We are delighted to be participating in East Ayrshire Council’s Active Travel initiative Mission to the Moon. The aim of this project is to get young people walking to school in a bid to further reduce our carbon emissions here in East Ayrshire, while also reducing congestion at our school gates and promoting Active Travel.
Earning S-Miles (‘School Miles’)
Each time our young people travel to/from school by walking, scooting/cycling, they will earn an S-mile for their class.
Park & Stride – pupils will earn an S-Mile even if they walk part of the journey to/from school. Bonus S-Miles can be earned by parents/siblings/staff walking the journey to school too!
A walking circuit will be available in the playground for pupils who travel to school by taxi/bus and for any pupil who wishes to gather bonus S-miles for their class during break/lunchtime. Class walks, outings and Daily Mile time also earn S-Miles for classes.
Our Eco Committee will collate our S-Miles each week in school and send our totals to the Climate Change Team at East Ayrshire Council each month.
Our S-Mile Journeys
In Mount Carmel we have agreed that our first target will be to walk the length of the Zambezi River. This links to our Lenten SCIAF appeal, which this year is focused on supporting families in Zambia. Many children there walk up to 10 miles a day to get to school. The length of the river is 1599 miles and we hope to accrue the equivalent miles in 3 weeks.
We will try our best to collect the miles we need within the timescale we have set. Once we have reached our target destination, we will decide on our next destination and time scale.
The Launch!
We will begin collecting S-Miles week commencing Monday 20th February and continue on our travels during the rest of Term 3 and 4. Once all participating schools across East Ayrshire have banked 238,855 S-Miles, we can launch our EAC Clean Green rocket, sending it all the way to the moon!
We look forward to keeping you updated on our progress via our school app and blog throughout the year.
Mrs McGahon
Depute Head Teacher
Freshly made pancakes will be available at lunchtime on Shrove Tuesday as an additional item.
Toppings available will include:
Banana with natural yoghurt
Strawberries with ice cream
Dear Parent/Carer
As you are no doubt aware, your child is due to transfer from primary to secondary education at the beginning of the new school session (August 2023).
Secondary school hand books are available at: https://eastayrshi.re/SchoolHandbooks
Please complete the online P7 transfer application at http://eastayrshi.re/p7transfer
It’s the time of year when our kids have lots of small slips and trips and enjoy sliding in the mud, and they often need a change of clothing to keep them comfortable for the rest of the day.
We are looking for some donations of childrens underwear (tights/socks etc) used or new to be handed in to the school, if you have any of these items spare, we would be very grateful if you could kindly hand these into the school office.
Thankyou
Aswell as the normal school lunch menu choices on the 25th of January, children will also have the opportunity to choose the traditional Scottish favourite of Haggis, Neeps & Tatties for lunch that day.
Shortbread will be available as the choice of pudding that day and the soup choice will be Potato & Leek.
There will be a reduced lunch menu on Friday 23rd December the choices will be as follows:
Soup – Lentil
Sandwiches – Gammon, Cheese or Egg Mayonnaise.
Thankyou
Please note the following changes will take p0lace to our lunch menu on Wednesday 7th December:
Fresh Tomato Soupl
Chicken Meatballs in tomato sauce with Pasta
Lentil & sweet potato Korma with brown rice
Gammon Sandwich
Cracker & Cheese or fruit selection
Thankyou
The SHOUT discount card is for children from birth to 11 years old living, or attending primary school, in East Ayrshire
The aim of the SHOUT is to provide children and families across East Ayrshire the opportunity to access an array of leisure services, visitor attractions and commercial services, ensuring that cost is not a barrier.
The cards are free and the benefits include:
Save money with lots of discounts to local visitor attractions and local stores*
Should you wish to apply for a SHOUT card for your child please use this link:
https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CommunityLifeAndLeisure/LeisurePasses/SHOUT.aspx
Could any Mount Carmel children who are attend mass on Sunday 20/11 please wait behind after mass for 10 minutes to allow Father Martin & Mrs Brown to share some news with you.
Thanks
East Ayrshire Council are in the process of taking part in a national discussion that will hopefully ‘reform’ education and it is important that the views of our parents are heard along with others.
An event which will be jointly hosted by Connect and NPFS will be held on Wednesday 9th November between 19.30 – 21.00 please sign up for this event and have your views heard. Details of the event are below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-discussion-online-event-for-parentscarers-with-prof-alma-harris-tickets-457090358567
We would like to take this opportunity to say a great big thankyou from all of the staff and children at Mount Carmel to our friends at FOMC, for arranging the fantastic Halloween disco we all had the pleasure of enjoying this year. We all had the best time enjoying all of the fun and games and eating the delicious treats you had for us. We are so very grateful for all of your help and support.
Thankyou
Please see below the link to the October Newsletter.
EAC School Counselling & Psychological Wellbeing Supports Newsletter (office.com)
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Please complete the form below for each child you have at Mount Carmel Primary providing photographic consent for Academic Session 2022/23.
Thankyou
As part of our Halloween celebrations we have 3 beautiful Hampers to give away. In order to win 1 of our beautiful hampers, you can purchase raffle tickets using your ParentPay Account. All monies raised will go towards school funds
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It’s the end of our school term, and we would kindly ask that parents/carers routinely check their child/children’s hair for any unwanted “visitors” during the holidays.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Reminder that The Kilmarnock Standard will visit the school tomorrow for our Primary 1 photograph
We are delighted to announce the return of Killie’s Disney Playmakers – this time the adventure we follow will be Moana.
Aimed at girls aged 5-8, of all abilities, to give them a non-competitive introduction to football, Disney Playmakers empowers girls to express themselves, following the storybook and the adventures of Moana, from crossing the ocean to battling the Kakamora.
If you have any young people who would be interested, please let us know asap, or sign up here
Primary 7 St Josephs Parent Information Appointments with Miss Cathie will now take place on Monday 3rd October. All original appointment times are still valid.
Please find enclosed link for August newsletter for East Ayrshire Primary Counselling service
East Ayrshire School Counselling & Psychological Wellbeing Supports Newsletter (office.com)
Please read the attached report regarding the consultation on stages of future educational provision for children at Willowbank School, Onthank Primary School, Onthank Early Childhood Centre (ECC) and Mount Carmel Primary School.
Consultations · East Ayrshire Council (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)
Willowbank-consultation-proposals-report (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)
It’s the start of a new school term, and we would kindly ask that parents/carers routinely check their child/children’s hair for any unwanted “visitors”.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Further to our post regarding our Meet the Teacher Session please note that all sessions will begin at 2.00pm
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