Our Active Schools clubs continue with Fun Games for P1-4. This will begin on Monday 8th November from 3.15-4.15pm for four weeks.
This session begins with warm up games that increase the children’s heart rate and challenges their spatial awareness and ends with fun cool down games.
Activities will take place in the middle playground so please bring appropriate clothing and footwear.
If you would like to take part please register on the link below:
Keep Safe Kids app
The Keep Safe Kids app is a new and easier way for children and young people to access health and wellbeing information and support as well as to report bullying directly to their school.
Pupils can open the app and make reports at any time of day or night as well as make anonymous reports, helping them to control when and how they tell someone about an incident or their concerns.
Reports are sent directly to that child or young person’s school to be picked up in line with the school’s anti-bullying and wellbeing policies. Reports are not held on the app or accessible to anyone else, ensuring confidentiality and reports will not be picked up outside standard school hours.
If you have wellbeing concerns for your child, please do not hesitate to contact us directly. We are here to help.
To find out how to download or use the Keep Safe Kids app, visit the I Am Me Scotland website (https://iammescotland.co.uk/keep-safe-kids-app)
The latest Renfrewshire Sumdog Contest starts tomorrow at 8am and ends at 8pm on Thursday 4th November. Please play as many games as you can to help your class climb the leader board. Have fun practising your maths skills!
Reminder: register your child for Primary 1 before Friday 5th November.
If your child has their 5th birthday between 1 March 2022 and 28 February 2023, you should register them for school this week – and we’re asking you to do this online.
Go to https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/11957/Apply-for-a-place-at-school
You’ll need to have a few things ready to upload:
If you can’t register online, please phone your local catchment school to arrange an appointment. This is really important – please do not turn up at school without an appointment.
If you currently have a child attending Bishopton Primary School but live within the Dargavel Primary catchment please enrol your child for Dargavel Primary but in the comments section of the form please put that you wish them to attend Bishopton Primary.
Dear parent/carer,
If your child has been working with me in maths, I will be calling tomorrow during the day to give you a quick update. I will be calling from my mobile so it will appear as ‘Caller ID Hidden’ or ‘Unknown Caller’. I will leave a voicemail if you are unable to answer and I will try to call you back this week or next week.
Kind regards,
Karen McDowall, Principal Teacher
The child psychology drop-in service is an
opportunity for you to see an Educational Psychologist
and discuss concerns about your
child, without an appointment.
Please see the attached leaflet.
Active Schools are hoping to receive a response for every child in the school to help them focus their services in the school.
This will:
Information submitted will not be shared with any third parties and will be used to improve opportunities in your child’s school.
To complete the survey, please use the following link below:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/RenfrewshireLeisure3/pupilsurveyphysicalactivityandschoolclubs
The closing date is Sunday 31st October 2021.
Over the next couple of weeks, Campaign for Learning is holding free online sessions for parents and carers who would like tips and ideas for talking to their children about money.
Talk, Learn, Do is an interactive programme that helps develop money skills in a fun, friendly way and 99% of previous participants would recommend it to others.
The dates are 26th and 27th October, and 2nd and 3rd November. This event is 90 minutes long and there is a choice of times, including an evening option.
They are open to any parent or carer in Scotland, so please feel free to share with employees, contacts and networks who might be interested in these useful workshops.
Link to booking page here: https://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/Pages/Events/Category/parents-workshops
Dear Parent/Carer,
2 exceptional closure days have been confirmed for the 21st and 22nd December for both Bishopton and Dargavel Primaries.
This means that the term will finish for pupils on Monday the 20th December, There will be no early closure on this day. Both schools will finish at their normal times.
Pupils will start back on Thursday 6th January 2022.
https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/11751/Updates-on-Dargavel-Primary-construction
About this Event
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills announced on 22 June 2021 the intention to replace the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and remove the function of school inspection from Education Scotland. Professor Ken Muir, University of the West of Scotland, has been appointed to act as an independent advisor to the Scottish Government to consider and advise on the implementation of these changes and consider all functions currently delivered by both the SQA and Education Scotland.
