A letter has been sent out today with details of the Triple P Parenting Programme. Please see below for more details:

Triple P Parenting Programme

Coping with children can, at times, be a challenge!

Issues such as tantrums, refusal to follow rules, shouting and screaming can cause stress and at times parents feel nothing they do works!

Help is at hand!

Triple P is highly regarded and successful programme for supporting parents who may be finding their children’s behaviour challenging.

Paul Harrison and Magi McCulloch, Home Link Workers, will be running a Triple P programme starting on Friday 27^th October in Renfrew High School for 7 weeks. Sessions will be between 9.30am-11.30am.

Dates for your diary therefore are: Friday 27^th October, Friday 3^rd November, Friday 10^th November, Friday 17^th November, Friday 24^th November*, Friday 1^st December* Friday 8^th December

* 30 minute telephone sessions at home

If you would like to be considered for a place in the group could you give Paul or Magi a call on 0141-886-8115 or complete the tear off slip attached to the letter and return to the primary school office, to discuss the next steps.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Harrison

Home Link Worker

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has challenged the pupils of Bishopton Primary school to design a flag that will take pride of place at the entrance to the latest new homes at the development at Dargavel Village, Bishopton.

The winning design will be made into a flag that will fly at the entrance to the new development to welcome visitors.

Design Brief

• Please use an A3 piece of paper for your design (which you can get from your teacher)
• Keep your design big and bold
• Designs should be simple and not too detailed
• All design should make use of solid colours
• Use of full colour is allowed

Remember! The winning flag design will be flown from six metres high so your design must be strong and bold enough to be seen from a distance.

Deadline

Finished, full colour drawings should be handed in to Mr Collins by Wednesday 4th October 2017.

Prizes

The winning design will be used to create a flag for use at Taylor Wimpey’s development in Dargavel Village and the designer will win a £50 cinema voucher. Second prize is a £25 cinema voucher and third prize is a £15 cinema voucher.

BAE Systems are running an exciting design competition open to everyone at Bishopton Primary School to create a sign around the theme of safe driving and sticking to the speed limit when driving through the village.

The winning designs will be chosen by a panel of judges and turned into road signs that will displayed around Dargavel Village. The pupils who created the winning designs will also get a small prize and a framed version of their design.

All entries must be handed in by Tuesday 26th September (please ensure child’s full name and class is written on the back).

We are sure you will have lots of excellent ideas and can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Click below to access the I Am A Mathematician resource created by Education Scotland. It is full of lots of ideas for families to learn and practise maths together.

P7S Superhero Smoothie Recipe Book

In P6, we were given a task to design a superhero themed smoothie. The colours in the smoothie had to match up with the superhero we had picked. As a class we voted for our top 3 favourite recipes and made them up for taste-testing. They were delicious!

We have now turned our amazing recipes into a Superhero Smoothie Recipe Book. This is an electronic book (not printed) and are for sale for £1.50 for a limited time. They contain loads of different fruit, juice and yogurt recipes and are available by completing the contact form on this post.

If you would like to order our amazing smoothie e-book, please fill out the contact form to advise our management team. Please send the money to P7S in a labelled envelope (exact money only please!). It will all be added up by our finances team during our Build a Business time on a Friday and the recipe book will be emailed out to you as soon as we can.

Thank you for supporting the P7S Build-a-Business topic!

You may have noticed some changes on our school blogs. To allow us to keep you updated with all the wonderful work happening at Bishopton Primary we have had to set up each stage with their own blog. These look just the same as before and you should be able to navigate between the main school site, and the class blogs, easily.

For example, if your child is in P5S you can click on the link down the left hand side of the main page to access the posts specific to them, or go via the Class Blogs menu at the top of the page. Both links will take you to the same place. This is where posts meant only for P5S will be located.

To view posts meant for everyone (eg. upcoming events, menu changes, school-wide news) you can select Whole School News from the list on the left hand side or from the News menu at the top of the page. These posts are also located in a section on the right hand side of all of the class blogs.

