Just a little reminder that if your child requires a packed lunch from the dining hall for the visit on Tuesday 15th June, please let us know. If not, please send your child to school on the day with a snack and packed lunch, as the park visit is a full day outing.
Just a little reminder that if your child requires a packed lunch from the dining hall for the visit on Monday 14th June, please let us know. If not, please send your child to school on the day with a snack and packed lunch, as the park visit is a full day outing.
Tickets are now on sale via Parentpay for our class end of term raffle!! The cost of the tickets are £1 per strip of 5 tickets. However, you can purchase as many as you like .
Shorts and Shades day -Friday 11th June !
Please remember we are looking for a small donation if possible in return via Parentpay which will go towards the Magic Mount Carmel Fun Day !
P7 St Joseph’s Parent/Carer Information evening
Thursday 17th June 6.30pm-7.30pm via Vscene
Please click on the link below for the details of forthcoming P7 Parents Information evening for St. Joseph’s Academy:
Vscene Booking – P7 Information Session – 17.06.21 Miss Cathie
A reminder that Sports Day is taking place on Wednesday 9th June.
Children should come to school wearing suitable clothing for PE activities. This year children can wear any colours as Sports Day is not linked to House Colours. Please no football tops.
Due to Covid restrictions parents/carers are not able to attend this. Primary 6 will be filming aspects of this. This will be shared with parents/carers via a password protected SWAY document.
Primary 1 have been learning all about the Muslim festival of Eid and today we finished our mini-topic by having our very own Eid party!
Dressed in our finest clothes, we decorated the party table with our personal Mendhi designs, danced with our Moon and Star wands, made special Eid cards for our friends and even had some tasty treats. Have a look at all of the fun we had!
Due to Covid restrictions up until this point children have been allowed to wear clothing suitable for outdoor activities. From August, we will return to full school uniform each day.
Tesco Uniform Embroidery Service has changed to “My Clothing“. For more information or to order school uniform please visit:
Uniform is also available from :
Walker & Templeton, The Strand , Kilmarnock and the National Schoolwear Shop , Queen Street, Kilmarnock.
Ideally our school uniform should consist of:
Grey/black trousers for boys, grey skirts for girls, blue/white shirt with Mount Carmel school tie or, alternatively, Mount Carmel polo shirt and royal blue Mount Carmel sweatshirt, jumper or cardigan.
No black jeans or leggings please!
Gym kit should consist of:
Royal blue shorts, pale blue plain round neck t-shirt and and black gym shoes. These should be brought to school in a drawstring back clearly marked with your child’s name.
****PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD’S NAME ON EVERYTHING!****
We also have a selection of used school uniform available. This is always available in our “Uniform Exchange” area in the main foyer.
During the last week of term this we will be place outside for parent/carers to access.
If you are applying for a clothing grant for your child/children please follow the link below:
Please send all recipes for the FOMC Recipe Book by:
Monday 7th June .
Thank you
As you are aware, each of the classes are currently working on God’s Loving Plan. Please see the link below for more information about this and a link to a video providing more detail:
Please click on the link below at provide your views on our current method for providing homework. This survey closes on Sunday at midnight. The survey should take around 4 minutes to complete.
Thank you for your time.
Please click the link to view our Property Pledge:
file://educasset01/assetm/PUBLIC/DROPZONE/MountCarmel_PS_PP.pptx
We will be holding and end of term raffle on Friday 18th June . Tickets will be priced at £1 per strip and there will be one prize per class.
Money to be in for 16th June
FOMC are planning a ” Shorts and Shades” day on Friday 11th June. We are asking politely for a small donation via Parentpay which will go towards our Mount Carmel Fun Day on the 18th June.
Please click on the link below to view the May edition of the East Ayrshire Counselling Newsletter:
I hope everyone had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend and enjoyed the glorious sunshine.
I can’t believe we are coming into June and the final month of Primary 6. This month is going to be busy. Below is information for parents and carers.
Buddying
We are hopeful that buddying will be able to go ahead in August. Thank you to all the parents and carers who signed the forms allowing the pupils to record videos for their P1 buddies. This week Primary 6 will find out the name of their P1 buddy and will record their ‘Hello’ videos introducing themselves.
God’s Loving Plan
This week we will be commencing our God’s Loving Plan unit. Primary 6 have been notified that this will be happening and have been encouraged to let their parents and carers know. Primary 6 are aware of what is expected of them during this unit. Please be prepared to discuss sensitive issues at home with your child.
Lastly, if the weather stays as it has been this weekend we will be spending a lot more time outdoors. Please ensure children apply suncream before coming to school.
Thank you,
Miss Mudge
A reminder that Monday is a Bank Holiday and the children are on holiday.
Next week we are told that the weather should be nice. Please remember to apply sun lotion before children come to school and send them with water.
From Hairdressers to Vets and everything in between…..the infant department had a great day time on World of Work Day!
Have a look at our slideshow gallery:
Please remember Rag Bag collection will be on 7th June. If you have any unwanted items of clothing, please fill the bag and return to the school before this date. Thank you.
