Killie Kickers (age 3-5)
There will be a new weekly Killie Kickers (age 3-5) session for young people in Onthank launching on Thursday 17th November at 4pm. This will take place in the North West Area Centre, Western Road, Kilmarnock KA3 1NQ on Thursdays from 4pm-5pm. The cost is £4 per session with your 1st session free!
If young people would like to come and try, please can parents fill out their details on the form below and click Onthank Kickers, and “try a taster session”:
https://kilmarnockfc.co.uk/community/championing-our-young-people/kickers-kids-sign-up/
Our week in Primary 6
Primary 6 have had a very successful week. Here is some of the excellent learning that has taken place this week:
P6 listened to the story of the poppies and reminded themselves of the importance of Remembrance Day. P6 created blackout poems based on John McCrae’s ‘In Flander’s Fields’. Then also created a wonderful poppy art piece.
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As part of our Natural Disasters topic P6 designed, built and painted a Stratovolcano in small groups.
In between all of these activities we have been practicing our dances for the Day of Dance next Wednesday. P6 have learned these dances very quickly, I’ve been very impressed!
Mrs Terras
Primary 6 Blog Post
Welcome back to my favourite term – the Winter and Christmas term. We have lots of exciting things coming up in P6. It is going to be a busy one! I am also looking forward to meeting parents and carers at the Parents Evenings in November.
Below is an overview of the learning and teaching taking place in P6 this term.
Literacy
Reading
This term our focus is on non-fiction texts. P6 will study non-fiction texts appropriate to their level. They will complete daily reading to writing tasks and work on active comprehension tasks both independently and as a group. Focus comprehension strategies this term are finding the main idea of a text and summarising. All pupils will complete a non-fiction reading assessment at the end of the block of lessons.
As we move into December, we will be using a Christmas movie as stimuli for our reading lessons. P6 will have the opportunity to work in ‘Literacy Circles’ to analyse the film in groups.
Writing
At the beginning of this term, P6 will complete their block of lessons on Response Writing by writing a film response on a film of their choice – school appropriate of course! We will then move on to Report Writing, in particular focussing on writing a Newspaper Report. In December, the pupils will have the opportunity to work in pairs or trios to write and illustrate a children’s Christmas story which they will then read to our infant pupils. This has proven popular with previous P6 classes.
Spelling
The spelling groups will continue to experience the Active Literacy spelling program, this will introduce familiar 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. Some weeks pupils will be given topic-specific vocabulary as part of their topic.
Numeracy
This term P6 will focus on the four operations – Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Subtraction. This will also include decimals for some groups. Our Beyond Number topics are Money and Finance and 2D and 3D Shape. P6 are encouraged to practice multiplication tables using Sumdog and Topmarks games.
Health and Wellbeing
The focus this term is Emergencies and Accidents. P6 will learn what to do in different types of emergency situations which ties in with our Natural Disasters topic.
Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday. Pupils are asked to bring FULL PE kit on these days. If pupils are without PE kit the school will be able to provide pupils with required items of clothing. The focus in PE this term is Social Dancing in preparation for the Day of Dance at The Grand Hall, Football and Gymnastics.
Expressive Arts
P6 are currently learning traditional Scottish dances for the Day of Dance event in November. Despite inital reservations, I am glad to report that they all are enjoying learning the dances and are giving 100% effort. P6 will have the opportunity to create pieces of artwork over the winter and festive season and create craft items for the school Christmas Fayre. We will also be learning and performing a song at the Christmas concerts.
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 the Saints who shaped our Faith and look in depth at the Nativity story. P6 have also started out on their Pope Francis Faith Award journey and will continue to work on this throughout the school year.
Modern Languages
P6 receive weekly French lessons from Mrs MacKinnon. This term pupils will learn basic greetings, colours, numbers, and basic commands.
Homework
Homework this term will include Spelling, Reading, Mental Maths, and one other curricular area (RME, topic, etc). Homework is issued on a Monday and is due back on a Friday. I appreciate and wholeheartedly support wider achievement outside of school. If there are any reasons why pupils cannot complete the homework, due to activities out with school 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 all your support.
Mrs. Terras
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Our Christmas fayre is fast approaching and we need your help. With only 3 weeks to go, we are looking for donations for our raffle, bottle stall and home baking stall. We would really appreciate any donations you could make and all proceeds will go directly into the Friends of Mount Carmel fund. This fund helps to pay for different things throughout the year, for example buses for trips or Primary 7 leavers hoodies. Any donations would be greatly appreciated. We can’t wait to see you there!!
