Please have a look at our December newsletter.

December Newsletter 2024

It was with great sadness that we heard about the passing of Councillor Maureen McKay. She was a great advocate for Mount Carmel Primary and has been central to many of the changes within …

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Pupil Progress Meetings are scheduled to take place on Wednesday 20th November and Thursday 21st November.

Unfortunately, the meetings for Primary 2 with Mrs Travers will have to be rescheduled.  At this time it is not known when these will take place.

Due to staff absence Primary 5 meetings will take place with Mrs Terras only.

A huge well done to our Kiltwalk stars that took part in the Edinburgh Kiltwalk on Sunday 15th September. Thank you for your amazing donations which helped to raise over £9000 for The Ecuador Trust.

Thank you to Fr Jim and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish for supporting in the cost for the bus for many of our Kiltwalkers.

All in memory of our friend Fr Martin Chambers.

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

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

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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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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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.

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

Starting Monday 20th May : Walk To School Week!

Here is what we would like you to join in with every day this week…

We will also have a WOW tracker challenge -100 house points for each day children walk to school and log on the tracker. Class with the most logged active journeys will get an extra play! 

Starting Monday 20th May : Walk To School Week!

Here is what we would like you to join in with every day next week…

We will also have a WOW tracker challenge -100 house points for each day children walk to school and log on the tracker. Class with the most logged active journeys will get an extra play! 

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of our much loved Fr Martin.

He was and will forever be a special part of our family.

Mrs Fergusson

Mount Carmel Primary…A Magical Journey

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The password for this has been sent to the main contact for all children.

A reminder that the school car park is for staff only and should not be used by the public at any point.  Parents/carers are requested to not drop children in this area or use the car park to then lift children over school fencing.

Thank you for your support in this.

We apologise for the delay in the publication of our Christmas show photographs.  This will be published soon in the form of a password protected SWAY document.  The password will be emailed to the main contact on our school records.

If you do not wish your child’s photograph to be used in this please contact the school by the end of Thursday this week.

Please have a look at our March Newsletter.

March Newsletter

On Wednesday 27th March we will say a fond Happy Retirement to our amazing Mrs Webb. Mrs Webb has been a central part of our Mount Carmel family now for 25 years. As a school community we …

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During November we will have a number of dress down days on Fridays.

Friday 10th November – please bring in a donation for the Christmas Fayre tombola or bottle stall

Friday 17th November – Children in Need Dress Down Day.  Please follow the link on ParentPay to donate

Friday 24th November – please bring in a donation for the Christmas Fayre tombola or bottle stall

All of our current Primary 7 parents and carers are invited to a ‘Meet and Greet’ session at St Joseph’s Academy on Tuesday 12th September at 6pm.

All of the staff at Mount Carmel and looking forward to seeing the children return on Monday. We have missed them over the holidays and cannot wait to see how much they have grown.

Children in Primary 2 should line up outside the open area, Primary 3 line up as the Primary 3’s did last year.  Primary 6 and 7 will line up at the middle playground and Primary 4 and 5 will line up at the front playground.

A reminder regarding snacks that we are a nut free school.  Children must not bring snacks or lunch items that contain nuts.

Our Uniform Exchange will be open again on Thursday 17th August and Friday 18th August. Please come along and take anything that you require. We still have a wide selection of good quality school uniform, jackets, and shoes. We also have some new items as well as good condition school bags and packed lunch boxes.

If you wish your child to be considered for a place at Breakfast Club please click on the link to access the form.

Please complete this by Wednesday 14th June

Breakfast Club Request Form

If you wish your child to be considered for a place at Breakfast Club please click on the link to access the form.

Please complete this by Wednesday 14th June

Breakfast Club Request Form

It was with heavy hearts today that we listened to Fr Martin announce he would be moving parish to take up a new post in Troon.

Fr Martin has supported our children on their faith journey in a unique and caring way. We will be sad to see him leave on the 30th June, however, we wish him well in his new role.

Fr Martin has been central to our Mount Carmel Family and will continue to always have a special place in our hearts.

Congratulations to all of our children in Primary 4 who recently made their First Communion.  We will celebrate this as a class on Friday 2nd June.  Children can bring party clothes to school, if they wish, which they can get changed into in the afternoon.

We are pleased to inform you that our proposed changes to morning break and lunch times have now been approved by Education.

This means that as of Wednesday 31st May our morning break and lunch times will now be as follows:

Morning break: 10.40am- 10.55am

Lunch break: 12.35pm – 1.20pm

Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete our online survey in relation to this.

As you are aware our School Improvement Plan forms the basis of our school developments.  It is essential that parents and carers are fully involved in the creation of this plan.

Please take some time to put forward your views on the progress we have made with our plan for this year and share your views on what should happen next. This survey will remain open until Friday 12th May.

Please complete the survey below:

You will also require to review a copy of our Family School Improvement Plan.

Family SIP 2022-2023