Fireworks and ASB Advice to Parents

It’s Poppy donation time again. Our P7 pupils will be going round the classes as of tomorrow with poppies. If your child would like a poppy please send a small donation in with them to pop in our collection tin.

Thank you for your support.  

Please wear something spotty, if you wish, for our Dress Down Day on Friday 14th November as it it also Children In Need day. Remember to also bring a donation for the tombola that day too.

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Barnardo’s East Ayrshire Families Youth Service would like to inform young people and their parents/carers of a Youth Group that is available to young people in Primary 7 from the local area. This group is completely FREE to attend and runs term-time every Monday from 4pm-6pm in Onthank Community Centre.

If your P7 child/children would like to attend please ask the office for an application form. 

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Our school car park is as always out of bounds for parents/carers vehicles . We also have an increase in commercial traffic e.g vans lorries etc  going in and out of the car park daily due to our kitchen renovations having started this week making it particularly hazardous.

During September we were delighted to see so many of our parents and carers come along to our ‘Meet the teacher’ session, thank you for taking the time to come to school and get some information about the year ahead. Please let us know what you thought of these sessions and anything else we could add in the future.

Welcome to our School – Meet the Teacher

If you want to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous Halloween hamper from FOMC, please head to Parentpay, where you can pay £1 for a  ticket towards the FOMC Halloween Raffle.

This is a separate raffle to the school’s October raffle!

Please see the poster below for details of our Halloween Disco on 30th October. Tickets for this have gone into schoolbags today.

Do not send the money into school please, the £2.50 is payable on the night on entry. Please complete the attached portion of the ticket and make sure your child brings this with them on the night.

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We will be holding a Wider Achievement Assembly on September 26th.  If you would like us to celebrate your child/children’s recent achievements, please send any photos and information to the school inbox eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk by Wednesday 24th.

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Our Primary 1 class will be having their class photograph taken by the Kilmarnock  Standard photographer on Wednesday 1st October  at 11.30am.

If you DO NOT wish your child to be included , please contact the school office.

There will be a Dress Down Day this Thursday 18th September. We are asking kindly for a £1 donation via Parentpay .

Pupils who pay give a donation will automatically get a free entry into our September Raffle.

This item is now live on Parentpay and will be open for payments until Wednesday 24th September.

Please take time to read the information in the letter below if your child has asthma:

Letter for Parents of Asthmatic Children School 2025

KRIS BOYD FOOTBALL CENTRE STARTS BACK!

TERM 1 DATES

Dates: Monday 8^th September – Monday 24^th November 2026

HOLIDAYS: 22^nd Sept (PH) 13^th Oct (School Holiday) 20^th Oct (Inservice)

Times: 4pm – 5pm

Venue: Ayrshire College, Kilmarnock Campus, Outdoor Astro

 Age Group: Primary 1 – Primary 7

Boys Only

Cost: FREE

Booking Link QR Code below:

**Please note once you have booked QR code will be scanned weekly as registration**

Program of Youth Events

Back to School

Primary 3 are going to be doing a craft activity and are kindly asking for kitchen roll/ toilet roll cardboard tubes to be handed in as soon as possible please.

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If you have any unwanted items of clothing etc which you would like to donate to our Rag Bag collection. Please fill a black bag/bin liner with your items and hand in to the school office by this Friday, 12th September.

Thank you

For those Parents/Carers who were unable to attend last weeks’ Meet the Teacher session for P2 , please find a link to the presentation below.

Primary 2 Meet the Teacher

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 .

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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.

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