Our September Raffle is now live on Parentpay.  As always tickets are £1 per strip of 5.  The raffle will close on Tuesday 23rd September  and will be drawn on Friday 26th. Good Luck!

At Mount Carmel we provide period poverty packs to all of our children and families, should they require it. These packs are readily available in the girls toilets as well as at our front foyer for all to access. With this comes inevitable questions from some of our children. Mrs McCreadie will have a chat with girls from Primary 5, 6 and 7 on Thursday 11^th September. This will provide the girls the opportunity to ask questions in a safe and respectful environment. The girls will take part in this conversation in their class groups and it will not be done in a whole group setting. If you do not want your child to take part in these conversations, or you have any questions yourself on how this will take place, please call into the school office. Thank you!

East Ayrshire Council launched a successful online ordering facility for free sanitary products in August 2020, which continues to grow.

This facility is open to anyone who needs products and is used by our communities and schools.  A variety of products are available from single use products to reusable products.

Products are available for collection by anyone who needs them, or by anyone collecting on behalf of another person. Products will normally be available within toilet facilities of a building. Those who wish to access products can do so without having to ask a member of staff in a way that respects their dignity.

We provide free products in all our schools. Products are available in a way which respects the dignity of the pupils and can be accessed without having to ask a teacher. A reasonable choice will be available to pupils to ensure their needs can be adequately met whilst attending school. This will be monitored and reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Products are available during term time in at least one building of the school which is normally used by pupils. For most schools, products will be located within in the toilet facilities. Other schools may have products available in multiple locations.

Information on stocked venues can be accessed via the PickupMyPeriod App.

PickupMyPeriod allows users to enter a postcode or location to see where free period products are available in their area. Users can filter what products are available, check building opening hours and also access a wide range of advice and support on various topics including health and wellbeing, financial support, domestic abuse and addiction support.

The app can be downloaded via these links:

• PickupMyPeriod App for Android
• PickupMyPeriod App for Apple

P1 parents/carers will be permitted into the lower school playground until Friday of this week.

As of Monday of next week, no parents/carers will be allowed in the school playgrounds.

This will help the children to feel safe.

There will be a P7 parental information evening on 3^rd September at 6pm in St. Joseph’s Academy.

An update to let everyone know that our school telephone answer machine is now back up and running. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Please note there will be NO School Crossing Patrol between Thursday 4th September and Thursday 11th September (Dates Inclusive).

We have realised that our telephone answering machine is not registering messages left by parents/carers. It is allowing people to leave messages but they are not coming through on our system.

A call has been logged today with our telephone engineer to hopefully have this resolved as soon as possible.

In the meantime, if your child is absent from school, please make sure you make direct contact with the school office .

Thanks

We are delighted to be attending our first mass for the new session on Friday 29th August at 10am where Primary 7 will lead us in our readings.  Everyone is welcome to attend and we hope to see some of you there!

Sleeping Beauty at the Galleon Leisure Centre, Kilmarnock 

We appreciate it may be far too early for a lot of parents/carers to even think about, but we are beginning to arrange our calendar of events taking place between now and the Christmas break!😯

With this in mind, we are going to be booking this years’ local pantomime – Sleeping Beauty, which is to be held in the Galleon Centre. This will be a whole school outing on Tuesday 2nd December at 10am. The cost of the ticket and transport is £16 per child. The box office need EXACT numbers of tickets no later than Monday 15th September.

In order to give everyone plenty of time to pay for this, we plan to offer an initial deposit of £8 due via Parentpay by Monday 8th September. You will be able to access this from today onwards.

This deposit is NON-REFUNDABLE and secures a ticket for your child. If we do not receive a deposit, we will be unable to purchase a ticket for your child.

There will then be one further final payment of £8 required by Friday 31st October.

If any families are worried about the cost of this please contact the school office as soon as possible. 

If your child does not wish to attend the Pantomime please let us know by Monday 8th September by contacting the school office.

Dear Parents and Carers.

Our first wider achievement assembly will be held on Friday 29th August. During this assembly, we will celebrate the children’s achievements from during their summer holidays.  This can be anything from receiving a medal, to completing a level in swimming or learning how to ride their bike. Anything that the children (and adults) are proud of. Please send a photo and a short sentence of what the achievement is to

eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk 

by Wednesday 27th August.

Thank you,

Mrs McCreadie

All  of our young people are settling well into school life

To help parents/carers plan for some of the different activities that will be happening throughout our school year we would like to provide you with dates for some of these events:

All dates are subject to change 

Team MC

Hi everyone and welcome back to our pupils and their families. We hope you have all had a great summer.  It is wonderful to see the children settled in their new classes after the summer, looking smart and ready to learn in their uniforms. Thank you!

