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Pop in and Play

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Our Pop in and Play Dates are as follows:

Tuesday 16th January

Wednesday 17th January

Thursday 18th January

You are invited to come along and spend some time in the playroom with your child, joining in and seeing all the learning experiences that are taking place throughout the session. Name lists will be displayed outside the playroom doors, please add your name if you are planning to come along and join us.

 

Christmas Countdown

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Christmas Countdown 

The ‘Christmas Countdown’ will begin with our annual Isobel Mair School and Family Centre Christmas Fair which will be hosted on Thursday 7th December from 6pm – 7.30pm. Please bring the family along for some festive fun!

Following the Christmas Fair, we have a range of other events over Christmas – please pop the dates in your diary!

  • Christmas Craft Day on Friday 8th December – please come along and join your child from 9am -10.30 or 1pm – 2.30pm to do some Christmas crafting. All staff across the three playrooms will have Christmas themed crafts available for you to come and participate in with your child. We welcome parents, grandparents, other family members, child-minders….the more the merrier!

  • Nativity Rehearsal on Monday 11th December – just bring your child for the usual nursery session and we will do the rest!

  • ‘Santa’s Little Helpers’ Day on Wednesday 13th December – if you have a spare hour or so please come along and help wrap some gifts for the children. There are 66 children to wrap for and we do not want staff to be taken away from their time spent with the children in the playrooms. Any offers of help would be most appreciated.

  • Nativity Performance on Thursday 14th December – Parents, family and friends are invited to watch the children perform the Nativity at 10am – 11am for our morning children and from 2pm – 3pm for our afternoon children. The Nativity will be at Newton Mearns Baptist Church and all are welcome.

  • Christmas Jumper Day – Friday 15th December – wear a Christmas jumper and bring a donation for Save the Children

  • Christmas Parties on Tuesday 19th December – party clothes on to come and dance and meet Santa Claus…usual nursery session times apply.

  • Last Day for term time children on Wednesday 20th December – Children who attend on a term time basis will have their last day with us today. There is no early closure, although you are welcome to collect your child early if it suits you to do so given school’s close at 2.30.

  • Last day for extended service children on Friday 22nd December – closure at 2.30

IMFC Yearly Planner

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Please click on the link below to view a copy of our new yearly planner for 2017 – 2018.

We have tried really hard to establish all the dates 100% however please be aware the dates could possibly be subject to change given any unforeseen circumstances that may arise. 

Printed ‘fridge friendly’ versions are available from the foyer. 

We hope you find this useful….let us know what you think!

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IMFC Parent Committee Meeting

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IMFC Parent Committee Meeting

Recently during a Pop in and Play session one of our parents, Mairi-Jean Watkins asked about re-establishing the IMFC Parent Committee. We currently have parent representatives who attend the IMS&FC Parent Council on a regular basis however we have not been able to establish an IMFC parent committee for quite some time due to parent’s home and work commitments.  Mairi-Jean has arranged use of our parents room on Tuesday 21st February at 1pm and we would very much encourage parents to come along and share their views. Morning and afternoon parents are welcome to come along.

“The staff are keen to have more input from us (the parents) by way of ideas and feedback. Examples are how to spend funding (toys, activities etc) and feedback on what we feel the nursery does well and any ideas on what we feel could be done differently”.

“This need not be time or labour-intensive. We all have very busy lives and sometimes those 3 hours during nursery time are the hours where we get a bit of time to focus on other activities/children! However, nursery is such an important part of our children’s lives, that it would be good for us, as parents, to have the opportunity to influence that”.

If you would also like to attend the Isobel Mair School and Family Centre Parent Council, the next meeting will be held on Thursday 23rd February at 7pm.

Getting to Know You

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Children begin to establish friendships with their peers when they come to nursery and as a Family Centre we want to promote this social aspect across the centre.

We are opening the doors of Café Isobel on Friday 9th September to facilitate parents meeting, chatting and coming together in friendship.

Staff will be on hand to facilitate this if required, but we are hoping a few parents might wish to nominate themselves as taking on a leading role in developing the ‘Mair Mates’ drop in.

Please speak to me if you think this is something you could support and help develop.

 

 

Feedback Friday: Twitter @IsobelMairFC

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It’s been a very busy week at IMFC as always! 

Let us know what your child’s favourite part of the week was at the FC and let us know what you are doing over the holiday weekend!

Tweet a picture to @IsobelMairFC and we will pop it on the SMART Board ‘big screen’ when children return on Wednesday!

Photographs are a great way to let us help coordinate what your child is learning with what is happening at the FC.

If your child has visited the beach, helped paint a fence, learned to ride a bike or gone on a family picnic – share your photos via Twitter and we can use them to prompt discussion at news time on Wednesday!

We have had 1839 Twitter impressions over the last 28 days and our Twitter followers are now at 126! Thank you for supporting our Twitter social media as a great, quick and simple way to exchange communications 🙂

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