One of our parents visited the new facilty at Hillington – Karting with a Conscience at the weekend.
This facilty provides Go- Karting experiences that will suit all age groups and abilities! See previous post for more information
Thanks to Tunde Cockshot for the review of the Go karting Experience which might be useful for other families who are looking for special outings with their family.
Are you a parent carer looking after a child or young person on the Autistic Spectrum?
Would you like the chance to meet up with other parents in East Renfrewshire doing the same?
Then please come along! Click here for more informtion
Wednesday 4th March 2015
Please call to book your place!
Are you a parent/carer of a girl with Asperger’s? Would you like to meet up with others in the area doing the same?
Click here for more information
In February and March 2015, Sleep Scotland will be holding a series of 10 Parent Workshops, specifically for parents and carers of children or young adults
with autism or Asperger’s Syndrome and sleep problems. The workshops are part of a short pilot-project, supported by the Scottish Government Autism Fund, and running until the end of March 2015.
To book a space on one of these workshops, or for more information, please contact Abby by telephone on 0131 651 1392 or by email at abby@sleepscotland.org
Date for your diary:
Please keep Thursday 19th February free to join us for our “MAIRtrade” Fair.
Pupils have been working hard creating fairtrade crafts and cakes.
Come and support this event, ALL WELCOME.
More details to follow…………..
We have just uploaded February’s edition of the school newsletter.
Looking for something exciting to do, full of twists and turns then read below……..
With an exciting track full of twists and turns and the added advantage of no fume emissions and little noise, we are offering a karting experience that will suit all age groups and abilities!
Supported by the Glasgow Airport Flightpath Fund, our Karting with a Conscience programme ensures The Experience is accessible for everyone and offers:
For more information contact Bobby Boyd:
email :- bobby.boyd@theexpereince.org.uk
phone :- 0141 883 4005
Thank you to Olivia Turner and her parents for donating the PODD chair to the school.
It certainly will be put to good use in the Sensory room and other areas of the school.
A reminder that school will be closed on Thursday 5th &Friday 6th February for INSET training and for mid term holiday Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th February.
School reopens Wednesday 11th February.
Classes Tiree & Whalsay have been busy preparing for their Winter Cafe.
They planned the menu, created invites, made a shoppping list, went shopping and then distributed jobs to specific people.
Today they have finally been able to put all their hard work into the event and demonstrate how successful and confident, they are in their learning.
They have invited the parents from both classes in for lunch and openened up the menu to all staff.
Please note that school will be closed on Thursday 5th &Friday 6th February for INSET training and for mid term holiday Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th February.
School reopens Wednesday 11th February.
Today we welcomed visitors Eilean Gibson, Jackie Higgins and Douglas McLaren from Scottish Power Retail, Debt Division who came to the school to present a cheque to us. The staff had a raffle prior to the Christmas holidays and the money raised was donated to the school.
Our vistitors joined us for an Experiential Sensory Story “Stig of the Dump” from classes Arran and Cumbrae. After listening to the story our visitors and pupils were encouraged to take part in activities linked to the story and recyling.
We also welcomed 4 children from the Family Centre who are members of the Eco Committee members to take part in our story and activities.
Thank You to everyone for this very kind donation.
Our Head Boy, Michael was delighted to accept the donation on our behalf.
Classes Whalsay, Tiree and Jura have been working on the BBC project, Ten Pieces to inspire young people to get creatvive with classical music.
They have been learning how to make music using parts of their body and simple sounds.
Over the past two months they have composed their own piece of music which was filmed today and will be uploaded to the BBC as part of the Ten Pieces Proms.
They also created a piece of art work as part of this project.
Look out for some budding musicians in the near future!
Last Friday we celebrated Burns day with a whole school assembly which included some of the children from the Family Centre.
All the classes participated by either, singing, exhibiting art work or reciting some poetry and our Reels on Wheels group performed 2 dances for us.
It was a great event, promoting confident individuals and successful learners.
Have a look at some of our photographs below.
Class Yell have recently been studying Robert Burns.
They researched facts about his life and devised a quiz for their parents to take part in for the “Show and Tell” which they had invited them to.
They created an invite for the parents and also invited Mrs Clark, our new Head Teacher.
They recited some poems and even sang “Auld Lang Syne”.
The students also prepared lunch for their visitors which included haggis, neeps, tatties and delicious Cranachan.
Have a look at some of the photographs below.
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Our Stargaze Drama group which takes place on Tuesday’s after school have been working hard on their new performance “Bugsy Malone”.
Look out for more details soon……..
Classes Arran and Cumbrae have been working on an interactive sensory story “Stig of the Dump”.
During art sessions they have created a large cave as part of their story and have incorporated lots of visual and sound effects using the iPad and mini projector.
They are performing this to some of the classes on Friday, and everyone looking forward to it.
Photos to follow………
Yesterday we were filmed by the BBC as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day. This was shown on Scotland 2015 last night.
Xander lights the Holocaust Memorial Candle, (click to 17 mins)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0516f8j/scotland-2015-27012015 …
Look out for Isobel Mair School on reporting Scotland tonight, 6:30pm as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Auscwitz-Birkenau.
