We understand that school uniform can be an expense and if your child is not in school full time straight away then it should be noted that less will be required.

I hope to have information to you soon with regards to uniform suggestions but for now I would suggest holding off and not buying lots of uniform. I will aim to get back to you by the end of the week/start of next week. Please don’t worry if you have already bought items.

We understand that new parents way want photographs of your child on their first day and any guidance will not impact that.

I will communicate any council plans for the August return as and when I can. Thank you for your patience in these unprecedented times.

Emma Mavers

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.

Wee reminder about our gym hall dance fit class tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, 8.30-8.50am. We’d like to invite the whole family to join us for a dance fit class in our gym hall.  Please enter through the front entrance which we will open at 8.25am. Children can then be taken round to their usual entry point at 9am.

Hope to see lots of you there for some community fun!

Mrs Gibney

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. 

We are all very excited about the prospect of another action-packed Health Week here at Barsail. Health Week starts on Monday 10th and runs until Friday 14th.

Children are asked to wear sporty clothes all week and bring a water bottle each day. Outdoor activities will go ahead regardless of weather so ensure waterproofs are worn if it is raining and sun cream is applied if we are lucky enough to get some sunshine!

Sports Day is Tuesday 11th and parents are invited to join us to watch races in the afternoon:

Activities planned for next week include the Cinebus, climbing wall, archery, football World Cup tournament, Ned’s Mindset Mission and so much more!

Parents, carers and families are invited to join us for a gym hall dance-fit class run by Active Schools on Wednesday 12th, 8.30-8.50am. Start the day with some energetic moves and upbeat music!

It would be great to see as many families there as possible.

Any questions don’t hesitate to contact the school office.

Thanks

Mrs Gibney

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.

For those of you who ordered free tickets for the Scotland vs. Jamaica game on Tuesday 28th, I have been assured from the event organiser that the tickets have been posted to the school. I am hoping they will have arrived by Tuesday and I will send a text message then for them to be collected at the end of the day.

Thank you for your patience.

Mrs Gibney

Following our inspirational visit from the author Lindsay Littleson yesterday, she has very kindly offered to make another delivery of books for anyone who missed the cut off and would like to order either ‘The Titanic Detective Agency’ or ‘Guardians of the Wild Unicorns’ at a discounted rate of £6 per book. Both books are adventure-based with a Scottish twist.

Lindsay will sign the book to your child and deliver to school. If you would like to order one, please send a note in with full payment in cash to your child’s class teacher by Friday 31st May.

Thanks

There is still time to order a book ahead of our author visit on Tuesday. Lindsay Littleson will visit Barsail to talk about her new book ‘The Titanic Detective Agency’. She will also talk about ‘The Guardians of the Wild Unicorns’. Both books have a Scottish twist.

Lindsay is offering a special discount and books are available for £6 each. All children from P4-7 should have had an order form sent home. If you need a new one please ask.

Thanks

Continue reading Burns Federation →

To all who reserved free tickets for the match- tickets will be posted directly to the school and you will be notified by text message to pick them up.

Many thanks

The Scottish FA are asking you to raise the roof at Hampden Park on Tuesday 28^th May for your record breaking Scottish Women’s National Team as they take on Jamaica in their final game before leaving to make even more history at the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019. We would be delighted if you could rally the troops and show these trailblazing women that we are all behind them. To help, we would like to offer you complimentary tickets to pupils and families to come and show their support.

Please phone the school office on 0141  812 4493 and let us know how many free tickets you would like to request by 3pm on Wednesday 1st May.

We look forward to seeing you there! #OurGirlsOurGame

Thank you so much to all of our fantastic visitors who took the time out of their day to come and speak to our children yesterday. It was really inspiring and informative for our pupils.

Here is a small selection of pictures from yesterday.

P1-7 children enjoyed a Gaelic music workshop this afternoon. They learned all about the guitar, violin and accordion and joined in in learning some Gaelic songs. There is a flyer being sent home with information on a summer camp that children can sign up for if they enjoyed the workshop this afternoon.

Thank you so much to the P6/5 pupils and families who came to our Titanic open afternoon. We enjoyed a full Titanic experience, with a first class lounge afternoon tea and pastries, third class soup prepared by our pupils and bread, water buoyancy activities, secret S.O.S. message decoding and more. The pupils also found out the fates of their secret passenger that was given to them at the start of our topic.

We hope you enjoyed the afternoon as much as us and the pupils! We are now looking forward to our trip to the Maritime Museum. 

We had a great number of pupils representing Barsail in the annual Renfrewshire Schools Burns Competition. We came away with two 1st place medals, a 2nd place, two 3rd place medals and a trophy for best in category for the instrumental section . Everyone gave it their all and made Barsail very proud! Well done! 👏🏻💙

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

Last chance to purchase raffle tickets! More prizes have been handed in- see below. £1 per ticket.

Tomorrow will be the last opportunity to purchase tickets.

Thank you

Here is a selection of some of the fantastic prizes on offer for our raffle.

Tickets still available to buy for the Parent Council social event this Friday. We hope to see as many of you there as possible.

There are lots of fabulous raffle prizes available- even if you cannot go along to support on the night you can purchase raffle tickets which were sent home with every child. Money raised will as always go directly towards making school improvements and ultimately improve your children’s education here at Barsail.

Raffle tickets should be sent in to school by Thursday 7th March.

Thank you

Internet safety is extremely important, especially since social media and the internet are becoming more common in children’s everyday lives.

Here you will find the most up to date guides for social media apps and platforms. Click on the icons to find out more information about each app and to download useful tips to help keep children safe.

https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/

We have included a few of the most current social media app guides below, however there are many more on the web link above. These are excellent resources to help educate children on the importance of safety online.

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 PC 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!

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!

We had a wonderful response to our post about reduced cost basketball tickets. Could I ask that anyone who has not yet paid does so as soon as possible- it’s £3.50 per ticket and the money can be handed in to the school office.

The tickets will be posted to the school from BBL and I will notify you by text message when they are ready to be collected.

Kind regards

Mrs Gibney

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.

