The Exchange Newsletter – August

The Exchange Counselling service within East Ayrshire is an excellent service that support our children and families within Mount Carmel.  Please take a look at their August newsletter by clicking the link below. 

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Reminder-Meet the Teacher Sessions

A reminder to complete the form below regarding your attendance at our ‘Meet the Teacher Sessions’. Please see the dates below and follow the link to complete a form providing information on who will be attending.

We ask that only one adult attends this per child. This is an opportunity for the class teacher to talk to you about different items taking place in the class. This will include information about Homework, Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing, RE and pupil expectations.

Please be aware that this is not a parent/carer appointment to discuss a child’s progress, this is an opportunity to meet the teacher and receive some school information.

The children will not be in the class during this activity.  Sessions will take place from 2.00pm

Monday 5th September – Primary 3
Tuesday 6th September – Primary 1
Wednesday 7th September – Primary 2
Thursday 8th September – Primary 7
Monday 12th September – Primary 6
Tuesday 13th September – Primary 4
Wednesday 14th September – Primary 5

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New House Captains

Before the holidays, Mount Carmel chose their new House Captains and Vice’s for the coming year.  Congratulations to Harry, Sophie, Skye, Maia, Kinga, Alfie, Megan and Emily.  After receiving their badges at Friday’s assembly they all said they are looking forward to carrying out all their responsibilities this year.

Well done and good luck.

Calling all Dancers!

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Calling Young Dancers!

The Palace Theatre Search For The Fairest Babes in The Land

The Palace Theatre are holding open auditions to find Junior Ensemble for this year’s magical family pantomime Snow White on Saturday 27 August 2022.

The auditions are open to female dancers who must be at least 9 years old and in P5 of school on the first day of rehearsals and no older than 16 and in S4 on the last day of the performances*

 *For more information on the auditions please visit the website

Application forms do not need to be submitted in advance although where possible please complete them beforehand and bring with you to save time on audition day.

Snow White runs from Friday 25 Nov until Friday 30 Dec 2022 book now

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Snack Sharing at School

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At Mount Carmel we are proud of how kind our pupils are to others and appreciate that if they see another pupil without a snack they are willing to share theirs with them. However, as a school we are always mindful of the fact that some of our pupils suffer from allergies to certain foods with varying degrees of severity . With this in mind, can we please ask parents/carers firstly, to not send their child/children to school with any snacks that contain/may contain nuts or traces of nuts, and secondly to remind them not to share their snack with other children as the health and safety of our pupils is our priority.

Thank you, we appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

PE Days

As you will have read in our August Newsletter, our information for PE Days has changed slightly since last term:

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Primary 1-4 can get changed in class together. The upper school boys and girls will get changed separately.
Please send children to school with appropriate PE kit this can include a school polo shirt or blue t-shirt, black shorts/leggings/tracksuit bottoms and suitable trainers. These items should be left in school in a bag for children to access.

Please remember that no jewellery should be worn on PE days, including earrings. If your child is not taking part in PE due to
medical reasons please contact the school. It is expected that all children will take part in PE tasks, if a child has forgotten items we shall aim to provide suitable items for them to borrow.

Meet the Teacher Sessions

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As you will have read in our August Newsletter, we are pleased to announce that ‘Meet the Teacher Sessions’ have been organised to take place this term. Please see the dates below and follow the link to complete a form providing information on who will be attending.

We ask that only one adult attends this per child. This is an opportunity for the class teacher to talk to you about different items taking place in the class. This will include information about Homework, Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing, RE and pupil expectations.

Please be aware that this is not a parent/carer appointment to discuss a child’s progress, this is an opportunity to meet the teacher and receive some school information.

The children will not be in the class during this activity.  Sessions will take place from 2.00pm 

Monday 5th September – Primary 3
Tuesday 6th September – Primary 1
Wednesday 7th September – Primary 2
Thursday 8th September – Primary 7
Monday 12th September – Primary 6
Tuesday 13th September – Primary 4
Wednesday 14th September – Primary 5

 

Breakfast Club Is Back!

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We are delighted to see the return of our Breakfast Club!

Breakfast Club starts each morning at 8.15am and those children attending should enter the school via the middle school entrance.

If your child/children had received a place to attend Breakfast Club but you now longer require that space, please contact the school asap as there is a waiting list. Thank you.

A big thank you to our excellent staff involved in running the Breakfast Club including classroom assistants Mrs Jeffers and Mrs Henderson and Stephanie, our Catering Manager:

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Primary 7 transition to St Joseph’s Academy

Mr Kane (Head Teacher) and Miss Cathie (Principal Teacher of Pastoral Care) of St Joseph’s Academy would like to invite all of our Primary 7 parents  to their first transition information evening on the 25th August. This information evening will begin at 6:30pm. The information given by Mr Kane and Miss Cathie will be regarding your child starting St Joseph’s next academic session. 

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Primary 1

Our fabulous Primary 1 team have had a wonderful day with our brand new Primary 1 pupils. Mrs Duff, Mrs Strachan and Mrs Taylor have been busy playing, painting and getting to know all of our new little faces.

The Mount Carmel family would like to say a great big thank you to the lovely Mrs McLaughlin for the donation of our beautiful balloon arch. 

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Welcome Back!

We are so excited to welcome our children back to school tomorrow.  A few gentle reminders for the beginning of the school year…

All children should be in full school uniform every day. We have our uniform exchange available throughout the school year and everyone is welcome to access it whenever it is required.

All children should bring in a P.E. kit that can be left in the school building. This should be a bag that contains indoor shoes, shorts and a t-shirt. P.E. kits will be sent home at the end of each term for washing. 

Please make sure that all items of clothing (uniform and P.E. kits) have your child’s name on them. This will stop anything being lost and enables us to return any item that is misplaced to the correct child. 

We are a nut free school. Please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts (for example snickers or nutella). 

We are a health promoting school and therefore ensure that the children have access to water whenever they require it throughout the day. That being said, we would like to reiterate that it is only water that should be sent in as a drink for the classroom – not diluting juice. This is a whole school approach to ensure the best dental health for our children. 

The staff are in school today getting ready for the children to return tomorrow and we are all extremely excited to see them and welcome them back. Here’s to a brilliant 2022-2023 school year.

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P.E kits

We are now asking that children bring a P.E. kit into school in order to change before each P.E. lesson.  We ask that the P.E. kit be brought into school in a bag that can be left in school to ensure your child has their P.E. kit for each P.E lesson. Each child should have a pair of indoor shoes ( please make sure these shoes are for indoor use only), a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.

Please ensure that all items of P.E. kit have your child’s name on it as this ensures that no kit is lost.

Thank you so  much for your continuing support.

Primary 1

We are so excited to welcome our brand new Primary 1 children into school on Thursday 18th August.  Mrs Duff will welcome the children into school for their very first day as their class teacher Monday to Thursday along with Mrs Strachan who will be their teacher every Friday in Primary 1. Both of the ladies are super excited to get to know all of your lovely children. 

 

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