Please see below the link to the October Newsletter.

EAC School Counselling & Psychological Wellbeing Supports Newsletter (office.com)

Thankyou

Our next Parent/Carer Council Meeting takes place on Tuesday 22nd November at 7pm.  This will take place face to face at Mount Carmel Primary School.

Our Council provide an invaluable service to our school and have been vital in supporting the school with continuous improvement.

We require new members to take part in this and to continue to support the school going forward.  Our August meeting had 3 parents participate, please consider joining our Council in order that we are able to continue.

Please complete the form below if you are interested in finding out more information.

Parent/Carer Council Form

Expression of Interest Form

If your child is interested in brass tuition in school and is in Primary 6 or 7, please complete the Expression of Interest form below:

Music Service EOI letter – Brass (1)

https://forms.office.com/r/nMUF1PjrwR

Please complete the form below with your preferred date for your child’s parent/carer appointment.

This form will close on Friday 28th October.

Friday 4th November- Fireworks Lunch Menu

Tuesday 15th November 5pm-8pm– Parents/Carer Appointments (complete online form or paper copy)

Wednesday 16th November 3pm-6pm– Parent/Carer Appointments (complete online form or paper copy)

**(The Book Fair will be available for both Parent/Carer dates)**

Wednesday 30th November– Whole School Pantomime Outing (donations via Parentpay)

On 30th November we are having a whole school outing to the Palace Theatre to see the pantomime- Snow White.

The total cost of the tickets for the school is £2090, which is £11 per child’s ticket. We will also have the cost of the buses on top of this.  Due to this, we are kindly asking for a donation of between £11-£15 per child to help towards the cost of the trip.

This item is now live on Parentpay.

We understand this can be a very expensive time of year and we very much appreciate your donations.

Thank you.

Please complete the form below with your preferred date for your child’s parent/carer appointment.

This form will close on Friday 28th October.

Menu for Friday 4th November

Fun Fact – Bonfire night is celebrated because of the failed gunpowder plot where Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

Gunpowder goujons

Bonfire Bangers

Firework Fries

Catherine Wheel Coleslaw

Sparkler Sponges

Big Bang Biscuits

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

October Activities

What’s on in:

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.

Our Halloween Costume Exchange is now available!

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.

Halloween Costume Exchange

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.

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.

Enrolment Sunday

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.

Ayrshire Hospice

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