Today at the Digital Leaders meeting, we learned how to use the Explain Everything app. This is a great app that turns the iPad into a mini interactive whiteboard. We can explore ideas and share our learning by animating, recording and annotating slides.
In our next session, we will make a plan of how to teach what we have learned to a class of our peers. This will allow them to use the iPads in different areas of learning in class
The Learning Journeys will be sent out between Friday 18th and Friday 25th November. We hope you enjoy seeing what your child has been learning about in school.
If you have not received the profile by Monday 28th November, please get in touch.
The classes that won this week were:
Infants – P1F
Middle – P5H
Upper – P7M
Well done to the winners!! Teachers can choose when to add your 5 extra mins playtime!
The next walk to school will be on 23rd November. Travel Champions will be in touch soon to let you know the special item to wear.
Remember the poster competition closes this Wednesday 16th November!
Saturday 3rd December 2016, 1pm – 3pm
ALL PROCEEDS TO BISHOPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
Our Christmas Fair is fast approaching and we are looking for donations for our tombola and raffle.
To maintain a balance in donations we are suggesting they are split throughout the year groups as follows:
P1-3 – Beauty/ Cosmetic gift sets, small cuddly toys
P4-7 – Alcohol (beers, wines, spirits etc) and non perishable food items (eg tins of biscuits, boxes of chocolates and sweets)
Please could these be handed into the school office no later than Friday 25th November 2016
(Could any alcohol be handed in by an adult and not given to pupils to hand in.)
We need volunteers to run this event and if you can spare any time on the day of the fair, either to help set up or to run a stall, please contact the parent council (details below)
Please contact Emma Livingstone (07854529999) or Louise Hughes (07403203396)
Challenge: Design a flyer for the Christmas Fair
Prize: 2 x cinema passes
Closing date: Tuesday 15th November 2016
Entries to be handed in to school.
Stalls, Santas Grotto, Bouncy castle, surf machine, facepainting, tombola plus many more……
Hello from your travel champions!
Our first walk to school challenge begins this week! Every two weeks we will try to encourage pupils to walk to school by asking them to wear something silly or funny! This will be every second Wednesday and on that morning we will come round the classes and count how many people are wearing the chosen item for that week. The winning class will get an extra five minutes playtime!
The first walk to school is this Wednesday! (9th November)
This week the walk to school item is: a Halloween item (fangs, jewellery etc). We thought we would keep the spirit of Halloween going!
Furthermore, we have decided to run a poster competition for the whole school, which will be split into infant, middle and upper. Each pupil will create an A4 poster (on white paper) to promote walking to school. As a class you will pick the two best ones that will be submitted to us for judging. There will be one winner from each of the three areas of the school and the winning poster will be displayed on the wall for everyone to see. Posters can also be completed at home. The class that the winner comes from will also get five minutes extra playtime!
The competition closes on Wednesday 16th November.
Remember to wrap up warm and keep safe when walking to school!
The Travel Champions
Congratulations to this week’s Stars of the Week!
Calling all residents of Bishopton! We need your help.
Primary 7S are about to start a new technologies project linked to the history of the village. We would like to turn back the clock to learn all about Bishopton in the past. If you have any stories, photos, books, mementos (or anything else you can think of!) that would help with this project, we would be very grateful. Please send items in with your child or drop in at the school office.
After it has been logged, your item will be returned, so please ensure your name, or child’s name and class, is clearly labelled on what you hand in. If you, or a family member, would be willing to be interviewed about what Bishopton was like in years gone by, please let us know.
The more information we have, the more successful our project will be!
Thank you in advance,
Miss Burnett and P7S
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!
Reminder:
P1F, P1H, P1M and P2/1 have their Elmer day tomorrow! Please come dressed in bright colours and ready to have lots of Elmer-related fun!
Reminder:
Well done to to the Ospreys for receiving the most house points over the last 4 weeks. They have a non-uniform day tomorrow (Friday 7th) from P2H upwards.
