Despite a dull, wet Monday morning, Bute class staff and pupils were in good spirits as they headed to Ardrossan for the ferry to Arran. They will visit the outdoor centre for 5 days. A special thank you to: Mrs Johnson, Mrs Campbell, Mrs Kelly, Mrs Peters and Mr Bowen who have all give up their bank holiday today 👍😄. We cannot wait till we see some of your blogs.
A massive thank you to our Parent Council for organising a bag pack at Tesco. So far, thanks to their efforts we have raised in excess of £15 000 towards the new minibus. Thank you to those parents and carers who continually support us in our fundraising. It is very much appreciated 👍
On the in-service day staff worked in groups to evaluate the work of the school. We discussed how good are we?, what evidence we have, and what our next steps should be. We reflected on: learning, teaching and assessment, wellbeing and inclusion, raising attainment and achievement, leadership and change and engaging families in learning. We will use the information along with our recent parental questionnaires to help us plan next years priorities.
Please click on the link below to provide us feedback about your child’s progress at Haysholm School and your satisfaction with the school overall.
During Parent’s evening, we will be gathering your views through a survey to help us understand what we are doing well as a school and what we need to improve on. We are trying to encourage parents to complete surveys on line now in a bid to be more environmentally friendly and … because Google Forms is very clever and provides us with statistical analysis. To this end, a few laptops will be provided tomorrow night and the link will be uploaded to the blog to access the survey. However, should you wish a hard copy to fill in, we can still provide this for you.
Yvonne
Staff from Irvine Royal Academy provided a fun morning of sensory science experiences and experiments for pupils in our primary and secondary departments – everyone loved exploring the experiments, especially the giant bubble tube! Thanks to all the staff, students and volunteers who helped support this morning.
James Mac and Haysholm staff learning together during 3 days spent on Makaton Enhancement.
Thank you to Elspeth Mair who delivered Makaton Enhancement training to staff from both Haysholm and James McFarlane school. 13 members of staff successfully completed the course over 3 consecutive Saturdays. This Saturday, they devised an action plan so that the two schools can take forward further improvements next session on the usage of Makaton to raise attainment in literacy for our children and young people.
The above website is a fantastic resource for parents/carers of children with disabilities. They have recently published a helpful guide to holidays, click on icon below to view PDF.
We all gathered in the sunshine to finish off our health week with a whole school picnic – the pupils all relaxed on picnic blankets and enjoyed listening to some music and having some healthy snacks and drinks. 
