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!🤞

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.

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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.

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Please view our November Newsletter below:

November Newsletter 2025

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the FOMC Halloween Raffle was Ross P4 and the winner of the school October Raffle was Theo also in P4!

Enjoy your goodies boys!

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).