Date for your diary Saturday 26th May 2012
Please come along to an event for Parents of Children with Additional Support Needs on Saturday 26th May 2012 at the Isobel Mair School.
Parents will be able to choose from two workshops and there will be representation from a number of agencies involved in the support of parents and children.
More details to follow soon.
On Friday 23rd March IMS are holding a “fare thee well” to friends from our old cluster (Williamwood) and “Hello” to friends from our new Eastwood Cluster.
We have linked this event with Sports Relief and are holding our very own Special games throughout the day.
Pupils from both clusters are helping out and we will be supported by Alan Martin and the Active Schools Team.
Some of the events that will take place on the day are; Boccia, Curling, Scottish Dance and Football in the Muga.
It looks like it’s going to be a fun filled event and hopefuly the sun will shine for us on the day!
Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability are delighted to be staging the next Young Scotland’s Got Talent event in East Renfrewshire on Saturday, 21st April 2012. Please note that this event is free to attend. The event will run from 9.30am – 3pm at Orchardhill Parish Church, Giffnock. This is an exciting partnership event organised by Give Me A Chance, Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability, Values Into Action Scotland and many others.
Congratulations to Cassie from S4 who won silver medal at the Scottish Disability Sports National Cross Country Event today. Hopefully we will find out later if we have any more medals from the boys events, fingers crossed for Andrew, Jamie, Craig and Tonye.
Class Whalsay organised the secondary assembly today. It was all about people who help us in the local community. The class made up a slideshow of all the people who help us and set up a quiz for the classes to take part in.
Thanks to Monsignor Monaghan for coming to see us and introduce the assembly. He told everyone that he was a friend of Dr Isobel Mair and she would be proud of the new school.
In August 2011 Mrs Wallace set IMS classes the £10 challenge, to see who could raise the most money for school funds. Classes Whalsay, Shetland and Orkney successfully clubbed together to create and raffle a Luxury Christmas Hamper. Following the success of this they have taken on the challenge of setting up and running a tuck shop for staff in IMS. After a brain storming session they voted for the name – Mair for Us. Following extensive market research the produce was bought and priced. Now opening day has arrived! The shop opened from 11.30 to 1pm, providing a range of treats to buy, with pupils from these classes working hard to ensure a high quality service. The pupils have high hopes for a successful, money making tuck shop!
Good Luck everyone.
Come join us tomorrow 15th March from 10-11am for our monthly Communitea Cafe.
Lots of home baking made by Whalsay class with yummy scones on the menu!
All Welcome
Good luck to pupils from Classes Cumbrae, Arran, Sanda and Mani from Tiree class who are taking part in the West of Scotland SEN Sports Association and Swimming Gala in Blantyre Leisure Pool tomorrow.
This is the first time that these classes have taken part so fingers crossed everything goes swimmingly!
GOOD LUCK
Contact beactive at East Renfrewshire Sports for events during the Spring break and for the April – June programme.
Check out today’s edition of the Evening Times. A 2 page article all about our new school and the official opening. A great tribute to the late Dr Isobel Mair whom the school is named after. Dr Mair is fondly remembered in the local community and her memory is kept alive by the school and it’s fantastic facilities.
Isobel Mair School were delighted to welcome the Mair brothers for the official opening of the new school.
Ranald Mair gave a very entertaining speech all about Dr Mair’s life and her involovement with the local community and the school and how delighted they were to still be involved after all these years.
During the official opeing today, Councillor Green spent some time with the children from the family centre and helped them officially launch the pirate ship.
Here are some of the pupils at the launch…..ooh arrrgh little pirate!
Hopefully the sun will shine and allow them to have some fun during outdoor learning.
Congratulations to everyone in Isobel Mair School on the official opening.
The choir were fantastic and our three soloists were amazing!
A big thank you to the pupils from Williamwood High School who sang a beautiful rendition of “You raise me up” with some of our pupils, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house!
Fabio gave an excellent speech as Head Boy and the invited guests were highly impressed by everyones endeavours!
Mrs Wallace and Fabio collected the school plaque form Councillor Lafferty and two of the pupils from the Family Centre collected their plaque from Councillor Green.
The street parties in each of the wings finished off an excellent day.
Everyone looking forward to the Official opening of the New Isobel Mair School tomorrow.
The school choir excited to be singing infront of invited guests and Fabio is getting nervous about his Head Man speech.
Good luck tomorrow it will be a wonderful day!
Congtraulations to our senior pupils who have been training hard for the up and coming WOSSA Cross Country events.
This is a series of 3 runs which take place from December to March.
They have been training in our new school grounds to help them get fit for the national event which takes place in a few weeks.
They are hoping to return to school with a few medals after the national event.
Good luck everyone.
World Book Day @ IMS will take place on Friday 2nd March 2012.
Fancy dress for all staff and pupils
Come dressed as your favourite charachter or wear your favourite character T-Shirt.
Everyone asked to pay £1 which will sent to Book Aid International.
Looking forward to seeing some favourite characters on Friday!
A date for your diary!
Please support the Parent Council who are organising a fund raising event on Friday 20th April 2012 to raise funds for the school and Family Centre.
The Race Night will take place on Friday 20th April 2012 at Pro Soccer, Rouken Glen Park.
Tickets available from the school office.
Congratualtions to Whalsay class for a very successful Communitea morning. They are planning to host this once a month so watch out for the next date.
During Enterprise activities the class helped to design posters and invitations for the event and invited lots of people from the local community.
Mrs Haugh-Reid supported the class and helped them to decide what kind of homebaking they wanted to include and bake. Some favourites included carrot cake, malteser crunch and huge meringues!
It’s been a very busy few weeks for the class but I’m sure you will agree that it was a very successful event.
