MacMillan Coffee Morning
Great turn out this morning to the coffee morning. Thank you to everyone who baked and everyone who enjoyed the baking !
Parent Ground Force Team
Our Parent Ground Force Team are looking for new volunteers to help them maintain the school sensory garden and allow for successful outdoor learning to take place.
If you can spare a few hours, please contact the school office.
Roald Dahl Day
Happy Birthday Roald Dahl……
Class Islay have been celebrating in style.
They invited parents and grandparents into class for an open morning and quiz, all about Roald Dahl.
We certainly have some very competitive parents in class……
Click here to try the quiz
The morning was finished off with a delicious coffee and cake
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Achievement Assembly
On Friday we celebrated our first achievement assembly of the new term.
Many certificates were awarded to our young people for achievements gained in school and for other achievements at home and in the local community.
We also celebrated our new school captain, Hannah Murray and 6th prefect Rebecca Withers.
Thank You
Many thanks to Spifox for their very generous donation of £6187.
The pupils really appreciate your kind gesture.j
MacMillan Coffee Morning
Classes Cumbrae, Bute, Sanda and Arran invite you to their annual Macmillan Coffee Morning which will take place on Friday 16th September at 10am.
Come help us to raise funds for a really important charity.
We look forward to seeing you.
All parents welcome
Parent Council Annual general Meeting
Our Parent Council, Annual General meeting will take place on Tuesday 13 September 2016 at 7pm.
We look forward to seeing you.
Coffee and Chat
Coffee and Chat will take place Thursday 6th September at 10:30 – 11:30am.
We look forward to seeing you.
Diary Dates
Meet the Teacher
Class Tiree have invited their parents in for a “meet the teacher” session to meet new staff, see the classroom and find out about topics being studied this term. Pupils will then show some of their favourite activities.
Join us on Wednesday 21st September 1.30pm
Sexual Health Drop in
Mrs Goodlad and Miss McMillan have arranged a sexual health drop in session on Wednesday 28th September from 1:30pm – 2:30pm.
This is open to all parents to come see resources and learn about how the school supports the young people.
Lochgoilhead Reunion 2016
Join us for Dreams Come True, Lochgoilhead reunion and
dvd premier of all the highlights.
Tuesday 20th September at 6:30pm, Isobel Mair School.
We look forward to seeing you all.
Achievement
Congratulations to one of our P6 pupils for her recent Class Award, Primary Ballet at the Royal Academy of Dance.
A great achievement and we are all so proud of you.
ParaGolf Scotland
ParaGolf Scotland making the impossible possible.
Are you interested in supporting a fundraising event to help purchase a 3rd paragolf machine.
Click here for more details of the Paragolf Fundraiser Day
Shopping Sensory Hour
Glasgow Fort have announced they are to turn off all music in stores and across the retail park every Sunday between 10 and 11am.
This will allow for a better experience for those people who have Autism and allow them to shop without a sensory overload.
Click here for more details
Ability Fest’16
Festival of Opportunities, free event.
Wednesday, 12th October. 10am-4pm
Double Tree by Hilton Glasgow Central
Cambridge Street
(Formerly The Thistle Hotel)
Come see our Exhibitors, Workshops and Expert Advice
Their will be representatives from over sixty organisations covering learning, training, volunteering, leisure and employment will be available to answer questions. For more information, please contact:
To book a place:
Big Bright Star 010131 552 1500
Email deb@bigbrightstar.com
righstar.com
Head Boy & Girl Assembly
This afternoon at our Head Boy and Girl assembly, our students were presented with their blazers and badges.
They were so excited to get their blazers but nervous about saying the school promise.
We are delighted to inform you that this year we have two head boys, Marc Wilson and Rob Kenwell and our Head girl is Katherine Butler.
They will be supported by our school prefects, Nicholas, Stuart Cherry and Rebecca Withers.
Congratulations to Harry, P1 who was awarded star of the week for class Shetland.
Have a look at some of our photographs from the assembly this afternoon.
Happy birthday also to everyone have birthdays this week.
Let’s get musical
Let’s get musical with one of our pupils in class Skye…..
How amazing is this? Click here to watch one of our pupils play the piano and improvise with some tunes.
We are all proud of your achievements.
Friday fun at IMS
Busy morning at Isobel Mair School with lots of learning taking place.
Class Harris have been making a banana loaf as part of their Health & Wellbeing.
Skills involved include: following a recipe, measurement, team work, using utensils and safety in the kitchen.
Class Jura have been reading their favourite books and chatting to each other about the stories.
Class Sanda have been working at the SMARTBoard and R has been using her PODD communication book to chat with her teacher. She said she was feeling sunny and silly!
Class Staffa and Skye were excited to be working on numeracy skills this morning, differentiated teaching skills to meet individual needs.
Independence skills at snack time is promoted throughout the school. Pouring juice into the cups with no spillage is a tricky job but look at the concentration on her face.
Watch this space for more updates from the classes.
Whodunnit?
Classes Yell and Fetler have been working on their school assembly which will take place in a few weeks.
They decided to write a short whodunit type play…………………..”There’s been a murder”.
So with teacher support they came up with some ideas and created a storyboard.
This afternoon they filmed some of the scenes, very exciting as they all got into character.
Thank You
Thank you to Steven Clarke, Landlord of the Cartvale and his customers who have donated £500 to the school.
This was raised through a variety of events and personal donations.
We are also delighted to be nominated as one of their chosen charities for the coming year.