We’ve been offered a wonderful opportunity for our pupils and their families to attend the 2019 Basketball Trophy Finals, which take place on Sunday 10^th March 2019 at Emirates Arena, Glasgow.

The Offer……

We are pleased to offer your school the opportunity to apply for up to 100 tickets and these are available at no cost other than a £3.50 admin charge per ticket. Normal ticket prices start at £20 for children and £24 for Adults.

About the Event…

The Basketball Trophy Finals are the premier knockout competitions of the Men’s & Women’s Professional Basketball League in the UK (BBL & WBBL). Locally you may have awareness of the League from the Glasgow Rocks involvement in the BBL (the Men’s league) and Caledonia Pride in the WBBL (Women’s League). In addition to the enthralling Finals, the Event also features our full supporting cast of Dunkers, Cheerleaders and Mascots who will entertain you during the breaks in play.

Further information on the event, including a promotional video showing you what the day is all about, can be found on the Event at www.bbl.org.uk/trophy2019/

Please be aware that there are only a limited number of tickets available under this offer and these will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. Therefore if this offer is of interest I would recommend you apply for an allocation as a matter of urgency – we expect these to be snapped up very quickly!

If you would like tickets for the above event, please contact the school office by Friday 22nd February at 3pm and ask to speak to Mrs Gibney.

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. 

We still have some spaces available for our BASE Clubs which we are very keen to fill to make sure we are making the best use of our fantastic Active Schools coaches.

Netball P4-7 Mondays 3.15-4.15pm (75p per session)

Rugby P4-7 Mondays 3.15-4.15pm (75p per session)

Cheerleading P1-7 Tuesdays 8.20-9am (free)

Mini basketball P1-3 Tuesdays 3.15-4.15pm (75p per session)

Girls football P4-7 Wednesdays 12.30-1pm (free)

Tennis P4-7 Wednesdays 3.15-4.15pm (£1 per session)

Ballet P1-7 Thursdays 8.20-9am (free)

Gymnastics P1-3 Thursdays 3.15-4.15pm (50p per session)

Please follow the link below to register your child:

https://rl-barsail.class4kids.co.uk/

Thanks

Please see below a message from Debbie Newlands, the Renfrewshire representative for National Parent Forum of Scotland (NPFS).  If you would like further information, please contact the Parent Council by email: barsailpc.communications@gmail.com

As you will be aware, I have represented Renfrewshire parents on the National Parent Forum of Scotland (NPFS) for many years now however, my youngest child is leaving school this June and therefore it is time for someone else to take over this role.

There are 2 positions available: Renfrewshire representative and Deputy Renfrewshire representative.

It would be most helpful if we could fill both of these roles by June 2019 to allow an easy transition and give support to each other.

The process is fairly straight forward.

1. Every parent needs to be made aware of this role and have the opportunity to apply for a position either as Renfrewshire representative or in a deputy role to the representative.
2. It is the role of the Parent Council Chair to share this information with their Parent Councils and the wider Parent Forum in each school.
3. You do not need to be a member of the Parent Council to become the NPFS representative or deputy…………. you just need to be the parent of a child attending school in Renfrewshire.
4. Anyone interested in applying for either position must write a small paragraph about themselves and why they think they are suitable for the role. It would be helpful if this could include what they could bring to the role. 5. All application paragraphs should be emailed to renfrewshire@npfs.org.uk
5. Once the applications have been received, they will be emailed to all Parent Council (PC) Chairs to allow each PC to vote on which candidate they prefer for each role. 7. The votes will be sent to renfrewshire@npfs.org.uk
6. The votes will then be shared and verified by 2 independent PC Chairs.
7. The candidates will then be notified of the results.

Kind regards

Debbie Newlands

NPFS Renfrewshire

We still have spaces on many of our BASE clubs. All of the clubs are now live. Please click on the following link to enroll your child:

https://rl-barsail.class4kids.co.uk

Any problems or if you need help to sign up to any of the clubs please contact the school office.

Many thanks

Mrs Gibney

Tomorrow is the last day to purchase raffle tickets. We have lots of lovely bottles, gift sets and sweet treats to raffle and  one strip is 50p. Children will come round the classes in the morning selling them and we will sell them at the actual Burns Supper too, then draw the prizes at the end of the day.

Thanks again to everyone who donated a prize and supported our fundraising efforts. The money is going to a real worthy cause- to provide additional swimming lessons for P6 pupils, something we wish to continue with your support.

Mrs Gibney

Raffle tickets will be on sale Monday to Wednesday next week for our Burns Supper event for 50p a strip. P6 pupils will come round the classes each day selling the tickets. We have lots of lovely prizes and you would be supporting the raising of funds to pay for additional swimming lessons received by our P6 pupils in November.

Thank you so much to all of you who have kindly donated a raffle prize. We will draw the raffle on Wednesday afternoon.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Mrs Gibney

Just a reminder that if you have any raffle donations to support P6’s Burns Supper event, can they please be handed in to school by Friday 18th January. We are trying to raise money to fund additional swimming lessons received by our P6 pupils in November.

Thank you to for the kind donations so far.

Mrs Gibney

P6 pupils are using their Burns Supper afternoon on Wednesday 23rd January as an enterprise opportunity. They hope to raise money to offset the cost of additional swimming lessons they received in November.

Can you help? We’re looking for raffle donations- perhaps you have an unwanted Christmas present, want to offload some of your Christmas chocolate/bottles or donate a voucher if you are a business owner. Any donations, big or small, would be very much appreciated.

Any donations should be handed to school office or class teacher FAO Mrs Gibney by Friday 18th January.  We will give all children in the school a chance to buy raffle tickets the week beginning Monday 21st January and tickets will also be available for purchase at the supper. (More details to follow.)

Many thanks in advance for your support.

Well done to the Captains and Vice Captains of Jura and Mull who raised a total of £836 for their four chosen charities:

1. Cash for Kids
2. Coats for kids
3. Maggie Centre
4. Riverbrae school.

We will announce the winners of the teddies next week when P1-7 are all together.

Well done to three new word millionaires and one new double millionaire! Amazing achievement.

