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Welcome to our Class – Parent/Carer Views

If you have been able to attend one of our Welcome to our Class sessions please complete the form below sharing your views on how we can continue to improve.

Kind regards

Mrs Fergusson

Welcome to our Class – Parent/Carer views

PE Days Update

 

There has been a change to a couple of the class PE days please see 

new updated list of class PE days 

P1 – Tuesday and Friday
P2 – Monday and Thursday 
P3 – Monday and Thursday
P4 – Wednesday and Friday 
P5 – Monday and Wednesday 
P6 – Tuesday and Thursday 
P7 – Monday and Tuesday 

Online Forms

The authority require the forms linked below to be completed online, these can be completed using a mobile phone.

If you have not yet completed these forms, please do so ASAP.

If you require any assistance to complete the forms online please contact the school office.

Mount Carmel Primary School : EAC Acceptable Use of Computer Facilities 2026-2027 – Fill in form

Mount Carmel Primary School 2026-27 EAC Photographic Consent for Children and Young People – Fill in form

Forms requiring Completion

 

 

 

 

 

If you have still to return the forms issued to your young person, please can you complete them & return to school office ASAP.

These allow us to keep an up to date record of how we can contact you in the case of an emergency.

Should you require duplicate forms to be issued or require help in completing these forms please contact the school office.

Dates for Your Diary

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:

Date Event Time
Wednesday 07/10/2026 Winning House Prize 10.00 am – 12.30pm
Friday 23/10/2026 Tempest Photography All Day
Thursday 29/10/2026 Halloween Disco TBC
Friday 06/11/2026 Flu Immunisation All day
Wednesday 11/11/2026 Pupil progress meetings 5.00pm – 8.00pm
Thursday 12/11/2026 Pupil Progress meetings 3.30pm – 6.30pm
Friday 20/11/2026 Children In Need All Day
Tuesday 08/12/2026 P1 – P3 Nativity 1.30pm
Wednesday 09/12/2026 P1 – P3 Nativity 1.30pm
Thursday 10/12/2026 Christmas Jumper day All day
Thursday 10/12/2026 Christmas lunch 12.30pm
Friday 11/12/2026 Pantomime 10.00am
Tuesday 15/12/2026 Christmas End of Term Mass 10.00am

All Dates are subject to change 

September Newsletter

Please see below link for September Newsletter

Go to this Sway

Important Information

Children have today been issued with an envelope containing all of the yearly forms parents/carers are legally required to complete in order for an up to date record of all essential information for our young people are maintained.

This should be completed and returned to school ASAP.

East Ayrshire Council also require parents/carers to complete certain forms online links to these can be found below.

If you require any help to complete any of the forms please contact the school office.

Thanks 

Mount Carmel Primary School 2026-27 EAC Photographic Consent for Children and Young People – Fill in form

Mount Carmel Primary School : EAC Acceptable Use of Computer Facilities 2026-2027 – Fill in form

 

Wednesday 19th August

We are looking forward to welcoming all of our young people back to school tomorrow (Wednesday 19th August)

Gentle reminder that the school days starts at 9am prompt until 3pm

New Primary 1 Pupils should attend at the times given to parents/carers before the summer holidays. New primary 1 children should access the infant playground after 9am.

Primary 6 & Primary 7 should line up in the front playground

Primary 4 & Primary 5 should line up in the middle playground

School Lunches will begin on Week 3

Thanks

Winning House Prize – Earth

 

We are delighted to announce that the winning House for this term is Earth.

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 Earth House we hope you have a great time at Jungle Madness 

Sports Day

Unfortunatley due to the predicted weather forecast for tomorrow we have taken the difficult and sad decision to cancel our Sports day tomorrow.  As previoulsy stated due to the volume of other events happening within the school over the next 2 weeks we are unable to reschedule Sports Day.

Colour Run Thankyou

Thankyou to all of our amazing Parent Helpers for all of your help today at our Colour Run the kids had a brilliant time.

Thankyou to our Parent Council for all of their hard work in making this brilliant event happen.

And finally ……… Thankyou to all of our wonderful parents/carers for supporting all of the children with your very generous donations.

 

Class Structure 2026/27

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 Monday 22nd June.

Thank you to Miss Livingston, Mrs Canning and Miss Grimley for all your hard work and commitment this year.  We wish you the very best for the future.

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 Lennox (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday)

Mrs Strachan (Thursday)

Primary 3      Mrs McIntyre (Monday – Wednesday)

Mrs Hope (Wednesday – Friday)

Primary 4      Mrs MacKinnon

Primary 5      Mrs McCreadie

Primary 6      Mr Bertoncini

Primary 7      Mrs Dunsmore (Monday)

Mrs Terras (Tuesday – Friday)

Sports Day 2026

Sports Day will take place on Wednesday 3rd June and we are hoping to have some dry weather for the day.
Parents/carers are invited to come along for the class races on the day. 
Please access the playground via the main gate and make your way through the upper playground to the grass area at the rear of the school.  
After the race please exit the school as soon as possible to allow for the next group of parent to attend.
We are encouraging children to wear clothes relating to their House colours where possible.

Parents/carers are invited to attend at the following times only:

Primary 1      9.10am-9.40am
Primary 2      9.40am-10.10am
Primary 3     10.10am-10.40am
Primary 4     11.30am -12noon
Primary 5     12.00noon-12.30pm
Primary 6     1.30pm-2.10pm
Primary 7     2.10pm-2.50pm
ECC children 11.00 am-11.30am

Change to School Lunch Menu 27/05/2026

There will be a slight change to the school lunch menu on Wednesday 27th May 2026.

However due to time constraints we are unable to get the changes through to the parent Online order system on time therefore the menu for the day will be as follows

Cheeseburger

Cheese Panini (please select Vegetable burger for this)

Baked potato & Beans

Gammon sandwich

If you require any further clarification please contact the school office.

Thanks

Day of Colour

The Friends of Jesus Group, have organised a ‘Day of Colour’ to raise money for Missio Scotland.  As a Mission 5 star school, we are continuing to raise awareness of the wonderful work of Missio, which encourages us all to think about our special ‘Mission’ and how we can help children in other countries.
The Day of Colour will take place on Friday 22nd May and donations should be made on ParentPay.
Everyone is encouraged to come to school wearing bright colours. ( no football colours)
Thank you for your support for Missio.
From 
The Friends of Jesus Group and Mount Carmel Missio Champions