Last Wednesday P6 walked to Dean Park to take part in the Danger Detective event. Danger Detectives is an experiential learning event that aims to reduce accidents amongst young people whilst building community resilience. The pupils took part in a range of real life scenarios such as Anti social behaviour, Home Fire Safety, a Road Safety campaign, Countryside Safety and Drowning Prevention.
P6 were engaged in all the activities and enjoyed the event.
This week is our Walk to School Week, please see below for details….
Walk to School Week
19th – 23rd May 2025
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Our Eco Committee would like to share that next week is…..
Walk to School Week
19th – 23rd May 2025
Please join in with us next week and have some fun whilst choosing an active healthy option whilst helping our environment!
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I hope you all had a lovely Easter break. As we head into our final term, Primary 1 are ‘in training’ for moving up to Primary 2. As well as pushing on with new learning, we will be working hard to consolidate the learning that has taken place throughout the year.
Literacy
Phonics – Now that we have learnt all the sounds in the alphabet and are using these to make and break words, we are going to start learning the sounds made by two or more letters such as ‘sh’ ‘ch’ ‘th’ (joint phonemes).
Spelling – We will continue to practise the spelling of our tricky common words to ensure we can use these when writing sentences. We will learn some new words to add to our ever growing bank of vocabulary.
Writing – We are continuing to develop our skills in describing this term and using these skills to write reports about what we are learning in our topic.
Letter formation and hand writing will continue to be a focus to allow us to present our wonderful work as neatly as we can. Knowing how to form our letters automatically will help us to spell words with ease too.
Reading – Reading for information will be a focus this term. We will look at non-fiction texts and record the facts we learn. We will also continue to practise our decoding skills by reading all types of text whenever we can.
Numeracy – Primary 1
The focus for Numeracy this term will be number processes, measure and time.
P1 – We will keep strengthening our addition and subtraction skills this term by exploring how the two processes link together. We will be transferring these skills into our money activities and using them to solve word problems.
Time and Measure will also be a focus for us and will be linked to our topic. We will measure using non-standard units such as our hand spans, feet and cubes. We will also be exploring data handling to interpret information from graphs.
Health & Well-Being (HWB)
During our last term of PATHS lessons we will be introduced to some new emotions. We will explore each emotion in detail, thinking about how each emotion looks and feels and will consider whether it would be a ‘comfortable’ or ‘uncomfortable’ feeling.
We will also continue to reinforce our strategy of ‘Doing Turtle’ and will use our PATHS sessions to talk through our feelings about moving into our new class at the end of the year.
We will be learning about our amazing bodies and the correct names for each body part.
During PE we will be focusing on Athletics, Striking and Fielding Games and Dance.
THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR TAKING ALL EARRINGS OUT FOR GYM DAYS ON MONDAYS AND THURDAYS.
RE
During the month of May, we honour ‘Mary’. We will recite our special prayer of the ‘Hail Mary’ and revisit the stories of the Nativity, Annunciation and Visitation; giving special consideration to the role of Mary in each one. We will prepare our class altar in honour of Mary.
During this term, we will link our RE with our HWB through the teaching of ‘God’s Loving Plan.’ We will be thanking God for our amazing bodies! We will learn the names of the body parts and consider the choices we can make to help look after our bodies.
We will also talk about the needs of a new born baby; learning about the tasks and equipment required to look after a baby.
IDL (Topic)
Our topic this term will be ‘Sun, Moon and Stars’. We will compare day and night, exploring how these are created. We will also investigate our planet and its place in the solar system. During our topic we will also link with Literacy, Design Technology and Numeracy. There will be opportunities for reading and writing for information as well as practical activities involving measuring shadows and ordering planets by size.
UNCRC
We continue to make reference to our rights in class: being safe and having the opportunities to learn and play.
A fun and exciting summer term ahead with lots to look forward to!
Mrs Duff
Welcome back! I hope that you all had a peaceful break over the Easter holidays. It is lovely to be back with the children as we start our final term of Primary 3. Here is an update on what we will be doing in term 4.
Literacy
We will be looking at a range of texts this term. We will start the term with story ‘The Trouble with Dragons’, which we will use as a whole class text to develop our prediction, summarising and ‘Find it, prove it’ comprehension strategies. We will also access Bug Club readers as we continue to work on decoding and fluency skills.
Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level.
During writing, we will be focusing on persuasive and responsive writing. We will engage with a range of texts of each of these genres and will develop our note taking skills as well as the use of persuasive language. During all our writing activities, we will continue to have a focus on using our phonemes, and spelling strategies as well as the use of accurate punctuation.
