Please note a change to our Parent/Carer Appointments; they will now be as follows:
Tuesday 15th November- 5pm until 8pm
Wednesday 16th November – 3pm until 6pm
We are pleased to be returning to face to face appointments in the school.
An online form will be available shortly for parents/carers to provide their preferred date.
As part of our Halloween celebrations we have 3 beautiful Hampers to give away. In order to win 1 of our beautiful hampers, you can purchase raffle tickets using your ParentPay Account. All monies raised will go towards school funds
Thankyou
Friday 14th October – Dress Down Day (£1 donation on Parentpay)
October Break– School closes at Friday 14th October 3pm
Monday 24th October In Service Day
Tuesday 25th October Pupil Return 9am
Thursday 27th October – Halloween Disco (£2.50 pay at the door)
(P1-3- 6.30 till 7.30pm)
(P4-7 – 7.45 till 9pm)
Friday 28th October– Halloween Lunch Menu
Fun Fact: Halloween dates back 2000 years to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain where they lit bonfires and wore costumes to ward off ghosts.
Chilling Cheeseburger
Witches Pizza Fingers
Wizard Wedges/Creepy Corn on the Cob/Petrified Peas
Spooky Sponge/Vampire Slime (cupcakes and green jelly)
Reminder that The Kilmarnock Standard will visit the school tomorrow for our Primary 1 photograph
We are delighted that every pupil in the school will today receive a beautifully illustrated and informative hardback book celebrating Queen Elizabeth 2nd’s Platinum Jubilee.
Please check schoolbags for this book.
On Wednesday 12th October the Healthy Living Programme will be working with our local Spar in Meiklewood Road and will be giving out free fruit and water to school children on behalf of the store.
The Healthy Living Programme will be located outside the Spar for the children coming out of school in the afternoon.
Reminder that the Tempest photographer will be in school tomorrow for individual pupil photographs, and also Primary 1 and Primary 7 class photographs.
On the run up to Halloween we will have a selection of Halloween costumes in our foyer. These will be available to anyone who is in need of a costume their child/children.
Similarly, If you have any costumes that your child/children have outgrown please hand them in to the school and we will add them to our exchange.
Thank you.
Please read our October Newsletter.
Today some of our P7 pupils visited St. Bernadette’s Relics at Carfin, along with Father Martin and Mrs Crawford.
On Friday 14th October, we will be holding a “Dress Down Day” in school. We are asking kindly for a £1 donation for this via Parentpay. As always, no football colours please.
Every pupil who donates £1 through Parentpay will be entered in a raffle draw to win a special prize organised by FOMC.
All children in P4 who are preparing for the Sacraments of Confirmation in the coming year should come to the Enrolment Service during Sunday Mass on Sunday, 2nd October (9.30am in St. Matthew’s and 11am in Our Lady of Mount Carmel).
Congratulations to the amazing Mr Bertoncini. Today he completed his first ever parachute jump. We are so proud of him and for doing this for such a wonderful charity. So far he has managed to raise over £800 for The Ayrshire Hospice. We always knew he was a hero and today he became our flying Superhero. Well done Mr B!
If you would like to donate please click on the link below. Thank you.
A very warm welcome to the Primary 1 Blog. The children are settling brilliantly into their new school surroundings and have already established routines and friendships within their new class!!
We have had a lovely start to the term getting to know one another and our new class routines but we are most definitely poised and ready to LEARN!!!
Primary 1 – Term 1
Literacy
During literacy times, P1 have been developing their phonological awareness (the ability to hear sounds in words). We are doing this by focusing on the rhythm and rhyme of language through clapping syllables and working on our nursery rhymes.
We are also working on our fine motor control to get ready for writing! Name writing is a focus too, so we can always sign off on our masterpieces!
Listening and talking is a huge part of our day. We are learning to follow our “carpet rules” to ensure we do our best listening while the teacher or our peers are talking. We are also taking turns at communicating our thoughts and feelings.
Numeracy
We know numbers are all around us and have had a chance to talk about numbers which are “special” to us, for example, our age, door number etc.
Number times will consist of lots and lots of counting! We will be developing our “number sense” by counting out and comparing quantities and becoming familiar with the language of mathematics.
We will be reciting our number sequences forwards and backwards, understanding that each number we say represents a quantity.
As our pencil control improves we will be learning how to form our digits correctly.
Pattern will also be a focus this term. We will link this to outdoor learning by looking for natural patterns and shape in the environment as well as artificial ones indoors.
Health & Well-being (HWB)
Our PATHS programme will feature heavily during our HWB time. The children have been very excited to meet our PATHS puppets, Twiggle and friends! Our puppet friends will be helping us to explore our feelings as well as thinking about the qualities that makes us good friends. We will also be introduced to our “Pupil of the Day” initiative, which allows each and every member of the class to be the focus of our kind words and actions for a whole day.
In PE we will initially develop our spatial awareness through games before moving onto large ball skills.
RE
The children have been introduced to our RE times and have learned about God’s love for us all. We will continue to explore this unconditional love by considering the gifts God has given us, including people who care for us and the qualities which make each and every one of us so special and unique.
