A reminder that Fr Jim has organised a meeting tomorrow ( Wednesday 22nd October) at 7pm in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, for parents of those Primary 4 children who will be making their First Holy Communion in June 2026.
During the meeting, as well as registering your child for the sacrament, Fr Jim will issue details of the important dates relating to the preparation programme for First Communion.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you.
After school Christmas choir rehearsals will start on Tuesday 4th November from 3-4pm.
Further after school rehearsals (3pm – 4pm) will be on:
Tuesday 11th November, Tuesday 18th November, Tuesday 25th November
Thank you,
Mrs Terras
Our school car park is as always out of bounds for parents/carers vehicles . We also have an increase in commercial traffic e.g vans lorries etc going in and out of the car park daily due to our kitchen renovations having started this week making it particularly hazardous.
At Mount Carmel we have been reviewing and updating our Nurture Policy. Please take some time to read over this and complete the short form for any feedback you may wish to give. This survey closes on Friday 7th November.
We have had reports of unwanted “visitors” to some children within the school, we kindly ask that parents/carers routinely check their child/children’s hair for any of these unwanted “visitors” and take appropriate action if required Thank you for your co-operation.
Gentle reminder that school will close on Friday 10/10/2025 @ 3pm and reopen on Tuesday 21/10/2025 @ 9am.
We hope you have a lovely October break
During September we were delighted to see so many of our parents and carers come along to our ‘Meet the teacher’ session, thank you for taking the time to come to school and get some information about the year ahead. Please let us know what you thought of these sessions and anything else we could add in the future.
If you want to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous Halloween hamper from FOMC, please head to Parentpay, where you can pay £1 for a ticket towards the FOMC Halloween Raffle.
This is a separate raffle to the school’s October raffle!
Any Primary 4 -7 who would like to be part of the Christmas Choir must return their permission letters by Friday 10th October.
Thank you,
Mrs Terras
A huge well done to our Friends of Jesus Community Group, who were commissioned as our Missio Champions at a beautiful Mass on Friday.
The children from the group, participated in Mass and received their badges and a special blessing from Fr Jim who encouraged us all to think about our mission to share God’s love with others.
The Friends of Jesus group are looking forward to highlighting the work of Missio Scotland throughout the year, as we share our faith and encourage the whole school community to love God and others.
‘Voyage to Venus’ is underway !
Our Active travel commanders are pleased to share that we have started recording S-Miles in most of our classes and we are delighted to report we have even had a few parents/carers logging their active travel journey to work too out with the school using the link below and the QR code on the school front door. Well done for getting involved as we earn extra S-Miles!
It literally takes a minute to click the link or scan the QR on door, add your name and your child/children’s school! That’s it! So, If you take public transport and then walk to work e.g. in Glasgow or locally in town, then this counts too!
Voyage to Venus – Parent Active Travel Link
Do you know that in East Ayrshire 50% of our fuel emissions are from drivers travelling less than a mile in our area, to drop kids off at school or to nip to the shops?
Eco Committee Suggestions –
Could we reduce this by taking turns and car sharing with people who live in our street?
A ‘walking bus’ where parents who live nearby collect another nearby family en route.
This would make it safer for us around the school area and lessen congestion, Meiklewood Road can get unsafe with lots of cars parked all over, as we try to navigate and cross on our way to school.
Have a think? How can you help keep us safer and healthier?
Now, Let’s get those cosmic crystals through logging as many S-Miles on part 1 of our Voyage to Venus… 🚀🪐
Thank you for supporting us,
P4-6 Mission Control on behalf of the Eco Committee
Our October Raffle is now live on Parentpay. As always tickets are £1 per strip of 5. The raffle will close on Tuesday 28th October and will be drawn on Friday 30th. Good Luck!
We are delighted to announce that the winning House for this term is Water.
The children who are in the winning house will enjoy a trip to Jungle Madness on Wednesday 8th October whilst there they will be given crisps, cookies & juice if you do not wish your child to have these for allergy purposes please contact the school office.
Well done Water House we hope you have a great time at Jungle Madness
There will be a Dress Down Day on Friday 10th October. We are asking kindly for a £1 donation via ParentPay . Pupils who pay give a donation will automatically get a free entry into our October Raffle. This item is now live on Parentpay and will be open for payments until Wednesday 22nd October.
Homework will finish for the October holiday on Friday 3rd October and recommence on Monday 27th October 2025.
Reminder that if you have not already done so the final payment towards your childs pantomime ticket is due to be paid before the 30th October 2025.
Tempest Photography will be in school on Friday 24th October.
All children will have an individual photograph.
Unfortunately we will be unable to accommodate family photographs.
Please see link for October Newsletter
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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.
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.
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.
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…
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
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 meeting request letters have been sent home in school bags today.
Thanks
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
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
