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Monthly Archives: September 2025
Celebrating 70 years of St Joseph’s Academy
Celebrating 70 years of St Joseph’s Academy, Grassyards Road
We invite you to join us for a celebration Mass in St Joseph’s Academy Assembly Hall on Saturday 22nd November at 11am. We are honoured to have Bishop Dougan presiding over Mass to mark this special occasion. Please use the link or QR code below to register your attendance. We look forward to seeing you then. It would be appreciated if you could share this with your staff and parents.
Halloween Disco
Please see the poster below for details of our Halloween Disco on 30th October. Tickets for this have gone into schoolbags today.
Do not send the money into school please, the £2.50 is payable on the night on entry. Please complete the attached portion of the ticket and make sure your child brings this with them on the night.
Thanks.
Dress Down Day for Dyslexia
Dyslexia awareness week in Scotland runs from the 29th September until the 6th October. Dyslexia and different learning styles will be explored during our assemblies over the next couple of weeks and we will take part in this in a number of ways. We will hear from our DFS (dyslexia friendly schools) community group during our whole school assembly, we will then participate in different activities during our stage assemblies. Then, on Friday 10th October, as well as a dress down day, we will have a no pens day. This means that all learning will take place in different ways throughout the day but no pens or pencils will be allowed… outdoor learning, digital technology and active learning will take place to celebrate all learning styles.
Missio Mass – Friday 3rd October
This Friday (3rd October) the whole school will attend Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church for our regular First Friday Mass.
On Friday, the Mass will have a special theme reflecting October being the Month of Mission.
During Mass, the children from P2-7 who are members of our ‘Friends of Jesus’ community group will receive their Missio Champions Badge.
Throughout the year, our Missio Champions will share their faith, as they encourage us all to love God and others through sharing the amazing work of Missio Scotland.
Mass is at 10am, and all are welcome.
Climate Action Week Scotland – 23rd-30th Sept
Our P2 & P5-7 classes participated in a live lesson and workshop as part of ‘Climate Action Week’. Our Eco Committee have been working hard already this year, and in our classes, we were keen to learn more about climate change.
The live lesson was lead by Nicola Davidson (KSB), who explained how the effect of our lifestyles through the ages has lead to climate changes and how an American Scientist, Eunice Newton- Foote, discovered the ‘Greenhouse gas effect’ in the 1950s, showing our planet was ‘heating up’ due to increased CO2. This was officially recognised by governments globally in the 1980s and now we are seriously trying to make positive changes to combat this through world climate conferences such as the upcoming, COP30, in Brazil. In Primary 2, Miss Livingston’s class were treated to a puppet show.
Here are some photos of our workshop and live lesson…
Important Forms
We are still awaiting a number of Annual Data & Medical Information forms to be returned.
These forms ensure that we have the most up to date information for your children and any medical conditions they may have.
Ensuring that we have the most up to date information allows us to keep in contact with parents/carers and provide you with the most up to date information quickly & efficiently
If you have still to return these forms please do so as a matter of urgency, if you require new forms please contact the school office to organise these.
Thanks
Learning Journals
We are still outstanding a significant number of permission forms that were sent home with pupils on the 16/9/25.
The letter includes a tear of slip granting permission for children to be involved in Learning Journals and for photographs of individual children to be shared on Learning Journals.
If we do not receive the completed tear off slip we are unable to share what your child has been doing in class on their Learning Journal.
Could we please ask those who have still to return the form to do so as soon as possible, If you require another form to complete please contact the school office to request this
Thanks
Pupil Progress Meetings
Pupil Progress meeting request letters have been sent home in school bags today.
Thanks
Learning Journals
Remember to keep an eye on your child’s Learning Journal profile.
Class teachers will be posting regular updates about the fantastic learning and activities taking place in each class.
If you are unable to access Learning Journals, please let the office know.
Your log in details will be sent to the e-mail address that you provided the school with.
Thank you
Mrs MacKinnon
Missing Jacket
Could we please ask all parents to check there childs school bag for the above jacket that has been misplaced by one of our children and we ask you to please return to school office if you find it. This is a Navy Tog 24 jacket aged 9-10 years
Thankyou
Pupil Flu Immunisations
Pupils will be receiving their flu immunisations on Monday 29th September 2025. Please return your child’s permission form if you have not already done so. Thank you.
