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Red Nose Day 2013

Red Nose Day 2013

Thank you to everyone who donated and participated in all our fundraising events for Comic Relief.  IMS Student Council, supported by the Family Centre, worked really hard to organise a number of activities for Red Nose Day including a raffle, a chocolate fountain and a Nail Bar.  Pupils also came dressed in red and were able to have their faces painted too.   Two of our hairier teachers, Mr McLaughlin and Mr Holmes had their legs waxed, which helped to raise lots of money and also gave staff and pupils a good laugh! 

The most successful event had to be the Pie Throwing, which involved cream and a whole lot of messy faces!!  The pupils got to throw cream pies at their favourite teachers, just to show their appreciation!  Thanks to Mr Crossan,Miss Scrimgeour, Mrs Clarke, Mrs Blackbourn and Miss Turner for volunteering their faces!!

The day culminated in an ‘IMS has Talent’ show, where many of the pupils performed their favourite songs.  What a talented bunch!!

All in all, IMS managed to raise over £400 and once again, we thank all of those who donated as well as the seniors involved in organising all the events.  Well done!!

- Achievement, - Pupils

Mary’s Meals

Classes Tiree and Arran have been learning about the work of Mary’s Meals, a Scottish Charity set up to help feed and educate children all over the world.

They shared this information with rest of school during one of our assemblies and set up a challenge to encourage pupils to  donate some bags filled with accessories like toothbrush, brush, pencils, paper etc which would be used to help others less fortunate.

The classes managed to donate 30 bags  plus extra supplies and raised £38.00.

Thank you for all your help and well done classes Tiree and Arran.

- Pupils

The Yard Adventure Playground

Looking for something exciting to do during the holidays? Why not visit The Yard………………..

The Yard is a purpose built indoor and outdoor adventure playground in Edinburgh for children and young people with additional support needs and children in the community.

For more information click here

- Pupils, enterprise, Fundraising

Red Nose Day @ IMS

We will once again be supporting RED NOSE DAY 2013 at Isobel Mair School and are trying to raise as much money as possible to help support other children at home or abroad.

Here are some of the fun activities that we will taking part in on the day.

Wear Something RED for Money
We want everyone to enjoy Red Nose Day by wearing something RED. This can be anything from a pair of red socks, a red nose or hair accesory. All we ask for is a donation.

Pie Throwing
The student council have made a request for staff willing to take a pie in the face – all for the sake of charity!
We had a bigger response than we thought, so there will be plenty of opportunity to hit one of your favourite teachers in the face.
If youy child would like to lob a pie in their direction then they can buy one for £1.

Red Hamper Raffle
We have been collecting items for a hamper raffle. Tickets are £1 if you would like to be in with a chance of winning this fabolous prize. Tickets wil be on sale from Wednesday.

Nail Bar
Spoil your fingers! Get pampered and get your nails painted by the very experienced Cassie and Chloe  from S5. A plain colour will cost £1 and a funky design will cost £1.50.

Leg Waxing
Some of our hairier members of staff ( Mr McLaughlin and Mr Holmes) have agreed to a sponsored leg wax!
Not only will we get to see them squirm, other staff members will be able to pull a strip off……………… for a small donation of course!

Chocolate Fountain and Cakes
There will be a chocolate fountain with a variety of things to cover in chocolate, as well as yummy home made fairy cakes.

Face Painting
If you haven’t already bought a red nose, or just fancy a funny face, get your face painted with your favoutite design!

Thanks for all your help in supporting us to achieve our aim of raising money for Comic Relief and Red Nose Day 2013

 

 

- Pupils, Confident Individuals, Uncategorized

World Book Day

Thank You to everyone involved who helped make our World Book Day a huge success.

Every class embraced this celebration with a host of activities taking place throughout the day.

We had an outdoor activity, “Going on a Bear Hunt”, Storyteller, Puppet show from Class Orkney, Treasure Island Sensory experience form Class Arran, a visit to the Library and pupils interviewing other pupils about their favourite books amongst others………. a very busy day indeed!

Our day was complete with many of the staff and pupils dressing up as their favourite characters to raise money for book aid international.
Some of the costumes were very innovative……… we had Granny Island from Katy Morag, Ladybirds from “The Ladybird who heard and saw”, butterfly, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and Cinderella amongst others.  

