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November Raffle
Our November raffle is now LIVE on Parentpay. Usual conditions apply; £1 per strip of 5 tickets for your chance to win a fabulous prize!
Good Luck!🤞
P7 Helpers Wanted!
We are looking for P7 pupil volunteers to help out at our Pupil Progress Meetings on either Wednesday 12th or Thursday 13th November or both. If your child wishes to help out please complete and return the form they have been given.
Thanks
Book Stall
Book Stall
We are planning on running a Book Stall at our Christmas Fayre this year, where new and pre loved books will be on sale.
We are looking for any donations of books to add to our stall. These can be handed in to the school as of today. So, if you are thinking of having a clear out before Christmas, please hand any books you no longer need into us.
Thanks
November Newsletter
Please view our November Newsletter below:
Raffle Winners
Fireworks and Anti Social Behaviour Advice
St Matthews Christmas Fayre
Poppy Scotland
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.
Children In Need

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.
Thank you
P7 Barnardo’s Youth Group

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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School Car Park
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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.
Meet The Teacher Sessions-September
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.
FOMC Halloween Hamper
Basketball Club- Loudoun Leisure Centre
Celebrating 70 years of St Joseph’s Academy
Halloween Disco
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.
Thanks.
Wider Achievement Assembly
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.
Thank you
P1 Kilmarnock Standard Photograph

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.
Dress Down Day
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.
Flu Immunisation of Children with Asthma
Please take time to read the information in the letter below if your child has asthma:
Rose Reilly Football Academy-Ayrshire College,Kilmarnock
ROSE REILLY FOOTBALL CENTRE STARTS BACK!
TERM 1 DATES
Dates: Thursday 11th September – Thursday 27th November 2026
HOLIDAYS: 25th Sept (Week of PH) 16th Oct (School Holiday)
Times: 4pm – 5pm
Venue: Ayrshire College, Kilmarnock Campus,
Age Group: Primary 1 – Primary 7
Girls Only
Cost: FREE
Booking Link QR Code below:
**Please note once you have booked QR code will be scanned weekly as registration**
Kris Boyd Football Academy-Ayrshire College,Kilmarnock
KRIS BOYD FOOTBALL CENTRE STARTS BACK!
TERM 1 DATES
Dates: Monday 8th September – Monday 24th November 2026
HOLIDAYS: 22nd Sept (PH) 13th Oct (School Holiday) 20th 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**
East Ayrshire Youth Events P6 & 7
Kitchen Roll Inserts- P3
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.
Thank you
Rag Bag

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
P2 Meet the Teacher Presentation
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.
Parents in the Playground
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.
P7 Parent Information Evening
There will be a P7 parental information evening on 3rd September at 6pm in St. Joseph’s Academy.
Answer Machine Now Working
An update to let everyone know that our school telephone answer machine is now back up and running. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.








