Our Meet the Teacher sessions will take place during September. During these you will find out about different items that the school is focussing on as well as important information about activities in each class. Each session begins at 2pm, these sessions are for parents/carers only, the children will not be present in class during these.

Monday 2nd September – Primary 6

Tuesday 3rd September – Primary 2

Wednesday 4th  September – Primary 3

Thursday 5th September – Primary 4

Monday 9th September – Primary 7

Tuesday 10th September – Primary 1

Wednesday 11th  September – Primary 5

If you plan on attending a session please complete the form linked below.  Please complete the form by Friday 30th August.

Meet the Teacher September sessions

Our Meet the Teacher sessions will take place during September. During these you will find out about different items that the school is focussing on as well as important information about activities in each class. Each session begins at 2pm, these sessions are for parents/carers only, the children will not be present in class during these.

Monday 2nd September – Primary 6

Tuesday 3rd September – Primary 2

Wednesday 4th  September – Primary 3

Thursday 5th September – Primary 4

Monday 9th September – Primary 7

Tuesday 10th September – Primary 1

Wednesday 11th  September – Primary 5

If you plan on attending a session please complete the form linked below.  Please complete the form by Friday 30th August.

Meet the Teacher September sessions

The SHOUT discount card is for children from birth to 11 years old living, or attending primary school, in East Ayrshire

The aim of the SHOUT is to provide children and families across East Ayrshire the opportunity to access an array of leisure services, visitor attractions and commercial services, ensuring that cost is not a barrier.

The cards are free and the benefits include:

Save money with lots of discounts to local visitor attractions and local stores*

• Discounted entry for various play, sport and leisure activities across East Ayrshire*
• Free SHOUT swimming during seasonal periods at Galleon Leisure Centre, Kilmarnock and Visions Leisure Centre, as well as East Ayrshire Leisure Trust pools at Auchinleck, Doon Valley and Loudoun (*where applicable)
• One off SHOUTcher special offers and deals

Should you wish to apply for a SHOUT card for your child please use the link below 

https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CommunityLifeAndLeisure/LeisurePasses/SHOUT.aspx

School Improvement Plan

Please view below our School Improvement Plan for 24/25:

MCPS SIP 2024 2025 new format final

       Gentle reminder now that the new school session has started that parents/carers should not use the Crossgates Care Home Car Park when dropping off or collecting their children.

This is a private car park for use of staff & resident families ONLY 

Access should always be given to Emergency Service vehicles and overcrowding of this car park could prevent this from happening.

Please be considerate at all times when dropping off or collecting your children 

Thankyou 

Team MC would like to say thankyou to Lesley McLaughlin for supplying our beautiful balloon arch.

Our new P1 pupils had the best time having their pictures taken under the arch on their 1st day at Mount Carmel and the pictures will be a beautiful memento for their families to  keep.

Lesley your designs are always amazing and you always go above and beyond to supply the most beautiful creations.

Thankyou 

Team MC  

Please find below the Photographic Consent Form for Mount Carmel Primary.  It is East Ayrshire Council policy that this MUST be completed annually, this should be completed NO LATER THAN Thursday 29th August 2024.

Please find below the Acceptable Use of Computer Facilities  Form for Mount Carmel Primary.  It is East Ayrshire Council policy that this MUST be completed annually, this should be completed NO LATER THAN Thursday 29th August 2024.

Thank you

Our Meet the Teacher sessions will take place during September. During theses you will find out about different items that the school is focussing on as well as important information about activities in each class. Each session begins at 2pm, these sessions are for parents/carers only, the children will not be present in class during these.

Monday 2nd September – Primary 6

Tuesday 3rd September – Primary 2

Wednesday 4th  September – Primary 3

Thursday 5th September – Primary 4

Monday 9th September – Primary 7

Tuesday 10th September – Primary 1

Wednesday 11th  September – Primary 5

If you plan on attending a session please complete the form linked below.  Please complete the form by Friday 30th August.

Meet the Teacher September sessions

Team Mount Carmel were delighted to welcome back all of our pupils today and loved saying hello to our new P1s! We are looking forward to a wonderful year of learning and fun involving our whole school community 💙

#faith #kindness  #responsibility

Please take time to read our Welcome Back Newsletter.  This contains important information for August.

Welcome back

We hope you all had enjoyable family time during the holidays. It has been lovely to see all of our children returning to school looking so smart in their uniforms and all with such wonder…

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Below are the days on which each class has PE.

Please ensure your child has a PE kit with them on those days consisting of gym shoes, t shirt and shorts in a gym bag with their name clearly marked on it.

P1- Monday and Thursday

P2- Tuesday and Thursday

P3- Monday and Friday

P4-Wednesday and Friday

P5-Tuesday and Thursday

P6-Wednesday and Friday

P7-Wednesday and Thursday

Please see below information for parents/carers & children regarding new school lunch menu and meal deal available in schools from tomorrow.