Numeracy & Maths
We will build on our knowledge of division from last term as we explore fractions and develop our understanding of equal sharing. We will look at the notation and vocabulary associated with fractions and investigate where simple fractions lie on a number line. The children will participate in a daily number talk activity as we develop our confidence in the use of mathematical language to explain our thinking.
In beyond number, we will look at a range of methods of collecting, sorting and presenting data with Mrs Strachan.
Health and Wellbeing
This term we will continue with the PATHS programme, reflecting and discussing a range of emotions and what these might look and feel like.
At the beginning of our first term, we explored the UNCRC Rights of the Child, and together created a meaningful Class Charter to ensure that our classroom is a place where we feel safe and where we can learn and grow together. As we continue into term 4 we will refer back to this ensuring our Class Charter is relevant and ‘felt’ within our classroom. As a school community, we will focus on the following articles;
May – Mental Health Awareness Week – Article 24
June – World Day against Child Labour Articles 32 & 35
June – World Refugee Day – Articles 10 & 22
PE is on a Monday and Friday. This term we will be covering athletics and striking and fielding games.
Children will require PE kit and shoes each PE day. Please make sure your child is not wearing jewellery on these days as they will be unable to participate in the lesson for health and safety reasons. If your child cannot take part for any reason, please contact the school.
Religious Education
This term we will be continuing to learn a range of well-known prayers and will have opportunities each day for quiet prayer and reflection time.
We will reflect on the Easter Story, and in particular, we will focus on the story of ‘The Empty Tomb’ from the Gospel of Matthew, reflecting on the astonishment of the friends of Jesus when they heard that He has risen from the dead. As we move into the month of May, we will have a focus on Mary, we will create a May altar in our classroom and will reflect on Mary’s “yes” to God.
French
Through a range of songs, activities and games we will continue to develop confidence in counting and greetings, we will also look the similarities and differences between school here and in France.
IDL
We really enjoyed our farming topic last term, we will continue with some aspects of this topic; we have planted a range of fruit, vegetables and flowers which we will continue look after. We have been enjoying this first-hand experience of growing our own crops and we are hoping we will have some vegetables and fruit to harvest before the end of term!
This term, we will also take a closer look at our local community – in particular the groups and activities that take place around us.
Homework will be distributed on a Monday to be completed, and returned by Friday.
Keep an eye on the School App and your child’s Learning Journal profile for a snapshot of some of our wonderful learning!
Thank you as always for your support; I’m looking forward to another great term with our fantastic P3 children.
Mrs. MacKinnon.
Welcome back to term 4! I hope you have had a restful time over the Easter break. I am looking forward to a wonderful new term involving lots of new learning, more fun, trips, school shows and many more new experiences for our fantastic P4 class.
Literacy
For our reading focus this term, we will focus on our Class novel ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ linking in to our recent Fairtrade Topic. We will continue building expression and fluency when reading aloud to others, as well as, developing our comprehension through enhancing our inferential skills. We will continue to work on different comprehension strategies we have learned, develop our questioning skills and how we can use the text to help us with this. Please ensure your child accesses their Bug Club weekly for homework to support their reading or accesses personal reading material to forge these skills.
In writing this last term, we will look at Persuasive writing, focusing on our use of persuasive language and how to style and structure this piece of writing to enable us to convince others. As well as this, we will briefly cover Procedural writing which is Instructional e.g. a recipe, How to…). Lastly, we will continue to develop our descriptive language in our writing in relation to our class novel and topic, and start to incorporate the use of ICT for re-drafting some of our pieces of writing.
Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level.
French This term along with developing our basic conversational vocabulary, we will look at ‘Sports’, ‘Our home’ and ‘Famous French People and Landmarks’.
Numeracy & Maths
The Class will continue our interactive mental maths input each day and number talks. This term, we will continue to build on our work with the four operations, in particular, how Fractions are related to Division. We will look at the meaning of the numerator and denominator and will be able to order, compare and look at equivalent fractions within our working groups and developing our division strategies.
In Beyond Number, Miss Campbell will complete our Money focus with P4 in April. In May, we will focus on Measure looking at length, mass and area. Pupils will learn to recognise estimates of length, height, mass and capacity, as well as record measurements accurately and convert between appropriate units e.g. m, cm, mm or litres. In June, pupils will then move on to look at Information Handling where children will explore collecting, analysing and recording information. They will present their finding in a graph.
Health and Wellbeing
We will continue with our PATHs programme, looking at problem solving and the idea of fair/unfair and accident and on purpose. We will continue with our Pupil of the Day, so keep a look out for your children coming home with their compliment sheet!
