We are all really excited at Mount Carmel to welcome back all of our pupils next week. Please note our uniform exchange will be open between 12 and 3 on Wednesday 17th August (inservice day). Everyone is welcome to pick up any uniform required for our children. See you all next week 😁💙
#teammc
What a beautiful assembly for our wonderful Primary 7’s. We would like to thank each and every one of our Primary 7 parents and carers who were able to come along today, but also for their support for the past 7 years and the lovely gifts that were given to staff. They are very much appreciated.
For the safety of our children, we kindly ask that you do not share on social media, any videos or photos that you may have taken at today’s assembly.
Thank you again and have a wonderful summer!
Mrs Fergusson
28/06/2022
Dear Parents/Carers,
As we reach the final school days in June I wanted to get in touch to thank you all for your kindness and support this school year. It has been a challenging year and we are forever grateful for your patience and understanding as we have continued to navigate the changing times.
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to some members of our staff team. Miss McKenna and Miss Mulhern have been fantastic additions to our school this year and I am sure you will join me in wishing them well with their future careers.
It is with a great sense of pride that we bid farewell to our Primary 7 children as they continue on their educational journey. We wish them well as they take this next step and will continue to keep them in our thoughts and prayers. I look forward to hearing great things about them as they flourish in the future.
School returns at 9am on Thursday 18th August. A reminder that after the holidays we are continuing to encourage the children to have full school uniform each day. Black/Grey trousers or skirt with blue/white shirts and ties or a polo shirt as well as a blue school jumper. On PE days children will get changed in school. A PE kit can be left in school on their peg or brought in on each of their PE days.
We are pleased that our Breakfast Club is now able to return after the holidays. All parent/carers that requested a place were emailed last week detailing if a place was/was not available. We had a high response for this, unfortunately our numbers are limited so a waiting list is now in place. Breakfast Club returns on Monday 22nd August.
We wish you all a happy and enjoyable holiday time and hope that you will enjoy spending some family time together. We look forward to seeing you all again in August.
With love and thanks,
Mrs Fergusson
What a morning it has been here at MC!! The children are having a brilliant time so far!!
The Saint Vincent de Paul group at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church are keen to help our families. If you feel that a food parcel would benefit you and your family over the summer, and after, please get in contact with them. They are very welcoming to all in our community and are keen to support our families. Everything is confidential and will be handled discreetly. A friendly face awaits…
Here is some important information regarding our FUN DAY on Friday 24th June…
The children will be taking part in several activities throughout the day. These will include…
Bouncy castles
Obstacle course
Art and craft time
Outdoor learning
Just dance
Bike and scooter time (All children can bring their bikes and scooters into school as well as a helmet.)
Visit to the ice cream van
Friday is also a dress down day. We kindly ask that you make a £1 donation that will go towards our school funds.
The children (and staff) are very excited for our Fun day!!
Please remember you can still purchase our summer raffle tickets on parent pay and the raffle will be drawn on Monday 27th June!!
Well our trip to the Dean park was a complete success. I think you can tell by the children’s faces that they had a great time…
We are requesting that our current Primary 1 parents/carers take the time to provide us with some information regarding your experiences of Learning Journals. This will shape how we use this across the whole school.
Primary 1 Parent/Carers please complete the survey below by Thursday 23rd June. Thank you for your feedback.
We are delighted to introduce to you the newest member of our Mount Carmel family. Mr and Mrs Dunsmore welcomed their beautiful baby girl Zara to the world on the 13th June. She is perfect in every way!! I’m sure you will all agree, she is absolutely gorgeous!!
Primary 7 and Mr Bertoncini have been very busy over the past couple of days completing their bikeability training. Well done everyone!!
Here is some important information regarding our FUN DAY on Friday 24th June…
The children will be taking part in several activities throughout the day. These will include…
Bouncy castles
Obstacle course
Art and craft time
Outdoor learning
Just dance
Bike and scooter time (All children must bring their bikes and scooters into school as well as a helmet.)
Visit to the ice cream van
Friday is also a dress down day. We kindly ask that you make a £1 donation that will go towards our school funds.
The children (and staff) are very excited for our Fun day!!