Mount Carmel Christmas Fayre
2nd December 6:30pm til 9pm
Parents and Carers National Discussion
East Ayrshire Council are in the process of taking part in a national discussion that will hopefully ‘reform’ education and it is important that the views of our parents are heard along with others.
An event which will be jointly hosted by Connect and NPFS will be held on Wednesday 9th November between 19.30 – 21.00 please sign up for this event and have your views heard. Details of the event are below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-discussion-online-event-for-parentscarers-with-prof-alma-harris-tickets-457090358567
CHRISTMAS FAYRE
We are so looking forward to welcoming you all back for our Christmas Fayre this year. This will take place on the 2nd December. We have lots of stalls from local businesses, some home baking, raffles and of course our beautiful Christmas crafts that our children are already busy organising. The tickets for this will be £2.50 for adults and children will gain entry for free. This ticket price includes tea and coffee. There will be a performance from our excellent choir at 6:30pm with doors opening at 6:15pm. There will be more details to follow in the next couple of weeks so keep your eyes peeled!
We cannot wait to see you all!!
Book Week Scotland Primary 1-3 Pyjama Day Monday 14th November
As you remember from our November Newsletter Primary 1-3 will be gifted a bag of book as part of Book Week Scotland. To celebrate this Primary 1-3 will complete some special activities in school on Monday 14th November. We are also asking that the children in Primary 1-3 come to school in their pyjamas.
Primary 5 Rainbow reward
Primary 5 have chosen their rainbow reward for this week. They have asked for a bike and scooter afternoon. Can you please help your child to bring in their bikes and scooters which will be kept at the middle base before rainbow reward in the afternoon. Can you also please ensure that your child brings in their helmets on this day as they will not be able to ride their bikes and scooters without them. Many thanks. Mrs McCreadie
CHILDREN’S QUENTIN BLAKE ILLUSTRATION EXHIBITION
SAT 12 Nov • 3pm • 7-16yrs • FREE
As part of East Ayrshire Leisure’s celebration of Quentin Blake’s 90th birthday this year, we are inviting children and young people age 7 – 16 years to submit their own Quentin Blake inspired illustration artworks for a special exhibition in the Young People’s Gallery at the Dick Institute from 26 November 2022 – 25 February 2023.
Artwork brief
We want you to send us your Quentin Blake inspired illustrated artworks of lively and playful characters which look like they might be found on a book cover or in a poem! Click here for the full artwork brief.
Find all entry requirements here
The call closes for submissions at 3pm on Saturday 12th November 2022.
Entries should be handed in or posted to the Main Gallery desk at the Dick Institute (Elmbank Avenue, KA1 3BU) from Sat 15th October 2022.
Submitted artworks which fulfil the entry requirements will be showcased the exhibition
Primary 3 Curriculum Update Term 2
Primary 3 Blog Post (Term 2 Update)
Welcome to our curriculum update for term 2. It is sure to be a busy term as we prepare for all the fun and exciting activities, we will be part of in the run up to advent and Christmas!
Literacy
During term 1 our focus in reading was to predict what might happen in our reading texts and to think about sequencing parts of a story. We also began to think about summarising what we had read and to put this information into our own words. During term 2, summarising skills will continue to be a focus alongside our usual spelling and common word activities that help pupils retain and recognise their spelling sounds/phonemes and words in texts.
As part of our topic and to help children find specific information, we will also be working on recognising different parts of texts (pictures, diagrams, charts and headings) and how to scan for and locate key words or topic related facts in texts. Children will also use their knowledge of nouns, verbs and adjectives from term 1 and identify these in texts we are accessing in class. To build on from this, pupils will be focusing on punctuation and speech in texts and looking at the impact this has on texts for the reader, as well as beginning to use different punctuation in their own writing.
In writing, we have been focused on descriptive writing in term 1 and will now focus on report writing and narrative throughout term 2. We will also partake in some listening and talking games and activities to help children develop the key skills needed when in whole class or group discussions or when sharing information in a show and tell type activity.
