As part of the cost of living support we are introducing free toast within the school dining hall to pupils for pupils to collect in the morning.  In line with this we will also be temporarily reducing the cost of Breakfast Club food from £1.00 to £0.80.

Please note, this reduction to the charge is only temporary whilst we have Cost of Living funding available, and we will let you know when this reduction is due to end. 

The Killie Community are starting an initiative every Wednesday night from 5pm-7pm at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, whereby you can come along for a tea/coffee, hot food and some company. It is called

“The Killie Winter Get-Together”

and will run weekly until the end of March. Entry is via the glass door to the left of the Killie Superstore. There is no registration required.

Toast will now be available to any child that may require this. This is provided by East Ayrshire due to the cost of living. This provision will be available daily in the dinner hall from 8.45am. Children can enter the hall via the middle door.

This is in addition to the current Breakfast Club. Our Breakfast Club will remain in place for named daily list of pupils that have requested a space.  Currently we have no additional Breakfast Club spaces, however, a waiting list is in place.

We were delighted to invite Diane Campbell from Ayrshire Sports Ability to the school yesterday to present a cheque to us for £200 which we will use to purchase a Boccia Set (similar to bowls), which will be able to be accessed by all classes. Initially, Primary 2 will be piloting this. We will also be having a demonstration visit from Gary Seymour from Active Schools.

Well done to our amazing Eco Committee applicants who had to submit an application form and be interviewed as part of the selection process.

The successful applicants are: 

• Charlie and Eddie P4
• Vivienne and Myaa P5
• Sophie, Hannah and Carrie-Ann P6

Here is a reminder of individual class PE days:

• Primary 1- Monday/Thursday
• Primary 2 – Tuesday/Thursday
• Primary 3 – Monday/Wednesday
• Primary 4 – Wednesday/Friday
• Primary 5 – Tuesday/Thursday
• Primary 6 – Monday/Wednesday
• Primary 7 – Tuesday/Wednesday

A reminder that homework will resume again today.

Homework will resume again on Monday 16th January.

Registration week – Monday 9th January – Friday 9th January

For full information and application forms for the enrolment of Primary 1 children starting primary school in August this year please see the link below:

School admissions · East Ayrshire Council (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)

Please find our January 2023 Newsletter attached.

We hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year! 

 Wishing all of our pupils and their families a very Merry Christmas from all the staff at Mount Carmel.

Our Christmas parties this year are as follows:

Primary 1-3 Tuesday 20th December

Primary 4 & 5 Wednesday 21st December

Primary 6 & 7 Thursday 22nd December

Children are welcome to come to school in their party clothes on the day of their party. Children can also be picked by up by an adult at lunchtime (12.15pm) to go home and get changed for their party, however, they should be back at school no later than 1pm.

Each party will begin at 1.30pm prompt.

Please view the current guidelines below regarding Scarlet Fever issued by Public Health Scotland:

 NHS

A reminder that the last day before our Christmas holidays will be Friday 23rd December. The school closes at 2.30pm.

Our Christmas parties this year are as follows:

Primary 1-3 Tuesday 20th December

Primary 4 & 5 Wednesday 21st December

Primary 6 & 7 Thursday 22nd December

A reminder that all children attending tomorrow evening’s performance must be collected at 6.30pm.

Reminder that today we will be selling some of our class Christmas crafts and we will also be taking orders for our festive calendars. Craft prices will range from between 30p and £2 and calendars will be £2 each.

We will be accepting cash only today for those items. There will also be donation boxes for FOMC.

Tomorrow pupils in P4-7 can bring a Christmas jumper / tinsel etc with them to wear along with the rest of their uniform for the show in the afternoon.

For Thursday night’s performance they can come wearing their Christmas jumper /accessories etc.

On Monday 19th December all children are invited to come to school wearing their pyjamas for a special pyjama and movie day! They can also bring with them a cuddly toy if they wish.

We have 15 extra tickets available for our Nativity performances. If you would like a maximum of 2 extra tickets, please complete this form.

Tickets will be issued on a first come first served basis.

This form will close at 10am tomorrow morning.

Here is a little taster of some of the class Christmas craft items that will be for sale prior to our Nativity performances next week:

Tomorrow the children are welcome to wear a Christmas Jumper to school along with the rest of their school uniform. 

If you have any spare Christmas jumpers that you no longer need, we would be grateful if you could drop them off at the school. Likewise, if your child wishes to borrow a Christmas jumper for the day, we do have a very small selection kept in school. 

We are delighted to be continuing with our annual Reverse Advent Calendar initiative this year. This is a wonderful project which helps local families who may be struggling this Christmas.

Pupils can begin bringing in to school any items similar to those listed below. We will collect items up until Wednesday 21st December when Father Martin will then uplift them and take them to the Food Bank.

Please do not hand in perishable food stuffs

Doors will be open for access to our small hall half an hour before each performance, where parents/carers will be able to purchase items from our class Christmas crafts, order school class calendars and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee.

Doors open on Wednesday 14th at 1.30pm (performance at 2pm)

Doors open on Thursday 15th at 5pm (performance at 5.30pm)

Check back here shortly for pictures of the Christmas crafts which will be on sale.