Last Friday, P7H paid a visit to P2B to enjoy some reading and healthy snacks. The children loved sharing their books with each other and P2B loved hearing stories from the P7 children (and reading them stories too!) P2B are hoping to visit P7H in their classroom very soon.
Good evening. I hope you all had a great weekend. Homework and news as follows:
Homework
Spelling
This week our spelling sound is ar as in car and farm.
Reading
We continue our reading books. In class we have been discussing different strategies to use if we are unsure of a word. These include looking at the pictures, sounding it out and looking at the rest of the sentence and then going back to the word.
Please continue to practise the wordwalls. Please remember children can practise more than the highlighted words. I will be checking these this week and new wordwalls if needed, will be handed out next week.
Maths
Please continue with the number formation homework. We have been working on Tens and units in class and the children will be given tens and units homework on Wednesday to complete.
News
We had a great week last week and enjoyed making our rainshakers with Miss Bachell during Topic time.
We have our Amazonia trip on Thursday. We will leave school at 9:15 and return at 2:30. Children should bring a packed lunch and wear school uniform. If you have volunteered to be a helper I will put a letter into the diary on Monday to let you know if you are needed. Thank you. Can I please also remind you that the trip is costing £10 per child and we would ask for this money to be sent in as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation with this.
You should have received your parent appointment time. Please let me know as soon as possible if the time does not suit and I will do my best to make a change.
Have a great week.
Mrs Fulton/Mrs MacKenzie
In a few weeks during technologies time, P2C and P2R 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!
Well done to all those who took part in the walk to school last time!
This week, whilst walking to school we would like to see as many people as possible with:
Crazy Hair!
We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday!
The Travel Champions
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 27th October in Renfrew High School for 7 weeks. Sessions will be between 9.30am-11.30am.
Dates for your diary therefore are: Friday 27th October, Friday 3rd November, Friday 10th November, Friday 17th November, Friday 24th November*, Friday 1st December* Friday 8th 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
During technologies time, P2R were lucky enough to have a very special visitor. Suzanne came to tell us all about her job working in technology. She explained what she does in her job and the different skills she needs to use to do it well. Suzanne told us lots of interesting things, including how she is hoping to use virtual reality in the world of banking!
We are learning all about the world of technology and engineering so we can become members of the Institution of Primary Engineers!
Thank you very much to Suzanne for coming along to visit us!
During technologies time, P2C were lucky enough to have a very special visitor. David came to tell us all about his job as a civil engineer. He explained all about what civil engineers do and the different skills they need to do their job well. David did a fantastic job of answering lots and lots of question from the class!
We are learning all about the world of engineering so we can become members of the Institution of Primary Engineers!
Thank you very much to David for coming along to visit us!
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
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.
Good Afternoon!
I hope you all had an enjoyable and restful September weekend.
Some information for this week:
Homework:
Our spelling rule this week is ‘qu’ as in ‘queen’ or ‘quack’. Children will have stuck in their spelling words into their homework jotters with Mr Collins today.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I will issue the children with some number formation practice to start off their maths homework. Please try to do two lines per night if possible! The more practice the better.
We have also been learning about tens and units in maths and this game will help reinforce your child’s learning: http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/index.html
On top of that, to help with addition and number bonds practice there is also this game that can be played at different levels: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
We absolutely love our maths games on the computer and iPad!
Reading
Some of you have asked why your child is on a different book band from the end of last term. Do not worry! Some children have needed a bit of practice with a lower book band to get them back into reading. It is more than likely that a lot of these children will jump back up a band. Some of us have already taken that leap. I will be listening to reading as much as I can to make sure we’re all on the correct level.
I hope to give out another reading book this week but I do encourage that the children do as much reading at home as possible from other sources; be that magazines, newspapers, cereal boxes, their own books, anything! I love hearing about what else the children have been reading.
Read and munch will be back on this Friday! Hopefully the P7s will join us again.
Amazonia Trip & Parent’s Nights
In each bookbag you should have been issued a letter for parent’s night and a letter about the Amazonia trip. I urge you to get these filled out and sent back in as soon as you can so that we can get organised.
If you are available to help out with the Amazonia trip please do let me know! It will be on Thursday 5th October. We are very excited about this trip!
Have a lovely week everyone!
Miss Bachell
I hope you all had a great holiday weekend. Homework and news as follows:
Homework
Spelling – this week our sound is qu as in quack and quick.
Reading – Pupils will be issued with a new reading book this week. Wordwalls will be in their bookbags for practise.
Maths – Pupils should continue with their number formation.
News
We had a great week last week and worked very hard. We learned about the Moon in Science, beat and rhythm in Music and started looking at tens and units in Maths. This is the game we played in Maths to practise our tens and units.
http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/index.html
In literacy we have been working on our diary writing skills paying attention to include finger spaces, capital letters and full stops and at least 3 accurate sentences including a feeling sentence.
Parent evening appointments will go out this week on Thursday. Thank you for returning the day request forms.
We are very excited about our Amazonia trip on the 5th October. If you are able to be a parent helper on this day please fill in the form and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Have a great week
Mrs Fulton/ Mrs MacKenzie
