Category Archives: Whole School News

Get Safe Online – Holiday and Travel Booking – January 2023

#HolidayBooking @getsafeonline

Get Safe Online

In June 2022, Miss Burnett attended training to become a Get Safe Online Ambassador. Renfrewshire Council, in partnership with Get Safe Online, are creating a team of online safety ambassadors working in education to help educate and support pupils and communities stay safe online.

Each month, Get Safe Online have a campaign focusing on one aspect of keeping safe online. To find out more about previous campaigns, please visit THIS page.

The January campaign is titled: Holiday and Travel Booking

Seems like everything you buy has shot up in price – including your holiday. Fraudsters are taking advantage of this and tricking people into paying for non-existent holidays. Don’t become a victim #HolidayBooking

www.getsafeonline.org/holidaybooking

Get Safe Online – Safe Online Christmas – December

#OnlineChristmas @getsafeonline

Get Safe Online

In June 2022, Miss Burnett attended training to become a Get Safe Online Ambassador. Renfrewshire Council, in partnership with Get Safe Online, are creating a team of online safety ambassadors working in education to help educate and support pupils and communities stay safe online.

Each month, Get Safe Online have a campaign focusing on one aspect of keeping safe online. To find out more about previous campaigns, please visit THIS page.

The December campaign is titled: Safe Online Christmas

Our top tips for staying safe online this festive season include advice on buying, setting up devices, safeguarding kids, video calls and much more #OnlineChristmas www.getsafeonline.org/onlinechristmas

With new devices and lots of time on their hands, are the kids in your life safe online this Christmas? Talk to them about what they’re doing online, guide them in the right direction and choose good parental control software/app #OnlineChristmas www.getsafeonline.org/onlinechristmas

Get Safe Online – Safe Online Shopping – November

#buyingonline @getsafeonline

Get Safe Online

In June 2022, Miss Burnett attended training to become a Get Safe Online Ambassador. Renfrewshire Council, in partnership with Get Safe Online, are creating a team of online safety ambassadors working in education to help educate and support pupils and communities stay safe online.

Each month, Get Safe Online have a campaign focusing on one aspect of keeping safe online. To find out more about previous campaigns, please visit THIS page.

The November campaign is titled: Safe Online Shopping

The busiest time of year for online shopping is also the busiest time for online criminals. Read our expert, easy-to-follow advice #BuyingOnline www.getsafeonline.org/buyingonline

Make sure websites you’re thinking of buying from are likely to be safe, and not fraudulent. Enter the address on our #CheckAWebsite tool at www.getsafeonline.org/checkawebsite #BuyingOnline

Information Leaflet – November 2022

Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week 2022

Last week, we celebrated Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week by hosting drop in football sessions for P5-7.

The aim was to encourage more girls into sport and physical activity, raise awareness of those regularly taking part at all levels, and address the barriers that lead to lower activity rates among girls.

The events were very well attended with lots of fun games over lunchtimes. We then had pupils represent the school at the Girls Football Festival on the Friday.

Despite some rain, we had a fantastic time and played some excellent football. Well done!

 

Get Safe Online – Safe Student Campaign – September

#onlinestudent @getsafeonline

Get Safe Online

In June 2022, Miss Burnett attended training to become a Get Safe Online Ambassador. Renfrewshire Council, in partnership with Get Safe Online, are creating a team of online safety ambassadors working in education to help educate and support pupils and communities stay safe online.

Each month, Get Safe Online have a campaign focusing on one aspect of keeping safe online. To find out more about previous campaigns, please visit THIS page.

The September campaign is titled: Safe Student

Their identity is your young student’s most important possession: it should be protected by not oversharing online, in texts or on the phone, or in return for freebies or entering competitions #onlinestudent www.getsafeonline.org/onlinestudent

Information Leaflet – September 2022

Extra-Curricular Clubs Term 1

We are delighted to offer the following clubs this term:

Active Schools Bishopton PS Programme Term 1A (Sep-Oct 2022) poster

Dodgeball (P5-P7 only).
Wednesdays.
Bishopton PS (indoor hall).
3:15-4:15pm.
Starting Wednesday 14th September 2022.

