A reminder that homework will stop on Friday 18th March and will resume on Monday 25th April.

Activity Day – Friday 18th March

Each class will be given a time slot to take part in a range of activities. These include an Easter colouring competition, beat the goalie, egg and spoon race, selfie booth and decorate a cupcake. (Please contact the school with any allergies that would stop your child from participating in this activity)

Our “Sharing The Learning” videos will soon be available to view.

These will be sent via a link which will be password protected.

These details will be sent to the pupil’s main contact and should not be shared with anyone.

Thank you

This week, all classes across the school will be involved in a selection of science activities.

Thank you to Miss Mulhern who has organised this.

We are looking forward to announcing who our winning house will be! This announcement will take place next week.

The prize for the winning house will be announced on Tuesday 29th March …….

If you enter our Easter Raffle, you could be lucky enough to win this fabulous Easter Hamper packed with all sorts of Easter goodies!

Here are some of our children enjoying their school lunch.

Thank you to our amazing Mount Carmel Catering Staff for making these!

During a meeting yesterday with the Synod coordinators from all 8 dioceses, as well as representatives from BCOS and SCES, it was agreed that providing families of school aged children every opportunity to participate in the Synod on Synodality, at the request of Pope Francis, is of paramount importance.

The Diocese of Galloway would therefore be grateful if  parents/carers would complete the  online questionnaire linked below to parents in your schools, with a deadline of Monday, 28th March.

The link is: https://form.jotform.com/213292942112954

Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can provide any further help or if you need any further information at this stage.

Kind regards,

Helena Rameckers

Diocesan Synodal Coordinator

We had a wonderful World Book Day last Friday !. All the children looked amazing and had made a lot of effort (as had the parents!).

A huge thank you to everyone who very kindly bought raffle tickets. We  made a grand total of £187 which will go towards school funds. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and that was Sophie from Primary 4.

Well done Sophie, we hope you enjoy spending your gift card!

                               Outdoor Activities 

A reminder that on 11th March there will be an outdoor activity afternoon for the children as part of Lent. Children can bring their scooters, bikes, skipping ropes or any other outdoor toy to play with in the afternoon. 

Please be advised that all children bringing a bike or a scooter MUST also bring a helmet to wear for health and safety reasons.

Menu

Starter

Vegetable pakora & yoghurt dip

Mains

American burger & fries

Chicken schnitzel  & fries

Margherita pizza

Dessert

American doughnuts

Can we make a request please for any girls underwear and/or leggings as we are running very low on our spare supplies.

Thank you.

As promised, a selection of photos from our World Book Day activities from our infant department 🥰🥰

This afternoon we had some special visitors at the main entrance from Onthank Primary School.  As part of their Random Acts of Kindness they presented the school with a cup of kindness poster.

Great to see you Primary 3.  Come again soon!

We had a fabulous World Book Day and the infant department had lots of book related activities going on throughout the day.

An updated blog post will go up tomorrow, showing some of our fabulous activities and super costumes worn by our children, but for now, here is a wee peek…

We had an ‘incredible’ time!!

Hogwarts came for a wee visit too!!

Currently our pupils and teachers are working on a further set of class films to share with you over the coming weeks.  These films will again be password protected with passwords sent to main/parent carer for the children in that class only.

If you do not wish for your child to be included in this film please contact the school directly by Tuesday 8th March.

28^th February 2022

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday which is the 2^nd March this year. Mount Carmel wants to focus on helping people less fortunate than us at this special time.

This Lent, SCIAF is asking us to act and pray in hope, to fight the Climate Emergency and help build God’s Kingdom here on Earth.

As part of our Lenten celebration within school, Primary 4 have organised the following activities for the weeks of Lent:

3^rd March 2022 – World book Day (children should come to school dressed as a character from a book).

11^th March 2022 – Outdoor activity afternoon (children can bring their scooters, bikes, skipping ropes or any other outdoor toy to play with in the afternoon. Please be advised that all children bringing a bike or a scooter MUST also bring a helmet to wear for health and safety reasons).

18^th March 2022 – Activities day (each class will be given a time slot to take part in a range of activities. These activities include an Easter colouring competition, beat the goalie, egg and spoon race, selfie booth and decorate a cupcake (Please contact the school with any allergies that would stop your child from participating in this activity).

25^th March 2022 – Pyjama and movie afternoon (children can wear their pyjamas to school and will watch a movie of their choice within their classrooms. The children can also bring a small snack for this).

1^st April – Easter egg raffle/Teddy bear Raffle (tickets will be on sale from the 3^rd March and the winner will be chosen on this day).

Raffle tickets will go on sale on the 3^rd March and will cost 20p each. For the Easter egg raffle, there will be a class egg and then all the pupils who have bought a ticket will go into a big raffle for the school egg.

For the other activities, we kindly ask for a donation. Please be as generous as you feel able to be. It is for a very worthy cause.

The children can bring cash into the school for these activities and will be asked to put their donations straight into the SCIAF boxes within their classes.

A great big thank you in advance for all of your support.

Mrs. McCreadie and the boys and girls in Primary 4.

We will be celebrating World Book Day tomorrow !
Children can come to school dressed as a character from their favourite book .
Please do not feel under pressure to go out and buy a costume; why not make one from whatever you have at home?

Today is the last day to purchase your raffle tickets!!

We are also running a whole school raffle which will be drawn on tomorrow. Tickets are £1 per strip of 5 and today is the last day to purchase them.

Please follow this link to the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Facebook page with a message from Fr Martin to families of children in Primary 3 who will be preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

https://fb.watch/bovZt1nQe6/

The parental meeting for parents/carers of Primary 3 children is taking place this Thursday @7pm at St. Josephs.

Please see the letter below:

Letter to parents Reconciliation 2022

The whole school helped to make this collage in our Assembly Hall promoting our School Values

Please read the letter below which outlines our SCIAF fundraising activity calendar for week beginning 2nd March:

SCIAF fundraising letter

You could win one of these fabulous Easter prizes…