Well done to three new word millionaires and one double millionaire! Amazing achievement.

Tomorrow is the Christmas lunch – this had to be pre ordered.  If you haven’t ordered a lunch then a packed lunch is required.

Charity day tomorrow – own clothes with a Christmas jumper if possible.  Donation for this and some stalls will be set up for those wishing to guess the name of the teddy, have their nails painted etc.

The P1-3 Nativity is looking great!

We still have a significant number of tickets available for Wednesday at 1pm and Thursday at 9:15am.

Please call the office to request more.  We are hoping that there will be a big audience for all of the shows.

Thanks!

We are looking for a crib/Moses basket for the pantomime. It could be full size or a dolls one. We will look after it but please don’t send it in if it is precious as it will be taken on and off stage by children etc.

If if you have something we can use, please bring it in or call to tell us on Monday.

Thanks!

Hi all,

We need a special man for Wednesday afternoons p1-3 Christmas party. Red suit and gift wrapped presents provided.

If if you can help, please call the office on Monday!

Thanks

Own clothes with a Christmas jumper if you have one for a donation- suggestion £1.

Jura and Mull will have stalls on the day for 20p-50p.

All money raised will be split between the 4 chosen charities!

The Parent Council have set up a pop up shop with gifts for all the family, even pets! £2 per gift and your child can surprise you on Christmas Day!

When they are gone, they are gone!

Secret room open from Monday!

Thank you to everyone who supported, attended and organised the Christmas fayre last night!

Over £4000 was raised!!!! What an incredible amount!

This money will improve learning and engagement for our children.

Thanks,

Mrs Mavers

Christmas Fayre Thursday 6th December 6.30-8.30pm

Just a reminder that it is an own clothes day Thursday. Any donations of bottles and/or chocolate tombola should be handed in to the office or class teacher by the end of the day tomorrow.

Thanks for all the donations so far and we hope to see you all the the fayre!

This is the grit plan the Janitor has been given for ice and snow.

We are still looking for volunteers for our Christmas Fayre for next week, Thursday 6th December 6-8.30pm. In order for the event to run successfully, we require enough adult volunteers to help out at stalls.

If you can help, please phone Mrs Gibney on 0141 812 4493, send a note to school or a message to your child’s teacher on Seesaw.

Many thanks in advance for your support on this matter.

Bit of good news to share with you all- one of our P7 parents, Mrs Watt, won an online book competition. We are delighted to have won this amazing selection of books from The Book People.

Thanks again to Mrs Watt for entering on our behalf. We’re really excited to receive the books!

Please follow us on Twitter and hit the heart button 💙

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

Well done! Recognised for going over and above!

☃☃🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻🎁🎁🎉🎉🎉
Now that Halloween is out of the way we are focussing our attention on our Christmas Fayre! It will be on Thursday 6th December 6.30-8.30. We will be sending letters out with the kids soon, which will let everyone know about donations, helpers, etc. So far we have a great list of prizes for our raffle including meal vouchers, family days out, soft play vouchers and lots more. We also have some great prizes for our secret auction which will be announced over the next couple of weeks!! If anyone would like to donate to the raffle please let us know!! X x X

Following last week’s Cross Country event at the On-X, Linwood, here are the results:

Barsail 12th place overall for P6 girls.

Barsail 9th place overall for P6 boys.

Barsail 23rd place overall for P7 girls.

Barsail 5th place overall for P7 boys.

We are very proud of all our participants. Well done!

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 .

P1 made a pretend fire during play. Mrs Gooding then allowed them all to experience how to toast marshmallows on a real fire!

Well done Craft Club and Kim!

Orla and Mara collect gifts for charity each Christmas. They are supporting Quarriers and are looking for toys, games, soft toys etc. The items need to be new and unwrapped.

We have chosen charities each year based on the wishes of our House Captains. Although this is not a chosen charity (the girls aren’t even eligible to apply for Captain as they are too young) we are always keen to promote the work of our responsible citizens.  We supported a pupil in Brave the Shave before the holidays and we are happy to raise awareness of this appeal.

Gifts can be brought to p6 and p3. It must be made clear that they are for Quarriers and not for the Christmas Fayre. This is completely optional.

Thanks

We are looking forward to our games night on Monday 29th October!

P1-3       5:30-6:30pm

P4-7      7-8pm

If you come along then you will get a game to take away.

We look forward to seeing you.

We have already celebrated our first Accelerated Reading Word Millionaires!!!! Congratulations to our P6 girls. I am so impressed.

You are also on Twitter!

Well done!!!!

Well done to Lewis who nervously Braved the Shave in front of the whole school!!!

You can still donate money until Friday- send it into school if you wish.

The videos are on Twitter!

Lewis in p6 is braving the shave next Wednesday!!! This will be live in Barsail. He will have a donation box on the day incase anyone wishes to donate. There is also an online donation page.

Everybody had a terrific day celebrating Modern Languages Day on 26th September.

We dressed in the national colours of France and Spain and the day was filled with fun activities like food tasting.

One of the highlights was perhaps when we sang ‘ Baby Shark’ in French.

We look forward to celebrating again next year.

We were delighted to welcome Fiona Cook from Sport Award Scotland this afternoon during a whole-school assembly. Fiona presented our Sports Committee with the Gold flag and certificate.

The feedback she gave us about our application was wonderful and the assembly really marked the incredible team effort and amount of work we’ve put in to secure the prestigious Gold Award.

We shall display our flag proudly and continue to ensure sports is a priority at Barsail in order to maintain our Gold status and provide wonderful sporting opportunities for our pupils.

Working together during House Tutor time on Friday. The children were expressing their views and helping to shape school improvement. There were opportunities for pupil leadership too.

We have registered the school in

http://scottishsunfreebooksforschools.co.uk/

Vouchers will appear in the paper between 24th September and 18th November.
We need to collect 3500 vouchers to get the school £550 of free books!! We are asking if everyone can please start collecting and send the vouchers into to school when you do!! Ask neighbours and relatives too.

The Parent Council are leading on this initiative- thank you!

