GIRFEC Conference for Parents will take place this evening from 6:30 -8:30pm
All welcome to attend
Sport Relief 2014
Sport Relief @ IMS
This year at Isobel Mair School we are celebrating with a SPORT RELIEF ASSEMBLY on: Friday 21st March 2014 at 2pm
Please come along and see all the sporty things we’ve been doing, watch our sporty video challenge, join in a sport dance and help raise some money.
We also have some Sport Relief wristbands for sale at £1 if you would like to buy some.
Hope you can join us for a fun afternoon.
Fashion Show
The Pupil Council Need You!
Have you got your tickets yet for the event of the year………….
Classes Yell and Shetland have been busy working and organising their premier couture fashion show.
As well as modelling the clothes on the night, the students have been involved in the process of designing and making couture fashion items.
Tote bags designed by the pupils will also be on sale on the night.
So please come along and support the pupil council who are rasing funds to buy a pottery wheel and kiln for the school.
Where The Mod @IMS
Date Monday 24th March
Time 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Price £3
Click here for more information
A tombola and raffle will be available on the night and you can also sponsor some of our male staff members to have a sponsored leg wax………………
“Time to Shine”
Commuity Unity
“Time to Shine”
Tonights performance of “Time to Shine” with the Community Unity schools will take place in Newton Mearns Baptist Church at 7pm.
Pupils from classes Whalsay, Tiree and Jura have been rehearsing really hard with the P7 pupils from St Cadoc’s and Crookfur primaries. Everyone looking forward to the actual performance….
Pace “Time to Shine”
Community Unity
This morning classes Tiree and Whalsay welcome P7 pupils from St Cadoc’s and Crookfur primary schools for a morning rehearsal of the Community Unity perfromance “Time to Shine”.
We are glad the sun is shining as we will have 150 pupils for lunch and then outside to play in our amazing outdoor area!
This afternoon we are heading over to Newton Mearns Baptist Church for another rehearsal as the big performance is Wednesday evening.
World Book Day
World Book Day Celebrations
Our World Book Day Celebrations begin on Thursday 6th March where all the classes are working together on a particular book theme, i.e Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, the Tiger Who Came to Tea and Alice in Wonderland.
Classes will be performing either a dramatisation, poems, interactive lessons or songs from the stories and finishing off with a tea party in each of the lochs.
On Friday 6th March all pupils are encouraged to bring £1 and dress up as a favourite story character. Our day wil be finished off with a whole school assembly.
I wonder what character Mrs Wallace will be this year!
Floatsation Training
IMS Staff are looking forward to having Floatsation Training today.
Floatsation aids allow swimmers with Special needs to be independent and more confident in the water active learning curve towards becoming an independent swimmer.Floatsation can enable everyone to have fun in the water in a safe and confident way. It enables users to have fun while still allowing them to develop:
The effectiveness of each buoyancy aid keeping the swimmer in the water instead of above the water helps to boost essential water confidence.
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Coffee and Chat
Coffee and Chat will take place on Tuesday 4th March at 1:30pm
All welcome
Fashion Show
Hot off the Press………..
Have you got your tickets yet for the event of the year………….
Classes Yell and Shetland have been busy working and organising their premier couture fashion show.
As well as modelling the clothes on the night, the students have been involved in the process of designing and making couture fashion items.
Tote bags designed by the pupils will also be on sale.
Where The Mod @IMS
Date Monday 24th March
Time 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Price £3
Click here for more information
A tombola and raffle will be available on the night and you can also sponsor some of our male staff members to have a sponsored leg wax………………
Parents’ Invite to GIRFEC
Parents’ Invite
Getting it Right for Every Child
Following a successful INSET day programme focusing on GIRFEC we would like to invite all parents/carers to an evening event at the school.
As only a few parents could attend the day time event we hope that the evening event will be more convenient.
There will be workshops focusing on:-
- Out of school activities
- Post School Transition planning
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Monday 17th March 2014
6.30PM – 8.30PM
More details will be sent out via the class diaries
Fashion Show
Hamper Donations
Are you able to help and supply us with donations for the Tombola and Hamper at our upcoming fashion show?
Classes Yell and Shetland are busy organising a fashion show and are looking for donations………
All donations can be sent in via school transport or handed into school office.
Thanks for your support.
Diary Dates
Dates for your Diary
Date |
Event |
| Tuesday 4th March 2014 | Coffee and Chat 1.30pm |
| Friday 7th March 2014 | World Book Day Celebrations |
| Wednesday 19th March 2014 | Community Unity Olympics (Pupils Only) |
| Friday 21st March 2014 Monday 24th March 2014 |
Sports Relief Activities Fashion Show 6pm – 8pm (organised by classes Yell and Shetland) £3 |
| Tuesday 25th March 2014 | Community Unity Arts Alive Event (Details to follow) |
| Tuesday 1st April 2014 | Easter Service 10:30 at Newton Mearns Baptist Church |
| Friday 4th April 2014 | School Closes for Easter Holidays |
Community Unity Peace March
Community Unity Peace March
Today we celebrated The World Day of Social Justice b y joining together with our Community Unity Partners for a Peace March.
