Good morning,

We hope that you all enjoyed the VE Day holiday and that again, you are all safe and well. At MCPS we use PATHS as one of our HWB resources; here is their ‘May Message’.

They have also published a calendar full of Social, Emotional Learning ideas…try a few.

And incase you need it…some Monday Motivation…

I hope our Willow Room children are keeping safe and well.

I’d love to hear from you all.

I have put together a grid of activities I’d like you to try.

Willow Grid

You could try some of these activities too:

H&WB grid P1-3

Why We Stay Home Story

I’ve sent a special message in an email to you all today.  I hope you are able to receive it and enjoy it!

Take care for now,

Mrs Travers

Good morning from all of us to all of you.  As always, we hope that you are well and finding positive ways to navigate through these strange times. We are working hard behind the scenes to create memorable, engaging learning experiences for all our pupils. We do, however, recognise the importance of good mental health in order to access any type of learning. We appreciate all that families are doing to support one another. If at any time you need to contact us please do so using the online form. Stay Safe. Together we are Team MC.

Please remember self care for adults is so important too.

And finally, some Monday Motivation…

Activity Ideas

A few more activities to try at home if your child is feeling worried or anxious. They are designed to help them talk through and resolve the anxiety or create a sense of calm whilst focussing on texture or listening for instructions.

Simon Says

The Simon Says game is a great way to encourage getting the body moving and relieving tight body muscles whilst having some fun. It aims to get your child listening to another person and being able to follow instructions in a fun way.

If the adult starts by giving instructions, such as ‘Simon says jog on the spot’, ‘Simon says touch your toes’, ‘Simon says do star jumps’ and the child will follow these instructions. How well are they listening?

The child should only complete the instruction if it starts with ‘Simon Says’. Give a final instruction, ‘touch your nose’ and see if the child completes the instruction or not. If not, they can become the instructor and if they do, they try again.

Finger Painting

Finger painting is a great way to relax and have some messy fun. Either out in the garden or on a table indoors with a wipeable table cover. Start by putting out two trays, a different colour of paint in each. Kids can begin by mixing the two colours on paper and talk about what happens when mixed. Then make marks or patterns, using their fingers and talk about how the paint feels on their skin.

What happens when you put a dollop of paint on the paper and pull a comb or run a toy car through the paint? Is there anything else you could use to create a pattern? Why not take a print of the patterns you have created by gently placing a piece of paper on top, gently peal back and leaving it to dry?

Why not change the texture by adding sand? How does that feel when you mix it with your fingers? Or use shaving foam instead? How does it make you feel when you touch these different textures?

Worry Dolls

Worry Dolls are a great way for your child to explore the different emotions we experience by creating a doll for each emotion. Why not start with 6 feelings such as: happy, sad, worried, frightened, excited and tired. You can add to the collection as your child discovers new emotions.

Using large wooden clothes pegs, colour, paint or create clothes for their doll using fabric or wool. On the head (rounded top), draw in the emotion each peg represents and this will become the face.

Bedtime is a good time to use these, although your child can play with these dolls throughout the day to talk/work through or role play any emotions, comfortable/uncomfortable, they may be experiencing. It can aide a restful night’s sleep, if your child is able to discuss these emotions before bed, releasing the ‘worry’ or feeling that may be making it hard for them to sleep.

Stay safe!

Clap for Carers!!

What an amazing response!

Well done to everyone that got in touch requesting a shout out for their family heroes!

Anyone that didn’t get a chance can email and I will give a shout out next Thursday…

Today our school community want to say a big, enormous, massive thank you to…

Lynne, who is a biomedical scientist and relation of May in P6.

Aline, mum to Jamila P6, Kamili P5 and Ntale soon to be P1, working hard as part of the NHS at Crosshouse Hospital!

Caitlin in P4 has asked for her Aunt Claire, a nurse, her Uncle Gary, a lorry driver and her Papa, a postman to get a big SHOUT OUT!!

Aidan in P4 has organised a shout out for his mum Laura, she is also a key worker.

Oliver in P4 has nominated his mum, she is working hard as a dentist!

Logan in P3 is clapping for his Uncle John, an ICU nurse at Crosshouse hospital and his mum who is working as part of the EA Hit Squad; she is looking after the shielding community. Great Job!

Sophie P4 and soon to be P1 Luke would like us to mention their Papa, delivering mail, Dad driving his lorry and Mum working as a nurse.