Our Primary 1 class will be having their class photograph taken by the Kilmarnock Standard photographer on Wednesday 1st October at 11.30am.
If you DO NOT wish your child to be included , please contact the school office.
MC ‘Voyage to Venus’
Welcome back everyone after our long weekend!
Our Eco Committee have already got lots of exciting plans in the making and we are thrilled to be sharing news of our first week of participating in our new challenge, ‘Voyage to Venus’ , this school year. Last year, we took part in ‘Shoot to Saturn‘ and collected our S-Miles which included daily miles, our journey to school and back home.
Now, our parents/carers can also be included and let us know if they also walked, cycled etc to work and be a part of our challenge by sending a pic or an email and getting involved. Pupils will be learning more about this at assembly in the forthcoming weeks – so be sure to ask them about it! Simply click on the link below or scan the QR code on the image below/at the front entrance of the school to tell us about your S- Miles. We would love for you to join in!
Voyage to Venus – Parent Supporter Link
Thank you for supporting us. Let’s begin journey #1… 🚀🪐
Wider Achievement Assembly
We will be holding a Wider Achievement Assembly on September 26th. If you would like us to celebrate your child/children’s recent achievements, please send any photos and information to the school inbox eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk by Wednesday 24th.
Thank you
School Crossing Patrol
There will be no School Crossing Patrol this afternoon (17/9) or tomorrow (am) or (pm)
Car Park Safety
We have had a number of near miss instances involving children & staff with parents/carers vehicles accessing our staff car park over the past 2 weeks.
For child safety NO PARENT should be accessing the car park this includes DROP OFF & PICK UP times.
Also children SHOULD NOT be lifted over the boundary fence at the infant gates at any time.
All parental access to school grounds should be via the gates in the Upper or Lower school.
Thankyou for your cooperation in ensuring our children’s on going safety.
P1 Kilmarnock Standard Photograph
Our Primary 1 class will be having their class photograph taken by the Kilmarnock Standard photographer on Wednesday 1st October at 11.30am.
If you DO NOT wish your child to be included , please contact the school office.
Dress Down Day
There will be a Dress Down Day this Thursday 18th September. We are asking kindly for a £1 donation via Parentpay .
Pupils who pay give a donation will automatically get a free entry into our September Raffle.
This item is now live on Parentpay and will be open for payments until Wednesday 24th September.
Maths Week Scotland at Mount Carmel
We are very excited to be celebrating Maths Week Scotland starting on the 23rd September. This year’s national theme is ‘Wild Maths’, and throughout the week pupils across the school will be exploring how maths is all around us in nature, the outdoors, and our everyday lives.
Throughout the week, pupils will outdoors taking part in a range of fun and engaging activities. With this is mind could pupils please ensure they have a jacket and appropriate footwear.
To support learning at home, pupils will bring home a Maths Week homework grid. Pupils are encouraged to complete as many of the activities as possible – please take pictures and send them to the school email!
We are still hoping some parents and carers could send in videos of how they use maths in their jobs.
We can’t wait to celebrate Maths Week Scotland at Mount Carmel.
Mrs Terras
School Holidays
Gentle reminder that school will close on Thursday 18th September at 3pm and reopen on Tuesday 23rd September at 9am. we hope you have a lovely break.
September Newsletter
Apologies our September newsletter has not come out earlier this month.
Please follow the link for information for future September events.
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Welcome to Our Class Powerpoint
Thank you to everyone who came to our ‘Welcome to our class’ afternoon yesterday, it was lovely to meet you all! Please see attached a copy of the PowerPoint presentation for anyone who didn’t manage to make it along.
Thank you,
Mrs Hope & Mrs Dunsmore
P2 Curriculum Overview Term 1
Welcome back to a new school year! As our learners settle back in, we are excited to start the new school year. This term is all about building upon the foundation laid in Primary 1 while also introducing new challenges. Our first two weeks have been about getting to know each other, building friendships and routines and revisiting our learning from Primary 1 so we are ready to start developing new knowledge and skills.
