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- Achievement, - Pupils

Communities together: Build a Bridge

Last night a special event took place at Glasgow City Chambers. Several schools from local authorities represented their schools at the Holocaust Memorial Day in the presence of Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Our Reels on Wheels, Scottish Country Dance group were invited to perfrom at this special event.

So late last night a group of pupils and staff from classes Arran, Cumbrae and Sanda  performed two dances, the Circassian Circle and Flowers of Edinburgh and they all rose to the occasion absorbing the atmosmphere and enjoying the performances.

This was a great achievement for our pupils and they all made us so proud.

Well done everyone.

- Pupils, Confident Individuals, MairwavesFM, successfull learners

Pulse FM live on air

Pulse Fm will be live on air,  Friday 1st February.

You can listen to an interview that took place with class teacher Ger McGauley about the work he has undertaken with his class, recording podcasts for our school website. You also have the chance to  catch up with some of the recordings from  mAIRwaves fm on the day.

The sessions will be on  live on air between 12.15 & 12.45 

I hope you can listen in!

Parents

Speech and Language Therapy Parent Workshops

Our Speech and Language Therapists are going to be running the following workshops.

Monday 18th March – 10am-11am, Makaton Workshop

Monday 18th March – 1.30-2.30pm, General Language Development

Tuesday 19th March – 1.30-2.30pm, AAC/Total Communication

Monday 25th March 10-11.30am, Total Communication/General Langauge Development

If you would like to attend one of the workshops please return the form sent home with your child.

- Pupils, Fundraising

Assembly

Class Tiree are hosting this weeks assembly on Friday.

The class have decided to take part in the Mary’s Meals project which  helps provide daily life changing meals for over 600,000 hungry children.

At the assembly on Friday, Class Tiree have arranged for a Mary’s Meal speaker to come and share with us all about the project and how we as a school we can help.

We look forward to sharing this information with you at a later date.

Mary’s Meals

Parents

Parents’ Evening

Parents’ Evening will take place tonight in main campus and at Yell @ WWHS for our post 16 pupils.

Appointments will have been sent out via the class teacher.

Mrs Goodlad will be available in the foyer this evening for Health and Wellbeing discussions.

We look forward to seeing you all this evening.

- Achievement, - Pupils

Swimming Gala

Congratulations to all of the pupils involved in the West of Scotland Sports Organisation Swimming Gala which took place today at the Sir Matt Busby pool in Bellshill.

We had some very confident swimmers with personal best times being achieved and a few 1st and 2nd places in individual races.

Medals and achievement ribbons were presented to all the swimmers by Mr McGauley at our assembly this afternoon.

Well done everyone.

- Pupils

Judo Taster Session

Senior pupils from Shetland and Orkney classes were highly motivated during the taster judo session as part of the anti bullying focus week at IMS.

They were highly disciplined, attending and following instructions from the instructor throughout the session.

This taster session allowed the pupils to experience a positive outlet for physical energy and competitive spirit, highlighting team work and friendships.

- Pupils

Anti Bullying Week

This week we have an anti bullying focus at school.

Various activities are taking place including both within the classes and with external visitors.

We have a Judo taster session, a performance from the pupils of St Luke’s High School and internal pesentations between classes in the form of drama, art, songs and poems.

On Friday everyone will come together for an anti bullying assembly.

- Pupils

Christmas Service 2012

Thank you to everyone who came to support our Christmas Service today, “The Magical Christmas Jigsaw”.

I’m sure you will agree that the pupils were amazing and all so confident with their parts.

After all the rehearsals with Mr Hay and class teachers, everything went well on the day. Pupils were even practising their lines at home as they wanted to make sure it was perfect.

Have a look at some of the photographs below.