Pupils from St Cadoc’s and Crookfur primaries gathered at IMS to march in support of Human Rights. Pupils carried banners to celebrate figures from the civil rights movement including Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. We marched up and down the corridors and playground and pupils from the classes in the school joined us as we passed. We sang This Little Light of Mine and also had a protest chant –“What do we want? Human rights. When do we want them? Now!”
The peace march is part of our ongoing work on raising awareness of human rights, particularly the rights of children as we aim for Rights Respecting Schools Status. Everyone involved was caught up in the great atmosphere and enjoyed the march experience and pupils from all three schools and the ISS@IMS group gave presentations about some of the figures involved in the rights movement in the Mod after the march.
Listen as Dylan recites a poem all about Nelson Mandela.
Have a look at some of the images from todays event.
Art Work
Have a look at the wonderful creation one of our 6th pupils created during an art lesson.
Amazing……………
Parent Council pamper Evening
Note from Parent Council
The pamper evening which the Parent Council were trying to organise will now not go ahead due to low numbers.
However we plan to have a monthly draw from August and a big raffle prize.
So watch this space
Cinderella Performance
Cinderella
Some of our pupils attend the Saturday morning “Glee Drama Club” and are starring in the Cinderella Show at Eastwwod Park Theatre on Saturday 22nd February at 6pm.
Please come along for a fun evening and support the wonderful performance from pupils who have been rehearsing really hard.
Tickets are priced at £3
mAIRwaves have posted a new recording.
Interviews by the Head Girl
At our recent GIRFEC Conference ( getting it right for every child) our Head Girl Chloe had the repsonsiblity of not only introducing the conference but interviewing some of the keynote speakers and guests.
She interviewed Mrs Shaw, Director of Education, Mr Smiley, Senior Psychologist, Campus Cop based at Eastwood High School, parents and staff.
Chloe did a great job as she put them on the spot, asking what GIRFEC meant to them and what they would take away from the conference.
Listen here to Chloe’s report:…….
Open Morning
“The Enormous Turnip”
Classes Staffa and Jura invited their parents and grandparents into school for an open morning on Friday 15th February.
The highlight of the visit was to watch the premier of “The Enormous Turnip”.
All the pupils took part with great enthusiasm. Prior to the performance the children all read the story and made up a storyboard with audio for the audience to introduce the story, this was then shown on the large screen.
Then the fun began………………… Mark was the farmer and Amber was his wife. They told the story and each character was introduced in turn as they tried to pull out the turnip.
This was a great achievement for all the pupils and the open morning created an opportunity for them to become successful learners and confident individuals performing infront of a live audience.
mAIRwaves FM have posted a new recording
Classes Whalsay and Tiree are continuing with their Science topic – Electricity.
This week they have been looking at renewable energy in more depth. The class split into 3 groups and rotated round 3 different work stations with various learning internions set out for the pupils to work through.
Mrs Clark, our Depute Head Teacher joined us for this lesson as it was part of our Science monitoring.
Listen to mAIRwaves FM from last week as the pupils discussed renewable energy and have a look at how they have now generalised this infomation into this weeks tasks.
Station 1 was the SMART Table
Learning Intentions
To review your knowledge of renewable energy
To work as part of a group.
Success Criteria
I can answer questions about renewable energy.
I can work with my peers to answer questions.
Station 2 was labelling images
Learning Intentions
To label the different types of renewable energy.
To work as part of a group.
Success Criteria
I can label 2 types of renewable energy.
I can work with my peers to label the renewable energy sources
Station 3 was building a wind turbine using lego/kinex
Learning Intentions
To design a wind turbine or solar panel using different materials.
To work as part of a group.
Success Criteria
I can build a wind turbine or a solar panel.
I can work with my peers to label the renewable energy sources..
GIRFEC Conference
GIRFEC
Our GIRFEC Conference, Getting it Right for Every Child will take place tomorrow from 9:30am – 12:35pm.
A very informative day is planned with guest speakers explaining the GIRFEC message and we also have workshops, stalls and chat with visiting specialists form East Renfrewshire Council.
Staff from PAMIS, Inclusive Support, Cosgrove, School Health, Sleep Scotland, Sensory Support Service are amongst some of the services who will be on hand to offer advice and support.
Everyone welcome and you can drop in for some of the sessions if you are unable to attend the whole event.
Please note children are not allowed to attend this event.