Sadly the football team only got as far as the Smithholm roundabout after a problem with our bus today. Apologies to Barsail Primary for the inconvenience.
Here are the team ready before we set off.
The netball club were working hard after school today. There were lots of skills on show! Keep up the good work everyone!
Everyone was working hard at football training in preparation for their next fixture. Well done everyone.
The sport committee visited the Breakfast Tennis Club on Monday morning. There were lots of great tennis skills and plenty of fun.
The Digital Leaders have their own blog!
Click the logo below to access it.
We will be updating it over the next few weeks.
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Before School |
Tennis – Active Schools |
Hockey – Active Schools |
Running – Active Schools |
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Rugby – Active Schools |
Multi-Sports – Active Schools |
Athletics – Active Schools |
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Basketball – Active Schools Code Club – Mr Hutchison |
Badminton – Active Schools Chess Club |
Here are the clubs which are running in term one at Bishopton Primary. The Sport Committee will be updating the blogs with pictures of these clubs in the near future.
You can now subscribe for a daily email update for blog posts linked to your child’s class. Visit the class information page for the relevant class and then click on the subscribe links. You will be asked to enter your email address. You will then be sent a verification email to confirm your email address. If you do not respond to this you will not be successfully subscribed. Please check your junk mail folder in case the verification email has been sent there if you cannot locate it.
Each evening you will receive an email with any relevant posts that have been added to the blog.
Alternatively, if you would like to receive all posts for the whole school, use the Subscribe by e-Mail box to the right hand side of the page.
This feature has just been added today so please bear with us if there are any teething issues!
With thanks!
As part of our European Day of Languages, the Falcons have been learning all about Germany. This morning, they have been learning about two contemporary German artists.
P1-4 have been looking at the work of Astrid Stöeppel. Here are some examples of the work.
P5-7 have been learning about 1010. He is a German street artist who creates 3D illusions on concrete walls. Here are some examples of their work.
Tomorrow we will be celebrating European Day of Languages.
The children will be working in their house groups.
This is a non-uniform day – please wear house colours.
We will have a special whole school assembly on Thursday afternoon.
Our lost property has moved to the foyer inside the main entrance of the school. This should allow parents to quickly locate any missing items when they are visiting the school office.
Lost property is once again accumulating very quickly this term. Please make sure that all items that your child brings to school are clearly labelled with their name. This makes it easier to return the items to their owner. Many of our children have the same or very similar items and without names we have no way of determining who they actually belong to. Please check the names on clothing regularly as names do fade in the wash.
We have a number of jackets in lost property at the moment and pictures are included in this post. We are also still trying to track down a blazer and a red school waterproof jacket that are missing. Both these items are labelled with names and we would appreciate it if you would check just in case your child has put on the wrong jacket at the end of a day.
Due to the high volume of lost property we will be clearing out on a regular basis so please contact the school as soon as you discover an item is missing.
On Wednesday, we were lucky to have a visit from the Worm Inspectors who told us all about worms and even brought us our own wormery. They reminded us about the 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We learnt about what to feed our worms and what they cannot eat. We look forward to taking care of our worms and becoming Worm Inspectors ourselves.
The football team started their cup campaign against Rashielea Primary today.
It was a tough game and an excellent learning experience for our young team. We tried to play entertaining football and were rewarded with a well worked goal. Well done to Rashielea Primary and we wish you all the best with your games.
Your new school travel champions have been appointed from P6G and P6P! They are: Tayla, Cameron, John and Emma. We have conducted surveys in each class to determine how many of us walk or cycle to school. Coming up we will be having a poster competition to encourage walking/cycling to school (details to follow) and each month we will be conducting a walk to school event. We have some fun ideas to encourage everyone to walk to school and each month the best class will get an extra five minutes of playtime! We will keep you updated! 
Congratulations to our new House Captains! The quality of interviews from ALL pupils was very impressive and you were all a credit to your houses. We look forward to your welcome speeches next week.
Here are some pictures from the announcement.
