessions, with the support of school staff and we can work around a time that suits you best.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>We would like to continue to invite you to share information about a recent wider achievement that your child has done by completing the Wider Achievements form below. We are always looking for ways to recognise and celebrate our children\u2019s wider achievements out with Netherlee. As detailed in our Promoting Positive Behaviour Policy, during stage assemblies each month, certificates are awarded to pupils who have really tried to uphold the Netherlee Values, for Effort and Progress and for Achievements within and out with school. For example, many of our children take part in extracurricular clubs and competitions, charity work or simply have learnt a new life skill. We will check this form regularly so that we can celebrate as many children\u2019s achievements as possible.
\nWider Achievement Form<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

Community Events \u2013 Active Schools \u2013 Karate
\n<\/strong>Over the years, in partnership with East Renfrewshire Active Schools, Japan Karate have developed and grown a Karate club based at Eastwood High School. Your child has the opportunity to attend a 3 week Introduction to Karate block at the club at Eastwood High School.<\/strong> Full details of the club are in the attached letter.<\/p>\n

East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure
\n<\/strong>Participating in sport can have many positive impacts on children’s lives including developing life skills such as respect, responsibility, confidence, compassion and friendship- all in an active environment. East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure run over 100 sports classes for children each week from Indoor Athletics Classes, Badminton, Football, Tennis and so much more! You can search and learn about all their sports classes here: https:\/\/www.ercultureandleisure.org\/sports-arts\/sports\/kids-sport-classes\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Primary 1: Health and Weight Screening Programme
\n<\/strong>Please check your child\u2019s bag for an NHS Letter regarding the P1 Health and Weight screening programme. These letters must be returned to the school office by Friday 26th<\/sup> January.<\/p>\n

Primary 4c Staffing Update
\nWe are delighted to share the news that Mrs Suzanne McGeachy will be returning from her maternity leave on Wednesday 17th<\/sup> January. Mrs McGeachy will work every Thursday, Friday and alternate Wednesdays. Your child will continue to be taught by Miss MacInnes on alternate Wednesdays, Mondays and Tuesdays. We are very much looking forward to welcoming Mrs McGeachy back into school and know she is excited about her return and working with your children.
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\nPrimary 5: Diversity Topic
\n<\/strong>As part of their Diversity topic Primary 5 will be exploring African style musical instruments. They will have the opportunity to make one and it would be really helpful if the children could bring in any of the following items to help with this:<\/p>\n