Menu rotation will begin with Week 1 tomorrow and continue in a 3 week rotational pattern

https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/Resources/PDF/School-meals/school-meals-menu-for-primary-schools.pdf

We hope you enjoy our Matilda highlights.  A copy of the password will be texted to main contacts.  We ask that you do not share this with others.

Mount Carmel Presents Matilda The Musical Jr

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A gentle reminder that all children will be attending our final mass of the school year this morning at 11.30am. Then in the afternoon, we celebrate our Primary 7 leavers assembly as they prepare to move onto their new high schools. We wish them the very best of luck 💙

As we enter into our final week of term Primary 7 are busily preparing for their Leavers’ Assembly.

This will take place on Thursday 27th June at 2.00pm.

Parents/carers of P7 pupils are invited to attend and may arrive at the main school entrance from 1.50pm. We look forward to seeing you there.

As the end of term is fast approaching, the school would like to say a great big thank you to our parents and friends of Mount Carmel for organising this years fun day.

The children will take part in  day full of great activities including bouncy castles, obstacles courses and a visit to the ice cream van.

They will also be taking part in outdoor play session. The children are invited to bring in bikes and scooters for this activity (they also must bring a helmet for health and safety reasons)

And finally, the children are encouraged to wear their own clothes tomorrow. We ask that no child comes into school wearing football colours of any description. The children should wear comfortable clothes and shoes for all of the fun and active activities they will be taking part in.

As always, we thank you for your ongoing support.

Early Closure Summer 2024 Transport Update

The Summer School closure on Friday 28th June 2024 whereby all schools close at 1pm will no doubt have an impact on pupils who access school transport. We have many linked contracts that serve both primary pupils as well as secondary pupils across both Mainstream and ASN Schools.

To ensure sufficient transport provision on this date and to ease congestion, all contractors will arrange to collect primary children at 12.25pm. 

Reminder that school will close for Summer holidays on Friday 28th June @1pm  and will re open for children on Wednesday 21st August @9am 

We hope you all have a brilliant summer break 

Team MC 

On Thursday 20th June, we had a very successful WoW day. The kids had a ball and enjoyed seeing the many different careers on offer in our big hall!

A huge thank you to Miss Grimley for organising this event  And a big thank you to all our parents/carers and all who came to demonstrate and inspire the next generation with their fantastic displays of their profession.

On Thursday 20th June, we had a very successful WoW day. The kids had a ball and enjoyed seeing the many different careers on offer in our big hall!

A huge thank you to Miss Grimley for organising this event  And a big thank you to all our parents/carers and all who came to demonstrate and inspire the next generation with their fantastic displays of their profession.

On Thursday 20th June, we had a very successful WoW day. The kids had a ball and enjoyed seeing the many different careers on offer in our big hall!

A huge thank you to Miss Grimley for organising this event  And a big thank you to all our parents/carers and all who came to demonstrate and inspire the next generation with their fantastic displays of their profession.

Letters have gone home today regarding Breakfast Club. This year we have received over 60 requests for places, however, we continue to have only 30 spaces. This will result in a number of families not receiving a space.

As our Breakfast Club staffing is not authority funded but funded using our Pupil Equity Fund this means that spaces are allocated linked to a range of criteria including:

• SIMD (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation)
• school attendance over a number of years
• latecoming over a number of years

Receiving a place in previous years does not guarantee a space for the coming year. Daily fees of £1 ( currently supplemented to reduce costs to 80p) this covers the authority cost of food only.

If you have received a letter offering your child a space at Breakfast Club for Session 23/24 please return to the school office no later than Wednesday 26th June

We currently have a waiting list for spaces at breakfast club therefore if we don’t receive your letter by this date accepting the place allocated to your child we will assume that the place is no longer required and allocate the space to one of our waiting list children.

Thank you for your support with this.

The children have had a wonderful day at our singalong and dance-along fundraiser for the Martin Chambers Ecudor Trust.

At present we have managed to raise an AMAZING £1129, however if you still have any sponsor money you would like to donate this can be paid via Parentpay 

Thankyou to everyone for sponsoring the children and helping to raise  funds for this wonderful charity.

I would just like to say thank you all so much again for giving up your own time yesterday to help at our career day. Without all of your help it wouldn’t have been such a success! The children had a fantastic day learning different information about your job roles as well as having the opportunity to try on and use the equipment that was brought and have the opportunity to see the emergency service vehicles too! Mount Carmel are super grateful for you all and we hope you enjoyed our day too!

Thank you,

Miss Grimley

All sponsor money should be brought into school tomorrow morning.

The children will enjoy a day of celebrating everything Father Martin loved from coming together as a school to singing and dancing.

The chidren are encouraged to wear clothes that represent the colours of Ecuador (yellow, blue and red), a place very loved by Father Martin. If your child down not own clothes with these colours, please do not worry. It is simply a non uniform day then.

We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow and let’s raise some money for our dear friend ❤