Please remember you can still purchase our summer raffle tickets on parent pay and the raffle will be drawn on Monday 27th June!!
A little reminder of our trips this week…
Monday – Primary 1 & 1/2
Tuesday – Primary 2/3 & 5
Wednesday – Primary 4 & 6
Thursday – Primary 7
If you are providing your child with their packed lunch, please put it in a carrier bag. That way when the children are finished eating, the bags can go in the bin (saves any nice packed lunches being lost or damaged at the park and means the children don’t have to carry it around for the remainder of the day). Also, we kindly ask that no fizzy juice be given to the children for school trips.
Clothing – Please wear school polo shirt and jumper/cardigan on top and comfortable trousers on bottom. Wear sensible shoes and please prepare for the weather (i.e. rain jacket or sun cream)
Thank you!
Our raffle tickets for the big summer prize giveaway are all ready and waiting. All you have to do is log onto parent pay and buy the tickets. You have to be in it to win it!!
A great big thank you to all of our wonderful parents, staff, local councillors and especially pupils (and pupils to be) who came along to help us tidy up the front of the school this afternoon. It looks so much better already. Keep an eye out for our future dates. Your help would be very much appreciated!!
#teammc
It’s FUN DAY time here at Mount Carmel Primary School. On Friday 24th June we have lots of amazing activities planned for all the classes. We have bouncy castles, treasure hunts, den building and a visit from the ice cream van planned. We are also asking that children bring in their bikes and scooters as they will be allocated time to play on these with their friends during the day (please ensure that all children have a helmet with them as they will be unable to ride their bikes and scooters without one).
It is a dress down day – you can wear anything you like (as long as it is not football colours).
We are kindly asking for a donation of £1 which will go straight towards our school fund. All donations will receive 1 free entry into the class summer raffle prizes and the raffle will be drawn on Monday 27th June.
Let’s end our school year with a BANG!!
We would like to share a kind reminder with everyone that we are a health promoting school. Therefore we ask that the children bring in a healthy snack for playtime. These include fruit, a sandwich, a packet of crisps or a small sweetie. Please DO NOT send your child into school with brain lickers, sugary spray sweeties or anything else with a high sugar content. We would also like to remind you that the children are welcome to bring water into their classes. No juice or flavoured water should be sent into class for during the day. The children are allowed juice and flavoured water at lunchtime.
Thank you for your understanding and support in this matter.
#teammc
It has come to our attention that there is an error in our June’s newsletter regarding the Primary 7 Leaver’s assembly. Our assembly will be held on the 28th June at 2pm – NOT the 21st.
Please accept our apologises for the error.
We look forward to seeing all of our P7 parents in school for this very special occasion.
Thank you for your continuing support!
#teammc
At this time of year we consider what our school priorities should be as we prepare for 2022/2023.
Please take the time to complete the survey below presenting your views on our future school improvements.
Parent/Carer School Improvement Plan Consultation
This survey will close on Thursday 26th May.
Thank you.
At this time of year we consider what our school priorities should be as we prepare for 2022/2023.
Please take the time to complete the survey below presenting your views on our future school improvements.
Parent/Carer School Improvement Plan Consultation
This survey will close on Thursday 26th May.
Thank you.
A great big well done to all the children in Primary 4 who made their First Holy Communion on Sunday. You were all absolutely beautiful and very smart. We are extremely proud of you at school. The rest of our children making their sacraments will be celebrating this Sunday coming. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
What a week it has been at Mount Carmel Primary School. We would like to share some of the amazing experiences we have had with you!!
Firstly, Billy from the Harriers came for a visit on Tuesday to work on our throwing, jumping and running skills.
Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter Holidays and the long-awaited sunshine! It is great having Primary 6 back in class for their last term, I am looking forward to lots of fun learning and activities and seeing them prepare for becoming Primary 7’s. Please see below an overview of the teaching and learning for the following term:
Literacy
Reading
Primary 6 will continue to work on Bug Club books both in class as well as the independent texts assigned for children to read at home for enjoyment. Pupils will focus on a chapter each week and engage in good quality discussion with their reading group and teacher then work on their task mat independently. This will help to aid and build on our active comprehension strategies and apply all the skills we have learned so far in Primary 6.