Well done to all the children who participated in the summer reading challenge. We had 58 children in total which was a fantastic effort! Some children got certificates for participating and some were given medals for completing it. Unfortunately some of the medals were tangled so we will give the rest out next week.

Have a fabulous holiday weekend!

Hello everyone. The school will be celebrating Modern Languages Day on Wednesday 26th September. There are lots of fun activities for the children to enjoy.

Can we ask that the children come dressed in the colours of their chosen country?

Many Thanks.

One of our parents, Matthew Wearing, responded to a plea on the newsletter and cut back several bushes at the school this morning. He braved the wind and has really tidied up the plants outside the office.

We would like to say thank you!

He runs a company- Wearing and Sons Gardening who are on Facebook.  It was so kind to take the time to do this.

Mrs Mavers

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the School Sport Gold Award!!!!

Mrs Gibney led the effort to achieve this award. Her hard work has paid off! Special thanks to Joanne McDowall for her involvement in improving sporting opportunities in Barsail. A massive thanks to Iain Shearer who is our Active Schools coordinator.

This is the result of awesome teamwork involving the whole school!

Woohoo!

I attended a leadership conference this week. I heard from John Swinney (Deputy First Minister), Gayle Gorman (Education Scotland), Sir Tom Hunter and many more inspirational speakers.

I also connected with a group of Head Teachers who attended Columba 1400 with me last session.

I genuinely feel that Barsail is heading in the right direction. I’m feeling invigorated and positive.

What is important?

Relationships

Moral purpose- our children at the heart

Values

Empowering

Collaboration

Everything we do should improve learning and teaching.

We are very keen for more children to sign up for Badminton.

Super Star Pupils and Achievers!

Some clubs are full but we have plenty of spaces in lots of our sporting clubs.

Cooking and Recorder- only for pupils who haven’t taken part before.

Rugby- we are extending to p3-7 as we only had 2 people signed up and the club cannot run like that.

Film Club and Cooking do not start until after the September weekend. They are longer each week but do not run for the same number of weeks.

Chess- Mr McQueen will run the club next Tuesday at lunch as the usual day is a holiday. It will be Fridays thereafter.

Online sign up closes on Friday to allow us to organise the registers etc.

Maths Week Scotland has been fun so far.

Please check out our tweets @Barsail_Primary

Follow us and like our tweets.

Remember that you can share how you use Maths in everyday life on twitter- @Barsail_Primary @AttainRen @PMCmathematics #MWSREN

It was great to see so many families get involved in the Maths trail today!

MATHS IS FUN!

We will order the snakes and ladders table table top as this was the most popular choice. We have more choices for next week!

The Renfrewshire theme for Maths Week Scotland is ENGAGEMENT!

Please show your support to Barsail by tweeting about Maths next week and adding @Barsail_Primary @AttainRen #MWSREN

If you take part, there will be a prize for the best tweet using the handles above!

You could take a photo during the fun Maths homework tasks which include a Maths trail/quiz around the school grounds and also showing how you use Maths in every day life.

Please follow us on twitter and tweet to show your engagement!

What a team of young leaders we have here!!!

Well done to these pupils who were recognised for going OVER AND ABOVE Barsail Standard!!!! We had a good chat, hot Chocolate and a biscuit while listening to music.

Such a pleasure to end my week with superstar students!

Mrs Mavers

You could always check if the book has an Accelerated Reading quiz! That way, you can read on your tablet/phone and still head towards being an AR Word Millionnaire!

Well done 🌟

‌‍Monday 3rd September

Drop in event

5-5:30pm Loch Insh P7 meeting in the Hall

5:30-7pm Pop into your child’s class to chat to the teacher and look around. Visit other specialists e.g. Mrs Sinclair in the Music Room.

6-7pm P1 presentation for parents in the classes

7-9pm Parent Council AGM

**Notice of Parent Council AGM**

The Parent Council Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 3rd September 2018, from 7-9pm in the school staff room.

If you have any items for inclusion on the agenda, please email: BarsailPC.communications@gmail.com

Minutes of previous PC meetings are available on the school website: 

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/barsailprimary/groups-and-clubs/barsail-parent-council/

Any parent/carer is welcome to attend.

Join the summer reading challenge. Who else will complete it?

Remember to tweet and include @Barsail_Primary

Please take part in the library summer reading challenge! You will have fun and get rewards as you read. This is also a Renfrewshire competition- come on Barsail!

Take photographs and tweet them. Add  @Barsail_Primary

Hope you are enjoying the lovely weather.

Mrs Mavers

Well done! What a team. It was such a close race. Great community event.

All these these people read over 100 books. WOW

The children paid 20p to throw wet sponges at the house and vice captains today.  This money was added to the total raised on Friday. The grand total is £679. This will be split between the three chosen charities.

Outstanding citizenship.

Well done!

Erskine Gala Day

Saturday 23^rd June

Walking Parade

Barsail Primary are delighted to be supporting and taking part in this community event.

Details:

Meet and sign each child in at the Farmhouse at 10:45am. We will be leaving at 11am.

There will be a food bank donation at the Farmhouse. You can hand items in on arrival if you wish.

Parade with other groups and schools to Park Mains – 11am until approximately 12pm

Parent / Guardian to sign each child out at Park Mains race track – 12pm

N.B. parents who enter the Gala day at Park Mains will require a wrist band (£2). There will be an entrance to the race track to collect children without paying.

THERE WILL BE A TOILET AT THE FARMHOUSE BUT NO TOILET FACILITIES BETWEEN THE FARMHOUSE AND ARRIVAL AT PARK MAINS.

The theme is nursery rhymes. Barsail will be dressing up in a sweet / sugar theme.  Here is our rhyme:

Jonny, Jonny,

Yes Papa?

Eating sugar?

No Papa.

Telling lies?

No Papa.

Open your mouth…

Ha ha ha!

Please wear bright coloured clothes and add sweetie wrappers / sugar wrappers to your clothes / hair.

We are encouraging adult helpers to dress up too!  This was great fun last year.

All tear off slips must be returned asap.

