Just a reminder that Tempest Photography will be in school on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th October to take individual and family photographs.

Next week is the final week to snap up your copy of the P7S Superhero Recipe Book. All orders will close on Thursday 12th October. Please see THIS POST to place an order.

We appreciate you supporting the P7S Build-a-Business topic!

We had a fantastic author visit yesterday from Lindsay Littleston.  Children heard about her journey to becoming an author, she read an extract of her award winning novel, “The Mixed Up Summer of Lily McLean” and had a question and answer session with the children .

Children had the opportunity to buy “The Mixed Up Summer of Lily McLean” and “The Awkward Autumn”.  If your child still wants to purchase a book, please send their payment of £6 per book in an envelope with their child’s name and class by Monday 9th October.

Thank you

Mrs Campbell

All children will bring a Reading Passport home with them this week to allow them to take part in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge.  This is a National initiative and has been extended this year to include P1-7.  Children are being encouraged to read as many books as possible throughout the year and record this in their passport.  More information can be found at www.readingchallenge.scot

We appreciate your support and encouragement in this.

Mrs Campbell

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!

Primary 6 are needing some plastic water bottles for a science experiment if anyone would like to donate.

If you have any could you please send them up to any P6 class.

Thanks!

Miss Grant and Miss Altman

Well done to everyone who wore an inside out item today whilst walking to school!

The winners were:

Infants: P1E

Middle school: P4C

Upper school: P6A

Well done! You have won yourselves 5 minutes extra active activities in the playground!

We look forward to the next walk to school.

The Travel Champions

This year, Primary 6 will be taking part in the intergenerational quiz, which is a Renfrewshire wide quiz aimed at challenging negative stereotypes surrounding age. Primary 6 pupils will be teamed up with an older generation to learn about different categories such as music, film and tv, foreign languages and Scottish history in order to compete in a final quiz in November.

We are looking for willing grandparents of the children of this school to help us take part. You do not have to have a grandchild in Primary 6 and you would be required for six afternoon sessions.

If you are able to take part could you please send a letter in with your child to be given to Miss Grant or Miss Altman in Primary 6.

It is sure to be a great learning experience and lots of fun!

Thank You

Miss Grant & Miss Altman

Last week we ran a competition to find a best poster to promote walking to school.

We had a hard time choosing as they were all fantastic! However we narrowed it down to one.

The winner is Jessica in P3S, who has won her class 5 minutes active play in the playground.

The poster will be displayed on the Travel Champions wall outside P6G for everyone to see.

Well done!

We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday with your inside out clothing!

The Travel Champions

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.

This year the Walk to School is back! Every two weeks, the Travel Champions will choose an item to wear to school that will count towards a prize if their class wins the Walk to School. To win, a class must have the most amount of children that walked, scooted, cycled or parked and rode that day.

This Wednesday’s theme is:

An inside out item.

Pupils can choose one item of clothing to wear to school inside out. Feel free to change later!

We look forward to seeing you next Wednesday!

The Travel Champions.

This year, Primary 6 will be taking part in the intergenerational quiz, which is a Renfrewshire wide quiz aimed at challenging negative stereotypes surrounding age. Primary 6 pupils will be teamed up with an older generation to learn about different categories such as music, film and tv, foreign languages and Scottish history in order to compete in a final quiz in November.

We are looking for willing grandparents of the children of this school to help us take part. You do not have to have a grandchild in Primary 6 and you would be required for six afternoon sessions.

If you are able to take part could you please send a letter in with your child to be given to Miss Grant or Miss Altman in Primary 6.

It is sure to be a great learning experience and lots of fun!

Thank You

Miss Grant