We highly recommend subscribing to your class updates (using the Subscribe to Primary… link). This will send an email every evening with all updates specific to the class and all Whole School News posts.

We hope you enjoy using the blogs and seeing what is happening in the school.

We are currently working away at making some changes to the school website. We hope to minimise any disruption to your use of the site while this is going on. Our aim is for each stage to have their own individual blog that you will access via the class information pages. While the links are set up for these, the pages are not currently active! We will let you know when they are.

Thank you for your understanding.

Bishopton Primary School is excited to announce that it is now a member of the Institution of Primary Engineers. The vision is that pupils will take ownership of their learning from an early age and will engage with a range of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities. This will enable them to learn more about the breadth of engineering and its career paths.

By engaging with engineering projects, pupils will be able to make connections between their knowledge and understanding in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and apply it. Members of the Institution of Primary Engineers will be able to develop solutions to challenges and real world problems through applying their knowledge and understanding of STEM, whilst also developing the skills, attitudes and attributes needed to become engineers of the future.

A pupil-led committee will form the basis of the Institution of Primary Engineers at school level and, with the support of teachers and engineers, will develop a plan to engage pupils in engineering projects and embed engineering into the life of the school.

Calling all engineers!

Are you a member of a professional engineering institution/society or do you have links to the engineering industry? If the answer is YES, then we would be delighted to have your help and support as we embark on this exciting journey into the world of engineering. You could:

• become a member of our school-based Institution of Primary Engineers Committee
• deliver a talk/presentation to a class about your job as an engineer
• allow pupils at the school to interview you about your career as an engineer
• put us in touch with local engineering companies
• help us arrange visits to local engineering companies
• support us in school with our engineering projects

If you are interested in helping please fill out the contact form below.

With many thanks in advance!

Miss Burnett

School Menu Change

For our first week back at school the school menu will be Week 4 (see here for more details). There is a small change for this week only where the options for Tuesday and Wednesday will be switched over.

Fairtrade Tuckshop

The Fairtrade Tuckshop is officially SOLD OUT for this school session! Thank you very much for all your support and helping to raise awareness of all the tasty Fairtrade treats available.

We will keep you posted on whether or not the tuckshop will be running again next session in August/September.

Thanks again,

P5S

Hello everyone!

Our final intergenerational community café takes place on Wednesday 31st May from 1.30-3pm. We would really appreciate your help in ensuring we have lots of visitors to the café. The aim of the café is to provide an opportunity for the host class (P5H this month) to interact with older members of our local community and to enjoy spending some time together.

Please let any grandparents, friends of grandparents, or any family friends or neighbours you think would be interested, know they are very welcome to come along! Please let them know they do not have to have grandkids at the school and they do not have to stay for the full time, they are welcome to drop in for some of the café time, we would be delighted to see them!

As this is our last café of the school year we would love it to be a big success and to see lots of new faces come along. If you have any questions please leave a comment below or contact me at the school.

With thanks!

Miss Burnett

Hello there! We are after helpers for our next community cafe!

On Wednesday 31st May, the school will be hosting our final intergenerational community cafe of the school year. We will have some visitors from Erskine Care Home as well as older members of our local community. Primary 5H will be hosting our next cafe (with help from the House Captains) and spending time with our visitors while doing some different activities.

We would like to offer our guests some drinks and biscuits as part of the cafe and need some helpers to assist in the serving of the refreshments. You do not have to be a P5H parent/carer to help out!

It would be wonderful to have four parent helpers to make our next Roots and Wings Cafe a big success! It will run from 1.30-3pm (if the helpers could come for 1pm that would be ideal) and if you are able to help, please comment on this post below, or pop a note in your child’s homework diary.

Thank you in advance for your help and support!

