A reminder that we will be having a PJ and Movie Day for SCIAF this Friday (24th March).  A £1 cash donation for our SCIAF boxes is suggested.

Children can bring a teddy/blanket which fits in their schoolbag with them plus an extra small snack for watching the movie!

Thank you.

We are delighted to announce that the East Ayrshire Easter Holidays- Activities Programme is now live.

Upcoming Events – East Ayrshire Council Events (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)

Has your child recently celebrated a special event outside of school? If so, please send a photograph into the school so that we can post this on our blog/app as well as display this on our Wider Achievement Celebration Display .

Please send your photographs to: eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk 

A reminder that we will be having a PJ and Movie Day for SCIAF this Friday (24th March).  A £1 cash donation for our SCIAF boxes is suggested.

Thank you.

Reminder that the last week of Homework will be this week (week beginning 20th March). Homework Club, however, will still take place on Monday 27th March with other learning activities provided by staff.

Please continue to keep our Primary 3 children in your prayers as they prepare for their Reconciliation on Tuesday 21st March at 7pm at our Lady of Mount Carmel church.

Don’t forget to buy your class Easter Egg Raffle tickets! 

All tickets go forward to be in with a chance of  winning our Star Prize 

A reminder that tomorrow (17th March) is St. Patrick’s Day. Our SCIAF fundraiser is to wear something green for St. Patrick’s Day.
We are asking kindly for a £1 cash donation for our SCIAF boxes.
Please note: no football items of clothing

We have been working extra hard to reach our target over the last few weeks, even on World Book Day we were out building up our steps!!

Our Mission to the Moon continues and over the next 3 weeks we will be attempting to cover the 3, 417 miles to the location of Mount Carmel in Israel! 

Fingers Crossed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel

Next Wednesday (22nd March) there will be no P3/4 after school Multi-Sports Club due to our Pupil Progress Meetings taking place.

Homework will stop next week, however, Homework Club will still take place on Monday 27th March.

A  local kinship group will be taking place in the community and coming together on a weekly basis to help and support each other, and most importantly support  young people in their care. The group have a base where they will be meeting regularly. This will be within the Centrestage base and will take place every Thursday 11am-1pm.

The group  also have a facebook page: 

Kilmarnock East Ayrshire Kinship Carers 

or you can email them on: kinshipkilmarnock@gmail.com

Has your child recently celebrated a special event outside of school? If so, please send a photograph into the school so that we can post this on our blog/app as well as display this on our Wider Achievement Celebration Display .

Please send your photographs to: eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk 

A reminder that this Friday (17th March) is St. Patrick’s Day. Our SCIAF fundraiser is to wear something green for St. Patrick’s Day.

We are asking kindly for a £1 cash donation for our SCIAF boxes.

Please note: no football items of clothing

A reminder that Primary 5 Sharing the Learning session takes place this Thursday at 2pm. Please return your attendance slip if you have not already done so.

Thank you.

Easter is fast approaching, so here are some fabulous competitions to enter and some colouring activities to try which have been organised by the charity Reachout Together and Celebrate Kilmarnock

Easter Bunny Art comp 2023

 Easter Bunny girl and boy 2023

Easter Egg Art comp 2023

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EASTER TREASURE HUNT form

Why not give them a try? Good Luck!

Yesterday Sophie in Primary 3 drew this fabulous Mission to the Moon picture. Look at those wonderful planets and stars! 

Everyone at Mount Carmel is continuing to work very, very hard to reach our target on our Mission to the Moon!

We were delighted to have had some special visitors to the school last week to meet with our Eco Committee and have a look at all the hard work we have been doing to promote Mount Carmel’s Mission to the Moon journey. We are super proud to have our picture on the East Ayrshire Launch page promoting our journey.

You can view more about Mission to the Moon and it’s launch by clicking ThingLink

Primary 3 and 4 have organised a SCIAF fun day for the whole school this Wednesday 8th March. Children across the school will take part in a range of activities they have prepared. School uniform to be worn. 

A suggested £1 cash donation for this event.

The school will close at 2.30pm on Friday 31st March for the Easter break. Children who normally go home  by taxi will be collect at 2pm.

Please see our February Newsletter below:

East Ayrshire School Counselling & Psychological Wellbeing Supports Newsletter for Primary Schools (office.com)

We are absolute trailblazers in our Mission to the Moon adventure!

We are working very hard to reach our target.  Mr. Leslie our Janitor has helped us out by adding stencils to the upper playground!

Don’t forget it’s World Book Day tomorrow (Thursday 2nd March). 

We are looking forward to seeing the children dressed up as characters from their favourite books if they wish OR you can just “Dress as you please” You don’t need to stress about buying a costume, why not customize some old clothes you already have at home?

And if you don’t feel like dressing up. that’s ok too, you can still take part in all the fun activities throughout the day!

Thursday 2^nd March – dress down for World Book Day 

Wednesday 8^th March – P3 and P4 Activity Day 

Friday 17^th March – wear green for St.Patrick’s Day  (no football colours)

Friday 24^th March – PJ and Movie Day 

Friday 31^st March – Easter Technology Challenge – bonnets/egg decoration and parade

This is the first week of our “Mission to the Moon” where we are encouraging families in active travel to and from school.

Please encourage children to walk, cycle, scoot to school and help us build up our S-miles and reach our targets. If a Parent/carer/sibling participates too they also collect S-miles!

And they’re off!……………………….

Have you ever thought of a career in Childminding?

 East Ayrshire Council provides Pre-Registration Training and support FREE to anyone residing in East Ayrshire who is looking to become a childminder. Please see the information leaflet below:

pre reg training information leaflet 2023