On Tuesday a fantastic group of children from Primary 4 to Primary 7 represented Barsail at the Renfrewshire Burns Competition.
We had several well deserved winners. Congratulations to them all for great performances 🙂

Well done to our Barsail Star Pupils and Achievers

Secret Room– The Secret Room’s last day will be on Monday.

Left over toys from the Christmas Fayre will also be on sale for a small donation, for example 20p, on Monday.

Continue reading ⭐️Star Pupils ⭐️ November 29th →

Wow what an amazing group of children. Brilliant achievements !!

We celebrated lots of. Well done to the Barsail football team who successfully won against Rashielea 6-0 !!!

Hot chocolate and a chat with the Headteacher 💙 Lovely way to end the week. Barsail children have been going over and above!

Well done Barsail football team great win against St Anne’s Primary on Thursday. The team won 5-0 … great game. 

Barsail is one of Renfrewshire’s Nurture schools and they have gifted us a Nurture bear. The bear in the chair will be visiting the classes over the next few weeks, arriving on the teachers chair, hoping the children will think of a good name for him/her.  

Our Star Pupils have been showing
HEARTS values this week.

Our fantastic Barsail achievers this week.

Jenna, one of our amazing achievers played one of her Grade 1 piano pieces to the P4-7 assembly.

The House Captains and Vice- Captains did an amazing job being tour guides and playing with some nursery children this afternoon. 

The Antonine Roman Guard really brought the topic to life over the past couple of days for P5 , P5/4 and P4. 

A massive well done to P5 for coming in 1st in the Renfrewshire Sumdog Maths Contest.  Of the 144 classes entered  Barsail had 3 in the top ten. P5 were 1st, P4 were 3rd and P5/4 were 7th!!

We also had the highest achieving pupil who scored an amazing 981 correct out of 1000 questions.Five Barsail pupils’ made the top ten out of 2,145 children across Renfrewshire.  What a great achievement!!

Well done to the fantastic achievers this week.

They shared their achievements at assembly this week.

A big thank you to our fantastic House Captains and Vice Captains who showed great leadership and maturity as they supported staff at Parents’ Evening this week. The children received many positive comments from parents’ and staff on their organisational skills and lovely manners.

On Saturday the 9th of November Barsail played in the Glasgow ‘ Dragon’ League Chess tournament.  The boys had 4 match wins and only lost 1. Amazing job boys !!!

Four pupils have already read over a million words so far this session. Congratulations!!

Well done to our fantastic football team who played against Inchinnan on Wednesday and won 7-0.

Congratulations to our fantastic ‘Star Pupils’ this week

Happy holidays to you all.

We would like to say a fond farewell to an amazing Primary 7 year group as they continue on their journey to Park Mains and to Boclair Academy.  An emotional assembly performed by P7 for parents and for P1-6. We have celebrated your successful year as Big Buddies, panto stars, House Captains and Vice Captains, as league winning footballers,  with Burns recital achievements and a medal winning chess player to name a few! You should be very proud of the children you have become. Always remember to Dream Big, Aim High and Achieve More!!

Barsail have a great holiday and we hope that the weather is kind to you. 

Thank you for the support you have shown us throughout the session. 

We look forward to welcoming everyone back for new session on Thursday 15th August at 9.00 a.m.

Barsail Staff 

Applications for free school meals and clothing grants are now open. By applying for either or both provisions now parents can ensure everything is in place ahead of the new school year.

Parents must make sure their application is received by the council no later than Friday 12 July to guarantee payment of clothing grants before the schools go back or to have free school meals from the start of term.

Those parents who have previously applied for free school meals and clothing grants will be sent a letter to their home address. If there has been no change in your family circumstances that affect any benefits you may receive, you can complete and sign the declaration form and return it to the council.

If there has been a change in your family circumstances or if you are applying for the first time, visit www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/freeschoolmealsandclothinggrants to complete an application form. You will also be able to read about eligibility for free school meals and school clothing grants as well as what information you need to include with your form.

1. Paper copies are also available for our school and from the Council’s customer service centres.

Super effort with the First Ministers Challenge this session. Several children were recognised at assembly today for their efforts.

It is lovely to see so many children reading for pleasure😊

Great achievements boys!

Today our Primary 6 pupils who are trained PATH Pals received their certificates at assembly.

This fantastic group of children were successfully interviewed and trained by Mrs Paton, one of our Classroom Assistants and Kristy Fortheringham our PATHS coach.

Well done to all of the children who were given a HEARTS Star Award today at assembly. 

Big  well done to our new Word Millionaires.

Congratulations to Ben, William and Abbie who have now read two, three and four million words this session- an amazing achievement.

Continue reading Burns Federation →

Meet the children who went Over and Above this week and enjoyed hot chocolate with the Head Teacher.

Well done to all the children who competed this weeks reading homework Mrs Cassells Literacy Leaders organised for us.

Three lucky children now have a book voucher to spend. 

Wow what a fantastic day we had for World Book Day. The children has great fun with their reading activities throughout the day.  The character parade was brilliant!! 

Red Nose Day 

We will not officially be participating in Red Nose Day next week as it is not one of our chosen charities for this session. If the children  have a red nose etc, they are welcome to wear them on Friday to show their support of the such a wonderful charity.

Well done to our fantastic Fairtrade Pupil group.  The group presented at assembly last week and did a super job of promoting Fairtrade Fortnight over the last two weeks with Mrs Boyd. 

