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Monthly Archives: November 2025
Tempest Photographs Reminder
Gentle reminder that today is the last day to order your child’s photographs and receive free delivery back to school.
Dress down day
Gentle reminder that tomorrow (7/11) is Dress Down day we are asking children to donate a prize for the bottle stall at the Christmas Fayre
Thankyou
Pre loved Christmas Jumpers
We are looking for donations of any preloved Christmas Jumpers that are no longer required.
Please hand into school office if you have any
Thankyou
Father Jim
We would like to say a big thankyou to Fr Jim for all of the love and support he had given to our Mount Carmel family whilst he has been Parish Priest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
His love, guidance & good humour will be sorely missed around the school by pupils and staff alike
We would like to wish him Good Luck on his new post at St Winins Church, Kilwinning.
Primary 2 – Primary 7 will be delighted to share Father Jim’s final mass on Friday 7th November 2025 @ 10am.
Cross Country Event 06/11/2025
Could all pupils taking part in the Cross Country Event on Thursday 6th November please come to school dressed with the clothes they are wearing to run at the event. Children should also bring with them a small snack to eat, water, school uniform to change into on return to school, clean dry socks & shoes and a towel.
Children will be leaving school at 9am prompt so please ensure that children are at school on time.
Thank You!🧟♂️🎃
Thank you to those of you that helped to support with the Halloween disco –
£377 was raised on the night.
Well done!
Christmas Lunch Menu
Eco Mascot Competition Winners!
The Eco Committee set a design challenge for P2 &P3 to draw ‘Windy’ our Power Down champion. We also asked P4 -P7 to create a new Eco mascot just for our school.
Well done to the overall winner Thea in P5, for her design of Tilly, the MC Eco Turtle.
#EACDigi_LfS
Well done to all of our shortlisted prizewinners from each stage.
P2 – Maks and Ifeanyi
P3 – Aaron and Emma
P4 -Tobalase
P5 -Sean
P6- Katie
P7 – Eddie
November Raffle
Our November raffle is now LIVE on Parentpay. Usual conditions apply; £1 per strip of 5 tickets for your chance to win a fabulous prize!
Good Luck!🤞
P7 Helpers Wanted!
We are looking for P7 pupil volunteers to help out at our Pupil Progress Meetings on either Wednesday 12th or Thursday 13th November or both. If your child wishes to help out please complete and return the form they have been given.
Thanks
Book Stall
Book Stall
We are planning on running a Book Stall at our Christmas Fayre this year, where new and pre loved books will be on sale.
We are looking for any donations of books to add to our stall. These can be handed in to the school as of today. So, if you are thinking of having a clear out before Christmas, please hand any books you no longer need into us.
Thanks
Primary 6 Term 2 Curricular Update
Hello again everyone. Here we are in term 2 with Halloween just gone and Christmas already on the horizon, where does the time go?! Here is a brief update of our learning focus this term.
Literacy
This term, we will continue to read and develop ALP strategies through Bug Club guided reading texts. There will be a particular focus on using evidence when answering a variety of question types. For writing, we are concentrating on persuasive pieces building on work done in term 1, then looking at recount writing drawing on experience during science investigations.
Numeracy
This term our numeracy focus is on using the 4 operations, completing addition and subtraction units before moving onto multiplication and division. We will continue to use Number Talk strategies to develop mental strategies related to multiplication and division.
Health and Wellbeing
The PATHS focus this term is using the PATHS Problem Solving Rationale, identifying the necessary steps when faced with a difficult situation. We are also looking at substance misuse with a focus on smoking and vaping as a focus.
In school, our PE days will remain a Monday and Thursday where we will be focussing on gymnastics and football. In gymnastics, we will develop our knowledge and execution of shapes, jumps, turns, balances and rolls and even try some mini parkour. In football, we aim to develop coordination and adopt different team roles. We will also spend a short time looking at traditional Scottish dances in preparation for Day of Dance in mid-November.
IDL
For our IDL this term will continue to investigate Titanic, where we will research factors that lead to the fate of the ship. We will also be conducting science experiments related to floating and sinking. Our focus will then change to look at Global Warming.
RE
In the month of November P6’s will focus on the theme of Remembrance and look at Saints and those who have gone before us. We will discuss the belief within the Catholic Church of eternal life in Heaven. We will then look to the theme of Advent in December and identify symbols of the Old Testament via a Jesse Tree, depicting the coming of a saviour.
French
This term’s focus for French is to be able to talk about animals and pets they have.
Technologies
This term P6 will begin to look at coding and create basic commands to programme devices to perform simple tasks and actions.
UNCRC
This term pupil will be looking at Article 38 for Remembrance Day and the right to protect children from war as well as articles 4 and 41 and 45 in celebration of World Children’s Day and Human Rights Day.
I look forward to seeing you all at Pupil Progress meetings.
Mr Bertoncini
November Newsletter
Please view our November Newsletter below:
Raffle Winners
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the FOMC Halloween Raffle was Ross P4 and the winner of the school October Raffle was Theo also in P4!
Enjoy your goodies boys!
Term 2 Curricular Blog – Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan
This term is the run up to Christmas with lots of exciting things taking place. Last term pupils worked very hard with lots of revision and new learning.
Literacy
In literacy this term we are looking at understanding our reading books better through comprehension tasks. We will continue to practice reading aloud. Primary 2 will also focus on the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts. In our writing we are learning how to write an imaginative piece of text. Each week we will continue to look at a different phonics sounds and common words. This will help us to make longer, trickier sentences!