IDL
We will be using our Nursery Rhymes to explore other areas of the curriculum such as art, music and technology.
Expressive Arts
During art sessions we will be creating our favourite characters from the Nursery rhymes we have been learning. We will be doing a lot of cutting and sticking of different types of collage matierials.
During music sessions, we will be singing and keeping the beat to Nursery rhyme favourites.
Mrs Duff
We are delighted to announce the return of Killie’s Disney Playmakers – this time the adventure we follow will be Moana.
Aimed at girls aged 5-8, of all abilities, to give them a non-competitive introduction to football, Disney Playmakers empowers girls to express themselves, following the storybook and the adventures of Moana, from crossing the ocean to battling the Kakamora.
If you have any young people who would be interested, please let us know asap, or sign up here
Primary 7 St Josephs Parent Information Appointments with Miss Cathie will now take place on Monday 3rd October. All original appointment times are still valid.
Primary 3 Blog Post (Term 1 Update)
Hello and welcome to our very first blog post of the new session. Primary 3 have been very busy settling into our new classroom and our new routines. Children have been working hard to become familiarised with their class groups, recapping previous learning and are enhancing this through our novel study and outdoor learning.
Literacy
Our class novel is ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ and through this text, the context and the discovery of the lands at the top of the Faraway Tree, pupils will explore our outdoor area, looking for natural resources to create scenes from the text. Pupils will continue to create some imaginative writing, describing the different lands that may arrive at the top of the Faraway Tree and will develop their use of descriptive words to describe characters from the novel.
Our reading and spelling activities are now underway, and children have been working within groups to revisit previous sounds and texts, ready to use their skills and strategies to tackle new and unfamiliar spelling sounds and reading books. Our focus in writing currently is descriptive writing, and ideas will be developed from our class novel!
Homework began week beginning Monday 5th September, please remember to check your children’s bags for a plastic wallet. Reading books will be attached to pupils’ accounts through our online Bug Club reading programme. I will issue Bug Club login details when the first homework tasks are sent home. Homework will consist of spelling, reading and maths, both mental and worksheet/jotter jobs too. These will be issued on a Monday and should be returned to school on a Friday.
Maths
Our focus in maths will be place value, with children working on 2-digit numbers and this will increase to 3-digit numbers with our circle maths group. Children will be able to partition these numbers and discuss this in terms of hundreds (H), tens (T) and units (u), whilst building on their understanding of number and number patterns. Addition and subtraction will also be a focus as well as word problems to consolidate our strategies within these 2 operations of number. Children will regularly use their ‘Thinking It Through’ jotters as the term progresses to develop problem solving skills, applying knowledge of number to new contexts and develop strategies for any number problems.
Health & Wellbeing
Our Paths Pupil of the Day has now begun, and our Pupil of the Day has been receiving lots of compliments. All children will have the opportunity to be pupil of the day. We will begin exploring emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others.
In P.E, our sessions will happen on a Monday and a Wednesday and our focus in term 1 will be on team games, hockey, and badminton. Children will have the opportunity to partake in some fun activities which support teamwork whilst focusing on developing their listening skills, awareness of space and racquet skills.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be on prayer, their meaning, the routines of the church and the celebration of Mass. We will also spend some time reading and discussing bible stories relating to friendship and love, whilst considering how each of us are unique and have our own God given talents.
Topic
As the class novel is The Magic Faraway Tree, we will be doing a mini topic which focuses on exciting new lands at the top of the tree, developing children’s imaginations and ideas in fictional texts. We will also look at woodland animals as these are a feature in the class novel and will tie in nicely with out term 1 science topic about vertebrates and how we categorise all living things. Children will explore and examine living things and look at the characteristics of what makes some living things vertebrates.
We hope this is the start of a very successful term and that the pupils are enjoying their return to school and seeing their friends and teachers.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
Primary 6 Term 1 Blog Post
I hope everyone had a lovely summer and enjoyed the fabulous weather. It’s lovely to have returned from my maternity leave to such a lovely class. P6 are settling into their new classroom well and are making progress learning the new routines.
Below is an overview of the learning and teaching taking place in P6 this term.
Literacy
Reading
Our class novel and topic this term is Wonder. The pupils will complete Active Reading tasks related to this novel. In Primary 6 most pupils will be expected to quote from the text when answering comprehension questions. This will be modelled by the teacher. Most pupils will complete daily reading to writing tasks associated with the novel. This novel has links to other areas of the curriculum such as Expressive Arts and Health and Wellbeing. We have already begun reading it together and the children are enjoying the humour and the message it delivers – Choose Kind.
Writing
Our writing day will be a Wednesday. The pupils will have the opportunity to discuss and plan their writing the day before. This term Primary 6 will be focussing on Descriptive writing. The pupils will use the Active Literacy description bubble template to structure their writing. Later in the term, we will focus on Report Writing. Primary 6 will focus on a different aspect of grammar/punctuation each week with the expectation they use this in their formal writing. Some pupils will be expected to up-level their writing by using tools such as thesauri and the VCOP pyramid.