Hannah P3 and Katie soon to be P1 would like their Dad to receive a shout out for working as a Navigation Officer on a great big StenaLine ferry. Super Sailing!

Evie P6 is sending massive thanks to her Aunt Susan who works for the NHS!

Jessica P1 and Olivia P7 are sending virtual hugs to their Aunt Leanne who is a hardworking nurse!

We are so proud and grateful to all of you. We will clap for you all tonight. Together we are Team MC.

Good Morning,

Below is an update from St Joseph’s regarding P7 transition.

 P7 Transition to S1
 
Our P7 transition events can no longer take place. However, Mr Boyle and our Pastoral Care team have our transition packs ready to go. We are currently determining how best to share these packs with you and plan to create a dedicated page on our website for our incoming P7 cohort. We anticipate that this page will be live in mid to late May.

We will let P7 Parents and Carers know when this page becomes available.

Thank you,

Miss Mudge

Another Monday, some days fly by and others pass slower.  As always we hope that all our families are well, and staying safe at home. P6 designed a Monday Motivation banner to help lift spirits, we think it is Fab!

At MC primary we use PATHS as one of our Health and Wellbeing resources. We would love you at home to pick a ‘Family Member of the Day’. We usually have a ‘Pupil of the Day’ who receives compliments from their classmates. Adapting to our current situation, we would love if families could share this experience.

Look after yourself and each other. Together we are Team MC.

Good morning on this beautiful sunny Monday morning.

A few more activities to try at home. It is always good to take a short break from schoolwork activities and these ideas are great for a short brain break:

Busy Bags

Creating a ‘busy bag’ for your child is a great way to have a 10-minute break from schoolwork, or a chance to have quiet time if they are feeling overwhelmed or anxious. Using the resources in the bag, children can fidget, build, or make a craft item.

Fill the bag with craft items such as pom poms, stickers, collage type materials, pens, pencils, small pad of paper, glue, pipe cleaners or any other items your child will want to get creative with. What can they create?

Try putting some Lego pieces or toy cars in the bag too and children can build a small object or roll the cars around on the floor. These are good ways to help a child self-regulate and ‘switch off’ to the world for a short time.

Brain Breaks

Our brains are a muscle and need exercise too. Challenge your child to the test below.

The first test is easier, ask your child to read the colours as written. Then ask them to say the colour of the word. This is more challenging as it is asking your left and right side of the brain to work against each other. Left wants to read the colour, right wants to say the colour it sees.  Give it a try!

‘I Am…’ Poem

To remind your child of how fantastic they are, and to fill their thoughts with positivity, ask them to create an ‘I Am..’ poem, and to be honest about their worries and their hopes and dreams. You can use the template below or as a guide to creating your own.

Stay safe and well!

Hello Everyone!!

I hope you are all well.  Please find below your new Literacy, Numeracy and IDL grids for the week ahead.  Remember the core tasks are in red text and the optional activities are in black.

I would love if you could send me photos of any of the tasks you have written down.  It is wonderful to see all the hard work you are doing at home!!

Remember it is important to have fun and exercise too, here is an idea of how your day could look:

9am  – Joe Wicks PE on Youtube

9.30am – 1 or 2 Literacy tasks from grid

10.30 am – Snack and play/walk outside

11am – 1 or 2 Numeracy tasks from grid

12 noon – Lunch and family time

1pm – Activity from IDL grid

2pm – Story time (cosy up with a book from home or online)

2.30pm  – Cosmic Yoga (YouTube)

3pm – Free Time!!!!!

Primary 1 Numeracy place mat April 27th

Primary 1 literacy activity mat april 27th

P1-3 IDL April 27th

superhero template

Hello Primary 7,

Here are your new Home Learning grids for this week. I have attached a link to access the worksheets for Numeracy 🙂

Remember you can contact me via Teams or email if you need help or don’t understand a task…or just want to check in 🙂 I love hearing from you all.

LITERACY

Primary 7 Literacy Grid w/b 27th April

Writing a film review help sheet – P7

NUMERACY

Primary 7 Numeracy Grid w/b 27th April

Circles Maths Worksheets – w/b 27th April

Triangles Worksheets – w/b 27th April

Squares Group Maths Worksheets

IDL

IDL Home Learning Grid

Love Miss Mudge x

As another working week comes to an end, we wish you a relaxing weekend with your loved ones. Remember to take time to relax and try and grab some time to yourself for a lie down , bubble bath or book.  Stay Safe. Together we are Team MC.