We have a little update regarding our kitchen and some upcoming work that will be carried out. East Ayrshire Council was due to begin renovations to our kitchen area during the summer, unfortunately this was unable to begin when planned and the work is going to begin in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, our amazing catering staff will be cooking the children’s lunches from Hillhead school and transporting the food from there to our lunch hall ready for the children to eat at the usual lunch time.  As much as this is a change to how the staff will provide lunches, there will be minimal disruption for the children.  Free fruit will still be available for children to access at break times and lunch times. We will keep you updated with any changes in the near future.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter,

Mrs McCreadie

Please see link below for our Primary Lunch Menus for Session 2025/26:

All children from Primary 1 to Primary 7 are entitled to a free school meal, lunches should be ordered via the Parentpay app before 8am each morning. We will start on Wednesday 20th August with week 2 menu 

East Ayrshire Primary school menus

A reminder that school reopens for all pupils on Wednesday 20th April @ 9am.

Please ensure your child comes to school wearing FULL school uniform along with school bag, pencil case, water bottle and gym kit, the following items of clothing are NOT acceptable items of school uniform – hoodies, crocs or football colours.

PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL ITEMS OF CLOTHING ARE CLEARLY LABELLED 

Can all families please ensure that you have downloaded the safer schools Scotland app as ALL information regarding trips, shows, Pupil Progress meetings, school calendar and school news will now only be shared via the APP.  Please see link below:

School Lunch Menus will also be available on the app, we would like to remind you that any school meals must be pre booked via ParentPay before 8am each morning.

All new P1 children will be issued information on how they can order their children’s lunches shortly, in the meantime they will be able to order lunch in their class daily.

Safer Schools Scotland QR code 

MCPS Uniform Exchange is open now until 1pm today. This will be available again from 11:30am – 3pm on Monday 18th August and 9am -3pm on Tuesday 19th August.

We have a huge selection of brand new items including shirts, trousers, skirts and shoes all donated from Tesco. We also have a good selection of second hand items including jumpers and cardigans. We have some items in larger items that would be suitable for secondary children. These are available at no cost and there is no need to bring any items to swap them with. We also have some second hand school bags and lunch boxes in good condition.

Please come and take what you need.

A gentle reminder that our uniform exchange will be available for all between 9am and 12pm today, Thursday 24th July.  Please come along and help yourself.

Thanks

Hi everyone. We hope you are all having a lovely summer holiday! Our uniform exchange will be open on Thursday 24th July from 9am until 12pm for anyone who wishes to access this.

Thank you!

Please find below a link to our end of term Newsletter

We hope you all have a wonderful summer break and look forward to seeing you all in August

.End of Term Newsletter June 2025

The votes have been counted and verified and I can happily announce that the new House and Vice Captains for next school year are:

Air 

House Captain: Allie

Vice Captain: Prince

Fire

House Captain: Ollie

Vice Captain: Emma

Water

House Captain: Jessica

Vice Captain: Rhyn

Earth

House Captain: Matthew

Vice Captain: Charlie

Official photos will be shared in August. We wish our House Captains all the best for the next school year and look forward to seeing all their exciting work and leadership.

Mrs Terras

The school closes tomorrow at 1pm for the  summer break. 

Taxi children will be collected at 12.30pm.

We hope everyone has a wonderful time over the holidays and look forward to welcoming all our pupils back  on Wednesday 20th August. 

Galloway Youth Newsletter – June 2025

A great big thank you to your fabulous parent council for an amazing fun day. The children (and staff) had an amazing day filled with bouncy castles and ice cream. Take a look at the photos from today 💙

There will be a limited lunch menu on Friday 27th June, packed lunches will be available from the kitchen children can choose from either Cheese, Tuna or Ham sandwiches.

A little reminder that children can wear their own clothes for Fun Day today. They are also welcome to bring in their bikes and scooters for some outdoor fun. Thanks everyone 💙

Reminder that school will close for the summer holidays on Friday 27th June at 1pm

Taxi children will be collected at 12.30pm

School will reopen to all pupils on Wednesday 20th August @ 9am

We hope all our families have a lovely, peaceful & restful summer break.

Team MC

A reminder that tomorrow is our Fun Day!

Children can come to school in their own clothes if they wish, they must however, wear joggers/ leggings and socks as there will be bouncy castles and slides.

Fingers crossed for better weather🤞