Spelling
The spelling groups will continue to experience the Active Literacy spelling program, this will introduce common words and focus on phonemes pertinent to their level and stage. The pupils will revise the Active Spelling strategies throughout Term 1, these include diacritical marking, syllabification, and words within words.
Numeracy
This term P6 will focus on Place Value (whole number and decimals), Rounding and Estimation, and Addition and Subtraction. Our Beyond Number topic this term is Time. The pupils will experience activities at their stage and level. The 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 complete their first personal research project on either a famous mathematician or maths in the world of work.
Health and Wellbeing
The focus of this term is Friendships and Relationships, Changing relationships, and Self-esteem. These are core themes in the novel Wonder. These themes also tie in nicely with our PATHS lessons. P6 complete two PATHS lessons a week. Our ‘Pupil of the Day’ is up and running. This year we are complementing each other based on each other’s skills and talents.
Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Pupils are asked to bring a FULL PE kit on these days. If pupils are without a PE kit the school will be able to provide pupils with the required items of clothing. The focus in PE this term is Badminton and Hockey.
Expressive Arts
Through our class novel, P6 will have the opportunity to experience activities in Drama and Art activities pertinent to their level and stage.
RME
Throughout Primary 6 the pupils will listen to and engage with stories from the Gospel of Matthew. This term P6 will also reflect on their own gifts and talents and discuss and learn about inspirational people who use their gifts to enhance the world.
Modern Languages
P6 receive weekly French lessons. This term pupils will learn basic greetings, colours, numbers, and basic commands.
Homework
Homework has restarted this term with a focus on Spelling and Reading only. Pupils will receive Numeracy homework later in the term. Homework is due back on a Friday. I appreciate and wholeheartedly support wider achievement outside of school. If there are any reasons why pupil can’t complete the homework, please contact the school.
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.
If you have any queries or questions, please contact the school directly.
Thank you for your support and I look forward to a hardworking and successful year in Primary 6.
Mrs. Terras
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 ‘Venus Peter saves the Whale’. This will also incorporate themes such as science, the environment, animals and friendship.
During writing, we will focus on building our characterisation through descriptive skills and language in our narrative writing. We will then progress our note taking skills using headings and paragraphs to present different types of information in a report. Writing activities will also be based around a mini novel study on the ‘Mr Gum’ series of books.
Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level.
Numeracy & Maths
The class will review Place Value knowledge and will use this to build on their sense of number. We will look at 3 and 4 digit numbers and we will 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 of mental maths strategies.
In Beyond Number, the class will start with information handling, looking at data, surveys and creating charts, graphs and tables.
Health and Wellbeing
This term we will be 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.
PE
PE is on a Wednesday and Friday. This term we will be covering;
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 about the Vikings. We will be looking at the Vikings in Scotland and life at the time. Writing, ICT and expressive arts lessons will link to our Vikings topic.
Expressive Arts
This term, we look at the illustrations from our class novel and use these as inspiration to create our own artwork using a variety of materials.
As we move on to our Vikings topic, we will create Viking art and models.
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 of 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, 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 we look forward to a fabulous term with P4!
Mrs McIntyre and Mrs MacKinnon
Welcome back everyone and welcome to the P7 blog! I trust you all had an enjoyable holiday/staycation and I am delighted to welcome back the pupils of P7 who have settled well into the routine of 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 Wilderness War by Julia Green. We will continue to develop our Active Literacy comprehension skills using the book as a context for learning. As well as reading the book together, the class will participate in activities that relate to other areas of the curriculum including Art, HWB and plenty of outdoor learning. As a result, children should bring in appropriate clothes such as wellies or old boots, waterproof jacket and warmer clothes (hat, scarf, gloves) as we move into the colder months.
For writing, we are concentrating on descriptive pieces using a variety of figurative language such as 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 investigating a mini money topic. We will soon be working on place value before moving onto addition and subtraction. The class will continue to develop their mental Number Talk strategies on a daily basis.
The class are also working on skills beyond number with Mrs McGregor and are currently developing their knowledge of quadrilaterals and properties of other shapes.
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 are also investigating the relationship of diet, rest and sleep upon our mental health and looking at ways we can relax and improve brain function.
Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday and appropriate clothes must be brought in on those days to participate. I have spoken to the class about personal hygiene and some pupils may wish to bring in deodorant or a roll-on on these days.
IDL
As our novel study is The Wilderness War, we will be looking at environmental issues for our topic. We will be looking at the damage of single use plastics and what can be done about it. We will also investigate the Leave No Trace campaign to conserve natural areas.
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.
French
P7 will continue to work with Mrs Donaghy from St Joseph’s for French for a 6 week block covering basic greetings, weather, and likes and dislikes.
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.
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
On Friday 30th September there will be a change to our normal menu as we will be having a “Save the Planet Day ” menu as follows:
Climate Change Curry and Rainforest Rice ( Lentil Korma)
Planet Power Pizza (Cheese Pizza)
Green Fingers & No Waste Wedges (Vegetable Wedges)
Broccoli Trees & Rainbow Salad
Global Gateau/Save the planet sorbet
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 3rd October.
Thank You.
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