For every £2 Isobel Mair school raises, Book Aid International can send one more book to Africa

Everyone had a fun and educational World Book Day.

 

 

- Pupils, enterprise

ISS@IMS Red Nose Day Raffle

Iss@IMS Tuesday group have been working hard on their Red Nose Day 2013 project.

They collected lots of gifts for the raffle and sold raffle tickets to all the staff.

At 2pm the group all worked together, selecting the winners, using the tannoy to call out the winners and stick the appropriate tickets on the many prizes.

A wonderful event for a great cause, well done everyone.

- Pupils

World Book Day

We are celebrating World Book Day Tomorrow.

Pupils can bring £1 and dress up as their favourite story character.

Who will Mrs Wallace be dressed up as this year?

We will be holding special events throughout the day, including a Puppet show from class Orkney, a story teller and Mrs Stevens is going to show us a Braille story.

- Pupils, MairwavesFM

mAIRwavesfm have posted a new recording

mAIRwavesfm

mAIRwavesfm have posted two new recordings this month.

We have some collaborative work taking place between Tiree and Whalsay classes who have joined together to make joint recordings for mAIRwavesfm.

Can you recognise some of our new reporters?

Our topic for the recording on 25th February was our Community Unity event which took place at Newton Mearns Baptist Church.

Out topic for March 4th recording was World Book Day…………………………… have a listen to find out what the pupils say and what they are dressing up as.

Click here to listen to mAIRwavesfm

- Pupils, Holiday Programme

Spring Holiday Activities Programme 2013

Spring Holiday Activities Programme 2013

Did you know that your child can access a free place on the Education Departments Spring Holiday Activities Programme.

The programme is co-ordinated by East Renfrewshire Council’s Active Schools, Sports Development and Health and Well-being Teams, and offers fantastic opportunities for all children to be active over the Spring Holiday period.

More information can be found here

 

- Pupils

Thank You Mearns Community week

Mearns Community Week

Recently the school opened it’s doors to the local commuinty as part of the Mearns Community Week.

At our assembly on February 15th we were delighted to welcome Aileen and Chris from Mearns Community Week who presented the school with a cheque for £600 from the money raised by the week’s events.

We were delighted to recieve this fabulous amount of money which will be used to buy some equipment for the pupils.

Thanks to everyone who visited or contributed to this great event.

 

- Pupils, Parents

Zumbathon @ IMS

Get Fit with Zumbathon @ IMS

We are holding a Zumbathon on Thursday 21st March.

We would like to invite pupils, staff and parents to donate £1.00 and join us to help raise some more money to enable one of our pupils Amy Clark to compete in the Special Olympics with her rhythmic gymnastic team.

 Every competitor has to raise their own funds to support the travel and accomodation cost at these events.

Pupils will participate in ZumbAtomic in the morning.

Parents will be given a full and sweaty workout 1.30pm-2.00pm.

Staff will be put through their paces 3.15pm-3.45pm.

Please join us in what is to be a great day for a great cause. Please complete the form sent home with your child if you wish to join us for some fun and help a good cause..

- Pupils, Coffee and Chat

Coffe and Chat

Our next Coffee and Chat will take place on Thursday 7th March at 10am.

Jodi Dean, Health Improvement Senior for East Renfrewshire will be available to give information and answer questions about the healthy lifestyle initiative (adapted version of the ACES programme) which is going to be offered to pupils in P5-7.

More details and consent forms for this healthy lifestyle initiative will be sent home to pupils very soon.

- Pupils

Wear What You Please Day

Wear What You Please Day

Thank you to everyone who contibuted to our Wear What You Please Day.

This was a special event organised to support one of our pupils who is a Special Olympian.

Amy from class Whalsay is a very keen Rhythmic Gymnast and is part of the West of Scotland Team taking part in the Special Olympics event in Bath.

Special Olympians have to raise their own funds to help support transport and accomodation.

It was decided to host a Wear What You Please Day and everyone paid a pound which Amy collected.

The final total has still to be confirmed but it looks like we have raised almost £200 so well done everyone.

- 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!