Today was filled with dance and music, rehearsing for
our performance of visual arts on the 21st December.
Pupils had very emotive sessions with Daniella, the opera singer and Linda our dance therapist.
It’s lovely to see the confidence of the pupils growing each week during their group sessions.
Check out Class Whalsay’s blog.
This afternoon classes Whalsay and Tiree invited all the parents in to take part in Christmas Fair craft activities.
Everyone had a great time and they finished off the afternoon with tea/coffee in Teenscene.
You will be able to buy some of the crafts they made at the Christmas Fair on Tuesday 1st December.
Classes Tiree and Whalsay have posted a new recording.
Listen as they discuss their Science topic, forces.
Thank you to everyone for their contribution to Children In Need.
The pupils all enjoyed celebrating the event by dressing down or dressing up as a superhero and paying £1.
Have a look at some of the primary pupils who took part in today’s fun event.
Donate £1 and dress up as a Superhero or dress as you please to help support Children in Need Day on Friday 13th November.
Congratulations to the following pupils who after successful time trials have been selected for the West of Scotland Swimming Gala:-
Stuart Cherry – 25M Free
Sarah Packam – 25m Free, 25m Back
Hannah Murray – 25m Free
Pierce Queen – 25m Free
Joshua Arnott – 25m Free
Jamie Brownlie 25m Back
Rachel McCarron 25m Free, 25m Back
Thank you to classes Whalsay and Sanda for their bonfire safety assembly.
Some of the pupils made art work, some read out the safety code and they also made a short safety code video which they showed to everyone. This video can be shared with the classes every year to highlight the Bonfire Safety code.
Well done everyone.
Class Staffa and Jura are organising our Christmas Jumper Day this year.
More details to follow soon.
Some of the amazing art work from Loch Ness wing.
Can you guess some of the topics the classes have been working on?
Class Arran had great fun at their Bonfire bake off!
They invited classes from the primary and secondary department to take part.
Thanks to Cat McInness who shared some of her skills in cake decorating to our pupils.
I’m sure you will agree we have some very creative cakes.
Congratulations to all our winners.
Everyone had great fun at the whole school assembly.
Congratulations to Olivia T who won first prize and Jason, Zack, Mr Holmes, Miss Gallacher, Bilal and Fay for winning the best fancy dress costumes.
Have a look at some of our photos.
Classes Iona and Islay organised the Halloween assembly for the primary classes this morning.
They decided to make different stations for all the pupils to go to and explore some of the Halloween activities that they had set up.
They had spooky hands, photo booth, colouring, cake decorating, Halloween tray and many other activities, all great fun!
Pupils from classes Orkney and Shetland recently visited the site of the old school with Morgan Sindall.
Our pupils are working with the company, learning about how a building is constructed and will return in the new year to see the medical centre when it is almost finished.
Thank you also to Morgan Sindall who are presenting us with a flag pole for our Green Eco flag to go on.
Tomorrow Class Shetland are visiting the site of the old Isobel Mair School with Morgan Sindall.
The old site is now going to be a Medical Centre and now looks totally different.
The pupils are so excited to see the changes up close.
The NDCS Listening Bus will be at Isobel Mair School for P1-P6 pupils on Thursday 17th September from 1:15-1:45pm.
Fri 18th September, we are taking part in “Jeans for Genes Day” Staff and pupils can pay £1 to wear jeans to school, (or something comfortable).
Class Orkney will be responsible for colleting all the donations from around the school.
Click here for more information on Jeans for Genes Day.
This afternoon we welcomed pupils from St Joseph’s and Busby primary schools to our whole school assembly.
They presented a cheque to the school for £240.
The girls raised the money during the summer holidays by holding a tombola, cake stall, arts & crafts and lots of other activities.
They certainly put their holiday to good use.
As a token of our appreciation Mr Whyte presented the 3 sets of sisters with a special personalised plaque to keep and a thank you letter from the head teacher.
What a great achievement girls and everyone at Isobel Mair School say a great big thank you to you all!
mAIRwaves fm have posted a new recording.
Listen to classes Tiree and Whalsay as they discuss outdoor learning.
Some of our senior pupils are raising funds for “Make a Wish” foundation.
After discussions with the class, they emailed Mrs Clark with ideas for a cinema day.
More updates to follow
Some of our senior pupils have been looking at the student council elections and selecting their responsibilities.
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