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Primary 7S – Week beginning 12/12/16

 

 

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 7 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 16th December.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
  • Reading All new books should be completed for Friday 16/12/16.

Maths

Please use a variety of websites to enhance your mental agility.

Other

  • Thursday – Christmas lunch (already ordered)
  • Friday – Christmas jumper day – please bring a donation for Save the Children
  • Outdoor P.E Tuesday and Thursday

Sport Scotland Gold Award

Bishopton Primary has achieved the Gold Sport Scotland School Sport Award!

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The Gold School Sport Award is recognition for our achievements in putting sport at the heart of our school’s planning, practice and ethos.

Fiona Mathie from Sport Scotland visited the school today to present the flag to our Sport Committee at the Primary 1-3 and 4-7 assemblies.

The Sport Committee would like to thank all of the teachers, coaches, volunteers and especially the pupils who made this possible. Well done everyone!!!

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Primary 7S Week beginning 5/12/16

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 7 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 16th December.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
  • Reading All new books should be completed for Friday 16/12/16. New books will be selected at some point this week.

Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

Other

  • Return any letters A.S.A.P. Christmas lunch slip must be returned.
  • Outdoor P.E Tuesday and Thursday

P7S – Week beginning 28/11/16

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 6 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Thursday 1st December.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
  • Reading –  All new books should be completed for Friday 16/12/16. New books will be selected at some point this week.

Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

Maths – Sumdog Renfrewshire Challenge. See previous post for more details but please try to play for at least 10 minutes each night.

Other

  • Return any letters A.S.A.P.
  • P.E Tuesday and Thursday
  • Wednesday 30th – St Andrew’s Day Holiday
  • Friday 2nd – Christmas Art Day: Wear your House colours but it might get messy!

Primary 7S – Week Beginning 21/11/16

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 6 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Thursday 1st December.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
  • Reading All books should be complete for Friday 25/11/16.

Green group – Stormbreaker or The Hobbit.
Purple group – Thomohawk.
Blue group – Call 999
Orange group – The Hodgeheg or George’s Marvellous medicine. Yellow group –  Escape from Shangri-La or The Outlaw of Varjak paw

Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

Maths To help with our ‘Fractions, Decimals and Percentages’ please use the following links to practice our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Topic

  • Solo talk is TOMORROW – It should last 2-3 minutes on a topic of your choice. See the blog for more tips.

Other

  • Return any letters A.S.A.P.
  • P.E Tuesday and Thursday

P7S – Week beginning 14/11/16

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 5 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 18th November.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
  • Reading – All books should be complete for Friday 25/11/16.

Green group – Stormbreaker or The Hobbit.
Purple group – Thomohawk.
Blue group – Call 999
Orange group – The Hodgeheg or George’s Marvellous medicine. Yellow group –  Escape from Shangri-La or The Outlaw of Varjak Paw

Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

Topic

  • Solo talk Tuesday 22nd November – Prepare a solo talk which will last 2-3 minutes on a topic of your choice. See the blog for more tips.

Other

P7 – Diversity of Christianity task

You have already had time to read the information from the Fact Sheets and some of you have watched short videos about the denomination of Christianity you have to research. Please use the weblinks below to further research your denomination.

 

Church of Scotland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z9yr87h video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/churchofscotland_1.shtml

http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/about_us/how_we_are_organised/history

 

Roman Catholic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTKO7iQS2M video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzYKqXfl6Es video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zkvcd2p video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/catholic/catholic_1.shtml

http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-9276778/Roman-Catholicism

 

 

Baptist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Y6ptlI9fM#t=12 video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/baptist_1.shtml

http://www.religionfacts.com/baptists

 

Episcopal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdw8nZTfxI&feature=youtu.be video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AHL3co8aQw video

http://www.scotland.anglican.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/cofe/cofe_1.shtml

 

 

 

 

Free Church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l8oJriAxPk video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD_-p7ouIrc video

http://freechurch.org/

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/christian.htm

 

Methodists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19Gsm78BzY   (only photos of the church so watch a wee bit or skip through it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv5hSnIYxkM  (computerised voice but some useful information)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/methodist_1.shtml

http://www.religionfacts.com/methodism

 

P7S – Week Beginning 7/11/16

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 5 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 18th November.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
  • Reading
    All books should be complete for Wednesday 9/11/16.

Green group – At least once.
Purple group – Race against time.
Blue group – Cool Clive
Orange group – Flat Stanley
Yellow group – The ghost of Grania O’Malley or The bad beginning.

Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

Maths

Our new Maths topic is ‘Fractions, Decimals and Percentages’ but we will need to recap those concepts to get us going. Answer the questions below is your Maths Homework jotter for Friday 11th November.  Remember to write the date, an appropriate title and show any working or calculations. Use the weblinks to help you.

Please ignore the October date on the hyperlink- This is when P7M completed the task. Both classes are completing the same pathways but at slightly different times.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/bishopton/2016/10/23/p7-maths-homework-fractions-friday-28th-october/

Topic

  • Solo talk Tuesday 22nd November – Prepare a solo talk which will last 2-3 minutes on a topic of your choice. See the blog for more tips.

Other

  • Return any letters A.S.A.P.
  • We require two adult/parent helpers on Friday 18th November from 10.00-11.00. Please write a note in your child’s diary to let me know if you can help. Thank you in advance.
  • P.E Tuesday and Thursday

P6/7 Football Team

The football team played against Bargarran in another entertaining match. Both teams tried to play good football and there were great individual and team performances for both schools.
Well done to Bargarran who edged victory with some excellent finishing and a thank you to our volunteers for making the game possible.

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P7S – Week beginning 31/10/16

Good Afternoon,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 4 in your Spelling Homework jotters for  Friday 4th November.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
  • Reading
    All books should be complete for Wednesday 9/11/16.

Green group – At least once.
Purple group – Race against time.
Blue group – Cool Clive
Orange group – Flat Stanley
Yellow group – The ghost of Grania O’Malley or The bad beginning.

Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

Maths

Topic

  • Solo talk Tuesday 22nd November – Prepare a solo talk which will last 2-3 minutes on a topic of your choice. See the blog for more tips.

Other

  • Return any letters A.S.A.P.
    We intend to visit the library shortly but are still waiting on walking consent forms.
  • P.E Tuesday and Thursday

P7S reading homework

Each group chose their new reading book today.

All books should be complete for Wednesday 9/11/16 (Two weeks time).

Green group  – At least once.

Purple group – Race against time.

Blue group – Cool Clive

Orange group – Flat Stanley

Yellow group – The ghost of Grania O’Malley or The bad beginning.

Remember there is no book detectives homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

 

P7S – Week beginning 24/10/16

Good Morning,

I hope you had a great holiday! Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

  • Reading – New reading books will be given out on Wednesday.
  • Spelling – Complete Unit/List 4 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 4th November.
  • Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.

Maths

  • Complete the time challenges for Friday 28/10/16

    Maths Homework

Topic

  • Solo talk Tuesday 22nd November – Prepare a solo talk which will last 2-3 minutes on a topic of your choice. See the blog for more tips.

Other

  • Return any letters A.S.A.P.
  • P.E Tuesday and Thursday
  • School photographs will be Thursday or Friday