The class are also engaging in a mindful activity each day. Through our Do Be Mindful programme and other class activities, we are learning about building and developing life enhancing skills, tools and habits that will foster emotional and mental wellbeing.
PE
PE is on a Wednesday and Friday. This term we will be covering:
Tennis /Badminton racquet skills Athletics
Football Input (Kilmarnock FC) Outdoor Team Games
PE kit must be brought in and left at the start of each term. Before the holiday, the kit was sent home for washing to be freshened up and should now be returned for the current term. Lessons will be outdoors if weather permits, so remember to pack extra water and sunscreen if Sunny this term. No jewellery please on PE days.
IDL – Social Studies & Science (Apr/May)
P4 will be complete our Fairtrade topic this term looking at Food production. We will complete a comparison study between food production in Scotland and in another country.
We are very excited to visit the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine this term as a class, to build our STEM skills and take part in some workshops linking to previous learning and topics such as boat building (Vikings) as we explore our Scottish history and engineering past. We are really excited for this visit and it will be a lovely ending to our recent P4 topic.
IDL / Expressive Arts (Apr –June)
Our exciting main focus and topic for term 4 will be our forthcoming summer school show – ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’. We will link themes and our learning across all subjects in the curriculum to our show.
Religious Education
This term we will mainly be focusing on the importance of the Eucharist, linking to the Last Supper. We are all very excited to support our P4 children who will prepare for and celebrate their First Holy Communion later in our term, on Sunday 22nd June.
During May, we will focus on ‘Our Lady’ and learn about the Rosary to become familiar with this beautiful prayer. In addition, as we approach the end of May, we will also look at the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost in June. As a school, we will continue to attend Mass this term.
As part of our God’s Loving Plan focus, Primary 4 will reflect on the story of creation and friendships. As the children develop their understanding of hygiene and the human body, they will learn that their bodies are a gift from God which must be respected and cared for. We will also be exploring the negative results of substances such as tobacco, drugs and alcohol. Pupils will discuss how to stay safe and be cyberaware.
RRS/UNCRC
This term as we continue our RRS journey, we will focus on the following Articles as a Rights Respecting School through…
Homework will be distributed on a Monday to be completed, signed and returned by Friday. Keep an eye on the class blog for regular updates to what is happening in class, recent learning and relevant upcoming events.
Thank you for your continued support and I look forward to an exciting and wonderful last term together with P4!
Mrs McIntyre.
There’s something magical about a good book and a sunny day—and Primary 6 certainly discovered that today. They read the first chapters of their new reading books outside.
We’re looking forward to making outdoor reading a regular part of our week (weather permitting!). There’s no better way to combine a love of books with the joy of being outside.
Today we announced the cast for our upcoming Summer Show ‘Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’. The children have worked incredibly hard throughout the audition process and we are so proud of their enthusiasm, bravery and talent.
We understand that some children may feel disappointed if they didn’t receive the part they were hoping for. However, every role – whether a lead, ensemble or behind the scenes helper – is crucial to making our show a success.
We reminded the children that theatre is about more than just individual roles; it’s about storytelling, teamwork, and having fun! Every member of the cast and crew is valued, and we cannot wait to see them shine on stage.
As always, thank you for your continued support. We look forward to an amazing production!
Mrs Terras, Mrs McIntyre, Miss Dorby, Mr Bertoncini
P3 will be having an outdoor afternoon this Thursday. (3rd April)
There will be a range of outdoor toys available. Children are also welcome to bring a bike or scooter. Safety helmets must be brought and worn if your child brings a bike or scooter.
We are looking forward to a lovely afternoon in the Spring sunshine!
P3 had lots of fun during our SCIAF Art and Craft day.
We enjoyed making some very creative and colourful Easter bonnets – don’t they all look fabulous!
AND THE WINNER IS….
Aidan in Primary 2.
Well done Aidan and thank you to everyone who bought a ticket for our March Raffle. Keep your eyes peeled for our special Easter raffle prize.
Congratulations to our fabulous Primary 3 children, who celebrated the lovely sacrament of confession for the first time last night.
Thank you to Fr Jim for making it such a memorable and prayerful celebration, and also thank you to the P4 children who came along and celebrated the sacrament with their P3 friends.
Please keep the children in your prayers as they continue on their faith journeys.
Reminder that Share the Learning for Primary 3 will take place on Monday 24th March at 2pm.
Here are some pictures of P4 enjoying our ‘Crazy hair and Odd Sock’ Day’. Some of our class even managed to incorporate their class topic ‘Fairtrade’ into the day.