Professor Muir wants to hear the views and ideas from all those with an interest in Scottish Education. This webinar is an opportunity specifically for parents and carers with children and young people in education, to hear first-hand about this reform work, to express views and ideas about the kind of education system we want to see in Scotland for the future and to ask questions of Professor Muir.
When
The virtual webinar session will take place on Wednesday 27th October from 6 30 p.m. till 8 p.m.
How to book
Please use the link below to sign-up for the event. The event will be held via Microsoft Teams Live and the link to join will be sent the day before to the email address used by participants to register.
Please click here to book – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/193601315747
The BPPC made up a Halloween booklet for every pupil which was given out on Wednesday 20th October. Pupils can complete this at home and should post pictures of their completed work on the BPPC FaceBook group. These do not need to be returned to school.
On Friday 29th October, pupils may dress up in a costume to celebrate Halloween. They should bring £1 for the BPPC and a donation for the Food Bank.
For ideas of what to donate, please visit:
It might only be October but thoughts of Christmas already here. Your child has designed a Christmas card which you can order using the form in your child’s school bag. All profits will be added to the School Fund.
Please order online by 13th November 2021.
If you ordered a photograph of your child/children, it was sent home in your child’s school bag yesterday.
Dear Parent/Carer,
Before the lock down in March 2020 some pupils had taken out books from Bishopton Library as part of their class visits. If you have any books with a Bishopton Library label on the first page, could you please send them into school or return them to Bishopton Library. Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Miss McDowall
Congratulations to the Eagles for earning the most House points last term. As a reward, the Eagles can come to school in their own clothes tomorrow, Friday 22nd October.
Hi everyone,
We have made it to the end of term 1. The pandemic continues to throw challenges in our direction but the pupils have all been amazing and have enjoyed some great learning this term.
As things stand, we will begin term 2 with the same mitigations in place. If this changes, the blog will be updated before the pupils return. Please keep an eye on things just in case.
I hope you all manage to have a restful break and look forward to welcoming everyone back for term 2.
Please note that Monday the 18th is a staff in-service day and pupils do not return until Tuesday 19th October.
Thank you all for your patience and support this term.
Last week we had a very successful Maths Week Scotland at Bishopton Primary School. Every class participated in a range of maths and numeracy activities that challenged them and made them think, connect ideas and create!
We won £50 from the Renfrewshire Attainment Team for activities that had a link to the Maths Week theme ‘Our World’ and had multistage involvement and challenge.
The pupils enjoyed the Bishopton House bird themed daily puzzles and some adults at home even gave them a go! Here are the puzzles and solutions to put those curious minds at ease.
Tuesday’s Puzzle
Tuesday’s Puzzle Solution
Wednesday’s Puzzle
Wednesday’s Puzzle Solution
Thursday’s Puzzle
Thursday’s Puzzle Solution
Friday’s Puzzle
Friday’s Puzzle Solution
Our Active Schools clubs resume with Multisports for P5-7. This will begin on Wednesday 20th October from 3.15-4.15pm.
This session begins with warm up games that increase the children’s heart rate and challenges their spatial awareness and ends with fun cool down games. For this block there will be a focus on various ball and team games as we make steps in returning to physical activity and sport.
Activities will take place on the school grass field so please bring appropriate clothing and footwear.
If you would like to take part please register on the link below:
Active Schools are hoping to receive a response for every child in the school to help them focus their services in the school.
This will:
Information submitted will not be shared with any third parties and will be used to improve opportunities in your child’s school.
To complete the survey, please use the following link below:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/RenfrewshireLeisure3/pupilsurveyphysicalactivityandschoolclubs
The school meals service, like many other organisations, is currently experiencing supply chain issues. This has resulted in some ingredients for the current menu choices being unavailable and short notice changes being made to the menu.
