Renfrewshire Council is looking for parents/carers to come to Bishopton Primary on Tuesday 22nd May at 2.15pm to evaluate the schools’ successes as a Nurture Pathfinder School and suggest ways that parents would like to see it developed in the future.

If you can attend, please telephone the school office: 01505 862203

Many thanks

Mr Collins

DHT

One of our P1 pupils is on holiday but was so inspired by National Numeracy Day that she has been playing Big Maths Beat That by the pool! Well done – we love her enthusiasm and effort!

#numberspeople @Nat_Numeracy @BigMaths @sumdog @GetKahoot

Please click the link below to see more information on this exciting event held at the Universeity of West Scotland on Thursday 7th June, 4-7pm. @UniWestScotland

GSF 2018 web flyer

Many thanks for the great response we had to Week 1 of our Literacy Café. Our Primary 1 pupils loved helping their parents/carers share ideas about how we can all engage in reading.

If you can make it again or would like to come along for the first time, the next session  will be next Monday 21st May 2018 from 5.15 – 6.30pm.

Parents, grandparents and carers of our current Primary 1 pupils are all welcome.

Please telephone the school office: 01505 862203 with your name and any special dietary requirements.

Happy reading!

Mr Collins

The Literacy/Reading Cafe will open  Monday, 14th May from 5.15-6.30pm for our current Primary 1 children.

At the café children and their adult will learn how to read together, share a snack provided by us and learn new skills in reading.

If you would like to attend, please could you phone the school office for your name to be added to the attendance list and let us know of special dietary requirements.

Hope to see you there.

Mr Collins

Dear Parents and carers of our new Primary 1 pupils attending in August 2018,

Due to ongoing works at the school, our Sports day venue for the nursery race has been changed to the ROF Field from 9.30 – 10.30am. The date remains the same Wednesday 30^th May (weather permitting).

In addition, the BPPC Summer Disco will now be held on Wednesday the 6^th June from 6-7pm for new entrants, primary 1 and 2 pupils.

If you require any additional information or support to access these events, please telephone the school office:

tel 01505 862203

Hope to see you there.

Mr Stephen Collins

Deputy Headteacher,

Bishopton Primary

It’s time for our talented pupils to show off what makes them special in our annual Talent Show. The show will take place on Friday 15th June.

The auditions will take place from Tuesday 29th May at lunchtimes. Please collect an audition application from Mrs McNaught or Miss McDowall. You must complete it and hand it to Miss McDowall no later than Thursday 24th May. Please bring any music (clean versions) to the audition.

Once the auditions are finished you will receive a note to let you know if you have been successful. We are looking forward to seeing our pupils shine like the stars they are!

Mr Collins will be opening a weekly Primary 1 Literacy/Reading Cafe for parents, grandparents, carers and children next Monday, 14th May from 5.15-6.30 pm. At the café children and their adult will learn how to read together, share a snack and learn new skills in reading.

If you would like to attend, please could you phone the school office for your name to be added to the attendance list.

Hope to see you there.

Mr Collins

If anyone is missing a bike from before the Easter Break, one has been handed in to the school office. A neighbour of the school put it in his garage to keep it safe during the holidays as it was left unattended in the school playground after we had stopped. The neighbour has only now returned from holiday and handed the bike into the school. If you think this might belong to you please contact the school office.

Hello there

As you may be aware we are having some issues with a delay between posts on the blogs and email updates. We have made a few changes behind the scenes that will hopefully help with this problem, however, there may be some teething issues so please bear with us as we iron them out!

Previously, the email updates contained posts from the class you subscribed to and any posts from the main school blog. We think this is where the delay was happening. Therefore, if you want to receive updates from the main school blog and your child’s class blog, you will need to subscribe for the class and the main school blog updates and will receive two emails. The window for these emails arriving should be between 5 and 7pm each night with any updates from that day being sent through to your email. Please be aware that any posts added to the blog after 5pm that day will be in the update email the following day.

