After school Christmas choir rehearsals will start on Tuesday 4th November from 3-4pm. 

Further after school rehearsals (3pm – 4pm) will be on:

Tuesday 11th November, Tuesday 18th November, Tuesday 25th November 

Thank you,

Mrs Terras

Any Primary 4 -7 who would like to be part of the Christmas Choir must return their permission letters by Friday 10th October.  

Thank you,

Mrs Terras

A huge well done to our Friends of Jesus Community Group, who were commissioned as our Missio Champions at a beautiful Mass on Friday.

The children from the group, participated in Mass and received their badges and a special blessing from Fr Jim who encouraged us all to think about our mission to share God’s love with others.

The Friends of Jesus group are looking forward to highlighting the work of Missio Scotland throughout the year, as we share our faith and encourage the whole school community to love God and others.

This Friday (3rd October) the whole school will attend Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church for our regular First Friday Mass.

On Friday, the Mass will have a special theme reflecting October being the Month of Mission.

During  Mass, the children from P2-7 who are members of our  ‘Friends of Jesus’ community group will receive their Missio Champions Badge.

Throughout the year, our Missio Champions will share their faith, as they encourage us all to love God and others through sharing the amazing  work of Missio Scotland.

Mass is at 10am, and all are welcome.

Our P2 &  P5-7 classes participated in a live lesson and workshop as part of ‘Climate Action Week’. Our Eco Committee have been working hard already this year, and in our classes, we were keen to learn  more about climate change.

The live lesson was lead by Nicola Davidson (KSB), who explained how the effect of our lifestyles through the ages has lead to climate changes and how an American Scientist, Eunice Newton- Foote, discovered  the ‘Greenhouse gas effect’ in the 1950s, showing our planet was ‘heating up’ due to increased CO2. This was officially recognised by governments globally in the 1980s and now we are seriously trying to make positive changes to combat this through world climate conferences such as the upcoming, COP30, in Brazil.  In Primary 2,  Miss Livingston’s class were treated to a puppet show.

Here are some photos of our workshop and live lesson…

Remember to keep an eye on your child’s Learning Journal profile.

Class teachers will be posting regular updates about the fantastic learning and activities taking place in each class.

If you are unable to access Learning Journals, please let the office know.

Your log in details will be sent to the e-mail address that you provided the school with.

Thank you

Mrs MacKinnon

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.

For those parents and carers unable to attend the ‘Welcome to our class’ today, below is a link to the presentation.

Thank you,

Mrs Terras and Mrs Canning

Welcome to our class – P7

ROSE REILLY FOOTBALL CENTRE STARTS BACK!

TERM 1 DATES

Dates: Thursday 11^th September – Thursday 27^th November 2026

HOLIDAYS: 25^th Sept (Week of PH) 16^th 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**

It was great to see some familiar and new faces at our ‘Welcome to our Class” session on Tuesday.  For those who couldn’t make it, I have included a copy of the presentation in the link below.

We are looking forward to another busy, challenging and fun year ahead.

P6 Meet the teacher 25-26

Primary 2 Curricular Blog Post – Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan

Welcome back to a new school year! As our learners settle back in, we are excited to start the new school year. This term is all about building upon the foundation laid in Primary 1 while also introducing new challenges. Our first two weeks have been about getting to know each other, building friendships and routines and revisiting our learning from Primary 1 so we are ready to start developing new knowledge and skills.

Literacy

Within literacy this term we are continuing to develop our knowledge of phonics, introducing a new sound every week along with two new “common words”. This in turn helps us with our reading and writing. For reading we are focusing on our tools for reading and prediction. This involves reading for enjoyment, looking at the front cover, title and illustrations of a book to help our understanding. As well as this we will continue with our weekly new books to practice reading aloud and improving our fluency as we come across new words. For writing, we are focusing on descriptive writing and ensuring we can read our writing by using full stops and capital letters.

Numeracy

This term for numeracy we will be focusing on Place Value with Miss Livingston, and Shape with Mrs Strachan. For place value we will look at estimating, recognising and ordering numbers 1-20, before moving on to look at numbers 1-100. Within shape, we will be looking at identifying, naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes

Health and Wellbeing

Primary 2 have been looking at understanding and identifying our emotions and feelings. We have done this through our PATHS, which is a whole school programme. Lessons will include feelings, actions and problem solving. Each child will also get the opportunity to be “Pupil of the Day”. They will receive compliments from peers on this day and get special responsibilities.  We have also developed our understanding of emotions and feelings through looking at the story, “The Colour Monster”. Throughout the day pupils have their “How are they feeling” check in station where they can put into practice identifying their emotions.

Within PE, we started focusing on developmental games which allowed us to expand on our friendships and team building skills. We will now be looking to move on to develop our balls skills and start a block of Football. Just a reminder that our PE days are a Tuesday and a Thursday. Please ensure a full PE kit is brought into school and pupil names are on items. This can be left on their peg during the week.

UNCRC

As we begin Primary 2 we have explored the UNCRC Rights of the Child. Together, we created a class Charter with the theme of Superheroes, the idea of “Protecting our Rights”. This class charter is a classroom promise to be considering our rights, needs and wants while also thinking about our school values of kindness, faith and responsibility.