Literacy
Within literacy this term we are continuing to develop our knowledge of phonics, introducing a new sound every week along with two new “common words”. This in turn helps us with our reading and writing. For reading we are focusing on our tools for reading and prediction. This involves reading for enjoyment, looking at the front cover, title and illustrations of a book to help our understanding. As well as this we will continue with our weekly new books to practice reading aloud and improving our fluency as we come across new words. For writing, we are focusing on descriptive writing and ensuring we can read our writing by using full stops and capital letters.
Numeracy
This term for numeracy we will be focusing on Place Value with Miss Livingston, and Shape with Mrs Strachan. For place value we will look at estimating, recognising and ordering numbers 1-20, before moving on to look at numbers 1-100. Within shape, we will be looking at identifying, naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes
Health and Wellbeing
Primary 2 have been looking at understanding and identifying our emotions and feelings. We have done this through our PATHS, which is a whole school programme. Lessons will include feelings, actions and problem solving. Each child will also get the opportunity to be “Pupil of the Day”. They will receive compliments from peers on this day and get special responsibilities. We have also developed our understanding of emotions and feelings through looking at the story, “The Colour Monster”. Throughout the day pupils have their “How are they feeling” check in station where they can put into practice identifying their emotions.
Within PE, we started focusing on developmental games which allowed us to expand on our friendships and team building skills. We will now be looking to move on to develop our balls skills and start a block of Football. Just a reminder that our PE days are a Tuesday and a Thursday. Please ensure a full PE kit is brought into school and pupil names are on items. This can be left on their peg during the week.
UNCRC
As we begin Primary 2 we have explored the UNCRC Rights of the Child. Together, we created a class Charter with the theme of Superheroes, the idea of “Protecting our Rights”. This class charter is a classroom promise to be considering our rights, needs and wants while also thinking about our school values of kindness, faith and responsibility.
Religious Education
In Primary 2 pupils will be learning about being made in the image of God and that we are all unique. Pupils will also be developing our understanding of prayer and celebration of Mass through our celebrations at Mass on the first Friday of the month and liturgical celebrations.
Topic
Our topic to start the year will be “Grandparents”. We will be exploring the past to understand how our Grandparents lived and compare their lives to our own. This will involve looking at our family trees, creating a timeline of key events in the past as well as looking at a range of media such as music, radio, and films.
We are looking forward to an exciting new school year filled with new friendships, fun and learning opportunities!
Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan
Welcome to our class – Primary 7
For those parents and carers unable to attend the ‘Welcome to our class’ today, below is a link to the presentation.
Thank you,
Mrs Terras and Mrs Canning
Flu Immunisation of Children with Asthma
Please take time to read the information in the letter below if your child has asthma:
Rose Reilly Football Academy-Ayrshire College,Kilmarnock
ROSE REILLY FOOTBALL CENTRE STARTS BACK!
TERM 1 DATES
Dates: Thursday 11th September – Thursday 27th November 2026
HOLIDAYS: 25th Sept (Week of PH) 16th Oct (School Holiday)
Times: 4pm – 5pm
Venue: Ayrshire College, Kilmarnock Campus,
Age Group: Primary 1 – Primary 7
Girls Only
Cost: FREE
Booking Link QR Code below:
**Please note once you have booked QR code will be scanned weekly as registration**
Kris Boyd Football Academy-Ayrshire College,Kilmarnock
KRIS BOYD FOOTBALL CENTRE STARTS BACK!
TERM 1 DATES
Dates: Monday 8th September – Monday 24th November 2026
HOLIDAYS: 22nd Sept (PH) 13th Oct (School Holiday) 20th Oct (Inservice)
Times: 4pm – 5pm
Venue: Ayrshire College, Kilmarnock Campus, Outdoor Astro
Age Group: Primary 1 – Primary 7
Boys Only
Cost: FREE
Booking Link QR Code below:
**Please note once you have booked QR code will be scanned weekly as registration**
East Ayrshire Youth Events P6 & 7
Kitchen Roll Inserts- P3
Primary 3 are going to be doing a craft activity and are kindly asking for kitchen roll/ toilet roll cardboard tubes to be handed in as soon as possible please.
Thank you
