The school will close today at 2.30pm. Children who receive transport by taxi will be collected at 2pm. Pupils and staff return to school on Tuesday 19th April.

Today is a non uniform day . Children can come to school in their own clothes. In return, we are asking for a £1 donation via Parentpay , which will go towards school funds.

We would again like to remind parents/carers that dogs are not permitted in the playground either before 9am or after 3pm.

Thank You.

Remember…there is still time for you to enter and

 win one of these fabulous Easter prizes…

Thursday is the last day to buy your raffle tickets!!!

Dear Parents/Carers,

In my final days before I retire on Thursday I want to say how much I have enjoyed my short time in Mount Carmel Primary. The three years I have been here have been challenging for our whole school community, but we are emerging from the restrictions of Covid 19 as a stronger, happier team.

I cannot commend all the staff enough for their hard work, dedication and love of the school and the children. They strive to make the experiences for your children the best they can be. Your children are a delight and a credit to you and I look forward to hearing about their successes in the future.

My one regret through this time is I haven’t had a chance to meet many of you personally due to restrictions but I thank you for your continuing support for the staff and the school community.

As I look forward to spending more time with my family I know I am leaving my Mount Carmel family in the safe hands of Mrs Fergusson and all the school staff.

It has been a pleasure and a privilege to be your head teacher.

Primary 1-3

You will shortly receive a link via email to access your unique log in details for “Learning Journals”. This will allow you to access your child’s learner profile.

You will find instructions to guide you through the log in process and information on how to navigate the platform by accessing the link below:

https://learningjournals.co.uk/thevideos/login-parent-using-lj-website/

On the return of pupils on Tuesday 19th April, following the Easter break, we would like to see everyone wearing full school uniform. This should be grey/black trousers, skirt/pinafore, school shirt and tie/polo shirt and blue school sweatshirt. No leggings/tracksuit bottoms unless on PE days where children can wear these with their school sweatshirt on top.

If pupils come to school without a school uniform  for any reason they will be provided with items of uniform for that day.

Thank you for your co-operation on this matter.

Thursday 31st of March will be our Head Teacher, Mrs. McConville’s last day at Mount Carmel Primary as she is retiring.

There will be an assembly in school on Thursday for Mrs McConville where the children can celebrate her retiral.

We are sure you will all  join with us in wishing her a wonderful retirement and thank her for everything she has done for the school and pupils alike during her time as Head Teacher.

Well done to the  “Fire House”!

Pupils who are in the winning house will tomorrow enjoy a movie and popcorn morning and then cooking with Stephanie in the afternoon. The movie the children are going to watch will be :

Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon”

This is certificate PG. If any parent/carer does not wish their child to watch this movie please contact the school office. 

We would like to thank everyone for their generous SCIAF donations. They are very much appreciated.

A reminder that raffle tickets for the class Easter egg and Easter hamper will be available until Thursday. All SCIAF donations to be in school for Thursday 31st March. No donations can be taken after this date.

The school will close on Friday 1st April at 2.30pm. Children who receive transport by taxi will be collected at 2pm. Pupils and staff return to school on Tuesday 19th April.

We will be marking our Head Teacher, Mrs. McConville’s retirement with a whole school mass at the church next Tuesday 29th March. Unfortunately, at this time, parents/carers are not permitted to join us .

A reminder that homework will stop on Friday 18th March and will resume on Monday 25th April.

Activity Day – Friday 18th March

Each class will be given a time slot to take part in a range of activities. These include an Easter colouring competition, beat the goalie, egg and spoon race, selfie booth and decorate a cupcake. (Please contact the school with any allergies that would stop your child from participating in this activity)

Our “Sharing The Learning” videos will soon be available to view.

These will be sent via a link which will be password protected.

These details will be sent to the pupil’s main contact and should not be shared with anyone.

Thank you

This week, all classes across the school will be involved in a selection of science activities.

Thank you to Miss Mulhern who has organised this.

We are looking forward to announcing who our winning house will be! This announcement will take place next week.