Example: if you have a child in P4M and P7H you should subscribe to both classes and will receive an email for each. If you also want to receive any posts on the main school blog (general posts that apply to the whole school), please subscribe to that also.

In addition we have changed the way in which our blog posts are pushed to the twitter feed. This should result in twitter being updated within a few minutes of the class teacher posting on the blog and information getting to you in a more timely manner.

Also to ensure we are reaching as many people as possible we have set up a Facebook page which will also be updated from the school blog. Search for Bishopton Primary School Renfrewshire  or click here and like and follow our page. Please note, as with all our social media channels, this will not be monitored outwith school hours and should not be used as a means of contacting the school. If you wish to contact us please do so by contacting the school office.

Finally we are still experiencing issues with the enquiries email address. We are hoping that this will be resolved soon. In the meantime if you have sent an email and not received a response please contact the office and we will ensure your enquiry is dealt with promptly.

Thanks for your patience as we work to find a resolution.

Pupils from both Primary 2 and Primary 6 have been participating in Primary Engineer events throughout the year, with both classes learning how to build a moving vehicle. Primary 2 built a moving car and Primary 6 an electric vehicle. The children thoroughly enjoyed these lessons and today a small group of pupils from both classes attended a celebration event to meet with pupils from other schools and test their cars in a competition.

Our Primary 6 vehicle drivers did a super job climbing up the test ramp and also spoke with great confidence about how they created their design. Although they did not place in the final 2, they flew the flag high for the talents of Primary 6!

The vehicle designed and built by our Primary 2 team was the winner in the Apprentice 1 category. Pupils did a fantastic job explaining the details of their car design and enjoyed testing their vehicle on the ramp!  The pupils will now go forward and represent the school at the upcoming finals.

A huge well done to our representatives today and to the rest of our future engineers. You should all be very proud of yourselves, your can-do attitude and the fabulous vehicles you created!

We have been asked by several parents to email the Powerpoint Presentation used at last week’s RSHE Information Evening.

I would ask you to note that some of the statistics on the presentation are slightly out of date.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Mrs Davidson                                                    RSHE – Parent Presentation

Hello everyone! Following on from the ‘Chuck it in a Bucket for Uganda’ day before the holidays, I am absolutely thrilled to say that our school community raised an amazing £578 pounds! Thank you so much for your support in raising this fantastic amount and for your continued engagement in the project. I have really enjoyed speaking to the children about the upcoming visit and cannot wait to  share my pictures and experiences with them when I return in August.

Thanks again,

Miss Cauley

We are aware that there is a delay between the time the class teachers post to the blog and parents receive an email alert or a notification on twitter. The delay can be as much as 48 hours. Unfortunately this is not something we have control over. Therefore we would ask that in the meantime you access the school/class blog for the most up to date information.

We are also experiencing difficulties with the Bishopton Enquiries email address. If you need to make contact with the school office please phone rather than email for the time being.

We will update you when these issues have been resolved. Apologies in the meantime for the inconvenience.

We are coming to the end of the First Minister’s Reading Challenge and need to submit the number of books we have read as a whole school!!!!  Please could all children return their reading passports to their class teacher by Friday 27th April?  If you have misplaced the passport, we have spare in school.

Thank you for your support

Mrs Campbell

All P6 pupils have been issued with a hard copy of the Deputy First Minister’s Easter Maths Challenge or you can access it here to print at home: Easter-Maths-Challenge.  This is a fun way to spend time with the family while developing your maths skills! Although it is aimed at 2nd Level pupils, I am sure everyone could give it a go with a little support!

Have a go and let us know how you got on. The solutions and working will be published at https://blogs.gov.scot/making-maths-count/  on Wednesday 4 April 2018.

All activities are free. All children under 8 years must be accompanied by an adult. See below for the timetable or click   Skoobmobile Easter Timetable 2018 A4 for the pdf.