Renfrewshire Sumdog Contest – 8th to 14th March

Barsail has been entered into the Renfrewshire Sumdog Contest which runs from 8am on Friday 8th March until 8pm on Thursday 14th March

To take part, simply play Sumdog’s maths games. If you do not have your Sumdog Username and Password, please ask your teacher. Scores are based on accuracy, and questions tailored to your level – so everyone has a fair chance.

To make contests fair every pupil is limited to 1000 questions. However, it’s fun to take part even if students only answer a few questions.

The motivation is to climb the leader board and beat all other participating schools within Renfrewshire. You can also win rewards for your Sumdog account.

This year Barsail has signed  up to do the Big Pedal again.

The JRSO pupil group told the children at assembly today. The Big Pedal is from 25th March until the 5th April 2019. Children and staff will be encouraged to cycle or scooter to school from March the 25th.

Thank you

The Barsail JRSO Team

Several of our pupils wore their Rainbows , Brownies,  Guides, Cubs and Beavers  uniforms to school on Friday to mark World Thinking Day. 

Come along, bring your friends and dance the night away at Barsail Parent Council’s Social Night on Friday 8th March, 7-11.30pm at Bargarran Community Centre.

Live Music from Jen & Colin McKeeman  (including live singing and DJ), raffle, games and cheap bar run by the Parent Council. Over 18s only.

The Parent Council can also offer free lifts home after the event!

Tickets £5 each and available to buy from the Parent Council in school foyer this week or email

Barsailpc.communications@gmail.com to ticket arrange collection.

All money raised will go to the school – this is the last fundraiser of the school year, so please support if you can!

Thursday 7^th of March is World Book Day.

The Literacy Leaders Pupil Group would like the children to dress up as their favourite book character. The best-dressed character in each class will get a certificate.

During this week the children will all have special book related homework that the Literacy Leaders group have planned. This homework should be brought into school by Friday the 8^th of March to be entered into a raffle to win a £5 book voucher.

 The whole school will receive a £1 book token from National Book Tokens on World Book Day.

A football team of Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils played against Langbank Primary today.

The team won, with a fantastic score of 8-2.

Sportsafe fixed our broken Trim Trail today. A massive thank you to the Parent Council who are paying for the repair to get completed.

Primary 2 interviewed the Sportsafe workers and asked lots of questions about the repairs. The children were excited to know that when the weather is better the Barsail children will be able to get on the Trim Trail again.

Every year, on the 22nd of February,  the Girl Guides and Scouts celebrate World Thinking Day.  Barsail Primary School are once again delighted to support this. Any pupil who is a member of one of these organisations is welcome to wear their  appropriate uniform on this day

Well done boys!

The Rights Respecting Heroes pupil voice group presented at assembly today.  They gave a fantastic presentation on children’s rights  told through the story of Cinderella.

Fantastic achievement from two Barsail pupils. Mark has become a word millionaire and William has now read  over two millionaire words.

Keep reading Barsail.

Well done Star Pupils for showing our HEARTS values. 

Congratulations to two P6 pupils who are now word Millionaires. 

Some of our children supported Children in Need today, wearing clothes and accessories for fun.

Fantastic effort Primary 6 and Primary 7 Road Race runners. You did Barsail proud today.

Great achievements today at assembly today .

Orla and Mara presented their appeal for Christmas gift donations to the whole school today.

If you wish to donate a gift to Quarriers please bring it into school and pass it on to Mara or Orla.

Congratulations to our  pupils who received  Star Awards .

Super Star Pupils and Achievers!

Barsail are taking part in the Big Pedal and would like to encourage the children to scoot or cycle to school until Thursday the 3rd of May.

The children can bring their scooters or bikes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. They can be chained up on one of the bike racks. There is a bike rack outside the P2 classroom and another two outside the P7 classroom.

P6 have cycling proficiency on a Wednesday so we would not advise the children to bring scooters or bikes on a Wednesday.

The children should wear a helmet and dismount once they have entered the school playground.

Happy cycling and scooting

Congratulations to all the P4 to P7 pupils who took part in the Renfrewshire Burns Competition today.

The children won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for Burns poetry recital and instrumental pieces on the piano and guitar.

We are really proud of all of our Barsail Burns stars who represented the school brilliantly.

The WOW …. Walk on Wednesday theme this month is Wear a Red Accessary to School.

We have worked hard in our Pupil group this morning and have calculated that  Primary 5/4 have won the Golden Shoe !

You may have noticed that the path beside Barsail has been flooded. The janitor has reported it to the council and they are going to clear the drains in that area. A small piece of fencing will be removed temporarily to allow this to happen. The fence will be replaced and the gate repaired in this part of the playground.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Wow, lots of talented Barsail pupils auditioned for the upcoming Scottish performance.  The standard was very high and we were really impressed with the children’s enthusiasm.

Unfortunately not all of the children will be able to perform their acts on the day but they should all be very proud of themselves for giving great performances.

All the successful performers will find out next week at assembly.

With all this amazing Barsail  talent and class acts, the Scottish performance will be braw!!

Primary 2 watched the new Barsail container being delivered today. Then we wrote all about it in our news…… First….. Then…… Next….  and Finally !!

P7 had a fabulous day meeting new friends and working on STEM Challenges and sports activities at Parkmains! We are all very proud of her P7’s who are beginning the transition to S1.