Writing
Our writing day will be a Friday this term. The pupils will have the opportunity to discuss and plan their writing that week and will be encouraged to take time at home as a homework task to think about the content of their writing. This term Primary 6 will focus on explanatory writing, we will link this to our new topic – Science and the human body – and explain the body systems and functions. We will continue to focus on a different aspect of grammar each week which can be applied in their writing and all literacy activities.
Spelling
The spelling groups will continue to experience the Active Literacy spelling program, this will introduce common words and focus phonemes pertinent to their level and stage. The pupils will revise the Active Spelling strategies throughout the term.
Numeracy
This term P6 will move on to focus on exploring a variety of calculations and identifying the order of operations, looking at number patterns and sequences, as well as maths and its place in the world today. For Beyond Number we will continue with Measure and introduce Money. The pupils will experience activities at their stage and level. Constant revision of multiplication tables will be encouraged across all groups. Sumdog and Topmarks games can help with the rigor of times tables at home. Pupils will continue to engage in daily Number Talks to increase their mental maths agility. This term our focus will be to revise all strategies, working out which is the most efficient one to use for a given calculation.
Health and Wellbeing
This term in PATHS P6 will focus on lessons relating to being responsible and caring for others through looking at various case studies, eventually leading to a class project towards the end of the term. Moreover, the PATHS Barnardo Buddies programme has been up and running, all children involved have received training and continue to be working positively with the younger pupils, creating games in the playground for all to join in. This has given the Buddies a sense of responsibility and commitment, dedicating part of their lunchtime towards something that has a great benefit to both the school community and their own personal development. Our ‘Pupil of the Day’ continues, which encourages P6 to not only compliment their classmates, but to compliment and be kind to themselves, which can sometimes be trickier than we think. As always, children in P6 are encouraged to use their ‘feelings jotter’ to share any worries or concerns they may be experiencing. P6 will study God’s Loving Plan this term, if any parents have any queries regarding this please do not hesitate to contact the school.
Our PE days this term will be Tuesday and Friday. Our Tuesday sessions will have a focus on Cricket and Athletics while our Friday sessions look at Volleyball and Orienteering. Pupils are asked to come dressed for PE on these days – school uniform on top but leggings, joggers, trainers can be worn on the bottom.
IDL
Last term P6 focused on Scotland as our topic. P6 engaged in various activities such as a mountains and rivers research task, studying island life and recreating some Jolomo style island paintings, and looking at various important people from Scotland such as Robert Burns and his poetry. This term our topic will be Science and the human body. Throughout this topic we will look at the human body and the different systems our body uses, we will explore these in a practical way and write up about the experiments we undertake. P6 will also take part in a workshop provided by Generation Science where they design and create their own boat model.
RE
This last term P6 have continued to work through their Pope Francis Faith Award and have looked at the gifts of Piety and Wisdom, completing various activities to support this. P6 will continue to work through their Pope Franis Faith Award book this term and are encouraged to share this learning at home, some homework tasks will focus on areas of this. Furthermore, this term we will study the three persons of the Holy Trinity and look at ways we can honour the Holy Trinity.
2+1 Languages
This term, Primary 6 will continue to work on French as their main language with Mrs McGregor. In our classroom we have started to immerse ourselves in the French language with labels and displays in French. Each day, we fill in a French calendar with the aim of embedding the language into our classroom routines.
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. These last 3 terms have seen all children receive individual rewards. This term we are very close to having our class reward with many children having put their name forward for this so far!
If you have any queries or questions, please contact the school directly.
Thank you for your support and I look forward to a wonderful last term in Primary 6.
Miss McKenna
Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely Easter break with your families and are ready for a fun packed and hopefully sunny last term. Fingers crossed!!
Primary 5 have now established themselves in our upper school and continue to strive to be good role models for their peers and build on their increasing independence.
During term 4 our focus will be:
Literacy
This term P5 will be focussing on Narrative writing, we will be developing literary devices and linking this to our topic. In reading, we will continue our progress within Bug Club further developing our AL comprehension strategies as described in our latest ‘Sharing the Learning’ video. We will focus on listening and talking throughout our topic lessons, expressing our opinions and justifying these with good reasoning in debate/ lesson presentations. Some groups will continue to work on literal comprehension and prediction skills, whilst others will continue their work on inferential and evaluative questions. Spelling and phoneme work will be consolidated this term and pupils will use ‘Active Spelling’ resources and activities to support this.
