Please complete the form below if you would like to assist on future school trips when parent/carers are once again able to support with these.  This form will remain open until the new term.

As part of their class topic ‘Night at the Movies’ primary 5 have been creating their own films and would love to share them with the primary 5 families.

This will be shared via a password protected Sway document, with the password provided to the main contact for primary parent/carers. If you do not wish your child’s film to be shared please contact the school or complete our query form by Monday 27th June.

Mrs Fergusson

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 the end of today.  Thank you for your feedback.

Parent/Carer Primary 1 Survey

Please find below information on school closure times for pupils who access school transport:

Summer Closure to HT 2022 200622

Please complete the form below if you would like to assist on future school trips when parent/carers are once again able to support with these.  This form will remain open until the new term.

Primary 2/3 and Primary 5 had a fantastic day at Dean Park on Tuesday and enjoyed some time exploring the park, playing some games and spending time at the swing park and gardens.

The weather held out so the children thoroughly enjoyed picnicking at the park!

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.

Parent/Carer Primary 1 Survey

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.

Parent/Carer Primary 1 Survey

We are pleased to announce that our Breakfast Club will be returning after the summer holidays.  This will begin on Monday 22nd August and will support 30 children per day.

As you are aware the focus of the Breakfast Club is to support families by providing a healthy and nutritious start to the school day as well as opportunity for children to engage in social, physical and educational activities.

Breakfast Club will begin at 8:15am each morning and will cost £1 per day paid via ParentPay or will be free for those who have applied for Free School Meals.

Please be aware that the purpose of Breakfast is not to provide early morning childcare, as stated it is about supporting families and children to make healthier choices.  Priority places will be provided to specific families.

If you would like your child to be considered for an additional place at Breakfast Club please click on the link below.  Please complete this for Sunday 19th June:

Mrs Fergusson

This lunch will be for the whole school on Friday 24th June which is also our Fun Day!

Our Primary 7’s have chosen their own “Leaver’s Lunch” menu:

Burger and Fries

Popcorn chicken and fries

Cheese pizza and fries

Fudge or sponge cake and custard

Our raffle tickets are  now on sale through Parentpay for the FOMC Summer Raffle. They will be available to purchase until Friday 24th June and the raffle will be drawn on Monday 27th June.

We are proud to be flying our new school flag at the front of the school!

Please note that the the P5-7 Multi-Sports Club has finished. Last week was the final session, The children who participated thoroughly enjoyed the activities. A big thank you to Mark Devlin for hosting!

We are super excited to share our summer raffle news with you all.

Our excellent Friends of Mount Carmel team have donated an amazing prize for each class which is full of summer toys. The lucky winner can enjoy themselves and keep busy all summer long!!

The raffle tickets will be available to buy on parent pay as of Monday and the tickets will be £1 each. 

Our wonderful P7’s will be taking the prizes around the classes to let the children see what they are trying to win. 

#teammc

Sports Day was fantastic!  Our children have had a really enjoyable day and was great to see them taking part in so many different activities.  Thank you to all of our team for organising the events today.

We cant wait to share our Sports Day photographs.  It was also super to see so many parents/carers/relatives/friends come along to see our children.

Thank you.

#TeamMC

#MCFamily

What a year of celebration it has been in Primary 4. The children have been on an exciting journey making three of their sacraments this year and we couldn’t be more proud of them.  They began the year with their first Reconciliation, then their Confirmation and more recently they made their first Holy Communion. They have worked extremely hard and showed dedication to their faith and God.  Well done everyone!!

Further to our earlier post, we would like to invite our parents in through the front gate when coming into school to see your own child race.  A pupil from our wonderful P7 organisers will be there to greet you and take you around to the field at the back of the school where our races will be taking place.

A reminder that school uniform is not required tomorrow and the children can wear comfortable sports wear that is weather appropriate.

Everyone please cross your fingers and toes for a dry day!!

A little reminder of the times for each class race…

9:10 – 9:30 Primary 1

9:35 – 10:00 Primary 1/2

10:05 – 10:30 Primary 2/3

11:00 – 11:40 Nursery children

11:45 – 12:10 Primary 4

1:10 – 1:40 Primary 5

1:45 – 2:15 Primary 6

2:20 – 2:50 Primary 7

It is our absolute intention to go ahead with sports day tomorrow (Thursday 9th June). Unfortunately, we cannot predict the weather, so we kindly ask that you send your child into school with sport clothing on (absolutely no football colours) and equipped for the ever changing weather. We will be outside for some of the day;  therefore the children will need jumpers and maybe a light raincoat (hopefully not but we do live in Scotland!) or if we are lucky enough for some sunshine, a hat and sun cream.