Volunteers accompanying the children will need to pay the £2 entry fee to the Gala Day. Volunteers can do this in advance by sending in £2 with the tear off slip and they will be given a wrist band to wear on the day.  Alternatively, you can buy a wristband for £2 at the Farmhouse on the day.

Please complete the tear off slip below if your child wishes to take part.  If you have lost the letter, you can send a note with your child’s name, whether an adult will be there and a contact number for the day.

Thank you,

Emma Mavers

Head Teacher

_____________________ would like to be involved in the walking parade on Saturday 23^rd June and will be at the Farmhouse at 10:45am.

I am happy to volunteer to accompany the walking parade.

I wish to purchase the wristband in advance and have enclosed £2.

I do not want to accompany the walking parade and I will sign my child in and out on the day.

N.B. Children to wear bright colours and add sweet themed accessories / wrappers.

Parent / Guardian signature__________________________ Date_____________

Phone number to reach parent / guardian on the day in case of emergency _____________________________

P6 were the first to complete 90km for Kinda Kili! P3 completed the most laps of the schools, collectively running the longest distance.

Corrine Hutton is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro later in the year.  We loved doing Kinda Kili!

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Thank you to everyone who came along to join us for our community event this afternoon. The sun came out in the end thankfully and children had a fab time trying out archery, beep test, aerobics, volleyball and hockey.

Special thanks goes to our fabulous Parent Council members who made some delicious mocktails to refresh us after all that hard work. Also thanks goes to Mr Burgess and Mrs Wilson who made guest appearances- the children were delighted to see them!

Thank you so much to David Smith, one of our parents who visited our infants today to host a live cooking demonstration. The children helped him make healthy pizza and a healthy version of strawberry cheesecake. Both were delicious and the children definitely enjoyed the experience.

Yum yum!

What an amazing time our children have had so far in Health Week. Today, our children got involved in orienteering and we had a visit from the Cinebus and watched films with an anti-bullying message.

We were also lucky enough to get involved in creative dance with Kaitlin from Active Schools.  Kaitlin allowed the children to get creative with the latest songs and the infant children danced to Toy Story songs!

Tomorrow P6, P7/6 & P7 will learn lifesaving skills with the Heartstart team. Infant classes have a very exciting visit from a chef who is going to show the children how to cook healthy pizza with a live cooking demonstration!

We also have archery, hockey and rugby to look forward to.

Please join us for our community event at 3.15-4.30pm for some fun activities for the whole family! The event is free and includes:

• beep test
• archery
• hockey games
• disco room
• aerobics with Mrs Wilson
• volleyball with Mr Burgess
• mocktail bar

Hope to see you all then!

Our Sports Day photograph gallery has now been updated.  Click on the image below to take you to the gallery.

What an incredible day- a visit from a Scottish champion gymnast, parents V pupils football then Sports Day! Please follow us on twitter and like our tweets!

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Day 1 of Health Week

P1-6 pupils had a wonderful day of competing in houses for our World Cup tournament.

There are two pictures of 4 pupils who were their house’s most valuable players for the day. Well done to our P7 leaders who did a great job of refereeing and managing the tournament.

Thank you also goes to Iain Shearer and his Active Schools team for another well-run tournament.

Mrs Gibney

Thursday 14th June

3.15-4.30pm

This Thursday we are hosting our family event and we have an exciting line up of activities for you and your whole family to enjoy.

Including:

• mocktail bar
• archery
• hockey games
• volleyball with Mr Burgess
• aerobics with Mrs Wilson
• beep test
• disco room
• trim trail

Once again this event is completely free and we look forward to seeing you all there.

Mrs Gibney and the Health Week Committee

Star Awards

1st in the Renfrewshire Sumdog competition!!! This is the second time he was won!

Achievements 

Thank you so much to Steve Blackmore (local artist) and Leanne for creating this amazing design on our container. It is better than we could ever have hoped for!

The children who designed the animals are thrilled!

Honesty Octopus

Empathy Elephant

Ambition Armidilo

Respect Rhino

Teamwork Toucan

Success Shark

Hearts Values!

the beautiful potatoes that the gardening group planted on the 13th of March are now growing quickly. we are hoping for a bumper crop.

Primary 4/3 had an absolutely fantastic time today at the David Lloyd Centre in Renfrew.  We attended a two hour tennis coaching session.  It was great fun taking part in lots of fun games and playing against each other.

Many thanks to our coaches and everyone at David Lloyd for looking after us.

We’re delighted to inform you that we have secured some last minute tickets to the Scotland v Ireland women’s international hockey match at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre on Thursday 31 May 2018. The push back for the match is at 19:00.

The tickets will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis, so if you’re interested in taking your chil or children to cheer on Scotland at the match, then please contact the school office tomorrow morning.

Thanks

Mrs Gibney

Thank you to all who have volunteered to help during Health Week (11th-16th June) this year. I shall be contacting you very soon to arrange dates and times. Could I ask anyone who has yet to bring the form back to do so by Friday? We are still looking for parent helpers for Sports Day (Tuesday 12th 1-3pm) and the community event (Thursday 14th 3.15-4.15pm).

I’m also looking for donations of different types of rope including washing rope, pegs and old bed sheets for our den building equipment. Donations of suitcases would be more than welcome to provide storage for these items.

Many thanks in advance for your support.

Mrs Gibney

There will be a Parent Council meeting on Monday 4th June from 7-9pm in school staff room.

We are looking forward to welcoming some new faces at the meeting! All welcome.

Well done to the finalists in the Takent Show- what an array of talent!

Thanks to the Pupil Council and Mr Armstrong for organising this slick, high quality event.

Check out the videos of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and two highly commended acts on the school twitter feed!

We are delighted that Mrs Gooding and Miss Morrison were asked to showcase work their classes have been doing. The children have been learning about Mathematics through a real life context.

Over 100 teachers were in attendance at the Renfrewshire event where practitioners were sharing good practice.

On Friday author Gayle Clarke came into Primary 1 to read her new book “Monty and the Pudding,” The children all loved the book and had a great time creating their own stories afterwards. 

these boys won room entertainment

these boys got the best room inspection

well done

Well done to Lewis,Ross,Calum,Murray and Fraser for having  the best improved room at Loch insh

Barsail WON the football tournament today!!!!!

