We are delighted to be attending our first mass for the new session on Friday 29th August at 10am where Primary 7 will lead us in our readings.  Everyone is welcome to attend and we hope to see some of you there!

Dear Parents and Carers.

Our first wider achievement assembly will be held on Friday 29th August. During this assembly, we will celebrate the children’s achievements from during their summer holidays.  This can be anything from receiving a medal, to completing a level in swimming or learning how to ride their bike. Anything that the children (and adults) are proud of. Please send a photo and a short sentence of what the achievement is to

eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk 

by Wednesday 27th August.

Thank you,

Mrs McCreadie

Hi everyone and welcome back to our pupils and their families. We hope you have all had a great summer.  It is wonderful to see the children settled in their new classes after the summer, looking smart and ready to learn in their uniforms. Thank you!

We have a little update regarding our kitchen and some upcoming work that will be carried out. East Ayrshire Council was due to begin renovations to our kitchen area during the summer, unfortunately this was unable to begin when planned and the work is going to begin in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, our amazing catering staff will be cooking the children’s lunches from Hillhead school and transporting the food from there to our lunch hall ready for the children to eat at the usual lunch time.  As much as this is a change to how the staff will provide lunches, there will be minimal disruption for the children.  Free fruit will still be available for children to access at break times and lunch times. We will keep you updated with any changes in the near future.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter,

Mrs McCreadie

A gentle reminder that our uniform exchange will be available for all between 9am and 12pm today, Thursday 24th July.  Please come along and help yourself.

Thanks

Hi everyone. We hope you are all having a lovely summer holiday! Our uniform exchange will be open on Thursday 24th July from 9am until 12pm for anyone who wishes to access this.

Thank you!

A great big thank you to your fabulous parent council for an amazing fun day. The children (and staff) had an amazing day filled with bouncy castles and ice cream. Take a look at the photos from today 💙

A little reminder that children can wear their own clothes for Fun Day today. They are also welcome to bring in their bikes and scooters for some outdoor fun. Thanks everyone 💙

What a wonderful day we have had on our whole school trip. The children (and staff) have had great fun.

Due to Sports day being rescheduled for Friday 20th June, our wider achievement assembly has also been rearranged for Monday 23rd June.

Please send in your child’s achievements to the school’s email address below. Let’s have lots of achievement winners for the last one of the year!

Thanks everyone,

Mrs McCreadie

eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk

Recently at Mount Carmel, we were lucky enough to experience the curiosity cube and it’s team. This cube explores A.I. in our world and how it affects our day to day lives. The children took part in quizzes, puzzles and even had a go at coding. A great day was had and we would like to thank the team at MERCK , especially Caitlin, for this amazing opportunity.  Here are some of our wonderful children (and staff) enjoying the cube!

A huge congratulations to Livia in Primary 3 who is the winner of our May raffle prize.

And a big thank you to our parents for your ongoing support with our raffles, whether this is buying tickets or donating prizes for the house hamper.

Thank you!

Our very last Wider Achievement assembly of the session is on 20th June 2025. Lets make it the best yet!

Please help us celebrate the children’s achievements by sending in a photo and short sentence explaining what they have achieved. This can be anything from overcoming a fear, to participating in a show or moving up a belt in karate.

We love to hear what the pupils are participating in when not at school.

Send your photos and a short sentence to eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk

I look forward to seeing them all!!

Thank you, Mrs McCreadie

The wait is finally over. The curiosity cube has arrived and is currently being set up in our playground for the children to explore.  We can’t wait until tomorrow 💙

Our wonderful Primary 6 are getting ready to welcome their buddies for fun filled activities during their Welcome Wednesday transition day this week.

Term 4 P6 Class News

Welcome back to the final term; a busy and exciting one for Primary 6. During this term, P6 will prepare to transition into Primary 7 by applying and interviewing for Captain and Vice-Captain roles. P6 will also have the chance to apply to be a buddy to our new Primary 1’s in August. P6 will get the opportunity to meet the Pastoral Care team from St Joseph’s Academy. Probably the most exciting news is that rehearsals for the Summer Show have started. Alongside all these exciting events lots of learning and teaching will still be taking place as outlined below.

Literacy

Reading 

This term our focus returns to fiction texts. P6 will read and study books appropriate to their level. Focus comprehension strategies this term is understanding the difference between fact and opinion, inference and author’s use of language. All pupils will complete a final fiction reading assessment at the end of the block of lessons.

