Gentle reminder that school will close at 3pm on Friday 13th October and reopen to children on Tuesday 24th October at 9am.

We hope you have a great October half-term break

Team MC

Wider Achievements

At Mount Carmel Primary School we want to showcase and recognise all of our achievements.  This includes items that they take part outside of school such as dancing, football, gymnastics, swimming – the list is endless.  Please take some time to detail some of the activities your child takes part in out of school and any special awards they might have received recently as part of this.  If you have any photographs that you would like to share please email these to eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk

CALLING ALL SCHOOL PERFORMING GROUPS
Could you perform at Kilmarnock Christmas Festival?

Kilmarnock Town Centre-Sunday 26th November

Closing Date For Entries Friday 20th October

Calling all local singers, dancers and musicians! We are on the lookout for the very best local talent to be part of our entertainment programme at the Kilmarnock Christmas Festival.

If you would like to be considered for the event, please submit a short video of you performing (no longer than a 1 minute) by Friday 20th October. Videos can be uploaded via this link. Please read the FAQ’s before submitting your video. If chosen, you will be given a 15 minute slot to perform on one of the event stages at the main event.

Good Luck Everyone!

With Halloween fast approaching, we know this can be an expensive time of year with the added pressure of buying costumes etc. We keep  a supply of children’s costumes in school for borrowing. These will be available from next week in the foyer. Please feel free to come and have a look. Similarly, if you have any children’s costumes you no longer use/need please hand them into the school and we will add them to our collection.

Thank you 

Earth House!!!

Could all children who are in the winning house and going to Jungle Madness on Wednesday 11th October please wear comfortable clothes that day.

Our Halloween Disco will take place on Thursday 26th October.

There will be two separate discos for lower school and upper school:

Primary 1-3 will take place from 6pm until 7pm

Primary 4-7 will take place between 7.15pm and 8.30pm

There will be a small charge payable on the night and this will include DJ, snack and prizes for the best costumes. Children will be given a flyer nearer the time with more information.

If you can help out at any of the discos please get in touch here

Breakfast Blethers will now start at 9am instead of 9.15am

A reminder that the school  closes at 3pm on Friday 13th October for the October break. We will reopen for pupils  on Tuesday 24th October.

Monday 23rd is an in-service day for staff.

Homework finishes on Friday 6th October. 

Reminder that the school will be closed for the September holiday weekend on Friday 22/9 until Monday 25/9.

School will reopen on Tuesday 26/9 at 9am.

We hope you have a lovely break.

TeamMC

Our September raffle is now up and running on Parentpay!

To be in with a chance of winning our fantastic prize all you  need to do is buy your tickets via Parentpay.

Tickets are £1 per strip of 5. 

The closing date for purchasing tickets is Wednesday 27th September and the Raffle will be drawn on Friday 30th.

Breakfast-Blether-flyer

Begins  this Thursday 21st September 9.15am-10.15am

Please find attached our School Improvement Plan for 23-24:

Family Friendly School Improvement Plan

We will once again be accepting  any unwanted items of clothing for our Rag Bag collection. Previously, Rag Bag pre-printed bags were distributed to schools for donations, however, this is no longer the case. Please hand any donations into the school in a carrier bag or bin bag by 9am on Monday 18th September.

Thank You.

If you have not already done so could you please complete and return the forms that were issued to all children at the start of term by Tuesday 19th September.

If you require any new forms to be issued please contact the school office where we can arrange for duplicate  forms to be printed and sent home in your childs school bag.

Thankyou

We are a nut free school. Please do not send in any snacks or lunch products that contain nuts (for example snickers, Nutella or Kinder Bueno). 

Thankyou 

Welcome back everyone and welcome to the P7 blog! I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday.  I am delighted to welcome back the pupils of P7 who have settled well into the school routine and are enjoying being the top of the school!

Here’s an overview of our learning that will take place in our first term (Aug-Oct).

Literacy

This term we will be focussing on a novel study, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo.  As well as reading the book together, the class will participate in activities that relate to other areas of the curriculum including Art, Social Studies and Technology.  We will also continue to develop our comprehension skills through our use of all ALP reading strategies with a particular focus on summarising and identifying the main idea

For writing, we are concentrating on descriptive writing:  Giving detailed descriptions using similes, alliteration, the senses and metaphors to interest the reader.

Spelling groups will continue to use Active Spelling strategies and follow on from previous work.

Numeracy

All groups this term have begun by looking at place value.  We will soon be moving into addition and subtraction.  The class will continue to take part in daily mental activities such as number talks where they aim to use a variety of mental strategies to achieve the solution.  The class are also working on skills beyond number with Mrs McIntyre and are currently developing their knowledge of angles.

Health and Wellbeing

This year we will continue to use the PATHS programme to shape our HWB learning. P7 have already started ‘pupil of the day’ and participated in discussions around feelings and how we manage our emotions.  We will continue to revise the steps of the Problem Solving guide and aim to apply it in situations independently.  We are also investigating the different diets people have due to allergies, intolerances and religious reasons.

For PE, we have participated in team games concentrating on how important communication and teamwork is in order to be successful.  P7 will shortly begin our block of badminton aiming to develop their racquet skills, learn the rules and take part in small competitive games.