The prize for the winning house will be announced on Tuesday 29th March …….

If you enter our Easter Raffle, you could be lucky enough to win this fabulous Easter Hamper packed with all sorts of Easter goodies!

Here are some of our children enjoying their school lunch.

Thank you to our amazing Mount Carmel Catering Staff for making these!

During a meeting yesterday with the Synod coordinators from all 8 dioceses, as well as representatives from BCOS and SCES, it was agreed that providing families of school aged children every opportunity to participate in the Synod on Synodality, at the request of Pope Francis, is of paramount importance.

The Diocese of Galloway would therefore be grateful if  parents/carers would complete the  online questionnaire linked below to parents in your schools, with a deadline of Monday, 28th March.

The link is: https://form.jotform.com/213292942112954

Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can provide any further help or if you need any further information at this stage.

Kind regards,

Helena Rameckers

Diocesan Synodal Coordinator

We had a wonderful World Book Day last Friday !. All the children looked amazing and had made a lot of effort (as had the parents!).

A huge thank you to everyone who very kindly bought raffle tickets. We  made a grand total of £187 which will go towards school funds. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and that was Sophie from Primary 4.

Well done Sophie, we hope you enjoy spending your gift card!

                               Outdoor Activities 

A reminder that on 11th March there will be an outdoor activity afternoon for the children as part of Lent. Children can bring their scooters, bikes, skipping ropes or any other outdoor toy to play with in the afternoon. 

Please be advised that all children bringing a bike or a scooter MUST also bring a helmet to wear for health and safety reasons.

Menu

Starter

Vegetable pakora & yoghurt dip

Mains

American burger & fries

Chicken schnitzel  & fries

Margherita pizza

Dessert

American doughnuts

Can we make a request please for any girls underwear and/or leggings as we are running very low on our spare supplies.

Thank you.

28^th February 2022

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday which is the 2^nd March this year. Mount Carmel wants to focus on helping people less fortunate than us at this special time.

This Lent, SCIAF is asking us to act and pray in hope, to fight the Climate Emergency and help build God’s Kingdom here on Earth.

As part of our Lenten celebration within school, Primary 4 have organised the following activities for the weeks of Lent:

3^rd March 2022 – World book Day (children should come to school dressed as a character from a book).

11^th March 2022 – Outdoor activity afternoon (children can bring their scooters, bikes, skipping ropes or any other outdoor toy to play with in the afternoon. Please be advised that all children bringing a bike or a scooter MUST also bring a helmet to wear for health and safety reasons).

18^th March 2022 – Activities day (each class will be given a time slot to take part in a range of activities. These activities include an Easter colouring competition, beat the goalie, egg and spoon race, selfie booth and decorate a cupcake (Please contact the school with any allergies that would stop your child from participating in this activity).

25^th March 2022 – Pyjama and movie afternoon (children can wear their pyjamas to school and will watch a movie of their choice within their classrooms. The children can also bring a small snack for this).

1^st April – Easter egg raffle/Teddy bear Raffle (tickets will be on sale from the 3^rd March and the winner will be chosen on this day).

Raffle tickets will go on sale on the 3^rd March and will cost 20p each. For the Easter egg raffle, there will be a class egg and then all the pupils who have bought a ticket will go into a big raffle for the school egg.

For the other activities, we kindly ask for a donation. Please be as generous as you feel able to be. It is for a very worthy cause.

The children can bring cash into the school for these activities and will be asked to put their donations straight into the SCIAF boxes within their classes.

A great big thank you in advance for all of your support.

Mrs. McCreadie and the boys and girls in Primary 4.

We will be celebrating World Book Day tomorrow !
Children can come to school dressed as a character from their favourite book .
Please do not feel under pressure to go out and buy a costume; why not make one from whatever you have at home?

Today is the last day to purchase your raffle tickets!!

We are also running a whole school raffle which will be drawn on tomorrow. Tickets are £1 per strip of 5 and today is the last day to purchase them.