Maths
Our focus in maths will be to regularly revisit place value, recognising sequences and patterns in numbers 0-100 and how these patterns continue in larger numbers beyond 100. In term 1 the focus was addition and subtraction strategies and although this will be revisited in term 2, our focus will move to multiplication, with pupils beginning to make the link to division. Children will spend time mentally counting on in 2, 5 and 10, then using this repeated addition strategy to apply to the other times tables.
In beyond number, children were focused on 2D and 3D shapes and their properties in term 1. The focus in term 2 will be time, analogue and digital with children learning to think about what the time will be in half an hour or in an hour’s time. 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
All children will have the opportunity to be pupil of the day for a second time in term 2 and will continue to explore emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others. We will look at strategies for helping us deal with uncomfortable emotions and how we can help our friends if they are experiencing some of these emotions.
In P.E, our sessions will happen on a Monday and a Wednesday and our focus in term 2 will be football, gymnastics, and social dancing. 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 how to keep ourselves safe whilst using apparatus.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be on the creation and Mary in October, moving to Saints and Remembrance in November before visiting advent and the nativity throughout December.
Topic
In term 2 the focus of topic will be on social studies and looking at climates and weather around the world. The children will have the opportunity to measure our own weather, make weather reports and predictions as well as examine how living things survive in areas of extreme cold or heat. Pupils will research the impact of extreme weather such as tornadoes, floods, and drought and how climate change is affecting the planet.
We hope this is the start of another very successful term and that the pupils will continue to enjoy learning new topics across the curriculum.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
P4 Curricular Update
Welcome back to term 2. What a great start we have had in Primary 4, the children have settled in well and there has been lots of amazing learning taking place. Here is an update of our learning for this term.
Literacy
For our reading focus this term, we will be continue to develop comprehension strategies such as visualisation and metalinguistics through a range of reading materials, including shared texts in class and our individual reading books. We will be looking at the differences between fact and fiction texts and the features of these. The children will continue to develop their skills of skimming and scanning and text and looking at note taking.
During writing in Term 2, we will continue to focus on building on our skills in creating a report using factual information and an interesting layout. We were introduced to this before the holidays and this will complement our reading for information focus.
Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level.
Numeracy & Maths
This term we will look at strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems, this will link to the mental maths strategies that we are looking at during our daily number talks. We will use a range of these strategies to solve number and word problems.
In Beyond Number we will be focussing on 3D shape and its properties for identification. Pupils will have the opportunity to make their own 3D shapes and identify lines of symmetry and right angles.
Health and Wellbeing
We will continue with our PATHs programme, looking at the importance of making good choices, listening to others and why fair play rules are important. We will continue with our Pupil of the Day, so keep a look out for your children coming home with their compliment sheet!
PE
PE is on a Wednesday and Friday. This term we will be covering;
- Hockey (Oct/Nov)
- Rugby (Oct/Nov)
- Social Dancing (Nov/Dec)
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. Pupils will be asked to remove any watches or jewellery and if unable to will not be able to take part unfortunately. If your child cannot take part for any reason, please contact the school.
French
In French, we will build on our number skills for use in active games and look at learning everyday language in topics such as food, our home and school. We will be able to say what we like and dislike. Later in the term we will focus on Christmas in France and learn some French Christmas songs/hymns.
IDL
P4 will be continuing to learn 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.
Science
P4 will investigate the forces exerted by magnets on other magnets and magnetic materials, we will look at how magnets are used in everyday life and demonstrate how magnets work through various practical activities.
Religious Education
This term we will be reflecting the life of the saints and how they listened to God’s word and responded to it and, how we can look to their example. As we move into the season of Advent we will reflect on our own Advent journey and will focus on the place of the Magi in the Christmas narrative.
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
P7 Term 2 Curricular Update
Hello again everyone. Here we are in term 2 with Halloween just gone and Christmas already on the horizon, where does the time go! Here is a brief update of our learning focus this term.
Literacy
After reading our class novel last term, we now aim to develop Active Literacy strategies through Bug Club guided reading texts. There will be a particular focus on paraphrasing and identifying the man idea as well as continuing to explore and improve answering and asking a variety of question types. For writing, we are concentrating on report writing and aim to use these skills on a topic that interests them.
Numeracy
This term our numeracy focus is on multiplication and division incorporating aspects of fractions decimals and percentages. We will continue to use Number Talk strategies to develop mental strategies related to multiplication and division. The class are also working on skills beyond number with Mrs MacKinnon will be investigating the concept of measuring and naming different angles and applying them to real life contexts in the form of bearings.
