Dylan, one of our primary pupils from class Staffa is climbing Ben Nevis this weekend to raise funds for Scottish Autism. If you would like to sponsor him, you can donate via ‘just giving’ page https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/DylanMackenzie or send in a donation via the school diary.
Any support would be gratefully appreciated and I’m sure you will join us in wishing Dylan the very best for his challenge.
As part of a pilot project being run at the school, we would like to invite you to attend two taster sessions of a programme called ‘Healthy Lives at IMS’. The project will focus on educating the young people about healthy eating and exercise, with support of their families.
Healthy Lives @ IMS
Wednesday 1st June, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Wednesday 8th June, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Each taster session will be structured as follows:
Places on the programme are limited and must be booked in advanc,. If you wish to reserve a place for you and your child, please complete the sign off form sent home via the home school diaries.
If you require more information, please contact the school directly.
Play Club/Jump Club
SupERkids – run for our children by their parents – are pleased to invite you to our Play Club. This is for either our young people to either bounce on the inflatables (if wet) and if dry go outside and participate in team events suitable for their age range. It should be a lot of healthy fun!
Dates Thursday 19th May – 30th June
Duration 60 minutes per session
Location Isobel Mair School grounds
Cost £15 for 7 weeks which includes drinks and snacks.
Please call Gail and Michelle (inclusive support) on 0141577 3367 if you would like to attend or call Nicola Kelly (SuperERkids parent) – 07786462870
Our parent gardening group are hard at work in the sensory garden this morning. We are grateful the sun is shining again……
It’s looking great and the pupils and staff appreciate all your help.
Thank you to everyone for taking part in Superhero Day as we helped raise some money for Clyde1 Cash for Kids.
Gemma Harley, one of our pupils made an amazing Superhero cake for her class and some of our classes took part in a quiz.
Miss Philo and class Orkney organised a few super hero hampers to raffle and would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the very kind donations.
At assembly our raffle winners were announced and also the best dressed costume. Congratulations to Rosie and her mum who decorated a Wonder Woman T-shirt.
We are delighted to let you know that we raised £
Class Jura also performed their version of the Gruffalo at the assembly. We are all so proud, what great achievements for them all.
Man’s World will be in school on Wednesday 18th May from 10 – 11:30am.
Uniform will be available for purchase on the day.
Gemma, one of our s3 pupils made her class an amazing cake today to celebrate the Cash for kids superhero day.
It was a lovely sunny day yesterday and Class Tiree and Whalsay decided to go on an adventure, looking for minibeasts in the school grounds.
They found a ladybird, some worms, spiders, bees, beetles, centipede and slugs and snails, all very exciting!
They then looked at their minibeasts through magnifying glasses and recorded our Mairwaves blog.
Thank you to everyone who came to our very first AAC@IMS Communication Club last night.
It was lovely to see everyone and have the opportunity to share ideas and success stories.
Many thanks to one of our parents, Tracey Campbell for organising the club with support from school staff and we look forward to the upcoming events to support our young people with communication.
Remember if you have any information/ideas you would like shared with others, please let us know and we can add it to the AAC@IMS web link.
Reminder that the AAC@IMS Communications Club organised by one of our parents (Tracey Campbell) will take place tomorrow evening from 7-8pm.
Can you please have a look at the hand-out also on the AAC@IMS link to give you an idea of the plan for the following weeks .
We look forward to seeing you and siblings are welcome to come join in.
The sun was shining for our Parent Ground Force team this morning in the sensory garden.
They spent some time giving our benches a makeover and they are now looking fabulous, photos to follow.
Good luck to some of our senior pupils who are taking part in Work Experience at the local Waitrose store this morning.
We are supporting Cash for Kids Superhero Day on Friday & looking for Superhero items for our raffle hamper. Can you help out?
Friday 13th May, we are supporting Clyde 1’s Cash for Kids day.
We ask that all children wear a superhero costume and bring in £1. We are also raffling a Superhero Hamper with tickets selling for £1 a strip.
If you are able to donate anything superhero related to go into the hamper please send it in next week- we really appreciate your support!
Have a look at some of the activities taking place to
celebrate success during our Learning Disability Week,
16th – 20th May 2016.
Isobel Mair School works in partnership with East
Renfrewshire Disability Action ERDC and the Corporate Equality Unit to ensure that we all and work together, celebrating success.
One of our senior pupils, Katherine Butler has recently celebrated her 18th Birthday.
She had a party for family and friends and instead of gifts, she asked everyone to donate some money for a chosen charity.
Katherine is delighted to tell everyone that she has donated the magnificent sum of £444 to charity.
Well done Katherine on your very generous gesture.
mAIRwavesFM have posted a new recording.
Listen as they act out 2 plays, The Good Samaritan and David and Goliath.
Friday 13th May, we are supporting Clyde 1’s Cash for Kids day.
We ask that all children wear a superhero costume and bring in £1. We are also raffling a Superhero Hamper with tickets selling for £1 a strip.
If you are able to donate anything superhero related to go into the hamper please send it in next week- we really appreciate your support!
Thank you
The AAC@IMS Communucation Club will take place on the following dates:
Wednesday 11th May and 25th May from 7-8pm.
Thursday 8th June and 23rd June from 7-8pm.
We look forward to seeing you, siblings are welcome to attend.
The Communication club will be coordinated by Tracy Campbell with support from school.
Class Arran and the ISS@IMS pupils have made community links with Greenlaw Grove Care Home as part of Class Arran’s Community Involvement N1 SQA and ISS@IMS N3 Wellbeing Award.
They had previously visited Greenlaw Grove and had a tour of the building and sampled the amazing food in the Café, courtesy of Greenlaw Grove
On Thursday 29 April, both groups returned to Greenlaw Grove to put on a Scottish Dance performance for the residents.
Their next joint Community Involvement Activity will take place on Tuesday 24 May, when the residents from Greenlaw Grove will visit IMS to join in with some Scottish Dancing. They will then be offered tea and cakes, made and served by the ISS@IMS pupils.
Thank you to everyone who came to Coffee & Chat this afternoon to find out more about the Mellow Parenting support group with Lindsey Macleod / Cockshott (clinical psychologist) and Rachel Tainsh (programme development officer with Mellow Parenting).
We hope you found it useful.
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