Writing

The focus for the term ahead in terms of writing will be recall and recount writing. We will also look at writing using the format of a comic books. This only enriches the writing experience for the children whilst still achieving their learning outcomes.

Numeracy

This term P6 will focus on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. The pupils will experience level appropriate tasks and activities. The revision of multiplication tables will be encouraged across all groups. Topmarks games can help with the rigor of x-tables at home.

Beyond number numeracy will be taught by Mrs McCreadie and Miss Campbell. The class will learn all about angles, area, perimeter and measurement this term.

Health and Wellbeing

At the start of the term P6 will complete a mini topic on Food Hygiene. P6 will explore the practices and conditions necessary to ensure food is safe for human consumption and how to prevent contamination and foodborne illnesses.

Expressive Arts

The Expressive Arts are key to any child’s education, giving them opportunities to enjoy being creative and imaginative, expressing emotion, performing for different audiences, and being part of audiences for others, as well as learning key skills in Music, Art and Design, Dance and Drama. Our Summer Show ‘Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’ will incorporate all key areas of the Expressive Arts. A school show is a fantastic team-building exercise and it’s a great way for children to understand what’s possible when everyone pools their skills and weight.

RME 

P6 will also continue to work on their Pope Francis Faith Award, focussing on Piety and Wisdom.

The children will be looking at Mary, mother of God in the month of May. The class will also be looking at God’s Loving Plan this term.

In Primary 6 we promote hard work and amazing attitudes. Our reward card system allows pupils to gain reward cards for Wonderful Work, Amazing Attitude, and being a ‘Superstar.’ When the pupils gain five cards, they can choose an individual reward. They can also choose to go for a class reward once everyone reaches five reward cards; this promotes teamwork within the class.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support.

Take Care,

Mrs Terras and Mrs McCreadie

Our wonderful school was entered into Dobbies Community Gardens competition and won £50 as a runner up prize. This money will go towards the development of our sensory garden. A big thank you to Dobbies in Ayr

#teammc💙

It is our big garden clear up today at 3 o’clock.  If you can spare even half an hour, the school would really appreciate it. Hope to see you soon!!

It’s the perfect time to get those photos sent in for any wider achievements your child has celebrated recently. Our next assembly will be on the 9th May so be sure to send in a photo and a short explanation on what the photo is about.  Send your child’s photo to

eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk

Thank you!

On Wednesday, we welcomed into school our beautiful Sister Juliet and Frank from SCIAF.  Frank talked to us about where our money was going and why our fundraising is so important.

We are so proud of our children in Mount Carmel School, raising so much money for people who are less fortunate than us. To quote Frank, our children are “a shining example pf what a well behaved school looks like.”

Well done to everyone!

Primary 6 took advantage of the beautiful sunshine today and got out and about completing some data handling in our local community.

We were so excited to kick off our SCIAF FUN DAY with a visit from STRYDER.

Stryder helps us to walk to school as much as we can as it helps us to keep fit and helps our environment too!!

We would like to congratulate our wonderful children in making their sacrament of Reconciliation. They were absolutely wonderful and we agree with Father Jim that they behaved like angels.

Well done everyone 💙

We are delighted to announce that we will have a very special visitor in our playground tomorrow morning. Stryder will be in school before 9 o’clock to welcome the children in before the day begins, Make sure to give them a big wave if you see them!

Our wonderful P6 class were invited along to East Ayrshire’s STEM event at St Joseph’s Academy this week. There, they met the other P6 children from our Education group and began forming friendships which marks the beginning of their transition to the high school. The activities ranged from a virtual tour of a submarine from the Royal Navy, to programming and coding robots. Everyone had great fun!! We definitely have some future engineers at Mount Carmel.

Our next wider achievement assembly will take place on Friday the 28th March. As a school, we love to hear about all of the wonderful achievements our children are celebrating. Whether it is a swimming certificate, participation in a dance show or learning to ride their bike without stabilisers, we want to celebrate these achievements! 

Please send any photographs with a short sentence on what has been achieved to Mrs McCreadie  on eaMountCarmel.PS@eastayrshire.org.uk

Thank you!