Can you also make sure that your child has plenty of water for the day as they will be very busy with lots of different activities from races and potted sports to curling and yoga.

The children are very excited for tomorrow (and so are the teachers!). We cannot wait to have our new p1’s in as well as our parents to see us racing. Please see below the timetable for the races (this has been shared previously)

9:10 – 9:30 Primary 1

9:35 – 10:00 Primary 1/2

10:05 – 10:30 Primary 2/3

11:00 – 11:40 Nursery children

11:45 – 12:10 Primary 4

1:10 – 1:40 Primary 5

1:45 – 2:15 Primary 6

2:20 – 2:50 Primary 7

Again, we kindly ask that when your child is finished racing, could you please leave the playground as to allow the next class parents in. to watch their children.

See you all tomorrow!!

A reminder that a letter was sent home yesterday regarding an Education Scotland visit on Monday 13th June at 1:30pm.  Thank you to the two parents that have kindly volunteered so far. Please consider being part of our parent group sharing your views on the educational benefits of an ECC and refurbishment of our school.

Sharing your views in this group will help to strengthen our bid process.

Please complete the return slip on the letter or email myself.
andrea.fergusson@eastayrshire.org.uk

On Tuesday I was delighted to work with the Pupil Council and speak with them about the North West Kilmarnock Consultation and hear some of their views on why this would be good for our school. These children are now working with the rest of their class to gather more ideas to share with Education Scotland on Monday 13th June.

Great job, thank you for sharing your ideas.

Mrs Fergusson

Sports Day

Our school sports day has been provisionally organised for Thursday 9th June this year. This will take the form on potted sports where classes will walk their way around a series of sporting
events, one of which will be races, parents/carers will be permitted to attend.

Our sports day has been scheduled for the 9th June this year (weather dependent). We would like to invite our parents and carers in for a short visit to see your child and their class compete in some races.
This will take the format of welcoming our adults into the school grounds to watch their child’s class run and then we politely request that you allow the next set of parents to be invited in. If you
are the parent or carer of more than one child then you are invited to come in for each of your child’s race slot.

Please find below the timetable for the day and come along to see your child participate in the fun. We are super excited to have you in school on the day to cheer for us and we hope to see you there!!

9:10 – 9:30 Primary 1
9:35 – 10:00 Primary 1/2
10:05 – 10:30 Primary 2/3
11:00 – 11:40 New Primary 1 children
11:45 – 12:10 Primary 4
1:10 – 1:40 Primary 5
1:45 – 2:15 Primary 6
2:20 – 2:50 Primary 7

A reminder that our garden tidy up will take place on 16th June between 3pm-5pm .  We would be very grateful for any time you can spare at all to help us. We would also be grateful of any donations of any of the following items:

Plants/seeds

Soil

Hanging baskets

Garden Paint

Masonry paint

Bark

Planters

If you are able to come and help on the day if you could bring your own gardening equipment with you please.

Please check school bags tonight for a letter regarding an Education Scotland visit on Monday 13th June at 1:30pm. Please consider being part of our parent group sharing your views on the educational benefits of an ECC and refurbishment of our school.

Sharing your views in this group will help to strengthen our bid process.

Please complete the return slip on the letter or email myself.

andrea.fergusson@eastayrshire.org.uk

Further information from St Joseph’s this afternoon:

• Pupils should be at St Joseph’s for 8.50am either via own transport/our school buses/their own primary buses if at St Andrews.
• Pupils will leave at the end of our school day – 3.40pm
• Pupils can access canteen facilities
• Pupils should be in full school uniform and bring PE kit if needed
• Pupils should bring with them their timetables and slips they were asked to return during Miss Cathie’s visit.

Our Primary 7 pupils have been very busy making items to sell in order to raise additional funds for their Activity Week. These items include Tic tac toe, spinning tops, car/butterfly keyrings and personalised keyrings and can be purchased through Parentpay.

***Please note there is a limited amount of each item available and will be allocated on a first come first served basis . *** 

What a great job they have made!

The children have been busy with lots of fun activities this week on the run up to the Jubilee. We are delighted to share with you this picture of Christopher from P5 who made this amazing Jubilee sponge cake!

Wow!