We will be having a series of Dress Down days throughout November, we are kindly asking pupils to donate various items on these days to help towards our school Christmas fayre on Friday 28th November items and days are listed below:

Friday 7th November – Bottle Stall Donation 

Friday 14th November – Tombola/Raffle Stall Donation – Wear something spotty for Children in Need

Friday 21st November – Sweets/chocolate  Donation

Friday 28th November – Homebaking/ Cake Stall Donation

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Our October Halloween Raffle is live on Parentpay.  As always tickets are £1 per strip of 5.  The raffle will close on Tuesday 28th October  and will be drawn on Friday 30th. Good Luck!

If you want to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous Halloween hamper from FOMC, please head to Parentpay, where you can pay £1 for a  ticket towards the FOMC Halloween Raffle.

This is a separate raffle to the school’s October raffle!

Barnardo’s East Ayrshire Families Youth Service would like to inform young people and their parents/carers of a Youth Group that is available to young people in Primary 7 from the local area. This group is completely FREE to attend and runs term-time every Monday from 4pm-6pm in Onthank Community Centre.

If your P7 child/children would like to attend please ask the office for an application form. 

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Our school car park is as always out of bounds for parents/carers vehicles . We also have an increase in commercial traffic e.g vans lorries etc  going in and out of the car park daily due to our kitchen renovations having started this week making it particularly hazardous.

At Mount Carmel we have been reviewing and updating our Nurture Policy.  Please take some time to read over this and complete the short form for any feedback you may wish to give.  This survey closes on Friday 7th November.

Mount Carmel Nurture Policy

Nurture Policy Feedback Form

We have had reports of  unwanted “visitors”  to some children within the school,  we kindly ask that parents/carers routinely check their child/children’s hair for any of these  unwanted “visitors” and take appropriate action if required Thank you for your co-operation.  

Gentle reminder that school will close on Friday 10/10/2025 @ 3pm and reopen on Tuesday 21/10/2025 @ 9am.

We hope you have a lovely October break 

During September we were delighted to see so many of our parents and carers come along to our ‘Meet the teacher’ session, thank you for taking the time to come to school and get some information about the year ahead. Please let us know what you thought of these sessions and anything else we could add in the future.

Welcome to our School – Meet the Teacher

If you want to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous Halloween hamper from FOMC, please head to Parentpay, where you can pay £1 for a  ticket towards the FOMC Halloween Raffle.

This is a separate raffle to the school’s October raffle!

Our October Raffle is now live on Parentpay.  As always tickets are £1 per strip of 5.  The raffle will close on Tuesday 28th October  and will be drawn on Friday 30th. Good Luck!

We are delighted to announce that the winning House for this term is Water.

The children who are in the winning house will enjoy a trip to Jungle Madness on Wednesday 8th October whilst there they will be given  crisps, cookies & juice if you do not wish your child to have these for allergy purposes please contact the school office.

Well done Water House we hope you have a great time at Jungle Madness 

There will be a Dress Down Day on Friday 10th October. We are asking kindly for a £1 donation via ParentPay . Pupils who pay give a donation will automatically get a free entry into our October Raffle. This item is now live on Parentpay and will be open for payments until Wednesday 22nd October.

Homework will finish for the October holiday on Friday 3rd October and recommence on Monday 27th October 2025.

Reminder that if you have not already done so the final payment towards your childs pantomime ticket is due to be paid before the 30th October 2025.

Tempest Photography will be in school on Friday 24th October.

All children will have an individual photograph.

Unfortunately we will be unable to accommodate family photographs.

Please see link for October Newsletter

October Newsletter 2025

During September we were delighted to see so many of our parents and carers come along to our ‘Meet the teacher’ session, thank you for taking the time to come to school and get some inform…

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Please see the poster below for details of our Halloween Disco on 30th October. Tickets for this have gone into schoolbags today.

Do not send the money into school please, the £2.50 is payable on the night on entry. Please complete the attached portion of the ticket and make sure your child brings this with them on the night.

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Dyslexia awareness week in Scotland runs from the 29th September until the 6th October. Dyslexia and different learning styles will be explored during our assemblies over the next couple of weeks and we will take part in this in a number of ways. We will hear from our DFS (dyslexia friendly schools) community group during our whole school assembly, we will then participate in different activities during our stage assemblies. Then, on Friday 10th October, as well as a dress down day, we will have a no pens day. This means that all learning will take place in different ways throughout the day but no pens or pencils will be allowed… outdoor learning, digital technology and active learning will take place to celebrate all learning styles.

We are still awaiting a number of Annual Data & Medical Information forms to be returned.

These forms ensure that we have the most up to date information for your children and any medical conditions they may have. 

Ensuring that we have the most up to date information allows us to keep in contact with parents/carers and provide you with the most up to date information quickly & efficiently 

If you have still to return these forms please do so as a matter of urgency, if you require new forms please contact  the school office to organise these.

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We are still outstanding a significant number of permission forms that were sent home with pupils on the 16/9/25.

The letter includes a tear of slip granting permission for children to be involved in Learning Journals and for photographs of individual children to be shared on Learning Journals.

If we do not receive the completed tear off slip we are unable to share what your child has been doing in class on their Learning Journal.

Could we please ask those who have still to return the form to do so as soon as possible, If you require another form to complete please contact the school office to request this 

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Pupil Progress meeting request letters have been sent home in school bags today.

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Could we please ask all parents to check there childs school bag for the above jacket that has been misplaced by one of our children and we ask you to please return to school office if you find it. This is a Navy Tog 24 jacket aged 9-10 years 

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Pupils will be receiving their flu immunisations on Monday 29th September 2025. Please return your child’s permission form if you have not already done so. Thank you.

We will be holding a Wider Achievement Assembly on September 26th.  If you would like us to celebrate your child/children’s recent achievements, please send any photos and information to the school inbox eamountcarmel.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk by Wednesday 24th.

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