Health and Wellbeing
The PATHS focus this term is looking at organisation skills before moving on to working on resolving conflicts. We will also continue to praise and compliment children through Pupil of the Day. We are also exploring food and dietary requirements of people and factors which influence food choices. We will also be investigating different nutrients groups and the importance of each.
For our PE, we will be visiting Ayrshire College on Wednesdays and participating in outdoor activities. In school, our other PE day will be a Tuesday where we will be focussing on gymnastics. We will develop our knowledge and execution of shapes, jumps, turns, balances and rolls and even try some mini parkour! We will also spend a short time looking at traditional Scottish dances.
IDL
Our topic this term is science based and is forces and friction. We will be investigating the life of Sir Isaac Newton and his 3 laws of motion and discovery of gravity. We will also be conducting some scientific experiments and discussing fair testing and hypothesising.
RE
In the month of November P7’s will be looking at the lives of Saints and understand that this month is dedicated to remembering the dead. We will also investigate the notion of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. We will also look at the period of Advent focussing on the story from different Gospels and how Jews were waiting for a saviour
French
After getting the opportunity to work with Mrs Donaghy from St Joseph’s, Mrs MacKinnon will now carry on the French with P7. This term the focus will be on conversations around food as well as talking about which country someone is from.
Technologies
This term P7 will access 3D graphics programme and use tinkercad to create a variety of 3D designs. We will also use this to create things for our Christmas Fayre so keep your eyes peeled for our designs ready for sale!
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.
A quick reminder that we will be going outside often, therefore, 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 winter.
Mr Bertoncini
Primary 1 Curricular Update
Term 2
Welcome back to everyone and I hope you all had a wonderful October break.
Primary 1 are back and ready to learn!! We have a busy and fun filled term ahead including some “spooky” activities for Hallowe’en before getting ready to celebrate our first Christmas as part of the Mount Carmel school community.
Literacy
This term we will be continuing to practise our letter formation and pencil control skills to ensure we can write the letters we have been learning.
Now that we know some of the sounds the letters of the alphabet make, we will be “blending” these together to make words. These words will help us with our reading and writing tasks.
We are very excited that we are becoming “readers” in Primary 1 and will soon be bringing home our first texts with words in them. We will be making predictions about the stories we read in class, using the title and illustrations to help us.
During writing activities, we are continuing to describe a range of objects by thinking about their colour, size, texture and shape.
Numeracy
Now that we have explored the numbers to 10 fully and have looked at those numbers which are “more” and “less”, we will be focusing on the concept of addition. We will begin by combining two quantities and understanding that when you do this, the quantity gets bigger. This will lead us on to learning our number stories, where we learn the different ways to “make” our numbers to 10. These number stories (or facts) are the building blocks to which all the other number processes are built upon, so we will spend a lot of time on these, ensuring they are well embedded before moving on.
Numbers are tricky to write, so number formation will continue to be reinforced in class and through homework tasks.
Health & Wellbeing
We will continue to welcome our PATHS puppets to help us talk about our emotions and friendships. We have been talking about the kinds of things friends do together and have discussed what makes a good friend.
We have been exploring our emotions and sharing our experiences and we will be looking at ways to help us manage our feelings.
We will also be talking about ways to keep ourselves safe when indoors and outdoors.
Topic
Our topic this term is “Maps and Mapping”. We will be investigating the physical features of our local environment and having fun representing these through models and pictures. We will also link this topic to our learning in Maths by exploring the language of position and movement.
RE
During RE we will continue to give thanks for God’s love.
We will also explore the story of creation, developing our awareness of the natural wonders of the world around us.
As the term progresses, we will celebrate advent together, preparing for the birth of Jesus by showing love and kindness to those around us as much as we possibly can. We will be exploring the story of the nativity through songs, role play and craft activities.
Expressive Arts
The seasonal themes of Autumn, Winter and Christmas will be the focus of our drama, music and art activities this term.
Thanks for your support,
Mrs Duff and Mrs Strachan
Primary 5 Curricular update
Curricular update – Primary 5 – Term 2
Primary 5 have worked so hard in term 1. With term 2 about to begin I would like to give you an update. I will be back in the classroom for the most of the week with Mrs MacKinnon taking on other teaching duties throughout the school. I am excited for the term ahead on the run up to Santa coming!