Miss Burnett

To allow you to subscribe to the blog for your child’s class we use a forwarding service from Google. This is why the blog notification emails come from a GMail address. However, this email is not checked by Bishopton Primary staff and should not be used to contact the school or to try and submit anything on behalf of your child.

If you need to contact the school by email, please use this address bishoptonenquiries@renfrewshire.gov.uk

Alternatively call the school on 01505 862203.

With thanks.

Hello! This term, P6P are hoping to create a Museum of Technologies Past – featuring items of old (retro?) technology. We are hoping to focus on phones but would happily feature any old phones, computers, gaming systems, pagers, handheld systems etc. If you are happy to donate something to our museum (it will be returned to you) please send it in clearly labelled with your child, or drop it into the school office. It does not need to be in working order!

The older the better! If we could get a hold of a 1980s mobile phone it would be so interesting to show the children how the technology has evolved over the years.

Thanks for your help!

Miss Burnett

Hello everyone!

Our final intergenerational community café takes place on Wednesday 31st May from 1.30-3pm. We would really appreciate your help in ensuring we have lots of visitors to the café. The aim of the café is to provide an opportunity for the host class (P5H this month) to interact with older members of our local community and to enjoy spending some time together.

Please let any grandparents, friends of grandparents, or any family friends or neighbours you think would be interested, know they are very welcome to come along! Please let them know they do not have to have grandkids at the school and they do not have to stay for the full time, they are welcome to drop in for some of the café time, we would be delighted to see them!

As this is our last café of the school year we would love it to be a big success and to see lots of new faces come along. If you have any questions please leave a comment below or contact me at the school.

With thanks!

Miss Burnett

Fairtrade Tuckshop                            

At the last assembly before the Easter holidays P5S gave a presentation all about their Fairtrade tuckshop. The purpose of the tuckshop is to raise awareness of Fairtrade products and to help us move one step closer to becoming a Fairtrade school.

The first tuckshop will be on Wednesday 19th April (first week after the holidays). A group of P5S pupils will visit each of the classes before breaktime to sell the products. This will be the first week of the tuckshop so we hope you will be patient while we get organised!

The market research team selected 5 products that we will sell to start off with. These may change as time goes on and depending on how popular, or unpopular, things are. We would really appreciate it if you could bring the exact money for the things you would like to buy to make it easier for us to get round all the classes.

The products we sell range from 45p to £1.

They are:

Mixed Berries GeoBar – 45p

Chocolate Chewy GeoBar – 45p

Pineapple Fruit Pot – 65p

Flapjack – 75p

Giant Chewy Cookie – 75p

Divine White Chocolate Bar – £1

There will also be the following Free From Chocolate Crispie bar for 45p (gluten and dairy free). 

The tuckshop will run every Wednesday from the Easter holidays until the Summer holidays.

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY ALL THE YUMMY TREATS!

Fairtrade Tuckshop                            

At the last assembly before the Easter holidays P5S gave a presentation all about their Fairtrade tuckshop. The purpose of the tuckshop is to raise awareness of Fairtrade products and to help us move one step closer to becoming a Fairtrade school.

The first tuckshop will be on Wednesday 19th April (first week after the holidays). A group of P5S pupils will visit each of the classes before breaktime to sell the products. This will be the first week of the tuckshop so we hope you will be patient while we get organised!

The market research team selected 5 products that we will sell to start off with. These may change as time goes on and depending on how popular, or unpopular, things are. We would really appreciate it if you could bring the exact money for the things you would like to buy to make it easier for us to get round all the classes.

The products we sell range from 45p to £1.

They are:

Mixed Berries GeoBar – 45p

Chocolate Chewy GeoBar – 45p

Pineapple Fruit Pot – 65p

Flapjack – 75p

Giant Chewy Cookie – 75p

Divine White Chocolate Bar – £1

There will also be the following Free From Chocolate Crispie bar for 45p (gluten and dairy free). 

The tuckshop will run every Wednesday from the Easter holidays until the Summer holidays.

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY ALL THE YUMMY TREATS!