The school meals service is trying to align substitutes and alternative items as close to the menu as possible and will update the relevant allergen information accordingly.
Information on school meals can be found at https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/schoolmeals
In the meantime we will endeavour to inform you of any menu changes at the earliest opportunity.
For families in receipt of free school meals on an income basis (so not all P1 to P4 children), there will be an Autumn hardship payment in October (£160) and a winter hardship payment in December (also £160).
Families will need to have applied for free school meals in order to get the payments – they won’t be made retrospectively. If you think you may be entitled to free school meals on an income basis, but have not applied because of the universal free school meals for P1-4, please apply in order to receive these payments. More information and a link to the online application are here: https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/Freeschoolmealsandclothinggrants
For those who qualify for free school meals on an income basis (so not all P1 to P4 children), there will be a payment of £11.25 per child for the October break.
@AttainRen #MWSREN #MathsWeekScotland
Well done and thank you to everyone who took part in the Sumdog Contest. You helped your class climb the leader board and practised maths skills. Here are the results.
| 660th | Primary 4R, Bishopton Primary School | 218 |
| 728th | Primary 4M, Bishopton Primary School | 209 |
| 1153rd | Primary 5C, Bishopton Primary School | 161 |
| 1539th | Primary 6A, Bishopton Primary School | 135 |
| 1884th | Primary 5R, Bishopton Primary School | 115 |
| 2106th | Primary 3A/M, Bishopton Primary School | 103 |
| 2157th | Primary 5A, Bishopton Primary School | 101 |
| 2297th | Primary 6S, Bishopton Primary School | 95 |
| 2427th | Primary 7C, Bishopton Primary School | 89 |
| 2664th | Primary 2E, Bishopton Primary School | 80 |
| 2727th | Primary 2K, Bishopton Primary School | 78 |
| 3066th | Primary 3M, Bishopton Primary School | 67 |
| 3249th | Primary 6M, Bishopton Primary School | 60 |
| 3685th | Primary 7CK, Bishopton Primary School | 46 |
| 3823rd | Primary 2B, Bishopton Primary School | 41 |
| 4221st | Primary 1S, Bishopton Primary School | 27 |
@AttainRen #MWSREN #MathsWeekScotland
Can you work out the value of each of our House birds by using your knowledge of multiplication and division? Please reply to this post or tweet your answer.
All answers will be revealed at the end of today or over the weekend.
@AttainRen #MWSREN #<MathsWeekScotland
Well done to all classes who have now qualified for the Sumdog Contest! Today is your last chance to play games to help your class climb the leader board. The contest closes at 8pm tonight so try your best!
See below for yesterday’s results.
| 952nd | Primary 4R, Bishopton Primary School | 152 |
| 1257th | Primary 4M, Bishopton Primary School | 130 |
| 1562nd | Primary 3A/M, Bishopton Primary School | 111 |
| 1863rd | Primary 5R, Bishopton Primary School | 98 |
| 2102nd | Primary 7C, Bishopton Primary School | 86 |
| 2237th | Primary 5C, Bishopton Primary School | 81 |
| 2678th | Primary 6A, Bishopton Primary School | 65 |
| 2701st | Primary 5A, Bishopton Primary School | 64 |
| 2763rd | Primary 3M, Bishopton Primary School | 62 |
| 2931st | Primary 6S, Bishopton Primary School | 57 |
| 2944th | Primary 6M, Bishopton Primary School | 57 |
| 2953rd | Primary 2K, Bishopton Primary School | 56 |
| 3590th | Primary 7CK, Bishopton Primary School | 35 |
| 3774th | Primary 1S, Bishopton Primary School | 29 |
| 3807th | Primary 2B, Bishopton Primary School | 27 |
@AttainRen #MWSREN #MathsWeekScotland
Can you calculate the totals to work out the two truths and one lie? Reply to the blog post or the Tweet. Answers will be revealed on Friday.
Keep your brain active!
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