This can be booked through:

https://oneren-bishopton.class4kids.co.uk/

The Park Mains Community Clubs run on a Friday for pupils in P1-P7. This is at Park Mains High School.

For more information on this please see

https://oneren.class4kids.co.uk/

Chess (P4-7).
P6-7 on Mondays and P4-5 on Thursdays.

Bishopton PS.
12.15-1.15pm.

Letters have been given out from Mr McQueen. If you need another, please see Mr Kirkwood.

Football (P7).
Wednesday.
Bishopton PS.
8.10-8.55am.

If there are any more pupils who would like to join, please see Mr McAvoy.

The school Drama club will return after the October holidays.

 

Seesaw – Home Learning Codes

It has been lovely to see so many of our families access Seesaw this week using the Family Access Code. We are delighted to see some of the comments and “likes” come through on the work the pupils have been doing in class.

As with every new system there are some teething issues and rest assured, we have been working away at fixing these in the background.

Today, Home Learning Codes have been been sent home for each child. This is so your child can access their learning journal and upload work at home (for example some teachers may ask for homework to be uploaded to Seesaw instead of having jotters returned). If your child has their own device they should use this code to login to their learning journal.

The Family Access code is for our families to view the learning journals of their child/children and should be set up using your own name, not the name of your child. If you have set this up using your child’s name, please don’t worry. You can send me a message on Seesaw and I can fix it for you (I have access to all of the classes so just drop me a line and I’ll have a look).

Please see our Seesaw Policy below for more information on using Seesaw and our expectations when using this new platform.

Bishopton-Seesaw-Policy-and-Guidance

Thank you for your support with this, we look forward to sharing more learning with you all on Seesaw!

Miss Burnett

Welcome to Seesaw!

All of the staff at Bishopton Primary are excited to get started using Seesaw! During our in-service day on Monday we learned lots about how to use Seesaw to share our learning in class and to post activities. Over the next couple of weeks we hope to give the children opportunities to become familiar with using Seesaw and sharing their work with you.

Please have a look in schoolbags this week for a unique family login letter for your child. Once you have downloaded the app follow the instructions on this letter to gain access to the learning journal (there are instructions on the letter for what to do if you have more than one child using Seesaw).

If you are unable to download the app onto a device, you can still access Seesaw using a web browser. There is also a link to Seesaw at the top of the blog (beside the Glow button). Please note, notifications on new posts/messages will not be received when using the web browser version of Seesaw.

Please bear with us while we get used to using this new form of communication. There are some help videos posted here to introduce you to Seesaw.

With thanks,

Miss Burnett and the Bishopton Primary Team

Online Changes

Under Construction Sign Clip Art

As we will be moving to Seesaw at the start of the next school session, here are the changes that will be happening online over the next few weeks.

Class Blogs – as photos and posts regarding your child’s learning in class will be happening via Seesaw, the class blogs will be archived. Our main school blog will still be there but will be “static” so not updated regularly. There will be a class page that will show the topics being covered each term. All communication from the school will come via Seesaw.

Teams – as we will have the ability to add activities, homework and messages via Seesaw, the class Teams will also be archived and Teams no longer used.

EMail Subscriptions – all email subscriptions for the blogs will be stopped as you will be notified via Seesaw of any messages/updates on the app.

I will create a page on our main school blog to share videos about how to use Seesaw.

We are all really looking forward to using Seesaw to share the wonderful things we do at Bishopton Primary!

Miss Burnett

Summer Wishes

On behalf of everyone at Bishopton Primary School I would like to wish you all a fantastic summer. This has been another challenging year for everyone but by working together we have made it through.

Your patience and support has been much appreciated by all staff.  I truly hope that you all have a great break over the summer.

I hope that you are all able to enjoy a long awaited break this summer and we look forward to welcoming all of our wonderful pupils back to school on Tuesday 16th August.

Playmaker and Bikeability level 1 Award

Congratulations to our Primary 6’s who have taken another step in their leadership development by completing their Sports Leaders Playmaker Award and also their Bikeability Level 1 Award.

The Playmaker Award means that the children can now plan, organise and deliver fun games for younger pupils whilst the Bikeability Level 1 award confirms that the pupils can use their bike control skills in traffic-free environments.