Religious Education

In Primary 2 pupils will be learning about being made in the image of God and that we are all unique. Pupils will also be developing our understanding of prayer and celebration of Mass through our celebrations at Mass on the first Friday of the month and liturgical celebrations.

Topic

Our topic to start the year will be “Grandparents”. We will be exploring the past to understand how our Grandparents lived and compare their lives to our own. This will involve looking at our family trees, creating a timeline of key events in the past as well as looking at a range of media such as music, radio, and films.

We are looking forward to an exciting new school year filled with new friendships, fun and learning opportunities!

Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan

It was lovely to see some of you during our recent ‘Welcome to our Class’ session. For those who were unable to make it, I have attached a copy of the information that was shared.

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Welcome to our class Primary 4

Mrs. MacKinnon

Should you require the school to administer medication to your child during the school day (inhalers) 

These must be handed into the school office clearly labelled with your childs name and a new administration form must be completed at the start of every academic school year (August).

The winners of our House Hamper Raffle are as follows:

Earth- Roman P5

Fire-  Jai P7

Water- Logan P2

Air- Lily  P3

And the winner of our extra summer prize  is………………

Ellah P7

As part of our IDL topic, Primary 3  have been thinking about the meaning of the word ” community.” We have been reflecting on our wider community, and our school community.

With this in mind, Primary 3  put their creative talents to good use and made beautiful cards for the First Communion children in Primary 4. We enjoyed delivering the cards to our Primary 4 friends –  who were delighted to receive them.

We will be thinking and praying for you all as you take this wonderful step in your faith journey.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Sharing the Learning afternoon. It was nice to welcome families into our classroom and give you a taster of how P6 learn about fractions.

P6 enjoyed showing their families the different types of fractions they’ve been exploring. It was great to see the adults using the strategies and concrete resources to ‘relearn’ about fractions.

We hoped you enjoyed seeing the different ways we learn, through discussion, games, problem solving, and hands on activities.

I am delighted to invite you to our upcoming Sharing the Learning session on Thursday 19th June at 2:00pm.

This is a wonderful opportunity for the children to share their progress and for you to gain an insight into how we teach and learn  in the classroom.

Pupils have a sign up slip home with them today.

We hope you can join us for an afternoon of hands-on maths and pupil-led learning.

Mrs Terras

Last week,  we celebrated World Environment Day and took part in a nationwide call along with other Eco Schools to discuss action on tackling our plastic waste problem.

Thank you to our lovely Miss Dorby in P5 for organising  a link to this for P4-7. Each class had the opportunity to learn about the current issues our environment faces and discuss/ share ideas with each other on how to solve this collectively.  We got a couple of ‘shout outs’ online as a school which was fabulous. Well done to all involved. Our Mount Carmel Eco Committee have now got some great ideas for next year. Here are some photos of our contributions…

#WorldEnvironmentDay2025

Our dress rehearsal went really well today! A big thank you to Primary 1 for being such a fantastic first audience!

We’re all set and excited for two big performances tomorrow – the community performance in the morning and evening performance.

We can’t wait to share our show with you!

The stage is set, the lights are ready, and our amazing cast can’t wait to perform! After all their hard work, it’s finally time to share Joseph with you.

If you haven’t got your tickets yet, there’s still time! We can’t wait for you to see it!

#ShowWeek #GetYourTickets #Don’tMissIt

Primary 3 had a lovely afternoon on Thursday when Sr. Juliet came to visit us.

We have been learning about our local community and the groups within our community. We really enjoyed hearing Sr. Juliet tell us all about the many fantastic groups in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish.  Primary 3 had very thoughtful questions and we enjoyed sharing some of our knowledge with Sr. Juliet.

The boys and girls even treated Sr. Juliet to a beautiful rendition of one of our favourite hymns, ‘As I Kneel Before you.’

Thank you for your visit, Sr. Juliet!

With only 2 weeks to go, here’s some more pictures of our rehearsals to get everyone excited!

Please note changes in bulletin…

A rehearsal practise will take place after 11:30am mass now on Sunday 15th June for the pupils making their First Communion the following weekend at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (OLMC).

Sunday 22nd June –  Celebration of First Communion – (Please note children to arrive at the Sacristy by 11:15am.)  Mass begins at 11:30am. Please ensure to arrive in plenty of time, allowing for parking and seating.

A reminder for any P4 making their Sacrament of First Holy Communion that there will be a retreat this Sunday, in case you  missed it this week in the bulletin. Details Below…

Retreat Day tomorrow at St Matthew’s (Sat 17th May 10am mass then retreat until 2pm, followed by a short parents meeting. Please bring a packed lunch.

First Communion Rehearsal on Sunday 15th June, after 11:30am mass. Please bring along your ‘I Belong’ book.

Walk to School Week

19^th – 23^rd May 2025

Please join in with us next week and have some fun whilst choosing an active healthy option whilst helping our environment!

Monday	Wear a hat or sunglasses
Tuesday	Happy Shoesday!
Wednesday	Wear bright clothes or accessories
Thursday	Wear odd socks
Friday	Crazy hair Day!!!