Reminder that school closes at 2:30pm today (no extended school day) and reopens on Thursday 4th January 2018. Happy holidays from everyone at Isobel Mair School.
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Christmas Disco
Our primary pupils are having a Christmas disco tomorrow afternoon. Party clothes can be worn or brought into school and chaged into later.
Our senior Christmas disco will take place on Tuesday 19th December from 7 -9pm.
All former pupils are welcome to join us.
Looking forward to some groovy dancing and festive outfits.
Elves of Cologne
The scene is set for the final performance of the “Elves of Cologne”
Staff and pupils are ready to perform to some very important visitors this morning.
A huge shout out to Mrs Laurie and all the staff from Loch Ness Wing who have worked non stop preparing for this event, from rehearsing to making scenery to making costumes.
It was great to see all the pupils involved and so proud of their achievements and participation.
Look out for the video coming soon.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from Mrs Clark, Mr Crossan, Ms Scrimgeour and all the staff and pupils from Isobel Mair School and Family Centre.
Diary Dates
Important dates for next week. Monday 18th December “The Elves of Cologne” performance by staff & pupils. Come and join us for a fun filled morning of panto at its best!
Tue 19th December Christmas carols at Newton Mearns Baptist Church, 10:30am
Senior disco from 7-9pm. All former pupils and buddies welcome.
All welcome and we look forward to seeing you.
Christmas Jumper Day
Still time to look out your Christmas Jumper, Friday 15th December and bring a suggested £1 donation for Save the Children.
So excited to see everyone and have our annual whole school photo.
Pamis Event
Click here to view Pamis Flyer
PAMIS will be holding an SDS event on the 17th January at the Adelphi Centre in Glasgow, which will run from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. (Additional information can be found on the attached event flyer.) This event will involve two sessions:
MORNING SESSION
The morning session will be looking at some of the specific topics under SDS that family carers, caring for a person with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) and complex healthcare needs, want or feel they need to know more about. This session will be primarily for family carers.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The afternoon session will be attended by a number of members of the PAMIS team who will be available with information on the different pieces of work PAMIS carries out. This will include:
· The overall work of PAMIS and how our projects, research, partnership working and training offered, link in with the Family Support Service Director’s work
· Importantly, the many ways in which we support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) and their family carers
We are inviting professionals from all sectors involved in supporting people with PMLD and hope that you, or someone representing your service, will be able to attend to hear what we do, and how we can work in partnership with others across Glasgow & Clyde and Scotland.
Ideally, we hope to have a mix of people who care for and support people with PMLD and who also wish to network with others and share information about their service with family carers, professionals and other relevant organisations.
Afternoon attendees can:
· set up an information stand and meet the PAMIS team
· attend in a drop-in basis as able
Further information can be found on the attached flyer. Please book as requested on the flyer so that we are able to order beverages as required. Available space means that stands will be limited so, if you wish to book a space for displaying your work, please contact me as soon as possible. All stand holders will be asked to set up between 9:00 am and 10:00 am on the day and return to the open afternoon session at 1:30 pm.
Information gathered at this event will help inform our work over the next ten years and assist in our decisions, as we consider how PAMIS continues to best support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, and their family carers, in the future.
We look forward to hearing from you
Best wishes
Liz Platt
PAMIS Family Support Service Director
Dance Share @ IMS
Christmas Jumper Day
A reminder to wear your Christmas Jumper on Friday 15th December and bring a suggested £1 donation for Save the Children UK
School Photos
Please see message below from Gerri Campbell, school photographer.
If you are wanting your IsobelMair school photos for Christmas , today is the last day to place your order and you need to choose the option of being delivered to your home.
Switch Off Fortnight
Class Orkney are proud winners of the school “Switch off fortnight” challenge.
They really tried their best to be more energy efficient & switch off lights & technology when not in use & spend more time outside.
Mrs McKinnon presented them with 4 solar robot kits & certificates
All they pupils were delighted with their certificates.
Christmas Sensory Outing
Class Bute had a magical sensory visit to Dobbies this morning to visit Santa.
Santa spent some time with the children talking to them and sharing some of his sensory items. The snow globe was a particular favourite.
Christmas Card Recycling
We are going to be participating in a Christmas Card recycling Competition.
Please send us in your old cards after the holidays for recycling and help us win £250 for the school.
Thank you for your continued support.
Dance Share with Linda
The dance share with Linda our dance specialist will take place on Wednesday morning at 10:30am.
A video will be shown of some of the classes at work with Linda, our dance specialist alongside a live lesson with one the classes.
Classes Shetland, Orkney, Harris, Lewis and some pupils from Class Islay have been involved in the dance sessions this term.
Be prepared for some audience participation……..
mAIRwaves FM
mAIRwaves have posted 2 new recordings.
Class Tiree wrote a story about a wizard and also talk about the meaning of Christmas.
Season’s Greetings
Season’s Greetings from everyone at Isobel Mair School and Family Centre.
This year our chosen Christmas cards were designed by Freya MacKenzie and Caskie Kennedy.
Office 0365 Proplus
For all Glow users, you can get up to 15 free copies of Microsoft Office 2016 to use on your home machines – PC, Mac, phones & tablets, especially useful for young people receiving devices as gifts over the holiday period and can download Office 365 Proplus.
If you need help with your young persons GLOW log on details please contact the school.
Variety Scotland Party
It’s party time for classes Cumbrae, Bute, Shetland and Orkney as they head off to the Variety Scotland Children’s party this morning.
It will be a fun filled day full of entertainers, party games, dancing, Chico the clown and of course a special guest appearance by Santa.
I’m sure everyone will have a great day.
Christmas Fair
Thank You to all the pupils, staff, parents and friends for all their help and support with our Christmas Fair last night. I’m sure you will agree it was a huge success.
We raised the magnificent sum of £2020.67.
All the classes had been involved in creating crafts or organising the tombola or donations for the Giving Table. We had some very creative ideas.
Some of our senior pupils organised an auction as part of their Duke of Edinburgh award. Thank you to Alex, William, Rachel and Olivia for supporting this on the evening and starting off the bidding………
A donation from the auction will be sent to Macmillan Cancer Care as part of their charity work.
A huge shout out to the pupils from IMS, St Cadoc’s and Crookfur primaries who sang in the Community Unity choir. They entertained us with 3 carols and even added in some Makaton signing.
Well done everyone and a special thanks to Mrs McKinnon for organising the fair this year.
Eat and Meet with Santa
Thank you to Miss Helmore who arranged a wonderful breakfast and meet with Santa this morning at the Capelrig, Newton Mearns.
Pupils set off this morning with the wind blowing and walked to the local restaurant, excited to be meeting Santa.
Pupils made choices for breakfast and some brought their own snacks.
Pupils were so excited when they heard the sounds of the bells and finally Santa made an appearance.
Santa visited all the tables and spoke with them all and was even presented with a picture that one of the boys from Class Tiree had coloured in.
A great morning for everyone and not only did we get to meet Santa but we were able to generalise some of the skills we have been working on in school.
Have a look at some of our photographs from a wonderful experience.