Primary 6 – Term 3

Hi everyone. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break. Primary 6 have welcomed Mrs Terras into their routine with no problems and we are very proud of how they have adapted to the changes so far. There is lots to get through in the term ahead but this is a challenge that we know Primary 6 will flourish in. Here is an update of what is coming up in the term ahead.

UNCRC

As part of our UNCRC (United Nations Convention for the Right of the Child), the class took part in activities for Human rights day in which we looked at rights across the world with a particular focus on the rights of the child. The children then took part in a competition with which they were asked to design a logo for their favourite article that we had looked at. There will be a winner from each class and these will be announced in the new term. As always, we will continue to work on the class’ understanding of what their rights are as well as their responsibilities that coincide with these rights.

IDL

Mrs Terras will teach our interdisciplinary topic of Scottish myths and legends. During this topic, the children will take on a research task to find out about some famous Scottish myths such as the Loch Ness Monster. They will also look into the famous Scottish Kelpies and investigate the structure of these magical sculptures.

Science

Towards the end of the term the children will explore renewable energy with Mrs McCreadie. Within this learning, the class will look at what renewable energy is and how Scotland benefits from this form of energy.

Literacy

Reading – Along with Mrs Terras, the class will be learning all about Scots language. There will be a particular focus on poetry within this teaching. They will also be learning about non- fiction reading skills which will focus on note taking, mind mapping and scanning to highlight key words and phrases.

Talking and Listening – This will also be taught through Scot’s language with the children also developing their presentation skills as part of this learning.

Spelling – The children will continue to develop their spelling skills which will take place across the week with both of their teachers. We will continue to work on our active spelling techniques and this will feed through into our homework.

Writing – The writing for this term will be taught by Mrs McCreadie. The genres that will be the focus for learning is persuasive and discursive writing. Within this, the class will continue to develop their tools for writing skills with a focus on using complex punctuation as well as enhancing vocabulary through the use of dictionaries and a thesaurus.

Numeracy

We will continue with the use of number talks which helps to encourage different learners to use and understand different strategies. The children show an excellent understanding of the strategies taught so far and are always eager to share their understanding with their peers.

Mrs McCreadie will concentrate on the teaching of beyond number topics this term. The first concept to be taught for this will be time. This will look at both analogue and digital times. We will then move on to look at data handling.

Mrs Terras will concentrate on the core number processes and will concentrate on multiplication and division this term.

Health and Wellbeing

Our P.E. days will change to a Tuesday and a Thursday this term. This allows the children to have a P.E. slot with both teachers. The focus for P.E. this term will be netball, gymnastics and fitness.

Primary 6 already participate in mindfulness every day, this is something that the entire class benefit from and have been doing this since the beginning of Primary 4.

Our PATHS programme will continue to help the children to develop positive relationships within the class and school.  Delving into the emotions that the children feel will help them to understand why they are feeling this way as well as giving them the tools to cope with these emotions. The children are also participating in the PATHS buddy scheme that helps support the infants in ‘how to play’ during lunchtimes.

Our core health and wellbeing teaching will focus on body hygiene and image. We will also be looking at what abuse is and some of the types of abuse that people experience at the hands of others.

R.E.

Core learning this term will focus predominantly on the work of the disciples and their importance in the bible. As the term progresses, we will begin to look at Lent and how we can celebrate this both in school and at home.

The class will also begin their Pope Francis Faith Award journey with Mrs Terras this term. This will span the remainder of their Mount Carmel journey with some of the award being completed this year and then some in Primary 7. The Pope Francis Faith Award is an award of the Bishops’ conference of Scotland, designed to help children show “signs of love” in their daily lives.

ICT

The children demonstrate an excellent understanding of how to use the new chrome books we have in school and as a result have also learned how to use Microsoft online. The next steps for the children will be to learn how to use TEAMS in preparation for P7. It is our intention to send homework through TEAMS in term 4 as this is how homework could be allocated in P7.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you, as always, for your ongoing support. The children have accepted the changes to their class structure and are managing this well. This term will be a busy one and as always, if you have any concerns or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Take care,

Mrs McCreadie and Mrs Terras

Hi everyone.

I hope you have had a lovely break during Christmas and New Year!!

This is a gentle reminder to please send in any photos of achievements that your child has accomplished outside of school. We will celebrate these  during our wider achievements assembly on the 17th January.  It can be anything from dancing awards to riding their bike without stabilisers. We can’t wait to hear from you and thank you!

Mrs McCreadie