Numeracy
This term for numeracy we will be focusing on addition and subtraction. P2 have worked hard last term on our place value and our numbers 1-100, this will help us as we now start to add and subtract numbers within 20. With Mrs Strachan we will look at measuring length and area. This will help us build upon our shape work from last term.
Health and Wellbeing
Primary 2 will continue to look at our identifying our emotions and feelings through our PATHS. We will also begin to look at the world of work and different jobs we can be when we are older. In Health and Wellbeing, we will also consider what to do when we are not feeling well.
For PE we will be starting a block of Gymnastics and Netball/Basketball. We will be looking at how we can evaluate our performance; what we did well and what we can improve on. In December will start practising Ceilidh dances so we are ready for our Christmas Party! 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
This term we will continue to think about the promises we made in our class charter and what rights and responsibilities we have. This term pupils will also be focusing Article 38 for Remembrance Day and the right to protect children from war as well as articles 4 and 41 and 45 in celebration of World Children’s Day and Human Rights Day
Religious Education
This term Primary 2 will be looking at a variety of themes, Creation, Mary, Saints and Advent. Along with our monthly school masses, we will take part in a range of activities such as nature walks, circle time, hymn practice, art and drama activities.
Topic
Our class topic is “The Toy Shop”. We will be looking at making our own toys, such as puppets and kites. Primary 2 will also look at different roles within a shop, investigating businesses, advertising and interviewing. Together we are going to turn the home corner into our very own Toy Shop!
As part of our class topic we will also be looking at doing some junk modelling, if you have any cardboard boxes, newspapers etc please ask your child to bring them in.
We are excited for this term in the run up to Christmas. Pupils will also be involved in preparing for our Nativity on the 9th and 10th of December! It is a busy term with lots of new learning taking place!
Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan
Primary 5 – Curricular Update- Term 2
Welcome back! We hope everyone is feeling rested after their October holidays and I am happy to share that we are now settled back into our school routine in P5. We have been very busy and lots of new learning has already been taking place.
Literacy
Primary 5 will focus on building our reading skills and comprehension strategies through accessing both, Bug Club, and continuing with our Harry Potter class novel within school and at home for homework. Please ensure that your child logs in to Bug Club in preparation for class, as this supports learning and has a positive impact on their progress. In term 2, we are looking at developing our fluency and expression when reading aloud to an audience and we will also look at non-fiction texts later this term to link with our IDL focus.
In spelling, we will continue to focus on our phonemes, blends and common words. This will take the form of activities related to the ‘Active Spelling’ resource pertinent to the ability and stage.
Within listening and talking, we will continue to practise listening to and following instructions. The children will also be encouraged to share their opinions on different matters, as well as providing an explanation as to why they think in that way. This will be predominantly linked to our IDL focus this term but will also encompass many of our curricular areas.
This term our formal writing lessons will centre on Responsive writing. We will use structured planning ideas to allow children to generate pieces and build upon helpful writing techniques to support this. We will also look at some elements of persuasive and report writing to link this to our IDL focus , as well as continuing to revisit descriptive writing periodically.
Numeracy
Pupils will be working on 1st and 2nd level concepts within their groups focussing on addition and subtraction this term. We will be using various strategies to help our numeracy confidence grow. This will using our recent place value knowledge to practise our formal notation and also use of number lines and partitioning strategies to support our learning. All pupils will engage in number talks and interactive maths activities to develop their mental maths agility and recall. Times tables knowledge is essential at this stage for all groups and should continue to be practised at home to ensure quick and accurate recall. In Beyond Number, we will be looking at Time as a class. Many pupils in class have chosen reading analogue time as a personal target. Please encourage your child to tell you the time regularly as this will reinforce any learning in school.
Health and Well-being/ICT/P.E
We will be continuing to work on our health and wellbeing through our PATHS programme for Primary 5. Focusing on affiliation, building strong bonds and friendships, looking at emotions and our feelings this term and strategies we can use in dealing with these. At assemblies, this will be supported through various connected themes on building a positive self-image and confidence within our pupils. Pupil of the day will continue to be a daily focus.
In P.E, Pupils will focus on gymnastics skills this term with Miss Campbell on a Friday and Scottish Social Dance skills with Mrs McIntyre on Tuesday. Remember to check your child can remove jewellery themselves if needed before PE, otherwise pupils cannot participate and miss these core lessons.
In ICT, we will continue to work on our basic computing skills and how these can help us in everyday life. Continued practise in class and at home of touch typing and login skills will improve access to various platforms used in school from Glow, Bug club and uploading work to Learner journals.
R.E
This term we will be focus on Our Lady and the Gospel of St Mark. We will be supported in our learning by Sr. Juliet from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish who will help us to learn prayers such as the ‘Angelus’. We will also look at the lives of the Saints, the creation story and discuss themes such as remembrance. In December, we will be preparing as a class during Advent and observe this through various school lessons, assemblies and activities. As always, the children will attend mass regularly this term.
RRS/UNCRC/ECO
This term pupil will be looking at Article 38 for Remembrance Day and the right to protect children from war as well as articles 4 and 41 and 45 in celebration of World Children’s Day and Human Rights Day. We will also look at Articles 12 & 29 as part of our Eco Pledge.
Science/IDL
Our IDL focus this term will be science based looking at ‘Animals, their habitats and the classification/diversity of living things’. We will tie this in with a study of ‘David Attenborough’ and the work he does. This will link to many curricular areas such as Art, Literacy and STEM subjects. This will be introduced as our term progresses once we have completed our ‘Knights and Castles’ learning.
We are looking forward to another great term in P5 and thank you again for your ongoing support,
Mrs McIntyre