A nail biting finish with penalties deciding the final against St Anne’s!

Thank you so much to Duncan who coaches the team! Thanks to Mrs Baldacci who assists Duncan.

Of course I am not competitive at all 😂 Safe to day I am delighted!

#proudheadteacher

Well done to our football team on a fantastic win today against St. Anne’s. The score was 1-1 and then 3-1 on penalties.

Thank you to Duncan and Mrs Baldacci for all their help.

Enjoy learning about Science together at this free event!

Here are some pictures from our Feisty Fajita making yesterday afternoon at cooking club. Children learned how to safely chop peppers and cook chicken. The smell really was incrEDIBLE!

Mrs Gibney

This is a local uniform bank run by volunteers. If you would like us to request uniform for you then please contact that school office.

Well done girls! You did Barsail and Renfrewshire proud. What a fantastic achievement to be selected for this competition. Great results in your categories.

Well done!!!

Well done everyone!

Well Done P7

Please help us create den building kits. We need:

old suitcases to store the kits

tarpaulin

material

old table cloths/bed linen

rope

pegs

Any other items to create dens.

Please send items in ASAP.

Thanks!

Community Police have been involved in reviewing CCTV footage as items in our playground have been vandalised recently. The playhouse has been broken several times. The new picnic benches (which are extremely heavy) have been moved.

One of our pupils has created this poster and I wanted to share it with our families. Help us to spread the word. We are happy for children to enjoy the grounds, play on the trim trail, use the MUGA etc. All that we ask is that you respect our playground.

Today at assembly we discussed how important it is to SHOW our values.  We all KNOW them but the hard part is to SHOW them.

H onesty

E mpathy

A mbition

R espect

T eamwork

S uccess

This clearly had an impact on lots of pupils as I had a constant stream of pupils at my door during Friday Fun. They had all chosen to make values posters, cards and poems. I was delighted! What a lovely way to end the week.

Have a fabulous long weekend.

The staff will be working together during inservice tomorrow to review the pupil and parent views expressed in questionnaires, self evaluate and set priorities for next session.

I look forward to seeing P7 as they arrive back tomorrow!

#proudheadteacher

Mrs Mavers

Jamie, Eathen and Rille have done really well in Sumdog and Maxwell was the best p1 in Renfrewshire

Lewis Clark has read over 2 million words this year. WOW!!!

These people all became word millionaires

Well done!!!

Well  done!!

The guys from Kleentek Valeting very kindly offered to clean the benches we recently received from Bargarran Primary. 😀 They power washed them and they can now be used by our pupils in the primary 4 and 5 playground. Thanks again for all your hard work. 👍🏻

P4/3 have thoroughly enjoyed having Craig from Park Mains working with us this year.  He has been coming along every week and  worked with us on lots of fun activities during our P.E. sessions.  We have developed our fitness, rugby, badminton, tennis and athletic skills taking part in lots of interesting and challenging games.

Today we were sad to say goodbye to Craig but we wish him lots of luck and success as he heads into his S6 exams and then moves on to university next year.

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

Saturday chess competition winners! The boys competed against other schools and won first place! Three gold medals and a trophy for the school!

skye had a amazing party the had lots of fun. A great thank you to the house captains for putting on the party and all the pupils in Skye for getting the most points!

Well done!!!

Corrine Hutton came to talk to us about how she lost her hands and feet. She also told us about the charity finding your feet where they help amputees. She told us that sometimes she felt like giving up but she kept on going and now she is going to climb Kilimanjaro. She said we have to tell ourselves WE CAN DO IT. Never give up!

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Wow!  What a fun start to our day we had today! We were extremely lucky to welcome to our class Hannah’s mum, who is a scientist at Glasgow University.

We have been studying the human body and Dr Bellingham very kindly offered to come in and allow us to be scientists with her for the morning.  We we able to share with her all our fantastic knowledge and also learn lots of new and interesting facts.

She brought in microscopes for us to look through.  We got to see what the cells of our organs look like up close.  It was amazing!

We also got to look at lots of different models of our body parts.  We tried to fit them all back together.  The brain was particularly hard to put back together again!

We all had such good fun being mini scientists and many of us are now wanting to be scientists when we grow up.

We would like to thank Michelle for coming in today, it was such a fantastic opportunity for us.  We look forward to her returning to visit us again. 😊

Today in P1 we were learning all about symmetry.

We worked with natural resources, played games on the computers, completed a symmetrical chick 🐥  and painted butterflies 🦋 .

Wow!  What can we say other than Wow!  It has been an extremely busy and fun filled week.  We all thoroughly enjoyed it and want to thank all the pupil groups and the teachers for all the hard work and effort put into organising the special days.

Now time to enjoy Easter.  Happy holidays everyone! 🐣

P7/6 had an inspiring day exploring the world of work. We learned about CVs, references and we even conducted mock interviews where we quizzed each other about our skills and attributes.  We loved speaking to everyone at the career fayre.

I was super impressed with both the interviewer and interviewee skills! Very professional.

Always reach for the stars!

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These people won the dressing up competition for world of work 

These people dressed up as the job the want to be when they are older. They did this for world of work   Well done!

These people dressed up for eco day and they made outfits out of recycled materials along with other pupils. Here are the winners.

Well done to the Captains and Vice Captains of Bute and Skye who organised a whole school fundraiser. £736 was raised for Beatson, Erskine and Alzheimer UK. These are charities chosen by the children.

Our Badminton team got through to a semi final today. The did us proud!

The Bute and Skye fund raiser will be held on Monday the 26th of March. Please bring in £1 for own clothes for the charities chosen by the house captains and vice captains, and most stalls are twenty – fifty pence.

Dates-

P 1-2 are auditioning on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th April

P 3-4 are  auditioning Friday 20th and Monday 23rd April

P 5-6 are auditioning Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th April

P 7 are auditioning Thursday 26th and Friday 27th April

Final is on Thursday 24th May

Well done primary 5/4 for coming Number One!!!