What a talented P4 and her mum, these look delicious….
Can you spot the owner of the odd socks?
This Friday (14th March) we are having a ‘Crazy Hair’ and ‘ Odd Socks’ Day to raise money for SCIAF.
So be as creative as you want with your crazy hair and odd socks, and don’t forget your £1 for the SCIAF ‘Wee Box’ in your classroom!
Thank you from P3 and P4.
P4 have enjoyed getting outside more as the weather starts to brighten up. We planned for a ‘Bike and Scooter’ Rainbow Reward time and even though it rained earlier on, that did not dampen our spirits. A pogo stick even made an appearance. Here are some fun pictures we took below.
Please see the link below for the most recent newsletter from our colleagues at the Primary Counselling service.
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P4 enjoyed their visit from Bishop Frank Dougan last Thursday. We were able to ask Bishop Frank lots of questions about being a Bishop and what it involves.
We spoke about the Sacrament of Confirmation and afterwards we were excited to see some of the special clothing a Bishop wears. P4 pupils were able to try on the ceremonial hats such as a miter and our particular class favourite – The bishop’s zucchetto, which is a purple skullcap. We also looked at the pontifical ring which we learned is always worn on the Bishop’s right hand, as well as his cross and Bishop’s crosier (symbolically shaped like a shepherd’s staff).
On the last day before the holidays, we participated as a whole school in ‘Zero Power Day’ in support of our Mount Carmel Eco Committee. Click on the SWAY below to see what we got up to when we powered off to sav …
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Don’t forget to have a look at your child’s Learning Journal page for some updates on the exciting learning that has been taking place across the school.
See the attached document for guidance on how to log in.
If you can not access Learning Journals, please get in touch. Your log in details will be sent to the e-mail address that you have provided the school with.
Busy day of climbing and crate stacking.
P7s on our way to our residential!
All smiles but a few early casualties!🤣😴
A quick reminder for parents that this Saturday our Sacrament children will have a special mass and retreat day held at St Joseph’s Church & Hall. There will be a short meeting for parents afterwards.
Details Below..
Children’ s Retreat day– Saturday 1st February
10am Mass – Finish at 2pm at St Joseph’s Church & Hall
*Children should also bring a packed lunch with them*
There is no charge involved.
Parent’s meeting – Saturday 1st February (At end of Retreat Day)
Parents of Children making their sacraments are invited to a short meeting afterwards from 2pm – 2:30pm also at St Joseph’s Church & Hall.
Other important dates to note :
*Rite of Enrolment – Sunday 16th February*
11:30am Mass at OLMC Church
**Rite of Confirmation – Sunday 23rd February** -11:30am Mass
Bishop Frank Dougan will preside.
Important March News
Before making their Sacrament of First Holy Communion at the end of June, the P4 sacrament children will need to attend the Rite of Reconciliation and make their confession again and alongside the P4s on Wed 19th March at OLMC (7-8pm).
Any parent who requires a registration form these are available from Fr Jim or contact the school office please.
There are new updates on Primary 6 Learner Journals. Log in to your child’s individual Learner Journal to see all the wonderful learning taking place this term.
Mrs Terras and Mrs McCreadie
The Met Office has now issued a red warning for wind from 10am until 5pm on Friday 24 January.
Storm Eowyn will cause very dangerous conditions and there will be significant disruption. The Council has taken the decision to close all schools and Early Childhood Centres, plus SL33 and SL66 on Friday 24 January.
This is a difficult decision to take and the Council understands the impact on parents and carers, however the safety of children and young people is paramount.
This is just a quick reminder of some important dates in the next few weeks for our pupils who will be making their Sacrament of Confirmation at the end of next month.
Session 3 – Sunday 26th January
11:30am Mass – Finish at 1:30pm at OLMC Church
(‘I Belong’ book – Chapters 5 & 6 after Mass)
Children’ s Retreat day– Saturday 1st February
10am Mass – Finish at 2pm at St Joseph’s Church & Hall
*Children should also bring a packed lunch with them*
There is no charge involved.
Parent’s meeting – Saturday 1st February (At end of Retreat Day)
Parents of Children making their sacraments are invited to a short meeting afterwards from 2pm – 2:30pm also at St Joseph’s Church & Hall.
*Rite of Enrolment – Sunday 16th February*
11:30am Mass at OLMC Church
**Rite of Confirmation – Sunday 23rd February** -11:30am Mass
Bishop Frank Dougan will preside
Any parent who requires a registration form these are available from Fr Jim or contact the school office please.
