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Lots of Socks

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Lots of Socks

Lots of Socks is a fun initiative to support Down’s syndrome Awareness Day on 21st March every year.

Why socks? Well, because chromosomes look like socks and people with Down’s syndrome have an extra chromosome! “Lots of Socks” is acknowledged around the world as being associated with Ds.

We are asking for children (and staff, parents!) to wear ‘lots of socks’ in creative ways – you might wear socks on your feet, on your arms, as a belt, in your hair!? Or perhaps you might want to wear odd socks – as long as they are prominent and shout out that we are supporting Ds, anything goes J Bring along a donation on the day and all proceeds will go directly towards Down’s Syndrome Scotland.

For more information please see

https://www.dsscotland.org.uk/support-us/awareness-week/lots-of-socks/

New Outdoor Resource

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In March 2016 the Family Centre made an application to the Tesco Bags of Help Grant Scheme and were DELIGHTED to discover that our application was chosen by the shortlisting panel!

We went on to win third prize for our project and were awarded £8000.

Work began on the ground at the start of the New Year and today children from the Family Centre and from Isobel Mair School had first dibs on the new embankment slide.

We are sure this new resource will create fun and laughter for many years to come! Children are developing a wide array of skills whilst accessing this new resource including climbing, balancing, risk assessing, safety, sharing, turn taking, hand/eye co-ordination, spatial awareness, team work, perseverance in addition to developing core strength and body awareness, muscle tone development not to mention fun and laughter!

Have a look for yourself 🙂

 

25 Days of Kindness

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Our ’25 Days of Kindness’ has drawn to a close today after 5 weeks of planning and implementation. The children have had a truly wonderful learning experience and can readily share their learning about the importance of giving to others.

Children have had opportunities throughout this time to talk about children and their families who may not have enough food to sustain them. The children have discovered this is true for our neighbours in East Renfrewshire as well as for children and families in far away countries.

Thank you so much for your support in this learning experience. Here are some photographs of the children delivering the items to St. Andrews Church Foodbank in Barrhead.

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Welly Waddle

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We had a FANTASTIC waddle on Friday morning and again on Friday afternoon. We asked for your views and listened by hosting two waddles! One in Eastwood Park for those who preferred a more woodland waddle and one in and around the school and family centre for those who preferred a local waddle! The children certainly enjoyed their waddle – or as they renamed it – their ‘Wibble Wobble Welly Waddle!’ Some excellent literacy with your alliteration boys and girls!

We are now gathering in sponsor money following our waddle. Some parents have asked if it is okay to make a donation rather than sponsorship. This is completely fine and we are glad of all donations. All money raised from this event will go into our Toy Fund to help cover the costs of Christmas i.e. Nativity costumes, cost of children’s gifts etc!

Welly Waddle

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A letter went out recently asking for you to share your views on the best way to host our upcoming sponsored Welly Waddle fundraiser.

From the 68 letters than went out to parents, we had a total of 15 return slips with mixed responses.

6 parents said they would prefer the waddle to take place at Eastwood Park and were happy to meet there.

4 parents said they would prefer the waddle to take place in and around Isobel Mair School and Family Centre grounds.

3 parents said they would love to attend but had no preference to where the waddle takes place.

2 parents said they did not want to attend and therefore did not state where to waddle.

Following some discussion with staff it has been decided that we will offer both waddles!

Colette and Joanne or Donna will be at the car park at Eastwood Park at 10.30am and again at 2pm to meet children and parents ready for the park waddle. If you decide to waddle in the park you MUST stay with your child for the duration. Please bring along a small snack for your child too. Siblings and other family members are welcome to waddle along too!

All other staff will be waddling in and around the school and family centre grounds. Please come along and join us if you can!

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MacMillan Coffee and Bake Off

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Thank you so much to everyone who supported the MacMillan Coffee and Bake Off event today!

As you can see, we hade a super Bake Off with parents and grandparents joining in on the action!

Sandra’s lemon drizzle was just divine and Lorraine’s home made jam…..yuuummmmyyy!

Thank you to all supporters of the event – those who baked, those who made a monetary donation and those who came along on the day. Many Thanks.

Grand Total Raised by Isobel Mair Family Centre:

£222.72

Superhero Smoothies

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The children have all been working really hard to plan our upcoming Superhero themed fundraising event!

They have thought about their favourite healthy fruit ingredients, looked at recipe books, designed their own smoothies and even thought of catchy names for their drinks.

Please bring your purses along on Friday to purchase a handmade fresh fruit smoothie from our Superhero Smoothie Stall. Remind your child to dress up as their favourite Superhero too.

We are fundraising in support of Cash for Kids. Please click below or copy and paste the link in to your browser to read more about the excellent work carried out by all at Clyde 2:

http://www.clyde2.com/charity/superheroday/

For a speedy £5.00 donation you could also text CLYDE to 70808

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Tesco Bags of Help Grant Award

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We recently made an application to the Tesco Bags of Help Grant Scheme and are DELIGHTED to discover that our application has been considered by the shortlisting panel and  we have been chosen to receive a grant!!

 Tesco have told us that the competition for funding has been very fierce and only projects with the strongest fit with the programme criteria and outcomes have been selected. Our project along with the other two successful projects in our region have gone forward to a public vote in Tesco stores with customers deciding the outcome.

The project with the highest public vote will receive £12,000, the second placed project £10,000 and the third placed project £8,000.

 Voting has ‘gone live’ and time is running out to cast your vote to ensure we win top prize!! You can cast your vote by posting a red token into the collection post at Tesco Barrhead or Tesco Express Newton Mearns. Voting draws to an end on Sunday 6th March – so PLEASE pop along to Tesco and help support the Family Centre as we try to further develop our grounds for learning with our ‘Nature Nurture’ project.

 To help publicise our efforts even more why not share with your friends and encourage them to vote for us too?

 You could take a photo of you and/or your child posting their voting token and Tweet us @IsobelMairFC to let us know!! Use the #BagsofHelp in your tweet to let @Tesco_Scotland know we are getting busy!!

 We can’t wait to see your photographs 🙂

Christmas Fayre 2015

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Thank you to all parents who supported last night’s Christmas Fayre. We had so many parents who donated items for the tombola, bottle stall, home baking and handmade items for us to sell at our table so many thanks to all!

It was a wonderful evening with a fantastic turn out despite the torrential rain, many thanks for coming along.

Here are a few pictures.