School Uniform

A reminder regarding school uniform.  Our school Uniform Swap will be placed outside from Wednesday 23rd June to Friday 25th June.

Due to Covid restrictions up until this point children have been allowed to wear clothing suitable for outdoor activities. From August, we will return to full school uniform each day.

SCHOOL UNIFORM

Tesco Uniform Embroidery Service has changed to “My Clothing“. For more information or to order school uniform please visit:

www.myclothing.com

Uniform is also available from :

Walker & Templeton, The Strand , Kilmarnock and the National Schoolwear Shop , Queen Street, Kilmarnock.

Ideally our school uniform should consist of:

Grey/black trousers for boys, grey skirts for girls, blue/white shirt with Mount Carmel school tie or,  alternatively, Mount Carmel polo shirt and royal blue Mount Carmel sweatshirt, jumper or cardigan.

No black jeans or leggings please!

Gym kit should consist of:

Royal blue shorts, pale blue plain round neck t-shirt and and black gym shoes. These should be brought to school in a drawstring back clearly marked with your child’s name.

****PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD’S NAME ON EVERYTHING!****

If you are applying for a clothing grant for your child/children please follow the link below:

Apply online · East Ayrshire Council (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)

Primary 6 update

We had a lovely time at Dean Park on Tuesday, the rain stayed off which was a huge bonus.

This week P6 have been planning, writing, and illustrating stories for their P1 buddies. The stories will be created into a book which the new P1 will receive before the Summer holiday.

P6 have also been writing and rehearsing their House Captain speeches. Tomorrow they will film their speeches and next week the classes will vote for the 2021/22 House Captains and Vice Captains.

Vote for your House Captains! | St Dominic Savio Catholic Primary School

P6 are looking forward to the Fun Day on Friday! A lovely treat after all their hard work this year.

Miss Mudge

Primary 4 Dean Park Visit

Primary 4 had a wonderful day at Dean Park.  We saw the animals, had fun at two of the park’s swing parks, had a lovely lunch and had some time for games too.

A great day was had by all!!

As a special treat for our pupils who have recently had, or are about to take part in their 1st Holy Communion, Primary 4 will have an extra special party on the morning of Wednesday 23rd June to mark this special occasion.  All children can wear party clothes and we will have some treats, music and dancing in our big hall in school.  It will be a lovely way to mark the end of their primary 4 year too!

 

School Improvement Priorities

As we get to this time of the year we reflect back on what has happened this session and plan for next session.

In 2020-2021 our Improvement Plan focused on:

· Raising attainment in reading, spelling and phonics using Active Literacy approaches

· Improving outcomes in numeracy focusing on counting, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

· Implementing year 2 of the PATHS programme to help improve outcomes in health and wellbeing.

As we know periods of lockdown and Covid restrictions severely impacted on our school and it has been a challenge to take some initiatives forward. We will fully evaluate the impact of these priorities when we compile our Standards and Quality report and Improvement Plan for 2021-2022 early in the new term.

In 2021-2022 our intention is to focus on the following priorities:

· Raising attainment in writing using a whole school approach to teaching specific types of text.

· Introducing Learning Journal in P1-3, which is safe on-line sharing platform.

· Raising attainment in numeracy, particularly in mental calculations.

· Improve outcomes in health and wellbeing, developing nurturing approaches across the school, building community through a refresh of our vision, values and aim reflecting Rights Respecting Schools and further develop our Respect for All Policy. Continuing with our PATHS approaches.

If you have any comments or suggestions please contact us at: carole.mcconville@eastayrshire.org.uk

Dean Park – lunch reminder

A reminder that all children are going to Dean Park next week for their class summer trip.  If your child requires a packed lunch and you have not completed the letter for this please contact the school today.

Dean Park visits:

Monday 14th June – Primary 1 and Primary 5
Tuesday 15th June – Primay 1/2, Primary 6 and Primary 7
Wednesday 16th June – Primary 3 and Primary 4

Children should wear school polo shirt/jumper, a suitable jacket, suitable trousers and shoes/trainers.

Sports Day – Wednesday 9th June

 

A reminder that Sports Day is taking place on Wednesday 9th June.

Children should come to school wearing suitable clothing for PE activities.  This year children can wear any colours as Sports Day is not linked to House Colours.  Please no football tops.

Due to Covid restrictions parents/carers are not able to attend this.  Primary 6 will be filming aspects of this.  This will be shared with parents/carers via a password protected SWAY document.