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P5 Fundraiser

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P5 FUNDRAISER!

Tomorrow (Thursday), Primary 5 are holding a fundraiser to help raise money for the school funds. The activities will be held in the P5 classes. The activities are:

Bake sale – Cakes will be sold at prices between 10p – £1

Guess the teddy bear’s birthday – 50p

Guess the number of sweets in a jar – 30p for 1 guess or 2 guesses for 50p

Balloon pop – 20p

Adopt a fish – 50p

Please come and support our event.

Thank you

Lewis, Mischa and Owen – P5 Digital Leaders

Roots and Wings Community Cafe

Hello there! We are still after helpers for our next community cafe!

On Wednesday 22nd February, the school will be hosting our second intergenerational community cafe. We will have some visitors from Erskine Care Home as well as older members of our local community. Primary 5S will be hosting our second cafe (with help from the House Captains) and spending time with our visitors while doing some different activities.

If there is anyone you know who you think would be interested in coming the cafe, please let them know the details from the poster below. One of the main aims of Roots and Wings is to tackle loneliness in our local community and enable the different ages to enjoy spending time together.

Here are some quote from the children and our guests from the last cafe:

“It was really good fun talking to the visitors!”

“Bob told us about how he landed on Gold beach at D-Day. He was actually there.”

Arnott was really funny!”

“I liked showing them my book about fairies.”

“I have had a wonderful day. It has made me very emotional. The school should be very proud of the children.”

“What a lovely idea! The wee ones did brilliantly with their singing and dancing.”

“I hope I can come back again!”

We would like to offer our guests some drinks and biscuits as part of the cafe and need some helpers to assist in the serving of the refreshments. You do not have to be a P5S parent/carer to help out!

It would be wonderful to have four parent helpers to make our next Roots and Wings Cafe a big success! It will run from 1.30-3pm (if the helpers could come for 1pm that would be ideal) and if you are able to help, please comment on this post below, or pop a note in your child’s homework diary.

Thank you in advance for your help and support!

Miss Burnett

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P5 Fundraising!

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P5 FUNDRAISER!

On Thursday 16th February, Primary 5 are holding a fundraiser to help raise money for the school funds. The activities will be held in the P5 classes. The activities are:

Bake sale – Cakes will be sold at prices between 10p – £1

Guess the teddy bear’s birthday – 50p

Guess the number of sweets in a jar – 30p for 1 guess or 2 guesses for 50p

Balloon pop – 20p

Please come and support our event.

Thank you

Lewis, Mischa and Owen – P5 Digital Leaders

Time Capsule Visit

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Please ensure the photo permission form has been returned by Thursday too.

With thanks,

Miss Burnett

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers

Sainsbury’s Active Kids is back and we need your help to collect lots of vouchers. So ask your family and friends to pick up vouchers when they shop at Sainsbury’s and donate them to us. Then we can exchange them for great sports and cooking equipment and exciting experiences for the kids. Find out more about Active Kids at https://activekids.sainsburys.co.uk/

Please send in your vouchers with your child or take them to the school office. Thank you.

Vegetable Tasting!

The Food and the Environment sub group were discussing ways in which we could promote healthy eating as well as helping to reduce food waste in the school. We are hoping to put lots of plans in place over the next few weeks and months but we thought we would firstly take the opportunity, to promote the new Renfrewshire School Meals Menu which starts on Monday.

As a group, we discussed how many vegetables are wasted at meal times as children are not willing to try them because they don’t know what they are or taste like. After speaking to Mrs Ferguson in the kitchen, we agreed that we would hold a vegetable tasting day for the whole school.

Mr Collins and Mrs Davidson discussed the importance of healthy eating and promoted some of the new vegetables at our assemblies before all pupils (and staff) had the opportunity to sample some of the vegetables that will be on offer on the new menu.

Curly kale was the clear favourite, followed by green beans and then roasted onions (we might need to promote the latter more!)

