Senior pupils who attend Grow Cook and Eat at West College Scotland as part of Skills for Lifelong Learning, made some delicious chocolate fudge cake last week.
Have a look at the photos below as they follow the recipe and use a variety of skills to make their cake.
Class Lewis made some Hamantaschen for Purim. They gave a sample to Mrs Clark, it was delicious.
Class Bute have been learning about materials for their science topic.
Here is a quick update of what they have been doing over the past few weeks.
Week 1 – as an intro they learned about the properties of straw, sticks and bricks via the story of The Three Little Pigs.
Week 2 – was all about sensory materials – gloop, waterballs, etc
Weeks 3 – 5 is all about transforming paper using ‘machines’ – punches, embossers, staplers, scissors and a paper crinkler.
This week class Bute are preparing for the Science Fair. Their invention is a paper aeroplane launcher mostly for use to support pupils in wheelchairs in flying a paper aeroplane.
The class had great fun trying out this invention last week and you could hear the hearty laughter from Ethan as the aerolane was launched from outside the conference room.
Thank You to everyone who came to support our MAIRtrade Fair.
I’m sure you will agree it was a huge success as we encourage our pupils to help others.
The children have all worked so hard learning all about Fairtrade and how it helps others. They were all successful learners as they promoted the use of Fairtade materials to produce all of their crafts and baking.
We are delighted to inform you that we raised the magnificent amount of £670
Have a look at some of our photographs below.
Check out Joes’s Blog as he talks about his experience of taking part in a drama performance at Eastwood Theatre.
Have you got your tickets yet for the event of the year………….
Classes Yell and Shetland have been busy working and organising their premier couture fashion show.
As well as modelling the clothes on the night, the students have been involved in the process of designing and making couture fashion items.
Tote bags designed by the pupils will also be on sale on the night.
So please come along and support the pupil council who are rasing funds to buy a pottery wheel and kiln for the school.
Where The Mod @IMS
Date Monday 24th March
Time 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Price £3
Click here for more information
A tombola and raffle will be available on the night and you can also sponsor some of our male staff members to have a sponsored leg wax………………
What an amazing day yesterday……………
Our StargGaze Drama Group presented their performance of “Wind in the Willows”
Since February the group have been meeting on a Tuesday after school from 3 -4 pm.
They have been working on workshops, learning scripts, stage direction, action songs, lyrics and improvisation.
Yesterday’s performance was a culmination of all their hard work, determination and team work, allowing the pupils to become Confident and Successful Learners.
I’m sure you will agree that we have very many talented yougsters and this performance allowed them to showcase their talents.
Classes Skye and Lewis led our secondary assembly this afternoon and their theme was “Out and About in the Community”
Both classes have been working hard on their topics, visiting various places in the local community.
They have participated in visits to local shops and cafes, making choices, working as a group and exchanging money.
Independent travel has also been incorporated in our visits to Whitlee Wind Farm and the local recycling centre.
As part of their assembly a short movie was made to show the rest of the school the learning experiences that they have taken part in.
One of the pupils from Class Lewis introduced the assembly by reading out his introduction, a great achievement!
At the end of the assembly the pupils took part in a small discussion about the learning experiences that they saw in the DVD.
Well done to all the pupils from Classes Lewis and Skye.
This week we have been celebrating Outdoor Learning Week…………… even in the rain and wind!
Lots of exciting activities and learning have taken place.
Monday
Keeping fit in the MUGA, aerobics with Mrs Vallance.
Art in the Atrium, creating special decorated spoons for our assembly on Friday.
Classes coming together for parachute games.
Tuesday
Our theme today was Numeracy. Classes working together exploring and using new resources to support outdoor learning.
Wednesday
Was our ECO day. lots of activities taking place including paper making, recycling station and our Fairtrade Coffee Morning supported by the pupils from Yell and Unst. It was love;y to see so many friends of IMS.
Thursday
Our theme today was Literacy, even in the rain the pupils still managed to venture out. We had the Stickman story and then the Fantastic Mr Fox which incorporated a treasure hunt.
Friday
Today was our “Wear it Green” day and the classes all had the opportunity to plan their own experiences………..
The sun was shining and every class managed to be involved in learning outdoors.
We had games in the MUGA, treasure trails, sensory trails, parachute games, Maureen our Art Therapist even took her session outdoors.
The day and week finished with an assembly from Classes Mull and Islay.
They had planned for everyone to decorate their own wooden spoons to placed on the mound.
A DVD was shown of classes Mull and Islay taking part in outdoor learning experiences and then everyone marched out to the mound to place their spoons. Thankfully the sun was shining………..
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!
Listen to the recent recording from mAIRwavesfm.
Class Whalsay helped to select a jingle to add to the recordings and Alex was the presenter for this episode, interviewing his friends about the recent halloween party.
Great work from our pupils taking ownership of this activity and showing how confident and successful they are in their learning.
Hope you enjoy listening to our recent recording.
Click on our pupil page to listen to the podcasts that some of the pupils have created about the work they have been doing in school.
Well done class Whalsay for the first podcast of October.
Good luck to senior pupils and buddies from the local mainstream schools who are off to Ardentinny for the annual “Make Your Dreams Come True 8” weekend.
It will be a great adventure for the pupils with, sailing, rock hopping and archery a few of the activities to mention. But not to forget the talent show and the legendary disco!
Fingers crosssed the sun comes out for us!
The pupils of Class Shetland were excited to showcase their hard work at our school assembly.
They loved working with Phil Goodlad,Sports Reporter from the BBC,learning the skills required for putting together a news report.
Our team of intrepid reporters interviewed Mrs Wallace, Mrs Sim, Kirsteen from the kitchen and a few pupils. They asked some hard hitting questions that Sir Trevor McDonald would have been impressed with!
Their news report included some video footage of pupils saying goodye from the old school and then welcoming our fantsatic new school!
Mrs Wallace presented everyone with achievement certificates at the end for being confident individuals.
Class Tiree chose to do a dramatisation of the Olympics at the Primary Assembly.
They made props, sent out invitations to the parents and rehearsed at every opportunity.
The class had great fun performing and it was great to see everyone become successful learners and confident individuals during the performance.
