NETHERLEE PRIMARY SCHOOL and NURSERY CLASS Clarkston Road, Netherlee, East Renfrewshire G44 3SF 0141-570 7260 email: [email protected] Website: www.ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk/netherlee TWITTER: NetherleePSandNC Netherlee Primary School and Nursery Welly Week 26th April – 30th April 2021 We all know that being outdoors, connecting with nature and the natural world is good for us. So…children, staff, parents and carers we need you! Gardening and being outdoors has been a silver lining for many over the past year. ‘Welly Week’ at Netherlee is an opportunity to focus on spending time exploring the outdoors and using nature as inspiration for learning. Across the week, from Monday 26th April until Friday 30th April, children should wear a warm jacket and bring “wellies”, trainers or other outdoor shoes (in a bag) to wear during outdoor learning please. It might be that we wish to learn more about where our vegetables come from and to create beautiful green spaces with plants. Outdoor learning helps us to develop a range of skills whilst focusing on the mental and physical well-being of our pupils and staff. To conclude our ‘Welly Week’ on Friday 30th April, children are welcome to wear their own choice of outdoor clothing and each class will work as a team to plant seeds in a class welly. Our nursery children will do this planting across the week. Recycling old wellies as plant pots is a fantastic way of being environmentally friendly and an opportunity to brighten up our school grounds. Each class and nursery welly will feature in our ‘Keep Scotland Beautiful Pocket Garden’. Please contact Netherlee’s PTA if you have any spare, old wellies lying around at home that you would like to donate! https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/Netherlee/parents/pta/ Please also get in touch if you have any suggestions, resources or expertise to share about outdoor learning. We would love to hear from our school and nursery communities! Thank you for your continued support. Kind Regards, Jilly Bell Principal Teacher Our Netherlee Community Working With and For Our Children .