World Autism Awareness Week is back! There is no better time in the year to raise awareness about autism and make
a difference to the lives of autistic people across the UK – so sign up and join in!
Saturday 2nd April to Friday 8th April.
mAIRWaves have posted a new recording
Listen as classes Whalsay and Tiree discuss Scottish Inventors.
As part of the lesson plan, pupils had to create their own invention, have a look at Toby’s inventions.
He wrote about his invention and then drew a plan. I’m sure a few of our pupils would like this idea to be patented.
Community Partnership
On Monday February 8th classes Shetland and Orkney are visiting Crookfur homes.
They will sing and recite poetry from Burns day.
Family Fun Technology Day
Family Fun Technology Day
Free family fun day at CALL Scotland, Saturday 16th April 11am – 4pm run by specialist staff (CALL, FAACT, KEYCOMM,SCTCI, TASSCC and others) and funded by Augmentative Communication in Practice: Scotland.
This is a chance for families of children with additional support needs to try out and learn about software, hardware, and specialised communication technologies.
Click here for more information and booking form
Coffee and Chat
Coffee and Chat
Join us for Coffee and Chat on Thursday 4th February from
10am -11.30am.
One of our parents,Tracey Campbell will have an informal chat about a parents perspective on AAC including PODD. We hope you can make it along for this informative session.
ISS@IMS say Thank You
Our ISS@IMS pupils, who are based at Corrie House, visited the gym at Barrhead Foundry, as part of their SQA National 3 Wellbeing Award.
Pupils were given an induction on how to use all of the equipment, and then spent an hour on the equipment of their choice.
All of the pupils thoroughly enjoyed the visit and hope to now visit on a regular basis, with the school, and in their own time.
We would like to thank, gym staff, Hugh Coyle and Kenny McDonell for their input, which ensured all pupils got so much out of the visit.
Coffee and Chat
Coffee and Chat
Coffee and Chat will take place on Thursday 4th February from 10am -11.30am.
One of our parents,Tracey Campbell will have an informal chat about a parents perspective on AAC including PODD. We hope you can make it along for this informative session.
Travelling with Additional Needs Toolkit
Edinburgh Airport first in Scotland to develop support toolkit
for passengers with additional needs.
In the first project of its kind in Scotland, Edinburgh Airport has launched a support package to help passengers with autism
and other additional support needs travel through the airport.
Working closely with Scottish Autism, the airport’s
corporate charity partner for 2014, and disability equality
group Wideaware, Edinburgh Airport has developed the
‘Travelling with Additional Needs’ toolkit as part of a wider
support packageto help passengers and their families better cope with the what can be a daunting task of navigating their way through a busy airport.
Thank you
Many thanks to the 4 students, Jen, Joe, Sharon and Hannah from Royal Conservatoire Scotland for working with pupils from Class Tiree.
The pupils gained so much from the workshops and
the performances. They had a great time forming friendships
and exploring the theme of ‘finding your voice’; finding who you
are and being proud of it.
The session finished today with two performances to staff
and pupils from school and also to some of the students from the Royal Conservatoire course.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Mrs Mari Wallace, ex Head Teacher of IMS, who is at Buckingham Palace to collect her MBE from HRH Queen Elizabeth.
West of Scotland Cross Country
Good Luck to some of our senior pupils taking part in the West of Scotland Cross Country event at Bellahouston park this morning.
Holocaust Memorial Assembly
Thank you to classes Yell, Unst, Harris and Arran for presenting at our Holocaust Memorial Assembly yesterday. #HMD2016
Hannah lit our treasured Anish Kapoor candle and the classes read out some poems and sang a song, “We are the world……….”.
Thank You to Carol Gillespie for attending our assembly .
AAC Masters Module
Congratulations to Katie Keenan and Lynn O’Brien who have recently completed and passed the AAC Masters Module , Evidenced Based Assessment in Complex Communication Needs.
Holocaust Memorial Assembly
Classes Yell & Unst are hosting our whole school Holocaust Memorial Assembly this afternoon.
Pupil Art Work
Delighted to share some art work by one of our senior pupils Lee Carrigan. He is very proud of work.
Tiger who came to Tea
Class Arran invited their parents and Grandparents into school for their “Tiger who came to Tea” performance.
They had listened to the story, created a 3d scene during art work and decided on some sound effects.
All the pupils had a part to play in the story and
enthusiastically performed in front of an audience.
Sean played the part of the tiger with our volunteer Phil and smiled all the way through at his antics.
They used their switches to activate the sound effects.
Rob especially loved the door bell effect.
Peter worked hard on some picture and word matching activities.
The pupils from ISS @ IMS supported the class and helped
to prepare a tea party afterwards. They made some biscuits
and helped to serve the teas and coffee.
mAIRwavesFm
mAIRwavesFm have posted a new recording.
Listen as Class Whalsay discuss Scottish Inventors as part of their new topic.
Class Collaboration
Auld Lang Syne
Classes Whalsay and Tiree worked together on their Robert Burns performance and after some deliberation, they decided to sing “Auld Lang Syne”
Click here for a short preview.
Full video will be uploaded soon.
Burns Assembly
What a great assembly this afternoon to celebrate Robert Burns.
All the classes took part in song, dance, poems and some produced amazing art work.
Click here for “Auld Lang Syne”
Some of the performances included;
Auld Lang Syne by classes Tiree and Whalsay
Tam O’Shanter by Class Lewis
Selkirk Grace by Alex Oliphant
Red Red Rose by Pirece Queen
Reels on Wheels by Loch Ness, who performed a Circassian Reel
Nessie by Musa and Mark C
Sword dance by Sarah P
Anthony gave us Address to a Haggis and Gemma &
Dylan composed their own Address to the lads and lassies.
We are all so proud of the young people performing with
such confidence.
Burns Day Celebrations
Many thanks to our catering staff for a superb Burns Lunch.
Our senior pupils enjoyed some Scottish dancing prior to lunch and now we are getting ready for our Burns Assembly.
