There will be no School Crossing Patrol this afternoon (17/9) or tomorrow (am) or (pm) 

We have had a number of near miss instances involving children & staff with parents/carers vehicles accessing our staff car park over the past 2 weeks.

For child safety NO PARENT should be accessing the car park this includes DROP OFF & PICK UP times.

Also children SHOULD NOT be lifted over the boundary fence at the infant gates at any time.

All parental access to school grounds should be via the gates in the Upper or Lower school.

Thankyou for your cooperation in ensuring our children’s on going safety.

Gentle reminder that school will close on Thursday 18th September at 3pm and reopen on Tuesday 23rd September at 9am. we hope you have a lovely break.

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!

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

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

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 

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

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.

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

Our Annual Funday will take place on Wednesday 25th June children are asked to bring their bike or scooter with helmet to school that day.

We have now had our staffing confirmed for next year. Children will have the opportunity to meet their new class teacher and spend some time in their new classroom at our bump up session on Tuesday afternoon.

Thank you to Miss Dorby and Miss Campbell for all your hard work and commitment this year.  We wish you the very best for the future.  We also say goodbye to Mrs McLaughlin our Home Link Worker.  Thank you for all the support you have provided to our families over the past year.

I can confirm our class structure for next year is as follows:

Primary 1      Mrs Travers (Monday – Thursday)

Mrs Strachan (Friday & NCCT cover)

Primary 2      Miss Livingston (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday)

Mrs Strachan (Thursday)

Primary 3      Mrs Dunsmore (Monday – Wednesday)

Mrs Hope (Wednesday – Friday)

Primary 4      Mrs MacKinnon

Primary 5      Mrs McIntyre (Monday – Thursday)

Mrs McCreadie (Friday)

Primary 6      Mr Bertoncini

Primary 7      Mrs Canning (Monday)

Mrs Terras (Tuesday – Friday)

Mrs McCreadie will continue as Acting Depute Head Teacher and provide NCCT cover for most classes.

Kind Regards

Mrs A Fergusson

Head Teacher

A letter has been sent home with children today detailing our class structure & teacher allocation for next year.

Thanks

We will be holding a second Dress Down Day on Friday 13th June and are asking again for donations for our House Hampers. So any non-perishable items in the colours red, green, yellow or blue would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks for your support

Congratulations to Mrs McCreadie who was the successful candidate at interview for the post of Acting Depute Head Teacher until June 2026.

Gentle reminder that we are having a Dress Down Day on Friday children are encouraged to bring  into school an item (no  perishable items) for the House Hamper Raffle these items should be in your child’s house colours please:

Fire – Red 

Earth – Green

Air – Yellow

Water – Blue

Raffle tickets are now available for purchase on ParentPay.

We are pleased to be in the position to offer the breakfast Club provision to our children for session 2025-26.

As with previous years there are only a limited number of places available, if you would like your child to be considered for a space for Session 2025/26 please complete the application form which can be found in the link below

Breakfast Club application form 25/26

We have today sent out in children’s bags 70 letters to parents/carers of children who have yet to either pay for or return required permission forms or ALL of the above for our summer school trip.

Unfortunately due to the time involved  in organising multiple forms to be sent out we will not be in the position to offer any more replacement forms, therefore if we do not receive payment and completed outstanding forms by the 30th May your child WILL NOT  attend the trip and will have to stay at home on the day of the trip.

Texts messages have also been sent to parents/carers of the children who have been issued letters today.

Please see below a list of costumes each pupil is required to bring to school NO LATER THAN NEXT WEDNESDAY in a plastic bag clearly labelled with their name & class

Pupils in the chorus are asked to wear black trousers/leggings and a plain, bright coloured top. We do have spare tops in school if required.

Thank you,

Mrs Terras

Our Sports Day will take place on Wednesday 4th June this year. Fingers crossed for good weather🤞 Please have a look below at our timetable for the day. 

We will be having a Dress Down Day on Friday 30th May, where children will have the opportunity to bring into school an item (no  perishable items) for the House Hamper Raffle these items should be in your child’s house colours please:

Fire – Red 

Earth – Green

Air – Yellow

Water – Blue

Raffle tickets are now available for purchase on Parentpay.

After the success of last years House Hamper Raffle Our Friends and Parent Council have decided to organise this  fundraising event again this year to help raise some funds for our children in Mount Carmel. 

We will be holding another Dress Down Day on Friday 30th May and are asking that each child (if they can) bring in an item of their house colour for the raffle. For example if your child was in the red house (fire), they could bring in a tin of ready salted Pringles.  If you could support us with this we would very much appreciate it. The tickets for the raffle will then be sold for £1 and we will have 4 winners, a winner for each of our houses.

Good Luck everyone!!

Father Stephen would like to apologise for the late notice of this celebration to parishioners at St Joseph Church.

However if any of our children are planning to attend St Josephs Church on Sunday we would like to ask if they could possibly attend wearing their Mount Carmel Primary School uniform and if they could sit with Miss Dorby in the allocated seats for our school.

Thankyou 

We have received notification that P7 pupils will be able to access school transport on the May transition days however we are waiting to here what will happen with the June transition days and we will share this information as soon as we have it.

Please see previous communication regarding times dates etc for transition.

School Summer trips are a great way for our children to enjoy a fun filed day out with their class mates.

Unfortunately we have a LARGE number of permission forms that have still to be returned to us as well as a LARGE number of payments for the trip still outstanding –  this payment item has been available on Parentpay accounts since the 21st March amd will remain open until Friday 30th May.

If you have still to return your child’s form or make payment for the trip, this must be done by 30th May or your child WILL NOT  be able to attend the school trip and will therefore have to stay at home on the day of the trip as there will be no teaching provision on the day and this will be marked as an unauthorised absence.

We also have a number of lunch forms outstanding  these MUST be returned to us by 30th May or we will be unable to arrange  a packed lunch for your child from the kitchen should they require one.

Thanks

Mrs Fergusson 

Head Teacher 

Reminder that the school will be closed on Monday 5th May (Bank Holiday) and Tuesday 6th May (Staff In Service Day) and will re open for pupils on Wednesday 7th May at 9am.