November calendar to help support our children/young people prepare for Christmas and the upcoming holidays.
Category Archives: Parents
Winter Warmer
Join us on Tuesday 12th November for our Winter Warmer Coffee Morning.
Raffle tickets available from the school office with great prizes.
Many thanks to local businesses for all their donations to help raise funds for school and Family Centre.
Time to get SPOOKY!
Still time to get spooky and order your tickets for the Parent Council Halloween Event 6:30 -8:30pm.
Come join us for a great evening of fun and spooky activities.
GoalBall
Interested in taking part in Goalball, a team sport specifically designed for blind players but fully sighted and visually impaired players can take part.
Glasgow classes are held fortnightly on a Monday evening from 18:30 – 20:30.
#sport #goalball #weareIMS @SensorySupportS #sensory
After School Provision Meeting
Please note that the After School Provision meeting scheduled for Monday 28th October will no longer take place.
More details to follow with a rescheduled date.
Halloween Event
Isobel Mair School Parent Council invite to their first Halloween Event on Wednesday 30th October from 6:30 – 8:30pm.
Come join us for some Goulish Games, Creepy Craft and lots more activities and fun.
Click here for the Halloween Flyer https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/public/IsobelMair/uploads/sites/88/2019/10/ims-halloween-flyer_NEW.pdf
Lego Club
East Renfrewshire ASN Lego Club at Dunterlie Resource Centre Thursday 10th October 5:30pm.
Young people up to age 25 are welcome along with their siblings.
Click here for more information.
After School Meeting
Please note the rescheduled After School Meeting will now take place on Monday 28 October- 1.30pm.
Please note this only applies to Parents of Pupils who are presently attending After School.
October Holiday Schedule
Have a look at our October schedule to help support our pupils and young people for the next holiday.
You can download the PDF version to use at home.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Join us on Thursday 26th September at 10:15 – 11:30am
for our annual Macmillan Coffee morning.
Staff and pupils from Loch Awe wing have been busy preparing for this event.
Donations at the door.
There will be raffle prizes, cakes and the chance to meet staff, pupils and other parents.
Everyone welcome.
Parents’ Evening
Parents’ Evening will take place on Monday 23rd September
from 4 -7pm.
We look forward to seeing you.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Staff and pupils in Loch Ness invite to join them for their annual Macmillan Coffee Morning on Thursday 26th September.
Clicker 7
Thank you to Carolyn from Crick software for the Parents’ webinar today on using Clicker 7 to support literacy skills.
Here are some of the resources and training links that were mentioned.
TRAINING RESOURCES
Short summary video giving overview of Clicker 7 (5mins) –
Clicker Overview
Short videos showing how to use the individual Clicker features covered
90 second training materials
PDF version of printed Clicker Guide – free to download
How to Guide
Online webinars covering how Clicker 7 works (30-45min video)
Training Webinar
Standards and Quality Report
You can check out the latest Standards and Quality Report for session 2018 19
Standards and Quality Report 2018 19
Leavers Information Session
Leavers information session with Ms Scrimgeour will take place on Thursday 12th September at 6:30pm.
Clicker 7 Webinar
Reminder about the Clicker 7 webinar this morning at 10:30 with Carolyn from Cricksoft, a valuable software supporting literacy skills.
A text and email has been sent to parents with the link to join the sessions which will take place at 10:30 and 1:30pm.
We need your help!
One of our parents is running the Great Scottish Run 10k to raise funds for Isobel Mair School. Can you help out and help him reach his £500 pledge….
Thank you so much for your continued support .
Donations for Fundraiser
Many thanks to local businesses who have donated to our fundraising event at Oran Mor, Friday 13th September.
We are still looking for a few more donations which will help support our event and raise funds for Isobel Mair School and Isobel Mair Family Centre.
Donations can be sent to the school office.
Fundraising Event
If you are unable to come to our Fundraising night at Oran Mor, you can still buy raffle tickets for some of our amazing prizes, donated by local businesses. Check out some of the prizes below.
Tickets can be obtained from the school office £1 per strip.
Many thanks for your continued support.
Check school bags this week for raffle information.
Clicker 7
Clicker 7 webinar for IMS parents will take place on Monday 9th September.
Session1-10:30am and session 2 -1:30pm.
A text will be sent on Friday with the log in details.
At the meeting time please just click this link
Link to follow by text
During the session you will be able to see my screen and hear me via the computer audio.
Prior to the meeting, might be useful to test your connection. Just to ensure that you can access everything and hear OK from the laptop/PC that you will be using.
You can do this at this link https://zoom.us/test
If you are using a mobile device you might need to download the ZOOM meeting app
Sessions can take place at home or we can arrange for the webinar in the conference room. Please let the school office know if you are coming into school to access the webinar.
Clicker 7 is a literacy toolkit that we use with some of our pupils
in IMS. Parents can now have access to this software at
home to support their children.
Carolyn, Education Consultant (Cricksoft) will demonstrate how to use Clicker 7 and the support it offers to emergent, developing and
struggling readers and writers.