Numeracy
This term, P5 will be focussing on Division, as well as Fractions and Decimals. The circles and rectangles groups will complete division with remainders. The squares and triangles will also focus on these areas at their level. In Beyond Number, pupils will look at 2D and 3D shape recognition and properties, making links to angles and symmetry. Later in the term, we will also be exploring ‘Measurement’. (volume, mass, length, area)
Health and Well-being / PE
We will be focussing on completing our PATHS lessons and moving onto explore further areas such as healthy food, hygiene, bodies (God’s Loving Plan) as well as keeping ourselves safe. We will also look at substances that can damage our physical and emotional health, appropriate to our age. Pupils will have the opportunity to visit many of these concepts during our whole school ‘Health week’.
PE days will now be on Wednesday and Friday mornings. We will participate in independent and teamwork for Athletics during April/May moving onto Orienteering in June. Pupils will complete these lessons outdoors as much as possible so please make sure your child is prepared for the weather that day. It is essential that your child comes to school prepared for outdoor learning in appropriate clothing as we hopefully plan to be outside more as the summer nears and weather improves. Make sure they have plenty of water with them for very hot periods and sun cream.
Science
This term in Science we will be investigating water. We will be developing our knowledge and understanding of the water cycle and also exploring and investigating the methods for purifying water. We will look at the many uses of water and why it is important to conserve water.
RE
As Eastertide passes, we will be mainly focusing on Mary, Our Lady. Celebrating her example and significance through the Gospel of Mark as well as revisiting the feast of the Ascension and Pentecost. In June, we will look at God’s Loving Plan resources as part our This Is Our Faith programme. This will look closely at friendships, relationships as well as the role of being a parent /carer.
IDL
Our enterprise topic this term is ‘A Night at the Movies’. Pupils will look at the evolution of the film industry from the silent movies, introduction of sound, colour, animation, from Drive-Thru to 3D/4D currently. This will include developing our Talking and Listening and also writing skills (scripts/movie reviews, Gogglebox), also ICT skills ( Green screen/ ipad) to make our own movie trailers which will incorporate set design, production and directing and expressive arts lessons to create our sets. These will be ‘premiered’ at our own Oscars ceremony/Party where we will dress up in our best and have the opportunity to culminate all our learning, have fun and raise some funds for school.
Thank you again for your continual support throughout this year for our P5 pupils , class and school.
Mrs McIntyre & Mrs Mackinnon
Welcome to our final curriculum update blog post of the session. Primary 2/3 have been very busy during our third term with lots of new learning, concepts and strategies to develop and understand.
Literacy
In literacy our skills of sequencing and summarising have been covered on a weekly basis and children have worked hard to discuss and write about beginning, middle and end as well as talking about what happened first, next and then. We orally discussed our predictions and continued to give evidence to support whether a text was fiction or non-fiction. We spent some time talking about the author and illustrator, as well as looking at how a contents page or index can help us find information. We looked at headings and sub- headings and why labels and captions are important when understanding diagrams or pictures too. Our focus in term 4 will be to scan and select relevant facts or information, summarising and note taking to create a bank of facts that will support us in creating our own pieces of writing or scientific research.
As in previous terms, our reading and spelling activities are continuing at various times throughout the week. Children are using a mixture of practical, hands-on activities such as play dough, scrabble tiles, stencils and chalk boards to practise their spelling words but are also employing strategies such as ‘diacritical marking’ to reinforce their spelling knowledge and identify the phonemes and letters that make up our spelling words. We are using the Active Literacy phoneme stories and word building applications to help us recognise our spelling sound and words in texts we are accessing.
Our focus in writing has been narrative writing. Children developed their own character and setting, using their description skills to build their own stories whilst focusing on structure and sequencing of events to create a flow to tell a story using their own ideas. By using the 5 senses children created vivid settings which then had an exciting event, before reaching a conclusion in their ending. In term 4, we will continue to work on descriptive and narrative writing but will also include instructional writing as we write about experiments, we have carried out through our new topic.