IDL

Our topic this term is World War 2.  This ties in closely with our novel study.  We will investigate how the war began, key events in the war (D Day, The Battle of Britain and The Blitz) and how people helped the war effort.  We will be using other curricular areas, such as literacy and technology, to help us understand and research this topic.  P7 have also been watching news clips, information bulletins and listening to music from the 1940s to get into the mind set of Brits during the war.

Technologies

This term P7 will access and use more features of Glow, attach files to emails, save work to cloud locations and retrieve files using search functions.  We will also have an input from East Ayrshire IT department on how to use and access Chromebooks.

RE

P7 will continue to complete their journal for the Pope Francis Faith Award as well as reading from the New Testament.  We will be looking at the life of Jesus and how he associated with those who were marginalised in society.

I look forward to working with P7 in the coming year and hope to have lots of enjoyable experiences that will make learning fun and memorable.

Mr Bertoncini

The Society of Vincent De Paul meets on Monday evenings between 7.30 and 8.15pm. They can offer support in many different ways to families.

Please view the flyer below for more information:

vincent de paul flyer

The flyer will also been handed out to all families, so please chck your child’s schoolbag.

Thank you

This year, we will be continuing our use of the Learning Journals platform to allow us to share some of your child’s learning with you.

Click on the link below for some further information on the use of Learning Journals.

Learning Journals Information

Thank you.

 Welcome back! We hope you have all had an enjoyable summer. It has been fantastic to see P4 settle into their new classroom and routines.  

We have had a great start to the term and look forward to a fun-filled term with lots of fabulous learning taking place.  

Here is an update on the upcoming term.  

 Literacy  

For our reading focus this term, we will be developing our comprehension strategies such as visualisation and metalinguistics through our class novel ‘The Iron Man’. The children will be introduced to similes and onomatopoeia; some children can use these in their writing.  

During writing, we will start by continuing to develop our sentence structure and use of description bubbles for various descriptive pieces, we then then continue to work on our characterisation through descriptive skills and language narrative writing.  

Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level. 

P4 will also be given revision lessons on alphabetical order, sentence structure and dictionary skills.  

 Numeracy & Maths  

P4 have already looked at how Maths impacts the world around us and where we use Maths in our day to day lives. We have started learning how to round 2 and 3 digits to the nearest 10 and the nearest 100.  

The class will review Place Value knowledge and use it to build on their sense of number. We will look at 4-digit numbers and read, write order and recite these numbers. Through our place value work, we will be able to identify the value of each digit.  

We will then progress to looking at our addition strategies. The class will participate in a daily number talk, to develop mental maths strategies.  

In Beyond Number, the class will start with shaping, look at the properties of a range of 2D and 3D shapes and create tiling patterns. We will then move on to investigate the use of mathematical language to describe and record directions.   

 Health and Wellbeing  

At the start of the term, P4 discussed and identified their right as a child. As a class, we agreed on a Class Charter to allow our class to be fun, safe, hardworking and respectful.  

This term we will begin our PATHS programme for P4. Lessons will include setting up our class rules, looking at individual emotions, building friendships and community within the school, Self-Control and Anger Management.  We will also start the Do Be Mindful programme which will allow us, using a range of strategies, to look at ways we can take a mindful moment each day. 

 PE 

PE is on a Thursday and Friday. This term we will be covering; 

• Team Games 
• Football  
• Badminton 

PE kit must be brought in and left at the start of each term. Before each holiday, the kit will be sent home for washing to be freshened up and returned on the first day back.  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. 

 French  

We will be revising the alphabet, basic French phrases and numbers this term through, songs, activities and games. 

 IDL 

P4 will be learning to carry out a comparison study on the rainforest and the Arctic. We will link this with our literacy through our descriptive writing and will develop mapping skills. 

 Expressive Arts  

In Music, we will be using ‘Charanga’ to appraise and learn a song. P4 will have the opportunity to use our new school glockenspiels to accompany the song, learning about rhythm, pace and beat.  

During Drama lessons, the pupils will take part in drama activities to support teamwork and improve confidence. We will also ‘act out’ parts of our class novel.  

As we move on to our IDL topic, we will use various mediums to create some beautiful artwork to depict the rainforest and Arctic, looking at the idea of hot and cold colours.   

 Religious Education  

This term we will be reflecting on our uniqueness and thinking about our God-given talents. We will reflect on the importance of friendship and link this with various stories from the Bible. The children will take part in class prayers and School Masses, and we will continue to build on our knowledge of common prayers and Mass responses.  

 Homework will be distributed on a Monday to be completed and returned by Friday.  

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to a fabulous term with P4! 

A reminder that  the Parent/carer meet and greet session at St. Joseph’s takes place tomorrow evening (12th September) at 6.30pm.

All of our current Primary 7 parents and carers are invited to a ‘Meet and Greet’ session at St Joseph’s Academy on Tuesday 12th September at 6pm.

A reminder that Primary 6 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on tomorrow.

Please see enclosed link to our September Newsletter

September Newsletter (1).pdf

Please note from Monday 04/09/2023, Parents/Carers/Adults will no longer be allowed in the playground to drop children off for the day.

Thankyou for your cooperation with this.

Mrs A Fergusson

Head Teacher

Breakfast Blether flyer

Why not come along and join us for our first ever Breakfast Blether

A reminder that Primary 6 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Monday 4th September. 

A reminder that Primary 6 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Monday 4th September.