Today we had our School Christmas lunch. There was lots of singing and empty plates. Well done to our P7 helpers who did a fantastic job.
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P7 – Christmas in Germany
Yesterday Vincent visited Primary 7 to talk about Christmas in Germany. It was very interesting and it as great to compare and contrast our celebrations.
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!
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!!!
P7S – plough to plate
Today we applied our understanding of farming using the Explain Everything App. We looked at how food comes from plough to end up on our plate. Here are some action pictures of our work so far.
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!
- Maths Please use a variety of websites to enhance your mental agility.
- 72 Learn Its
- Hit the Button
- P7 Maths Weblinks
- Mangahigh
- Sumdog
- http://skoolbo.co.uk/
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!
Netball Tournament
The Primary 5-7 Netball Club represented the school in the recent tournament in Renfrew High School.
Well done to all involved in organising the event, a great time was had by all!
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!
- Maths To help with our ‘Fractions, Decimals and Percentages’ please use the following links to practice our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
- 72 Learn Its
- Hit the Button
- P7 Maths Weblinks
- Mangahigh
- Sumdog
- http://skoolbo.co.uk/
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 still 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
- Would you like to design a flyer for the Christmas Fair with the chance of winning 2 cinema vouchers? If so, please visit this link: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/bishopton/2016/11/09/design-a-flyer-for-the-christmas-flyer/
Football Team – Soccer 7s
The football team competed in the Soccer Sevens Tournament today at Ferguslie Sports Centre.
We played against four different teams and scored some wonderful team goals. It was great to see such team spirit after some difficult matches.
Well done to the boys scoring 8 goals and conceding 0!!!
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://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.
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.
P 4-7 Dodgeball club
Here are some pictures from the Dodgeball club. The class looked lots of fun and there were some excellent ball skills and teamwork on show.
P 4-7 Multi sports club
The p1-3 multi sports club were busy in action at lunch today. Here are some pictures.
P7S Food for thought challenge
Today we created Food Trumps to look at why food is transported worldwide and how this can effect the environment.
P4-7 Football
Here are some pictures of the p4-7 football club in action.
P5-7 Rugby club
Here are some pictures from the Rugby Lunchtime club. There was great attitude and fun throughout.
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
- Have a go at Skoolbo online at http://skoolbo.co.uk/ .
We will look at this on Monday afternoon. - Feel free to practise the 72 Learn Its or use any of the useful Maths websites on the links below.
- 72 Learn Its
- Hit the Button
- P7 Maths Weblinks
- Mangahigh
- Sumdog
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
P1-3 Ballet club
Here are some pictures of today’s Ballet Club. The sport committee were very impressed with the skills on show!
P 5-7 Basketball Club
Here are some pictures from today’s basketball club. There are still spaces available for others wanting to join in.
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!
Primary 6/7 football
The football team played in a very exciting game against Barsail Primary today with our opposition just edging victory in an 8 goal thriller. Both teams played some great football with excellent goals and both keepers made some terrific saves.
Well done to both teams for serving up an entertaining match!
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