We look forward to seeing you all use these skills when you return in Primary 7.

Thank you to Fraser, our Active Schools Coordinator who assisted with our Playmaker award.

Bell Ringing at 1pm, Tuesday 28th June

As tomorrow is the last day of term we will be having our annual bell ringing in the basketball court at 1pm.

The youngest and oldest pupil have the honour of ringing the old school bell together to celebrate another successful year at Bishopton Primary School. The classes stand around the edge of the basketball court to watch on. Parents/carers are welcome to join us but we please ask that you stand back so the pupils can then find you once they have been dismissed.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Free school meals and clothing grant applications 2022/2023

Applications for free school meals and clothing grants for school session 2022/2023 are now open.

You should apply for free school meals and a clothing grant if you are on a low income and receive a qualifying benefit.

If your child is in primary six or seven, you should apply so your child can get a free school meal.

If your child is in primary one, two, three, four or five, your child will automatically receive a school meal. However, if you are on a low income, you should apply for free school meals because the council make payments into your bank account in lieu of school meals during school holidays (spring, summer, October and Christmas breaks). Please note these payments are only for people who meet the threshold of being on a low income. You can read more about the criteria on the MyAccount form.

You should also apply for a clothing grant no matter what primary class your child is in.

If you apply for a clothing grant by Friday 15 July and include all the required supporting documentation, then the council will be able to process your application and make a payment to you before the start of the new school term.

Visit MyAccount and log in to apply.

 

Introducing Seesaw!

Remote Learning with Seesaw - Learning at Home Tips for Families - Salem-Keizer School District 24J

Following feedback from our parental questionnaires, we plan to streamline our various forms of communication using SeesawThank you for completing the Seesaw consent forms for your children, this will allow the classes to be set up for the 2022-2023 school session.

As we will be moving to this new platform, I thought it would be useful for you to know that the following changes will be happening over the summer before the start of the new school year.

Class Blogs – as photos and posts regarding your child’s learning in class will be happening via Seesaw, the class blogs will be archived. Our main school blog will still be there but will be “static” so not updated regularly. There will be a class page that will show the topics being covered each term. All communication from the school will come via Seesaw.

Teams – as we will have the ability to add activities, homework and messages via Seesaw, the class Teams will also be archived and Teams no longer used.

EMail Subscriptions – all email subscriptions for the blogs will be stopped as you will be notified via Seesaw of any messages/updates on the app.

I will create a page on our main school blog to share videos about how to use Seesaw.

We are all really looking forward to using Seesaw to share the wonderful things we do at Bishopton Primary!

Miss Burnett

Moving on

Our last Assembly

What a quick year! We have just had our last Upper School Assembly of the session and what a busy one it was.

Mr McQueen came in to hand out the chess awards and we were delighted to hear that we won the Bishopton Day Chess Trophy this year.  What talented and clever young people we have.

We also had the pleasure of our clarinet group performing Top Dog for us.  They were note perfect.  All their practising and hard work certainly paid off and entertained us thoroughly.

We also had our usual awards and our House Captains were delighted to hand out their very last Stars of the Week as Bishopton Primary Pupils.  I would like to  take this opportunity to thank the House Captains for their enthusiasm, hard work and support through a very challenging year.  They have been fantastic and I really appreciate their commitment and eagerness to help me and any member of staff. You have been wonderful guys.

Iris Anderson Competition

Iris Anderson Competition

The P7’s competed in the Iris Anderson competition this term. This is an award in memory of our former teacher, Iris Anderson, who had a passion for Physical Activity. This award has been in the school for many years and has the names of many former pupils engraved on the side.

Throughout the term, the classes completed the bleep test, 30 metre sprint, long jump and javelin to see who the respective champions would be.

We look forward to awarding the top two pupils the trophies at the end of year assembly.

Assembly 16 June 2022

We had our upper school assembly on Thursday themed around World Oceans Day. It was strange not having our Primary 7s again as they were on their transition visit to Park Mains.  I really missed my House Captain helpers!

This week’s upper school Stars of the Week

We have had a very busy few weeks with trips, transitions and visitors to the school and, of course,  Primary 7 have had a full calendar.