Literacy
The children will continue to develop their word attack strategies through different questioning techniques and comprehension strategies. These strategies will include using their prior knowledge, visualisation and metalinguistics. The children already have experience of using these strategies however will now explore them through different genres of text. We will look at the main purpose of a text as well as what the difference is between fact and opinion. We will also explore persuasive language and how this can be linked to writing persuasive texts. In terms of talking and listening, the children will be asked to prepare a short talk which will have a link to their Victorians topic which they will present to their class.
Numeracy
The class have already made excellent progress in terms of their numeracy. They already have excellent knowledge of the number talks strategies taught. We will continue to look at our multiples of 10 and 100 whilst looking at doubling and halving. (an example of this would be 2×740 = 740+740). We will also focus on the associated language of these calculations such as ‘find the product of’. Our number focus this term will be on multiplication and division with a major focus on times tables. One area of numeracy that children find difficult is the use of word problems. The class will continue to keep this as a focus whilst identifying the appropriate calculations based on the mathematical language of the 4 operations. Whilst learning about multiplication and division, the children will be introduced to decimals and whole numbers as well as negative numbers and why we need these. In terms of beyond number topics, last term saw the children expand their knowledge of time and begin their 3D shape topic. This will continue this term as well as money and how the coronation of our new monarch will change our money.
Health and Wellbeing
The children have a good understanding of what a healthy relationship is. We will continue to expand on this throughout term 2 with a focus on how a healthy relationship has respect and why it should be reciprocated. This term will also have a focus on substance misuse and what the children should do if they found themselves in an emergency.
Within our P.E. curriculum, the main focus will be on gymnastics with social dancing being introduced as we near Christmas. Although many of the children bring their P.E. kits into school, there is still around half of the class that consistently forget their kits of P.E. days. Although I have been fairly lenient with this so far, gymnastics is such a practical sport in terms of the movements involved, that it is essential for the children to be wearing their full P.E. kit to ensure their safety. Please ensure that your child has their kit in school on P.E. days. They are invited to leave these kits in school at all times.
Religious Education
This term is a very important period in our liturgical calendar with celebrations like All Saints Day and advent. As well as learning about these celebrations, we will be exploring our relationships with God.
Expressive Arts
Art – We will look at the colours that we can use to create mood, atmosphere and emotion. We will learn about artists such as Van Gogh and Piet Mondrian which will help us to enhance our observational skills.
Dance – Linked with P.E. for social dancing at Christmas.
Drama – During our drama sessions, we will look at characterisation as well as looking at how costumes can help us get into character. (We will link our drama to our topic)
IDL/Topic
Our topic this term will focus on the Victorians. This topic will have literacy, ICT, Art, R.E and numeracy tasks throughout it as we explore the world during Victorian times. We will compare our lives today to the lives of children during this time as well as having a particular focus on Queen Victoria as the monarch.
Technology
The children have a good understanding of how sway works and this has helped them develop their research skills. This term will focus on the functionality of GLOW. The children are already able to send emails to each other, but now they will learn how to attach files and create hyperlinks to access websites.
We have a very busy term ahead and lots of fun and learning too. I thoroughly enjoyed my time as Acting Depute Head Teacher but feel I am more than ready to get back into class with my children. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support.
Mrs McCreadie x
Primary 2 Curricular update
Primary 2 Curricular Update – Term 2
Hello and welcome back to the Primary 2 blog! I hope you all had a relaxing October break and are ready for the upcoming Halloween and festive celebrations in what will be another hardworking and exciting term for primary 2.
Term 2 curricular update:
Literacy
Phonics- We will continue to learn our joined phonemes and grow our confidence in reading and writing these. Spelling will continue to be a focus as we learn new common words which will help develop our independent writing skills.
Writing – This term our writing will continue to develop our writing skills focusing on description, this will be supported with individual description bubbles. We will also continue to focus on our writing targets of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Reading – We will be developing our understanding of texts by using literal questions and we will focus on our word attack strategies as we develop our reading and writing. In class we are working our way through bug club texts which are appropriate to our stage of learning, these are also assigned for homework which you can access online. We will continue to work on our comprehension and decoding skills within our reading groups
Numeracy and Mathematics
This term we will be continuing with our counting on and back from any number, this will help with mental addition and subtraction. We will be looking at addition and subtraction calculations and how these are linked which create ‘fact families’. Within addition we will think about the mental strategies we can use to answer calculations such as doubles, near doubles and counting on. During this term we will explore pattern including shapes and numbers to 100, this will link in with our frozen IDL topic perfectly! Towards the end of the term, we will begin to develop some aspects of time, each morning we complete our daily calendar looking at dates and seasons, we will also start to tell the time using digital and analogue clocks as the topic progresses.
