{"id":2263,"date":"2026-02-20T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:17:10","slug":"school-newsletter-20-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/school-newsletter-20-02-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"School Newsletter 20.02.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Events<br \/>\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/calendar\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporting your Child\u2019s Absence- Before 9am please<br \/>\n<\/strong>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 <strong>before 9am<\/strong> please, including a brief reason for your child\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feedback Friday<br \/>\n<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Classrooms<br \/>\n<\/strong>We are very much looking forward to opening our doors and welcoming parents\/carers into school on Friday 7<sup>th<\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jotters Home<br \/>\n<\/strong>We hope that you enjoy looking at your child\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Book Day \u2013 Thursday 5<sup>th<\/sup> March<br \/>\n<\/strong>We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5<sup>th<\/sup> 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.\u00a0 We can\u2019t wait to see what the children come up with.\u00a0 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 \u00a31 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.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWelly Donations to help us Improve our outdoor Learning Experiences<br \/>\n<\/strong>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 \u201cwellies\u201d 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.\u00a0 Donated wellies will be stored in our outdoors secure containers and will be available for children to wear when learning outside if needed. \u00a0This 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.\u00a0 Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Menu Change: Thursday 26<sup>th<\/sup> February<br \/>\n<\/strong>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.\u00a0 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.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCelebrating Children\u2019s Achievements<br \/>\n<\/strong>We always enjoy celebrating our children\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0In order to submit the information about your child\u2019s <strong>out of school achievements,<\/strong> please complete the Google Form using the link below.\u00a0 <strong>Please note the link will feature each week in our Friday <\/strong>newsletter and you are welcome to send in achievements at any time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/DMAmxTYHS8CCa2tu9\">Achievements Outside of School Google Form<\/a><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>No photographs are required. We will display your child\u2019s 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.\u00a0 As always, we would be very grateful for any feedback from parents\/ carers in relation to this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Event: National Gaelic Week Celebrations<br \/>\n<\/strong>We are pleased to share details of a Gaelic Caf\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Event: Parental Hub<br \/>\n<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<p>The team will also be there to support with applications for School Age Payment\u00a0Grant. This is\u00a0a grant worth \u00a3319.80 for each child to help with the cost of preparing for school.\u00a0 The payment helps carers and families facing additional costs at a key stage in a child\u2019s development. The money can be\u00a0spent on anything a child needs for school, including clothes, school trips, and stationery.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Best Start Grant package, which is unique to Scotland, School Age Payment is available for children born between 1 March 2020\u00a0and 28\u00a0February\u00a02021. 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.\u00a0 The closing date for this application is 28<sup>th<\/sup> February 2026 &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The team can also give you information on supports for Lone parents, along with access to upcoming training.\u00a0 Please drop into Cart Mill on 25<sup>th<\/sup> February if you wish to have a chat with the team.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P2c Junk Modelling Materials<\/strong><br \/>\nAs 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\u2014boxes, tubes, trays, clean containers, or anything similar that could help the children build their models. Thank you in advance for your support and contributions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P7 Fundraising Fun Run Reminder<br \/>\n<\/strong>To help raise funds for our upcoming production of\u00a0<em>The Lion King<\/em>, Primary 7 pupils will be taking part in a sponsored fun run on\u00a0<strong>Friday 27th February<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s bag. We would greatly appreciate your support in helping them raise money to contribute towards props, costumes and other production costs.<\/p>\n<p>Please return all completed sponsorship forms by\u00a0<strong>Monday 2nd March<\/strong>. Cash donations can be sent in an envelope to the class teacher, clearly labelled with your child\u2019s name and the total amount enclosed. Alternatively, donations can be made via for those who wish to donate digitally.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 We are also always looking for suggestions and new ideas so please don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0This link will take you straight there https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/sandnc\/calendar. 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