We would like to say a huge “Thank You” to all the parents and carers who very kindly took the time to send in their World of Work videos for the children to watch.
They were all very interesting and the teachers and children enjoyed watching and discussing them on Friday .
Please make sure your child has a mask with them for Mass days. Thank you
A reminder to parents that we will be commencing our God’s Loving Plan unit this week. Please be prepared to discuss sensitive issues with your child.
We will also be visiting the church on Tuesday for a mass, so please ensure your child has a face mask.
Thank you.
Mr Bertoncini
A quick reminder that currently on Parentpay are the following “live” payment items:
Magic Mount Carmel Fun Day – a donation of between £1 and £10 (all pupils)
Primary 7 Activity Week – £40 per child -(P7 pupils only) due 11th June
Can children please bring a suitable jacket with them to school, preferably with a hood, as they will be outside playing at break and lunch even if the weather is inclement.
Thank you for your co-operation.
We are looking forward to seeing all the children dressed as what they would like to be when they are older.
Just a reminder about the Parent/Carer videos for World of Work Day to be sent in by today please to :
andrea.fergusson@eastayrshire.org.uk
The children will be attending Mass next week and again in June, before the end of term. Here are the days each class will be attending:
Can all children please bring a face mask with them for attending Mass . Thank you
Primary 3 – Curricular Overview
Welcome back to Primary 3’s Learning Blog. Here is an update of what the children in primary 3 will be working on and what our learning expectations will be until the summer holidays.
Numeracy
Recap – In class we have been learning about Place Value with up to 3 digit numbers. We have practised partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and units and rounding numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. We have also talked about if a number is odd or even and how we can recognise this.
We have been learning how to add and subtract 2 digit numbers with borrowing and exchanging. We introduced different Number Talk strategies that we could use to help us to add and subtract. Pupils are becoming more confident using their ‘Thinking it Through’ jotters to help them to solve calculations.
In term 4 we are now working hard to learn our times tables. We are also going to look at how multiplication and division are inverse operations. This term we will have a big focus on learning how to multiply a number and then linking this with division. We will look at this when finding the fractions a half and a quarter.
In beyond number we will be learning about measurement. We will continue to build on our mental maths strategies and revisit skills we have previously learned.
Please make sure your child spends 20 minutes on Sumdog to improve their mental maths. We also encourage some games on topmarks and YouTube times table songs.
Literacy
Spelling –
This term pupils will continue to have a different phoneme focus each week. They will also learn common words that we use frequently in our writing (for example words like: friend, because, cousin etc.). They will learn different spelling words related to the phoneme focus and take part in activities in class to help reinforce these words. At home they are expected to practise these words for homework and take part in a spelling test on a Friday. Pupils are being introduced to using ELKONIN boxes, when spelling words with joined phonemes.
Reading –
Pupils are currently reading different books in class using the core resource Bug Club. They work in different reading groups and complete comprehension tasks related to the texts. They are encouraged to read, discuss and answer different types of questions. Pupils are expected to spend at least 20 minutes a week reading at home. Books are assigned to their Bug Club accounts along with comprehension questions. I can see lots of pupils are doing this, so keep up the good work!
Writing –
This term we will continue with our weekly writing lessons. Pupils continue to write personal recounts in their news jotter. Pupils will write stories using a range of different genres we have just finished learning about instructions and will now focus on imaginative writing. We will continue to build on our use of punctuation. Also considering connectives, openers and vocabulary to help expand our writing. Children will be encouraged to write neatly, with finger spaces, full stops and capital letters. They are encouraged to use strategies when writing such as sounding out their words, using their personal dictionary and school dictionary. Pupils are also encouraged to start to use commas, exclamation marks and question marks when possible.
ICT
Most pupils are now able to confidently log into the school computers. They are able to log into websites such as Glow, Sumdog and Bugclub. We will continue to build on these skills. Pupils are starting to learn how to create their own PowerPoints related to our class learning.
Interdisciplinary Learning
We are currently working on our class history topic ‘The Romans in Scotland’. We are looking at reasons that the Romans would want to invade Scotland and what life was like back then.
Religious Education
In R.E. we are learning about Mary, Mother of God. We are learning about some of the Joyful Mysteries and revising the prayer Hail Mary. We will then be working on God’s Loving Plan and looking at bible stories more closely such as the Good Samaritan.
Health and Wellbeing
Primary 3 loved taking part in Health week. A big thank you to Mrs McGowan and primary 5 for organising! In P.E. this term pupils have been taking part in basketball lessons. We will now be moving onto athletics. Our P.E. days are normally a Monday or Friday. However, these can change dependant on the weather outside.
In Health pupils will continue taking part in PATHS lessons, Pupils enjoy being Pupil of the Day and giving each other compliments. In Paths we continue to identify emotions, strategies we can use to solve problems and recognising how to a be a good friend and transferring this in the playground and in the classroom.
We look forward to a fun term 4 in primary 3 and are excited for fun school activities such as World of Work Day and another walk to the Dean Park with our friends!