Health and Wellbeing
In term 2 we will continue our whole school PATHS programme to build on our social and emotional skills. We will learn ‘how to do turtle’ to manage emotions and Twiggle the turtle will help us with this. Our ‘pupil of the day’ will still run during this term which allows children to gift and receive compliments from others. We continue to complete our emotion check in each day and we still have a focus on friendships.
P.E.
During this term we will develop our small ball skills which consist of bouncing, throwing, rolling and catching. We will then work on our jumping, rolling and travelling skills during our first block of gymnastics. Towards the end of the term children will be learning social dancing.
.P.E. days will be Tuesday and Thursday. (please remember to remove any earrings on gym days)
Religious Education
We will be learning about the importance of the Bible during our RE time and reading the story of creation. Throughout the month of November, we will look at our theme on remembrance. For the month of December, we will celebrate advent and the birth of Jesus by learning the nativity and exploring various other activities during this exciting time.
Inter-disciplinary Learning (Topic)
Our topic for term 2 is frozen. The main area we will be learning about is the processes of the planet by investigating how water can change from one form to another and relating this to everyday experiences. We will be describing changes of water, looking at freezing, melting points and temperatures. We will be experimenting with the use of materials and their properties to develop our understanding of which materials would be practical for certain situations. We will consider ways in which materials would increase/decrease the melting process and temperatures.
Our topic will make several cross curricular links which will include science, expressive arts, technologies, literacy and numeracy.
Expressive Arts
Our art, music and drama learning and work this term will be centred around the Christmas Nativity.
Thank you for visiting our Primary 2 blog on what we have been learning this term!
Miss Maitland
Children In Need
On Friday 18th November we will celebrate Children in Need. On this day children can come to school in their own clothes and can choose to wear something spotty if they wish.
We are asking for a £1 donation for this via ParentPay.
Children will also receive an additional entry for the November raffle for this £1 donation.
November Fundraising Raffle
During November we have the opportunity to win a £25 amazon voucher. If you would like to try for this raffle, tickets will be available to purchase on ParentPay for £1 each.
Best of luck for this.
November Newsletter
Please view our November Newsletter.docx
Kilmarnock Junior Ice Hockey Club
Dyslexia Awareness Week
This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week.
During the course of the week, the children will be watching a powerpoint which highlights the challenges and strengths of dyslexic learners. They will also promote discussion around dyslexia using discussion cards .
Poppies
As it is approaching Rememberance Day on 11th November, we will again be visiting classes to offer pupils a poppy in return for a donation via our poppy collection tin.
Two of our P7 pupils will go round the classes at 2.30pm each day from tomorrow until 10th November.
Exchange Counselling
Exchange Counselling Service
We are pleased to inform you that the Exchange Counselling Service will be in attendance for the duration of our parent/carer evening on Wednesday 16th November, where they will be able to give more information about the service they provide.
Thankyou FOMC
We would like to take this opportunity to say a great big thankyou from all of the staff and children at Mount Carmel to our friends at FOMC, for arranging the fantastic Halloween disco we all had the pleasure of enjoying this year. We all had the best time enjoying all of the fun and games and eating the delicious treats you had for us. We are so very grateful for all of your help and support.
Thankyou
Parent/Carer Appointment Forms
Please complete the form below with your preferred date for your child’s parent/carer appointment.
This form will close on Friday 28th October.
Netball Community Club
Primary School Counselling & Wellbeing Newsletter
Please see below the link to the October Newsletter.
EAC School Counselling & Psychological Wellbeing Supports Newsletter (office.com)
Thankyou
Parent/Carer Council
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 Appointment Forms
Please complete the form below with your preferred date for your child’s parent/carer appointment.
This form will close on Friday 28th October.
Primary 5 Rainbow reward
Hi everyone. The children have asked if they could have a movie and pyjama afternoon for their rainbow reward. Could you please send the children into school with their pyjamas to change into in the afternoon. They should not come into school wearing them.
Many thanks, Mrs McCreadie