Please come along and support our Sports Day!
The day starts of with our Parade of Nations at 1pm.
Remember your running shoes for the Parent & Teacher race………
See flyer for more details.
Parent Council Raffle
Raffle tickets to win a fabulous VIP Night out for 2 in Glasgow will be available at the Parents’ Evening tonight.
Help support the Parent Council to raise valuable funds for the school.
Good luck everyone
Parent Council Raffle
Would you like to win a VIP Night out in Glasgow with dinner for 2 and overnight stay?
Our Parent Council have donated a fabulous overnight stay at the Exclusive Blythswood Apartments and dinner for 2 at the Fabulous Eatery “Red Onion” to raise money for school funds.
Raffle tickets are priced at £1 per ticket and and a covering letter has been sent home via the home/school diaries. Each pupil will recieve a strip containing ten tickets.
Extra tickets can be purchased from the school if you require more.
All tickets must be returned to school before Thursday 11th June at 9am.
The draw for this fabulous prize will be made on the afternoon of SPORTS DAY 11th June.
Good Luck everyone.
Parents’ Evening
Reminder that Parents’ Evening will take place on Monday 8th June from 6pm.
Thank You
Thank You
We were delighted to recieve 2 cheques today for £240 each.
This money was raised by Chloe Mason’s auntie and work colleauges at Farmfoods in Cumbernauld who decided to raise some money on International Autism Day, 2nd April.
Everyone was encouraged to wear something blue and donate £1 and the response was amazing.
They decided to donate the money to the school and the company matched the total raised by the staff, giving us £480 in total.
We are delighted with this very generous donation and will be used to support fun, learning experiences for the pupils.
GROW COOK EAT Showcase
SKILLS FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
Preparations are under way for the annual GROW COOK EAT Showcase………..
Senior students are busy in the kitchen preparing a 2 course lunch for parents and invited guests.
Students will be presented with a certificates for participating in the year long skills for life programme and a slideshow will be shown highlighting their progress over the year.
Many thanks to all the staff at West Scotland College – Hospitality and Rouken Glen Training Centre for supporting our young people in this journey.
Well done everyone.
Parent Council Raffle
Would you like to win a VIP Night out in Glasgow with dinner for 2 and overnight stay?
Our Parent Council have donated a fabulous overnight stay at the Exclusive Blythswood Apartments and dinner for 2 at the Fabulous Eatery “Red Onion” to raise money for school funds.
Raffle tickets are priced at £1 per ticket and and a covering letter has been sent home via the home/school diaries. Each pupil will recieve a strip containing ten tickets.
Extra tickets can be purchased from the school if you require more.
All tickets must be returned to school before Thursday 11th June at 9am.
The draw for this fabulous prize will be made on the afternoon of SPORTS DAY 11th June.
Good Luck everyone.
SDS Athletics
Congratulations to all our young athletes who took part in the SDS Athlectics championships at Grangemouth yesterday.
We had a great day and the weather was in our favour, sun shining for most of the day…..
We celebrated with 31 medals from all the event , so a huge congratulations to all our pupils who took part.
Have a look at some of our photographs from yesterdays achievements.
SDS Athletics
Good luck to senior pupils heading to Grangemouth for the SDS athletics championships!
Autism Triage Scotland
Autism Triage Scotland
Are you on facebook and interested in finding out about training and events about Autism?
Follow “autism triage scotland” it is a closed group so you have to join to see any events or training.
ICT and Inclusion
CALL Scotland are holding 2 courses ICT and Inclusion and extra drop in session for parents and carers.
And for parents in particular…..
This year we are running extra drop-in sessions for parents of children with additional support needs at our Edinburgh event!
Parents can attend these themed drop-in sessions hosted by CALL Scotland specialist staff. This will provide an opportunity for parents to view and discuss ICT resources and strategies for supporting children with a range of additional supports needs such as language, learning, communication and access. There will be no presentation at these sessions as such, but an opportunity to view selected technology and learn how it can be used to support children in school and/or home.
As well as these sessions parents can come along earlier in the afternoon from 2pm onwards, to see the ICT and Inclusion exhibition and to chat with the exhibitors.
The location, date and time for the parents’ drop-in is:
- CALL Scotland, Edinburgh – Wednesday 10 June 2015, 4.30-5.30 pm
The drop-in sessions will cover:
- Primary level access to the curriculum, including literacy & dyslexia
- Secondary level access to the curriculum, including speech recognition
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) single message technology to higher level devices
- Technology to support pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties
There is no need for parents to book for drop-in events, just turn up in time for your selected session or come along to the exhibition anytime from 2pm onwards. To find out more go to the ICT and Inclusion web page or telephone CALL Scotland on 0131 651 6235.
School Uniform
Time to buy school uniform for next session…….
Man’s World will be in school tomorrow, Wednesday 3rd June at 10am for anyone wishing to purchase new school uniform.
Butterflies coming to life……..
Classes Mull and Iona have been looking after our butterfly kit and have invited all pupils in school to take part in this exciting project.
All classes will observe the lifecycle of our very own live butterflies and watch as the caterpillars grow, transform and emerge as beautiful butterflies before they are released in our school grounds.
We will update with more photos soon.
Scottish Education Awards
We are delighted to be one of 4 East Renfrewshire schools who have been nominated for the Scottish Education awards. We have been shortlisted under the Health and Wellbeing category.
Read more here
We will find out at an awards ceremony in just under two weeks’ time if we have won this prestigious national honour.
Watch this space.
MairWavesFm
MairWavesFm have posted a new recording.
Click here to listen to the pupils as they discuss the MAIRFest Mela.
Partners In Policymaking
Partners In Policymaking is returning to Scotland in October
Partners in Policymaking’ is a leadership development programme for parents of disabled children (up to the age of 18) and disabled Adults, including people with learning difficulties, sensory impairments and physical impairments.
This course is a chance for participants to gain the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to campaign and advocate for better treatment and social justice for disabled people within our society.
If you are interested in applying Click here for more information.
Summer Countdown
Our Summer Countdown has been updated.
Athletics Trials
Some of our senior pupils are off to Eastwood High School to use the athletics pitch for the SDS Junior Athletics trials.
At last the sun is shining……….
Good Luck everyone
MAIRFest MELA
Reminder that our MAIRfest MELA will take place Thursday 21st May at 1:30pm .
All Welcome 
Holiday
Reminder that school is closed Friday 22nd, Monday 25th May for bank holiday and Tuesday 26th May for Inset day.
Hope everyone has a good bank holiday.
