The Bishopton Week planning group would like to extend an invitation to all Bishopton Primary School pupils to enter the competition to design the cover of this year’s program.

The details of the competition are as follows:

• The theme of the picture – is ‘The 1970s’ and anything relating to that era to mark the 50th year of Bishopton Day.
• The picture should ideally be A5 however A4 can be used but no bigger, as the picture will need to be shrunk to A5.
• Colour pencils only, please.
• The competition is open to all Bishopton Primary pupils.
• The name of the pupil, class and Bishopton Primary School must be clearly marked on the reverse of each submission.
• The deadline for submissions to the school office is:

Wednesday 16th March 2022

• Judging will take place on the 23rd March
• The judges are the Bishopton Week Planning Group Committee.
• The school with the winning entry will be contacted.

The Ren10 Parent Drop-in service is an opportunity for parents/carers to discuss their concerns.

There is no need to make an appointment.

The aim is to reduce your distress and to help you to formulate a plan to assist you. This may involve making you aware of other services within the area.

The service is available to parents or carers of young people in education.

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Over the next few months, our local authority is planning to ask all pupils in P5 to S6 to take part in a survey about their health and wellbeing. The findings will help our local authority to understand the needs, strengths and possible concerns of children and young people, which will help plan future improvements to local services.

Please look out for a letter which you should shortly be receiving that will provide you with more detailed information about the Census, and provides you with the opportunity to let us know if you don’t wish your child to take part.

The lost property from all of our classrooms will be made available to view in our middle playground on Thursday & Friday from 2.45 pm this week (weather permitting).

Our class teachers make every effort to return any missing items to pupils but we kindly ask that parents and carers ensure that all items of school clothing, footwear and lunchboxes are labelled.

A child’s bike has been left at school this week.

Please could you contact the school office on 0300 300 0147

if it’s your child’s.

Reminder: register your child for Primary 1 before Friday 5th November.

If your child has their 5^th birthday between 1 March 2022 and 28 February 2023, you should register them for school this week – and we’re asking you to do this online.

Go to https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/11957/Apply-for-a-place-at-school

 You’ll need to have a few things ready to upload:

1. a copy of your child’s full birth certificate
2. proof of address – Council Tax and Child Benefit Statement (or Driving Licence, utility/bank statement showing last 3 months transactions)

If you can’t register online, please phone your local catchment school to arrange an appointment. This is really important – please do not turn up at school without an appointment.

If you currently have a child attending Bishopton Primary School but live within the Dargavel Primary catchment please enrol your child for Dargavel Primary but in the comments section of the form please put that you wish them to attend Bishopton Primary.

The child psychology drop-in service is an
opportunity for you to see an Educational Psychologist
and discuss concerns about your
child, without an appointment.

Please see the attached leaflet.

Child Psychology Drop in

At Bishopton Primary School we understand that the more kids know about how food is grown and made, the better they’ll eat, now and in the future.

It’s Good to Grow is a token collection scheme at Morrisons Supermarkets that allows schools to collect for free gardening equipment to get kids outdoors and growing. Between 6th September and 24th, October 2021 for every £10 spent in-store or online at Morrisons customers will automatically receive one Grow Token to donate to your chosen school.

Parents, grandparents & carers will need to be a MyMorrisons customer to take part so make sure you download the app and select Bishopton Primary School to donate your Grow Tokens to.

Finally, don’t forget to scan your app or MyMorrisons card at the checkout every time you shop to receive your Grow Tokens. Once you’ve selected the school, you’ll be able to donate your Grow Tokens to us.

From 24th October, the school will be able to redeem the Grow Tokens we’ve collected against a range of growing and gardening equipment for the school.

A photographer is coming to school on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th September. It is a parental preference as to whether their child is photographed wearing our formal ‘shirt and tie’ uniform or our less formal  ‘polo-shirt’ uniform.

Your child will always be allowed to participate in  P.E. wearing either uniform.

All children will be photographed with no obligation to purchase.

Following current COVID 19 guidance for schools closing at 1 pm on Friday 25^th June 2021.

Primary 1 pupils can be collected from 12.45 pm with siblings also collected.

All other P2 – P7 pupils will be dismissed from the school following all usual protocols at 1 pm.

Pupils who travel by school bus will be supervised until the bus arrives to collect them (approx. 1.20 pm).

P1 -3 pupils and those in P4-7 that have free meal entitlement will have a sandwich lunch on this day.

Unfortunately, due to current guidance, we will be unable to have our annual Bishopton end of term bell ringing ceremony. Instead, teachers will share a pre-recorded film of the bell ringing ceremony with our current oldest and youngest pupils ringing the bell for us.

As Bishopton Primary will be sharing our campus with Dargavel Primary for the first term we will be holding on to our special ‘Bishopton School Song’ video for special release in October 2021.

This has been a challenging year for everyone and we thank you for your patience and understanding. We are all hoping for more settled times ahead.

Have a lovely Summer!

Please refer to the previous blog post with information about the arrangements for school returning on 16^th August 2021.

As we head towards the summer holidays can I take this opportunity to remind everyone to continue to be vigilant about headlice and continue to check their child’s head regularly.

See attached leaflet

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Please see the presentation and family letter links below.

Assembly Presentation Renfrewshire

Family Letter SRC Wild World Heroes

RENFREWSHIRE EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY SERVICE

If you are worried about your child’s wellbeing due to the impact of COVID-19 and home learning, we can offer a listening ear, support and advice.

0300 300 0170   OPTION 4
10 AM – 4 PM (MON-FRI)

Parents and carers can contact the service on the above number to request a callback from someone in education.

(within 2 working days where possible)

WE CANNOT PROVIDE EMERGENCY SUPPORT

If you need to speak to someone straight away, please use one of the national support lines:

Breathing Space 0800 83 85 87
Samaritans 116 123
Childline 0800 1111

Coping During COVID Flyer

Please complete our Lockdown Learning Survey for parents and carers by clicking on the link below.

The survey will be available until Friday 12th of February 2021

Your views are important to us.

Good morning everyone,

Happy Wednesday!

Well done to everyone for all your hard work in the classrooms. I know just how proud the teachers are with you all. It’s great to have the majority of issues now fixed in MS TEAMs and the assignments section working properly again, as we may be online a bit longer to keep everyone safe.

Remember it’s really important for you to ‘check-in’ with your online class teacher before 9.45 am so that we know you are all safe and well.

Remember do what you can and try to get outside when the weather allows.

Keep safe,

Mr Collins

Good morning everyone.

We are all keeping our fingers crossed that Teams will work better today.

Please try not to become frustrated if Teams isn’t working as well as you would like. Your teacher has given you activities that can be completed away from a computer.

If you are having technical issues please do one of those activities and come back to the computer later.

Parents– Class teachers are busy during the day managing their Teams. If you have any issues please call the SMT on the numbers provided and we will get back to you. You can also email the enquiries email address marking your email for the attention of the relevant member of SMT.

Please remember we are here to help and support you in any way possible. Do not hesitate to get in touch if you are having any difficulties.

Good luck everyone – we can do it!

Mr Collins

The Flu Vaccination for all pupils P1 – P7 will take place on

Wednesday 4th December 2019

For more information please see the link below

http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/23735-_Child%20flu%20vaccine%20primary%20school%20leaflet-August2019-English.pdf