Your Christmas card orders must be returned by the end of day tomorrow, Friday 27th October. Please complete the order form, make any changes to names or classes and put the exact money or a cheque in the envelope provided. Thank you in advance.

We are currently enjoying watching Kes Gray as part of the Scottish Book Trust’s Author’s Live Events. Everyone is fully engaged and you could hear a pin drop in here – apart from when we burst into roars of laughter!

Look out for his books in the library and add them to the First Minister’s Challenge Passport

The P2 masterclass have been getting in on the new Renfrewshire craze by painting and decorating rocks which they are going to leave around the village. They decided on a Minion and Monsters theme and they are amazing! If you find one of their Bishopton Rocks around the village, it is yours to keep! It would be great if you could bring it in to school to let us know. If you have a Twitter account, post a photo of it. Please tag us using @BishoptonPS. It will be great to see who ends up with these marvellous creations.

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

Good morning,

It was great to see everyone back in good spirits after a well deserved break. It sounded like everyone had a great week off.

Homework

Spelling

This week we will be looking at short vowel sounds.  We will go over the vowels and practise some words that have the short vowel sound (words that use the letter sound rather than letter name)  For example cat, let, bit, lot, cut.  The words will be quite straightforward this week but the children should also be able to name the vowels by the end of the week. This video should help the children remember their vowel sounds.

Maths

This week the children will have pattern homework.  This is looking at colours, shapes and basic number pattern.   This has been covered in class.  This will be issued on Monday and collected in on Friday so can be completed on night that is suitable for you.

Reading

New reading books will be issued this week. This term we will be focusing on how to construct sentences and also on sequencing. Both of these things can be included in any book discussions at home.

News

We will be starting our new Stickman topic this week.  We will be completing lots of literacy work around this story and also looking at other Julia Donaldson stories.  The children can bring in any books they own written by this author.  Please remember to write your name on the inside cover so that we can return these books to the correct owners.

This term, P2B will be creating new, and improved, lunchboxes for Mr Grinling (The Lighthouse Keeper). To help with this, we would be grateful if you could send in any empty shoe boxes, cereal boxes and any other materials our lunchbox designers think they need for their design. Thank you in advance!

Have a pleasant rest of the week.

Miss Bachell/Mr Collins

Good evening everyone – welcome back! I hope you, your family and your friends have enjoyed a wonderful October holiday.

Homework and news is below:

Homework

Spelling – This week we will be looking at short vowel sounds; homework will be issued on Tuesday.  We will go over the vowels and practise some words that have the short vowel sound (words that use the letter sound rather than letter name)  For example cat, let, bit, lot, cut.  The words will be quite straightforward this week but the children should also be able to name the vowels by the end of the week.

Reading – reading books have been issued today. Please read a little each night.  This term we will be focusing on how to construct sentences and also on sequencing. Both of these things can be included in any book discussions at home.

Wordwalls continue to be checked during class and will be changed over the coming weeks. Children are working hard to try and include common words within their writing.

Maths – In class we will continue to focus on place value. Homework this week is to trace and copy the wording for the numbers 11 – 20. This will be issued on Tuesday and will not be collected until Friday.

News

As it is a new term the children will have new base seats in class. We participate in a lot of group work and this allows pupils the opportunity to socialise and work with a variety of their peers.

Rather than show and tell, this term we will have check in at the beginning of the week. This allows children the opportunity to share their news by means of discussion and description. We completed our first check in today and I was very impressed by the level of respect shown by the children to their peers.

We will also be starting our new Stickman topic this week.  We will be completing lots of literacy work around this story and also looking at other Julia Donaldson stories.  The children can bring in any books they own written by this author – please remember to label your books so I can ensure they return to the correct home at the end of the topic.

Thank you for your continued support and have a lovely week!

Miss Cauley

A photographer is coming to school on Thursday and Friday this week.  Please ensure that your child is wearing their school uniform for both days as not all photographs will be taken on Thursday.  Thank you for returning the slips to instruct us about jumpers on /off etc.

Mrs Fulton

I hope you all had a lovely October holiday.  Homework and news as follows:

Homework

Spelling – This week we will be looking at short vowel sounds.  We will go over the vowels and practise some words that have the short vowel sound (words that use the letter sound rather than letter name)  For example cat, let, bit, lot, cut.  The words will be quite straightforward this week but the children should also be able to name the vowels by the end of the week.

Reading – reading books will be issued on Monday.  Please read a little each night.  Shortly we will be looking at beginning, middle and end of a story so this can be included in your chats about the book.   i.e. What happened at the start?

New wordwalls have been issued this week.  Please practise the highlighted words but you can do more if you would like.  I will be looking at these at the end of next week.

Maths – This week the children will have pattern homework.  This is looking at colours, shapes and basic number pattern.  We have covered this in class.  This will be issued on Monday and collected in on Friday so can be completed on night that is suitable for you.

News

This week the children will have new seats in class.  We use lots of different groups for learning so that pupils socialise and work with lots of different children in the class.

We will also be starting our new Stickman topic this week.  We will be completing lots of literacy work around this story and also looking at other Julia Donaldson stories.  The children can bring in any books they own written by this author.  Please remember to write your name on the inside cover so that we can return these books to the correct owners.

Have a great week.

Mrs Fulton/ Mrs MacKenzie