Well done for coming first overall!!!

well done!!!

Well done to all of these pupils for coming in top 50 students in the Sumdog competition.

Well done to the two pupils who were asked to play in  the Renfrewshire Schools Band. One pupil was playing the accordion and the other pupil played the guitar. The video is on Twitter!

Our basketball team reached the finals in a Renfrewshire competition! They played well and were second overall. This is the second year running that we have been pipped at the post.  They are winners in our eyes!

Well done to our team who came first in the Active Schools dodgeball regional finals!

Thank you so much to Aura Homeworks, Cutting Edge Landscape Gardeners and family volunteers for creating this wonderful playhouse for the pupils in Barsail Primary. This will be very well used as we develop play pedagogy.

Well done to the Captains and Vice Captains!

We braved the cold, wind and rain yesterday for the Cross Country event at KGV centre in Renfrew. The children really did us proud and tried their best to complete the 1.6km track in the best time possible.

Well done to all our runners!

Mrs Gibney

We all enjoyed our Barsail Book Day today.  We particularly enjoyed sharing our books with Primary 2.

P7/6 had an amazing time celebrating a belated World Book Day. We started off with ERIC time (everyone reading in class) where the children got to choose anywhere in the classroom to read a book- we were very inventive!

We watched an Author’s Live event starring David Williams then drew our own Gangsta Grannies and found amazing descriptive phrases using thesauruses to help us.

We finished off the day by designing book tokens for the World Book Day competition.

Well done for your achievements!!!

Well done to all your achievements!!!

Well done to all people who got star awards!!!

Well done for completing the challenge!!!

I have spent three days and nights at a Head Teacher leadership academy this week. It is fair to say that it pushed me out of my comfort zone and it was tough at times – it was full on from 8:30am until 10pm every day. However- what an experience. I have made connections with primary and secondary Head Teachers from across Scotland. We are determined to ensure that this leads to collaboration and the sharing of good practice.

I am committed to being a Head Teacher who continually learns. I will use what I have learned to continue to build upon the amazing culture we have in Barsail. I will strive to be the best version of myself in doing so.

Values- ambition, teamwork, success

Dream Big, Aim High, Achieve More!

Never stop learning.

Mrs Mavers

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 athletics club were a little disappointed to not be outside yesterday due to the weather. However we had so much fun pushing our fitness levels to the limit!

We used Miss Binning’s classroom as our gym and challenged ourselves in rounds of exercises. We worked with our partners to encourage and support them, whilst ensuring their posture was correct to avoid injury. We also tried to beat our last score and it got a little competitive!

The snow won’t stop us!

We recommended this resource during Maths and Munch!

Click to access IAmAMathematician120517.pdf

Thank you to all those who tagged Barsail in tweets for World Book Day! Please keep tweeting and showing us what you are up to!

We are just a tad excited that David Walliams liked one or out retweets!!!

Woohoo!

Mrs Mavers

World Book Day will now be 9th March as per Seesaw post.

Last nights blog said 2nd but as we are off today that isn’t practical.

Sorry for any confusion and I am encouraged by the fact that many of you spotted the mistake! You are clearly engaging with our communication methods so thank you!

Mrs Mavers

Barsail have received a very generous donation from a family – a defibrillator. We are delighted to have this life saving piece of equipment and have taken the responsibility for it seriously. It is located near the staffroom in the front entrance and is for school and community use. Staff and some Parent Council members undertook training on Friday. We will talk to the children about it at an assembly.

More information to follow in a letter.

Mrs Mavers

In the spirit of reducing plastic waste, if you’re coming along to our social night on 2nd March and you bring your own glass then you’ll get your first drink for £1. If it’s a soft drink then your first 2 will be free! Doing our bit 🌎

Some of the PC will be taking the car to the social night and are happy to offer anyone a lift home for a donation to parent council instead of a taxi! 🚕🚕🚕

Thank you so much for all of the raffle prizes that have been handed in so far! We’ve got some great prizes to give away so if anyone needs more raffle tickets or hasn’t received the first ones please let us know! 🎂🎂🍫🍫🍾🍾🎁🎁🎁

🎼🎤Get your Social Night tickets now! 🎹🎤

It’s just over a week away! 🍾🍺

Available at morning and hometime from Nicola Mcdermid, Rebecca Bulmer, Joanne McDowall, Jacqui Ferguson and Vikki Aitkenhead.

Grab your friends and have a night out for £5!

Friday 2nd March @ Bargarran Community Cebrew

Raffle tickets came home on Friday so if you would like to support us but can’t make the night, please hand in your raffle tickets entries and money to school.

Here is a link to our fantastic singers! https://www.reverbnation.com/spotlight4

Thank you!

What a fantastic turn out we had yesterday for the Park Run at Victoria Park in Glasgow. Our pupils did us proud and all worked extremely hard to complete the 2k run with excellent times.

Well done to everyone who participated and thanks to Joanne for organising. We hope it was a good practice run for our upcoming Cross Country event on 15th March.

Mrs Gibney

Just to confirm a few details about P6 swimming lessons:

We shall be walking to the swimming pool and back and need parent volunteers- even if you could make it one of the sessions it would be a great help.

The cost of the lessons is £2 in total per child- we raised £320 between selling raffle tickets and ticket sales for the Burns Supper event which brought the total cost down from £400.

Thanks to everyone who attended the event and donated prizes/purchased raffle tickets. The prizes were distributed yesterday to our delighted winners.

The additional swimming lessons are a fantastic opportunity for our P6 pupils- one which we hope to repeat in coming years.

Mrs Gibney

**** SOCIAL NIGHT*****

Friday 2nd March at Bargarran Community Centre.

We have fantastic live singers and a DJ ready to entertain, a (cheap!) bar, games and a raffle.

Tickets are £5 each and will be available to buy after the mid term break.

To reserve your tickets in advance, please email: parentcouncilbarsail@gmail.com

Over 18s only.

If you are able to donate to our raffle for the night, we’d be very grateful. Chocolate, wine, unwanted gifts and things like that would be ideal.

