“Make a Wish”
Some of our senior pupils are raising funds for “Make a Wish” foundation.
After discussions with the class, they emailed Mrs Clark with ideas for a cinema day.
More updates to follow
Tag Archives: Fundraising
Fundraising
Pedal for Scotland
Our senior janitor, Robert Todd is going to be taking part in the Pedal for Scotland ride on Sunday 6th September, cycling 50 miles from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
He will be raising money for school funds and would like to invite all staff, parents and friends to sponsor him in any way you can.
Sponsor forms will be sent out via the class diaries.
Click on the link for more information.
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.
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.
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.
Superhero Day
Who is your Superhero?
We are supporting Superhero Day on Friday 15th May!
All Staff & pupils are encouraged to dress up as their favourite superhero or wear a onesie and pay £1 towards helping Cash for Kids charity event.
We will have lots of fun activities taking place throughout the day…..
- Cake and Bake Sale
- Create your own superhero (50p donation)
- Face painting
Our Superhero day will end with a whole school assembly.
Community Matters at Waitrose
We are delighted to be accepted as the Waitrose “Community matters” donation this month.
So please take every opportunity to drop your wee green tokens in the bucket for IMS. This will allow us to buy some summer science equipment for our outdoors learning areas.
Many thanks for your support.
Sponsored Walk
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who donated to Class Iona/Mull’s sponsored walk event for Comic Relief.
We are delighted to inform that our latest total is now £399.50!!
Red Nose Day 2015
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Red Nose Day celebrations.
It was a fantastic day and we certainly made our faces funny for Red Nose Day.
We had a sponsored walk, cake sale, interactives activities on the SMARTBoard, colouring competitions, talent contest and the best part………
SPLAT the SENIOR MANAGEMENT
We have counted all our donations from the school and Family Centre and have over £300 with the total growing by the minute. We will update the total amount on Monday.
Have a look at our highlights of the day.
Sponsored Red Nose Day Walk
Do a Funny Walk for Money……….
Thank you to everyone who sponsored the primary classes on their sponsored Red Nose Day Walk today.
Everyone had a great time and thankful the rain stayed away.
Red Nose Day
Make Your Face Funny for Money
Reminder that tomorrow, Friday, 13th March we are participating in the annual Comic Relief fundraising event. 
This year’s theme is “Make Your Face Funny For Money!”
Pupils and staff are invited to come to school dressed in red. (This can be anything red – clothes, shoes, face or even hair!)
Pupils are asked to bring in a minimum of £1 donation for dressing up.
We will be celebrating Red Nose Day with events throughout the day such as:
- Splatting our Senior Management Team with cream cakes
- Bake Sale
- Face Painting
- Finishing with a whole school Talent Show in the afternoon.
Please send in some small change for your child to take part in the above events.
Thank you
Red Nose Day
Make Your Face Funny for Money
Next Friday, 13th March we are participating in the annual Comic Relief fundraising event.
This year’s theme is “Funny For Money!”
Pupils are invited to come to school dressed in red. (This can be anything red – clothes, shoes, face or even hair!)
Pupils are asked to bring in a minimum of £1 donation for dressing up.
We will be celebrating Red Nose Day with events throughout the day such as:
- Splatting our Senior Management Team with cream cakes
- Bake Sale
- Face Painting
- Finishing with a whole school Talent Show in the afternoon.
Please send in some small change for your child to take part in the above events.
I hope you will assist us in having fun and raising some money for Comic Relief.
Red Nose Day
Make a Funny Face for Money
Classes Iona and Mull are doing a sponsored walk to raise money for Comic Relief on Friday 13th March around the school grounds and have invited other classes to join them on the walk.
This year the theme is “Make Funny Faces for Money and we will be using face paints and props to do this, so watch this space.
More details to follow……………
Thank You
A huge thanks to St Cadoc’s Football Team who have raised a fantastic amount of money during the winter league.
The boys decided to donate some of the money to the school.
This afternoon we were delighted to welcome them to our assembly as they presented us with an amazing cheque for £1000.
We are delighted with this and informed everyone that the money would be used to purchase some;
- Tartan for Reels on Wheels
- New hoodies for the Cross Country Team
- New robes for the spa
- Yoga mats.
Thank you to everyone involved for this very generous donation.
Photos to follow
Charity Success for Leia
Leia’s big day proves a fundraising success
One of our families arranged a special day for their daughter to help raise awareness of rare congenital disorder Angelman Syndrome.
Click on the link below for more information.
Well done to her family for all their hard work in organising ths event for Leia’s Day.
History of Newton Mearns
Newton Mearns Through Time
Looking for a Christma gift, then read below.
A new pictorial book NEWTON MEARNS THROUGH TIME is now on general sale.
Written by Graeme Smith and Anne Robertson, with much of the new photography assisted by Queen’s Park Camera Club members Mike McCreery and Eddie Horn, the book with over 180 photographs, mainly in colour, is published by Amberley Publishing.
All royalties are being donated to the Isobel Mair School.
The authors will be at the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 29th November to sell copies at the discounted price of £10 per copy. Each book sold will mean a saving of £5 on the retail cost for the purchasers and another £2.50 for the school funds.
Jeans for Genes Day
On Friday 20th September all staff and pupils are invited to pay £1 to simply wear jeans, have fun and raise money for a great cause, Jeans for Genes Day.
Help us to support this great cause raising money for Genetic Disorders UK and aim to change the world for children with genetic disorders.
Please bring £1 into school on Friday and wear your favourite jeans.
Parent Workshops
SLT Parent Workshop
Please join us for our parent workshop on Monday 28th April 9:30-10:30am with our Speech and Language Therapists.
The focus of the event will be on ‘How to make communication happen throughout the day’
All welcome
Raffle Tickets now available………
Should you be so lucky…………
IMS & FC are holding a special raffle to raise money for school funds.
Would you like to win 2 tickets to go and see Kylie Minogue at the SSE Hydro on Wednesday 12th November 2014?
Will you be so lucky or will you have tears on your pillow?
Tickets are now available from school office priced at £5 per strip.
Money can sent in via school diaries and tickets will be sent home.