Here are some pictures of our infant children trying some of the vegetables:

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Radio 2’s 500 Words writing Competition

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Today is the launch on Radio2’s 500 Word Writing Competition. There are two age categories: 5-9 years and 10-13 years. You do not have to do this but if you are a particularly talented writer or have written a successful story, why not give it a go?

Visit the Radio 2 website for more information. Click here for the rules.

Go on, let your imagination run wild and let the ink flow!

Severe Weather Procedures

With poor weather forecast here is a quick reminder of our procedures.  In snow and ice a path for  will be cleared from the pedestrian entrance on Old Greenock Road down through the playground. Pupils will be allowed into the building from 8.50 a.m., staffing levels permitting.

Updates regarding schools will be posted regularly on Renfrewshire Council website, social media feeds as well as local radio.

In the unlikely event of an early closure no pupil will be dismissed unless accompanied by a parent or appropriate emergency contact.

Please ensure that the office have up to date emergency contact information. If you have made any informal arrangements with other parents to collect your child in these circumstances please let the office know as we can only allow another adult to collect a child if we have the express permission of a parent.

Lunch Menu Update

11949841151219036692menu_example1-svg-medWe hope you all had a wonderful festive season and are looking forward to a new term at school!

When pupils return this week, it will be the Week 4 (Thursday) lunch menu. Chicken pie will be replacing steak pie on this day.

There will be a menu change the following week on Monday 9th January. Macaroni cheese will replace the roast pork option.

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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Ospreys Christmas Art Day

On Friday we held our annual House Christmas Art Day. This year our focus was important buildings in Paisley to help with their bid to become the UK City of Culture 2021. The Ospreys had the important task of recreating Paisley Town Hall and they did a wonderful job.

Here are our Ospreys hard at work. Please keep scrolling to see our completed display.

Our completed display (and our House Captains): Paisley Town Hall

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House Christmas Art Day

Well done to all of the houses for working so hard today during the Christmas Art Day! It was wonderful to see everyone helping each other to create amazing individual art pieces and contributing to the big house displays.

I am sure all the visitors will enjoy looking at them tomorrow at the Christmas Fair.

Here are photos of the finished displays. They each feature a Paisley landmark to support the bid for Paisley City of Culture in 2021.

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Walk to School Winners 23/11/16

The winning classes for this week were:

Infant – P2/1

Middle – P5H

Upper – P6P

Well done to those classes! You have earned 5 extra minutes playtime!

Also, we have chosen the winners for the Walk to School Poster competition!

The winners were from P2H, P5S and P7M! Well done to these pupils! Your posters will be displayed in your department. All entries were amazing and will be displayed on the walk to school wall in the P6 corridor.

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Renfrewshire Sumdog Contest – Friday 25th to Thursday 1st

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https://www.sumdog.com/sch/bishopton-primary-school

Our school has been entered into the Renfrewshire Sumdog Contest which runs from 8am on Friday 25th November until 8pm on Thursday 1st December.

To take part, simply play Sumdog’s maths games. If you do not have your Sumdog Username and Password, please ask your teacher. Scores are based on accuracy, and questions tailored to your level – so everyone has a fair chance.

To make contests fair every pupil is limited to 1000 questions. However, it’s fun to take part even if students only answer a few questions.

The motivation is to climb the leader board and beat all other participating schools within Renfrewshire. You can also win rewards for your Sumdog account. Click here to find out more about the prizes.

Here are some things to keep in mind during the contest:

  • You can play at any time.
  • For the score to count, the Renfrewshire Maths Contest activity must be showing in the green panel on the left of the your screen when you click to start each game.
  • Your scores are based on correct answers.
  • A class’s score is the average of the scores from all students from that class who take part.
  • To appear on the leaderboard, at least 10 pupils from each class need to play.
  • As some pupils have limited computer access, every pupil is limited to 1000 contest questions. However, their free logins let them keep playing other activities afterwards.