We hope lots of you will come along and enjoy the night and support the school 🎉🍸🍾🎵🎤

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 !

The children have been voting for what playground equipment they want the Parent Council to fund.  Monkey bars were the most popular choice.  Asking the children their opinion is important to us.  We will act on this and hope to get them monkey bars to play on soon.

A lovely start to the morning.  This wonderful pupil knows me so well!  I am absolutely thrilled with the new addition to my office.

We are delighted to have Craft Club on offer.  It will start on 14/2/18.  One off £10 payment on week 1 please.  We have not set this club up to pay online.  It will be an hour and a half – 3:15-4:45pm on Wednesday.  Please sign up online by Friday.  After Friday all clubs will be locked.

The children who attended lego club at lunchtime today had lots of fun.  We will see you next Monday at 12 noon to finish what we started to build today and to start some new designs too  😀

Mrs Baird

Tomorrow will be the last day to buy raffle tickets for our P6 Burns Afternoon prizes. Remember all proceeds go towards the cost of the additional swimming lessons P6 pupils will receive in the coming weeks.

Tickets are £1 per strip and the raffle will be drawn by the end of the week. Thanks to everyone who has bought tickets so far.

P7/6 pupils had great fun and put their maths knowledge to the test this afternoon at the active learning stations for Number Day.

For Number Day today, we set the children a challenge of completing a treasure hunt. Every teacher in school had a number and the first 20 children to find all 19 numbers correctly won a prize. These four number whizzes from P3 were the champions and managed to complete the treasure hunt way before everyone else!

Well done to Nathan, Kate, Jack & Sophie.

What a wonderful afternoon we had for our Burns Supper. A lovely atmosphere, good food and even better company. Thanks you so much to everyone who attended and helped out today.

The children cooked, prepared and served the food themselves using our new cooking equipment. I’m sure you’ll agree our children did us proud by hosting an action-packed Supper- performing poetry, highland dancing, piano playing and singing. We shall post more pictures and videos on Seesaw next week of individual performances.

Mrs Gibney

• Please sign up to BASE Sign up club then choose clubs to go to!

Please sign up by Friday at 3pm as BASE starts next week and we will be making the registers.

We have plenty spaces in the following clubs:

• Play for p1 and 2
• Dodgeball
• Horrible Historians with Mr Armstrong
• Parent and child homework club (snack provided)
• Cheerleading
• Netball
• Football Skill School
• Badminton – ***now P4 children included***
• Fun Fitness
• Treble recorder ***now p7 included***
• Dance
• Girls football

We have no space in gymnastics, coding, yoga, cooking and Lego and there are waiting lists for these clubs.

There may be a few spaces in other clubs but we have good numbers for them.

We have helped families who can’t sign up online so please don’t let that be a barrier- give us a call if you want a place in the clubs which have spaces but can’t get internet access.

Thanks,

Mrs Mavers

Well done!!!

Well done!!!

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.

Thank you so much to all of those who kindly donated raffle prizes for P6’s Burns’ Supper. P6 pupils shall start selling raffle tickets tomorrow for one week, with winners being announced on Friday 9th February at assembly.

Raffle tickets will be £1 per strip and there are some wonderful prizes- including perfume, wine, chocolates and toys. (Alcohol must be collected by a parent from the school office- we will notify you by text message.)

Remember any money raised from our raffle will be going towards funds for additional swimming lessons for our P6 pupils. The children have worked so hard preparing their own poems, songs, practicing ceilidh dances, and cooking and baking for the event. Looking forward to welcoming many of our P6 family members at our Burns’ Supper on Thursday afternoon!

Mrs Gibney

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!!

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday appreciating each other and sharing compliments for National Compliments Day. Every pupil felt very loved and thankful when they received their compliments.

We all enjoyed taking part in our school’s daily mile today.

We gave it our all and had fun in the process.

We felt great when we completed it!  Well done everyone.

We have new VALUES Star Awards!!!

We were all pupil of the day in primary 4. We gave each other compliments and had kind words for each other all day.

We were out doing the daily mile this morning.

A lovely visitor from this poet today! What a hilarious poem you have created!

Barsail represented Renfrewshire in this competition. The team did very well and came 2nd! Congratulations!

Remember to visit our our twitter feed.

The Cross Country competition is coming up. We would like to encourage all of our pupils to try a park run. If you are in p6-7 then this would help you train for the Cross Country.

This is the junior park run:

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/victoria-juniors/

And in case parents fancy doing one, here is the page for Linwood park run

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/linwood/

Thank you to Joanne, one of our running club coaches, for the information.

Mrs Mavers

P6 pupils are using their Burns Supper afternoon on Thursday 1st February as an enterprise opportunity. They hope to raise money to reduce the cost of their upcoming swimming lessons. These lessons are in addition to the council-run lessons the children received last term. We understand that being able to swim is a life skill and something every child should get the opportunity to learn to do well.

Can you help? We’re looking for raffle donations- perhaps you have an unwanted Christmas present, want to offload some of your Christmas chocolate or donate a voucher if you are a business owner. Any donations, big or small, would be very much appreciated.

Donations should be handed directly to school office or ask your child to hand it into the office by Friday 25th January.  We will give all children in the school a chance to buy raffle tickets the week beginning Monday 29th January. (More details to follow.)

Many thanks in advance for your support.

Mrs Gibney

Well done to our winning P7 team!

Well done- Primary 1 and invited to the preview of the ‘Inspired’ exhibition in Paisley Museum where his winning entry is displayed!

Well done Sam M for getting a Head Teacher Award!

Well Done Everyone

well done Star Awards.

Well done

Well done !!!

Well done to all the pupils who got star awards!!!

One of our pupils will have their artwork displayed in an exhibition in Paisley Museum And Art Gallery this month! Congratulations!

Thank you to all of the Barsail family for their continued support. We couldn’t ask for a better group of parents, pupils and staff.

Have a wonderful Christmas.

See you all in 2018!

Mrs Mavers

Well done Jura! Aaron, Cameron and Abigail hosted a fabulous party for their house.

We sang some Christmas songs and gave the residents Christmas cards we had made for them. 😀

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