Maths
Our focus in maths this term will be division and fact families to make sure children have a solid foundation of this concept, as well as regularly revisiting multiplication skills to retain this knowledge and develop further their understanding of how both concepts are interlinked.
In other areas of maths, measurement such as length, weight and area will be a focus as children use non-standard and standard units of measure to understand height, length, width, and weight. We will also look at data handling and how we interpret information, as well as creating graphs and bar charts of our own based on information we have collected.
Health & Wellbeing
Our Paths Pupil of the Day is still being received well with pupils and our Pupil of the Day continues to receive lots of compliments and special jobs around the classroom. We are continuing to explore emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others. We are also looking at problem solving strategies through discussion, deciding what steps to take if we should experience uncomfortable emotions and prevent escalation when we are angry or frustrated. Using our traffic light system, which is displayed in the classroom, we hope to give children the tools to self-regulate these emotions or seek help to co-regulate.
In P.E, our sessions will happen inside (Tuesday) once per week, and outside (Thursday) once per week and our focus will be athletics and fielding games. This will help us with the skills we need for sports day activities and how to operate as a team to build the skills to play rounders or other fielding games.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be the preparation required for our Sacrament of Reconciliation for our P3 pupils. This will take place in early June and children will have discussions and lessons in class as well as follow up home activities that will be completed with their parents. We will also have Mary, Mother of Jesus as a focus during May as we look at how we honour her as the Mother of Jesus. Throughout this term we will be accessing and completing discussions and tasks from God’s Loving Plan.
Topic
Our topic over the next term will be ‘Materials’. This topic has already been well received by the children, who have already begun to look at the different man-made and natural materials in our environment. Children already knew many materials we have in our everyday lives and could correctly identify which are natural and those that are man-made. The children will experiment with different materials to gain a better understanding of their limitations and why different materials are used for different areas of our lives (concrete for building and fabric for clothing and warmth). As part of this topic we will also look at Charles Rennie Macintosh and how he used different materials to bring his designs to life in jewellery and window designs.
As always, we hope this is the start of successful final term as we begin to prepare our children for transition to their next stage of learning.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 had a great time during their outdoor activity time. I am so very proud of them for organising this day for the whole school and we have raised lots of money so far for SCIAF. Please keep donating to this very worthy cause and remember our Easter activity day tomorrow!!
Thank you for your support. Mrs McCreadie
P2/3 had a fabulous time using their bikes and scooters at school to raise money for SCIAF.
On Friday of last week, Primary 6 enjoyed bike and scooter activity time outside. This was organised by Primary 4 as part of Mount Carmel’s SCIAF Fundraising over Lent.
P6 had an amazing time! We enjoyed some scooter and bike races and would like to thank you for all the generous donations towards such a good cause.
As part of their ‘Charities’ topic and SCIAF Lenten fundraising, P4 put on a fabulous Outdoor activity- based afternoon for the whole school on Friday. Pupils had a ‘wheely’ good time bringing in their scooters/bikes and even Hoverboard Segways to whizz around the playground.
Here are some of our action-packed photos of our class enjoying their outdoor scooter/bike day afternoon…
Thank you Primary 4!
Yesterday, the whole school celebrated World Book Day 2022 and our P5 class took part in various activities during the day.
Here are some of the fabulous costumes:
Yesterday, we dressed up as characters from our favourite books. We all watched an ‘Authors’ Live’ session with Simon Farnaby, the actor from ‘Horrible Histories’. He has released a new book ‘The Wizard and Me’ about a talking guinea pig called Bubbles who is very funny and cheeky. It had us all laughing in class. He challenged us to write about an animal and use your imagination.
By Victoria P5
In the afternoon, at an assembly we took part in a parade and got to look at all the different costumes. They were all great! We really enjoyed the live session and looking at the ‘Flanimals’ by Ricky Gervais, we decided to create our own ‘Flanimals’ and develop their characters giving them human characteristics and using descriptive writing techniques.
By Archie and Millie Mc P5
Here are some ‘Flanimals’ you may not have heard of….
Primary 4 have had an excellent afternoon junk modelling for their rainbow reward time 🌈
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