And remember lots of fun experiences are so valuable for everyone during this time. Making memories as a family.

Our Mount Carmel family hope that you are well, these times can be daunting for adults and children alike. Here are some resources that may help emotional health, some for adults and some for children. Stay safe. Together we are Team MC.

And finally some Monday Motivation…

As always if you need to contact the staff for any questions or support please use online form.

Hello and welcome back!

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter break and enjoyed some sunny weather in their gardens. It is still a very strange time for us all, our routines have completely changed, and we are missing seeing everyone in school.

Below are a couple of ideas you could do at home with your children, to help children talk about how they are feeling, what they are missing and to help us to share our thoughts as a family.

Conversation Café

Set up a ‘conversation café’ at home, ask the children to help set a table for afternoon tea, in the house or in the garden and let them help serve some sandwiches or sweet treats. It’s always nice to have some cake, a cuppa and a chat together. The attached photo suggests some conversation starters you could have together, which will encourage children to think about happiness.

Friendship Card

Like many of us, your children will be missing seeing their friends from school and may be finding it hard to understand why they can’t have a play date or a catch up with friends.

Encourage your child to make a ‘friendship card’ for a school friend.  They can design and decorate their card with all the things they know their friend will like.  Ask your child to write a personal message to their friend, writing about all the things they miss about their friend and what they hope they will do together once life returns to normal.

As always, any child who feels they would like a chat, can email me through Glow at any time and I will be sure to respond.

Take Care

Mrs Travers

One of the features of being a Glow user is that you can download Office 365 for FREE. Posted below is a video showing you how to get Office 365 installed onto your device.

Wifi still terrible at Lockerbie Manor but the children are having a ball! The sun is shining today which is great. Lots of activities planned for today. All in good spirits in our little Lockerbie bubble 🙂

Literacy – Spelling activities 6, 7, 11, 21

Blue Independent Readers  added – Beowulf and the Beast, Heading for Glory and Future Transport by Air.

Green Group Independent Readers added. Dr Who :Victory of the Daleks and An Awfully Beastly Business : Saving a sea Monster

Red Independent Readers –  Choose either –  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Weird Weather or Fang Family: Blood Buns and Scarecrows.

Maths –  Topmarks Online Money Games

Circles &  Rectangles –

Game 1 – Choose Level 10   £&p

Game 2 – Choose One player, long game (10) and Year 4 options

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/44/solve-2-step-money-problems-

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/504/Super-Maths-Bowling-Multiplication

Squares  – Select Mixed Coins & £1 (Up to £10) options

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Triangles – Select Counting option then Any 6 coins

 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Maths Worksheets will also be given out in class.

Topic –  Asia Landmark Hunt

Hello from Lockerbie!

We’re having an excellent time (although the weather has been temperamental) and are all enjoying ourselves. So far the children have taken part in team games, kayaking, canoeing, abseiling, the hi-ropes and team games. As usual the food is excellent and all the pupils are being well fed 🙂

Last night the weather was cold and very rainy so we decided to stay in and the Lockerbie staff organised a quiz for us.

Wifi isn’t great here so we will try and upload photos when we can.

Miss Mudge and Mr B

Literacy –

Bug club reader -All groups

Spelling words from class today – Task Activities –   8, 9, 15,21.

Maths – Activity pack games and money worksheet.

French – Au café – Practise your vocabulary each morning at breakfast saying any phrases you have learned this week to your family.

Topic – Mapping – Locate as many Asian countries as you can manage. Don’t worry we can fill in any missing ones next week!

Primary 7 homework posted below.

Science Centre on Wednesday – bring packed lunch unless getting a lunch from school kitchen

We’re only 7 days away from going to Lockerbie. The forecast isn’t looking great so please bring waterproofs and warm clothing. And at least 2 pairs of shoes plus an indoor pair (slippers, uggs etc)

Thank you

Miss Mudge

Green-and-Yellow-1 (1)

Well Done to all for taking part! What a fantastic Day with literacy activities such as decoding the ‘Mystery of Sticky Pines’ and also  a fun interactive session with Michael Rosen the author of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ for the 10th Birthday of ‘Authors Live’ . (Ask about their sticket!) We finished with an amazing costume parade.  Keep reading books at home! From P5.

Congratulations to Abbey in Primary 7 who came 2nd in her Scottish Shotput competition last weekend.

Abbey is now the best under 13’s  shot putter in Scotland!

Well done Abbey