Thank You Mearns Community week

February 28, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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

February 27, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Get Fit with Zumbathon @ IMS

We are holding a Zumbathon on Thursday 21^st 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..

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Diary Dates

February 27, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Diary Dates

We have lots of events coming up during the month of March so keep a look out for whats happening in IMS.

Thursday 7^th March	Coffee and Chat
Friday 8^th March	World Book Day
Friday 15^th March	Red Nose Day
Thursday 21^st March	Zumbathon and Café
Monday 18^th – Friday 22^nd March	Science Week @ IMS
Monday 25^th March	Science Finale Event
Wednesday 27^th March	Easter Service 10:30am @ NMBC
Thursday 28^th March	Easter Egg Hunt
Friday 29^th March	School Closed, Good Friday
Monday 15^th April	School reopens
Monday 15^th – Friday 19^th March	Outdoor Learning Week

- Pupils, Coffee and Chat

Coffe and Chat

February 26, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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.

- Achievement, - Pupils

Gold Medal

February 21, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Congratulations to Cassie, one of our senior pupils who recently took part in the Cross Country event at Bellahouston Park.

Cassie was delighted with her run and was awarded the gold medal for coming in first.

Congratulations Cassie.

- Pupils

Community Unity

February 21, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Good Luck to classes Tiree, Whalsay and Orkney who are taking part in the Community Unity Scottish event at Newton Mearns Baptist Church this evening at 7pm.

Our pupils are excited to show off their skills and perform with friends from St Cadoc’s and Crookfur Primary schools who are also part of Community Unity.

- Pupils

Cross Country

February 19, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Goodluck to some of our senior pupils who are taking part in the Cross Country event at Bellahouston park today.

- Pupils

Wear What You Please Day

February 8, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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.

Parents

Links for parents/carers

February 8, 2013 Ms O'Brien

We have added some new links for parents and carers which you might find useful.

Check them out on the useful links for parents page.

- Pupils, MairwavesFM

mAIRwavesFM have posted a new recording.

February 7, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Classes Whalsay and Tiree got together to record the latest edition of mAIRwavesFM.

Alex interviewed pupils and invited them to ask our new teacher, Mrs Elliot-Ling some questions.

Why don’t you have a listen and find out some more…………

Click here

holiday

Mid term break

February 7, 2013 Ms O'Brien

The school will be closed to puils on Friday 8th February for staff INSET training and on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th February for mid term break.
Enjoy the holiday!

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Useful links for parents

February 5, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Contact a Family is the only national charity that exists to support the families of disabled children whatever their condition or disability. With over 30 years of experience, our vision is that families with disabled children are empowered to live the lives they want and achieve their full potential, for themselves, for the communities they live in, and for society. It’s why we offer support, information and advice to over 340,000 families each year and campaign for families to receive a better deal.

Click on the following link for more information about this charity and the help they can provide to parents nd carers.

- Achievement, - Pupils

Communities together: Build a Bridge

January 29, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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

January 22, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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

January 22, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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.

Parent Council

Parent Council Meeting

January 22, 2013 Ms O'Brien

Parent Council Meeting will take place this evening at 7pm.

- Pupils, Fundraising

Assembly

January 16, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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

- Pupils

mAIRwavesFM wish everyone a Happy New Year

January 14, 2013 Ms O'Brien

mAIRwavesFM have posted a new recording.

In this broadcast Alex interviews his friends and asks what they got up to over the Christmas holidays.

mAIRwavesFM

Parents

Parents’ Evening

January 14, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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

January 11, 2013 Ms O'Brien

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.